I am a conservative. I believe in:
Conserving the environment
Conserving a woman’s right to choose
Conserving the quality of life for the middle class
Conserving the rights of all people to live the life they choose with whom they choose in the way they choose
Conserving your right to believe in God and my right to deny god
Conserving my right to pursue a long and healthy life
Conserving the infrastructure that made this nation great.
I believe in paying my taxes, all of them.
I do not believe in loopholes, corporations having the rights of individual humans, congress having more access to health care than the poorest of the poor
Because I am a conservative.
Tea Party “conservatism” is not conservative; it is reactionary and racist.

The latest in passive-aggressive bible-thumping comes in the form of the stickers and t-shirts which read “Pray for Obama, Psalm 109:8.”

Now, Psalm 109:8 is innocuous enough, I suppose. It simply reads:

May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

However, the problem with citing scripture in ANY situation is that one often ignores the passages before and after the one being cited, which usually add much needed context to the citation. In this case, Psalm 109:9-15 read:

9 May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.

10 May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven [d] from their ruined homes.

11 May a creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

12 May no one extend kindness to him
or take pity on his fatherless children.

13 May his descendants be cut off,
their names blotted out from the next generation.

14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD;
may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

15 May their sins always remain before the LORD,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Such lovely Christian sentiment.

As Frank Schaeffer so eloquently put it:

…this is trolling for assassins. This is serious business.

It’s un-American. It’s unpatriotic. And it goes to show that the religious right, the Republican far right, have coalesced into a group who truly want American revolution. If it turns out to be blood in the streets and death, so be it. It’s not funny stuff anymore. They cannot be dismissed as just crazies on the fringe. It only takes one.

Now, imagine for just a moment, someone wearing a shirt or sporting a bumper sticker that said “Pray for Bush, Psalm 109:8″ around, oh, say…March 2003. Imagine further that this person is dark skinned and/or of Middle-Eastern descent. I wonder what would have happened to such a person…

If you want a Bible verse that in my opinion is truly more applicable to President Obama, try Psalm 72:12-14.

• They’re both conservative fundamentalist megachurch attendees.
• Much of what they say is later proven to be a lie.
• Both quit their day job to cash in.
• Both have big skeletons in their closets, if you believe Levi Johnston.
• Both have a gay blogger nemesis.

Hmmmm…

If the Fort Hood attack was an Islamic terrorist attack on American soil — to be somehow blamed on President Obama — then wouldn’t the DC Snipers also qualify as an Islamic terrorist attack on American soil? And if so, wouldn’t that completely contradict the Republican boast that Bush “kept us safe” since 9/11? The DC Sniper shootings happened in 2002, about a year after 9/11.

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Douchebag.

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YouTube – Unruly Republicans Disrupt Health Care Debate

Liz Cheney has lied or at least been grossly incorrect about a lot of things. Like her father, it seems like she can’t go on TV without misinforming in some fashion. All of the incidents are equally egregious, but this one just cracks me up.

You may have heard that Obama made an unannounced trip to Dover to honor the service of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The President and Attorney General Eric Holder stood and saluted as flag-draped caskets were moved off the transport into the chapel in a precise and practiced military ceremony.

This simple gesture would ordinarily be seen as a good thing by anyone who honors the service of those in our armed forces. But the wingnut-o-sphere is shitting bricks. Not only that, but the conservo-luminaries are all over my TV talking about how terrible it was that Obama did this and, *gasp*, had pictures taken. (I guess if he had landed on an aircraft-carrier, and hopped out of the plane in a flight suit it would have been okay…)

Anyway, I digress. Liz “My Daddy Is Famous” Cheney had the fucking cojones to say this on Fox News Radio’s John Gibson Show recently:

I think that what President Bush used to do is do it without the cameras.

“Do what?” you might ask. Bush never, not once, even visited Dover to honor the soldiers he put in harm’s way. Much less “without cameras.” Liz Cheney, being the daughter of Bush’s Vice President, knows this, or she should know it. Which makes her either a liar or fucking ignorant. And given her track record of public statements, I’m going with liar.

That’s really only the first part of this post. The second part has to do with general criticism of this event from the dingbat contingent of the right wing. Boss Limbaugh himself called Obama “narcissistic” and criticized the event as a mere “photo-op.” Other wingnut bloggers and TV punditainers have followed suit. Or you could just read some of the comments on the above link to the Washington Post:

All the world is a stage to Obama … every action a measured bit of stage-craft. Cold. The man is very, very cold.

He does absolutely nothing unless there are cameras there to capture his “holiness”.

a staged sympathy event

Some are even getting all in a tizzy about the salute. Apparently they are unaware that a salute is the appropriate way for the Commander in Chief to acknowledge a servicemember.

It’s all just a bunch of wingnut poo-flinging.

And, ho! What’s this!

(photo via Hullabaloo; click for larger)

It’s wingnut godfather Ronald Reagan visiting flag-draped coffins of those who died in the US Embassy attack in Beirut. And he even brought Nancy with him!

This further confirms my “First or Worse” Theory of Unified Wingnuttery, which states that any action by Democrats/liberals which gets the wingnuts into a tizzy was done either first or to a greater degree by a Republican/conservative (more on this later.)

So, in summation, fuck you Liz Cheney, and fuck you wingnuts.

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In fact, Sean Hannity dismissed Blackwater’s actions because they are, in his words, “keeping us safe.” (Don’t get me started on that little bit of wingnut fantasy.)

As I’ve posted before, if Acorn was in the business of KILLING brown people instead of HELPING them this would not be an issue.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2a4MEAoxko

Oh, and the Defund ACORN Act IS a “bill of attainder” and, as such, is unconstitutional. But Fox won’t tell you that. In fact, the only way it could be constitutional is if it is applied equally to “any organization that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency [, or applied to] any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.”

“In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex.”

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Of all the stupid arguments against gay marriage (and believe me, they are all stupid), this is the biggest forehead-slapper. I’M not getting gay married. YOU’RE not getting gay married. About 200 million Americans aren’t getting gay married. How exactly will this lead to the extermination of the human race?

Fucking moron.