Day: May 1, 2009

2009 Anal-Ocity

She is back and spouting moronic diatribes….Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota that is.  I cannot make this stuff up……no need to…the Conservatives just keep illustrating why they are so out of touch with the rest of the country.

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, following Rush’s cue,  suggested on Tuesday that President Obama was to blame for the swine flu crisis. She went even farther than the talk show host, implying that swine flu epidemics are a Democratic phenomenon that dates back to President Carter.

“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”

A small thing is that the outbreak she cites was during the Ford years, not Carter.  Once again she refuses to let facts get in the way.

The GOP: Comedy Central

Just when you thought it could not get much worse for the GOP, they keep letting the idiots in the Party talk.  It is like crack to cynical SOBs like myself.  All I can say is…thank you….thank you.

First some in the Party were blaming Obama for the swine flu, and yet others just keep making statements without a facts check…all great stuff for us bloggers.

To begin the comedy of errors, is the head of the RNC, Michael Steele told CNN Tuesday longtime Republican Sen. Arlen Specter essentially “flipped the bird” at the GOP leadership with his decision to switch parties he has been a member of for more than four decades.

“[National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John] Cornyn went out on the line for this man,” he said. “For the senator to flip the bird back to Senator Cornyn and the Republican Senate Leadership, a team that stood by him, who went to the bat for him in 2004, to save his hide is not only disrespectful but down right rude,”

The humor here is that they still do not see that the Party has a real confidence problem.  They keep blaming the deserters for leaving the party, but refuse to see just how out of touch they really are.

Then there is Info Ink’s favorite Republican, Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from the state of Minnesota. In her moronic attempt to blame FDR for the Great Depression she mentions the aforementioned Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Of course, she doesn’t call it the Smoot-Hawley Act but instead the Hoot-Smalley Act (seriously, you can’t make this stuff up), to which she compounds her mistake by claiming that the Act was the creation of President Roosevelt, and that as a result we have him to blame for the Great Depression. (While most economists would agree that the Act did not cause the Great Depression, it is widely believed that the Tariff Act, which caused a reduction in trade between the U.S. and Europe, and did nothing to help pull the country out of the economic abyss.

Flubbing up the Act name is an understandable mistake, but not knowing what you are talking about is unforgivable, especially from someone who is involved in producing acts and bills.

You know,  if she wanted to be a Congress maybe she should have paid closer attention in US History.

1. The bill creating the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was sponsored by two Republican members of the Congress, Senator Reed Smoot (Utah) and Representative Willis C. Hawley (Oregon).

2. The House of Representatives passed the bill in May of 1929.

3. The Senate passed its bill in March of 1930.

4. The Act was signed into law on June 17th, 1930, by Republican President Herbert Hoover.

5. Senator Smoot, Representative Hawley, and President Hoover were all defeated in their 1932 re-election bids.

FDR was not sworn in until 1933 and the Act was repelled in 1934, I believe.

The more Bachmann speaks, the more she should be the poster child for the failures of “No Child Left Behind”.

If the GOP wants to be taken seriously ever again they need to muzzle the morons in the Party, for they are not helping.

Then there is yet another moron allowed to talk.  This time it is the Representative from North Carolina, Virginia Foxx.  Unfortunately this one is not humorous, it is sick, criminally misinformed and damn right pathetic.

Foxx’s comments came on the House floor during debate over the so-called Matthew Shepard bill, named for a 21-year-old gay man brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998. Supporters say he was the victim of a hate crime.

The bill would expand a federal hate crimes law to include acts motivated by sexual orientation.

“The Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed,” Foxx, a Banner Elk Republican, said. “But we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay.

Maybe Foxx should have done a little checking before choosing her line of speaking.

Two men were convicted of killing Shepard after meeting him in a Laramie bar. Some testified that Shepard was targeted because he was gay. One of the men convicted tried to use the so-called “gay panic” defense, that he acted uncontrollably after a homosexual advance.

I am sure that these incidents are not the last we will hear from the people that never let facts get in the way of their diatribes.

Pandemic Paranoia

CNN’s Lou Dobbs has blame absolutely everything he could think of on the illegal immigrants, but conservative talk radio has done him one better.

Conservative media hosts, including Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck, have placed the blame for the spread of swine flu to the United States squarely on the shoulders of undocumented Mexican immigrants. Some even suggested yesterday that Mexicans were purposefully carrying the virus across the border to sabotage the United States.

During the April 24 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage stated: “Make no mistake about it: Illegal aliens are the carriers of the new strain of human-swine avian flu from Mexico.” Savage also stated, “If we lived in saner times, the borders would be closed immediately.” Savage went on to theorize that the outbreak might be part of a bioterrorism threat: “[C]ould this be a terrorist attack through Mexico?

During the April 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Neal Boortz asked: “[W]hat better way to sneak a virus into this country than give it to Mexicans? Right? I mean, one out of every 10 people born in Mexico is already living up here, and the rest are trying to get here.

But my fav came from the mouth of the biggest dipstick in the FOX line-up, Glen Beck.

Additionally, on the April 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Glenn Beck stated: “Gee, it would be nice if we had border security now, wouldn’t it?” Beck went on to assert: “But if you are a family and you’re down in Mexico and you’re dying and those in America are not, why wouldn’t you flood this border? Why wouldn’t you come across this border? It’s exactly what I warned of — different scenario, different reason of — I was talking about economic collapse. People start to come and rush this border, then what happens? Gee, it would be nice if we had some border security.”

Do these people ever hear themselves talk?  Do they not see how stupid their diatribes are?  This could explain why only 21% of Americans say that they are Republican.