DOMA is Next.

A great article from the Current on the real threat to marriage . . . and it's not homos.

"It’s adulterers — not gays — who are the real threat to traditional marriage
DOJ has made it clear, however, that the Legislative Branch is free to defend DOMA in upcoming hearings, which would put Speaker Boehner and his tea party bosses in the same position as the defenders of Proposition 8, California’s anti-gay constitutional amendment. The Prop 8 defenders lost in federal court last year because their “expert” witnesses’ biblical-based testimony that gay marriage should be illegal because homosexuality is a sin was deemed inadmissible in court and because they were unable to provide any evidence that same-sex marriage harms society."

Happy New Year, let's go Backwards!!!

The now brainless, ever brash US House of Republicans, has decided that funds for transportation projects are now subject to re-appropriation. . . meaning your gas tax dollars may not go to bridges, subways and roads, but to some freakish abstinence campaign.  THANKS republicans, for tossing us back 15 years on the plodding path of progress.  Be sure to say hi to your private special interests on the way to survey the stalled infrastructure project in your district.  Jerks.

“Buried in the rules written by the GOP majority is a change that is opposed by the City of New York and the State Transportation Department and which the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said would cause ’significant damage.’”  He continues: “New Yorkers have already paid money at the gas pump that is guaranteed for transit, subways and roads.  Under the new rule change, this money would be put on the annual chopping block and not guaranteed at all.”

-Anthony Weiner (the only man with half a brain in there)

Cantor (R-Virginia) and his failed bid to screw NPR

This corny crap was nipped in the bud today.  Thank gods.  Watch the vid on the YouCut site (below) it's hilarious.  From HuffPost: 

The proposal to defund NPR was the latest winning item on the Republicans' gimmicky YouCut site, which allows the public to pick the cuts they would like to see receive an up-or-down vote on the House floor. In order to get these votes, they try to make a procedural vote on an unrelated piece of legislation the vote on the YouCut item.

New blog Estate 44 reveals the true nature of the "conservative" mind

UPDATE:  Estate 44 has mysteriously disappeared from the web.  This LINK remains with images of the research they did. 

Estate 44 does little more than subscribe to popular (think thousands of subscribers) twitter and facebook channels of self-identified republicans, tea party members, and conservatives and compiles the hate for easy consumption. 

Hippo-crazy Repugs love the big scissors!

Maybe you remember the whole lot of right-wingnuts decrying the stimulus monies? Forecasting doom and horrible devastation? Refusing to accept help EVEN if it meant leaving their sobbing constituents square on the tracks?  Trying to entertain one another with their party loyalty by acting the penny-pinchers?  Doing EVERYTHING in their power to kill the Recovery Act?  Well, after the handouts were made and as the dust is settling, one image is coming into focus.  It's the one to the left -- Republicans who smacked the President in the face, are now taking credit for his work.  Remember these kids in school?  Liars.  Good news from ThinkProgress:

"In December, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the stimulus had successfully created up to 1.6 million jobs, and today, a report shows the Recovery Act will ultimately create 2.5 million jobs. Even the conservative American Enterprise Institute found that the stimulus had boosted the U.S. economy by 4 percent."

You know where you can stick those big scissors, sir.
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NYS Senators Ruth Hassell-Thompson and Diane Savino speak on marriage equality

Really start listening at 3:13, she lays the issue out so clearly.

"We in government do not determine the quality or validity of peoples relationships -- if we did we would not issue three quarters of the marriage licenses we do"

"we're giving away husbands on network TV"

"or . . . the littlest groom, where thirty desperate women competed to marry a dwarf."

"they stand up there before god and man, even in Senator Diaz's church, and swear to love honor and obey, and they don't mean a word of it."

She really hits the nail on the head. Please forward this to anyone and everyone, and let the argument speak for itself. And let the hysteria abate.

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GOP cements it's adherence to it's losing party line

From the NY Times, a memo is being circulated by top GOP leaders to clarify their conservative agenda.

"According to the resolution, any Republican candidate who broke with the party on three or more of these issues– in votes cast, public statements made or answering a questionnaire – would be penalized by being denied party funds or the party endorsement. The proposed resolution was signed by 10 Republican national committee members and was distributed on Monday morning. They are asking for the resolution to be debated when Republicans gather for their winter meeting."

Here is the resolution’s list, with my explanations in red for clarity:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;

[We hate socialist programs like street cleaning and education. We prefer wiretaps and wars.]

(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run health care;

[We are in the gauzy pockets of big pharma and big insurance. It's cozy.]

(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;

[We are in the hot slick pockets of big energy. Smell those profits?]

(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;

[We support making it as hard as possible for workers to unionize, which is good for ... um ... EVERYBODY, right?]

(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;

[Despite Regan's signing of the largest amnesty bill in US history, the new Republican is now more terrified than ever of brown people. Even if they believe in Jesus.]

(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;

[How can anyone not love the ROMANCE of our boys and girls shipping out over and over again to maintain an ineffective "calm" in the middle east? It's SO AMERICAN!]

(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;

[Diplomacy is for sissies, creating generations of America-haters is much better for the future of the Military Industrial Complex.]

(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;

[Gay people are immoral second-class citizens. Now where's my Grand Theft Auto? I want to simulate beating women and shooting cops.]

(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion;

[We're scared of death, we're scared of choice, we're scared of change, and to protect ourselves from all this . . . ]

(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership.

[You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. Or the hands of my cold dead child. Or the hands of a cold dead innocent bystander. Or the hands of a tax-paying terrified cold dead Iranian-American shopkeeper. Or the hands of a cold dead social worker. I could go on.]

Glorious Republican Christian Love

Is this amazing or what? Somehow the actual WORD "healthcare" has now become a sin.

"expecially those who have most need in thine mercy"

Wha ha ha ha ha ah ah ahaaha ahaaaaaa. Sad.

NUTS?

They're diabolical, aren't they?

"Beating up Acorn is NUTS"

I feel like we're fighting an evil octopus. If only the right would put one of those slimy arms to use for the good of all instead of attacking the good works of others. . .

ooooooh, you dumb fucker