This is flying around Facebook right now, but I loved it so much, I wanted to repost it here….
It’s short and quite wonderful….
The Julia Sugarbaker character really sums it all up perfectly- at least from my perspective.
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Cheney’s Book Features Foreword by Satan
Great satirical article from Andy Borowitz at “The Borowitz Report”.
At least I think it’s satire. It could well be true…
Hat tip to my friend, Vanita, for making me aware of this….
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – Publishing circles were abuzz today with the news that the new memoir by former Vice President Dick Cheney features a foreword by an unusual contributor: Satan.
In his introduction, the Prince of Darkness said he rarely reads political memoirs but made an exception in the case of Mr. Cheney “because we had worked so closely together in the past.”
When he began to read the Cheney manuscript, however, the Lord of Misrule said he was “surprised” by what he found.
“Quite honestly, I couldn’t put it down,” Satan wrote. “It was almost like a book I would have written myself.”
In what could be construed as minor criticism of the book, Satan admitted he was “miffed” that Mr. Cheney took total credit for the idea of invading Iraq, but added, “We were such close collaborators at the time, it may be hard for Dick to remember whose idea was whose – half the time we were finishing each other’s sentences.”
While Satan said he is unlikely to make a habit of writing introductions to books, he said that he could foresee making another exception in the future: “I’ve heard Rupert Murdoch is working on his memoir.”
Elsewhere, after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) said God created last week’s earthquake and hurricane to punish America, God issued this rebuttal: “Actually, that’s why I created Michele Bachmann.”
via Cheney’s Book Features Foreword by Satan « Borowitz Report.
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Michele Bachmann Claims Her Hurricane Comments Were Only a Joke
Yeah, right….
More proof she is not only a nutcase, but a dishonest nutcase who won’t even stand by her crazy statements after she makes them….
This is why she can’t keep anyone on her staff for very long….
From The Guardian (UK):
The Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann has insisted she was joking when she said a hurricane and quake were God’s warning to Washington, in an effort to control the damage from her latest controversial comments.
The Tea Party favourite raised eyebrows with a weekend remark to supporters in Florida that Hurricane Irene, which killed at least 24 people and left millions without power, and an east coast earthquake were God’s way of telling US politicians to cut spending and fix the budget deficit.
“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ ” Bachmann said at a campaign event in Sarasota on Sunday.
“Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”
Bachmann, among the top three candidates seen to have a chance to win the Republican nomination and take on President Barack Obama next year, made similar comments elsewhere in Florida on Saturday, drawing some laughs from her audience.
When the remarks began drawing attention, she went into damage control. “Of course I was being humorous when I said that. It would be absurd to think it was anything else,” Bachmann said on Monday on a campaign stop in Miami. “I am a person who loves humour, I have a great sense of humour.”
via Michele Bachmann’s hurricane comments were only a joke, she says | World news | The Guardian.
Some GOP Donors Think Bachmann is Jewish
What the hell????
Don’t these folks read anything? Or at least watch television? How can they not know Michele Bachmann is a crazed, Right-Wing, Evangelical Christian nutcase?
Of course if these folks are donating to the GOP they have to be either nuts themselves or Rich and selfish or ignorant anyway….
Some Jewish donors are telling fundraisers for Mitt Romney that while they like him, they’d rather open their wallets for the “Jewish candidate,” Michele Bachmann, who they don’t realize is actually a Lutheran, the New York Post reports.
“Some in Romney’s camp have been wondering whether Bachmann and her allies are pushing the ‘Jewish’ rumor to help their own fund-raising… She has enjoyed strong popularity among Jewish voters and often talks about her stay on a kibbutz during the summer of 1974, when she was a teenager.”
Rick Perry Vaults Into Lead For GOP Nomination In Two National Polls
This is getting to be fun…
Public Policy Polling is one of the most accurate pollsters in the country.
Rick Perry, aka Governor Goodhair, is not only evil, but certifiably crazy. See previous posts on this blog and elsewhere….
President Obama should be able to destroy him, but it would be one of the nastiest campaigns ever seen.
Of course, Governor Goodhair may yet fade. Karl Rove and the Bushies hate him and will do all they can do to bring him down. But the GOP Primary voters are so crazy, it might not matter what anyone says or does….The crazier the candidate, the more they like them. See how well Michele Bachmann polls here, as well…
Poor Willard Romney, he’s starting to see it all slip away. I guess that’s why he needs that big, new retirement house in California….
From TalkingPointsMemo.com:
Former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney has been the frontrunner in most national polls of the GOP primary over the last year, and the general punditry considered it his nomination to lose, at least at first. And while it’s still early, new polling released on Wednesday shows his unchallenged time at the head of the pack may be over.
A new national Gallup poll of GOP and GOP-leaning voters shows Romney, who had more than a quarter of the total vote in Gallup’s June numbers in the same poll, has fallen to 17 percent, while newly minted candidate Tex. Gov. Rick Perry surges to 29 percent and the lead. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), considered a top contender, falls to fourth with 10 percent, behind Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) at 13 percent. The rest of the field is in single digits.
Public Policy Polling (D) also came out with a national poll of GOP voters on Wednesday, which showed similar results. In that survey, Perry leads with 33 percent in the field of announced candidates, followed by Romney at 20 percent and Bachmann at 16. The rest of the field in that poll were also in single digits.
Both polls showed Perry’s favorability ratings are very high among Republican primary voters. Gallup recently published “positive intensity scores” on the GOP field (a metric that measures strong favorability against strong unfavorability), which show Perry as the highest rated of the GOP major contenders, although less known. In the PPP poll, Perry registered a 64 percent favorablility rating against 17 unfavorable, a number that reflected findings in another PPP poll released Tuesday of Iowa GOP voters.
The Gallup poll included live telephone interviews conducted from August 17th to 21st with Republicans and GOP-leaning independents, and has a sampling error of four percent. The PPP national poll used 663 automated interviews conducted from August 18th to the 21st with GOP voters, and has a sampling error of 3.8 percent.
via Perry Vaults Into Lead For GOP Nomination In Two National Polls | TPMDC.
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Michele Bachmann Claims Spiritual Kinship with Serial Killer
She really is an idiot…
Chris Wallace should take back his apology for calling her a “flake” on Fox News…
From Huffington Post.com:
In Waterloo, Iowa on the eve of her official presidential campaign announcement, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told Fox News that she has “the spirit” of John Wayne.
The presidential hopeful — who was born and grew up in Waterloo as a child before moving to Minnesota — said, “Well, what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.”
The Washington Times points out one slight problem with the Tea Party favorite’s remarks: The John Wayne with roots in Waterloo is John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer who was executed by lethal injection in 1994 after being convicted of 33 murders.
John Wayne — the late movie star, director and producer — was born in Winterset, Iowa, but appears to have no specific connection to Waterloo.
via Michele Bachmann Flops ‘John Wayne’ Reference In Waterloo, Iowa (VIDEO).
Michele Bachmann Asked If She Accepts Chris Wallace’s Apology For ‘Flake’ Question (VIDEO)
Michele Bachmann is more than a flake, she’s totally nuts!
Who cares if a Fox News Anchor insults her?
Well, I guess Fox viewers do…
Yet Fox News Anchors have been incredibly rude to President Obama and many, many Democrats. How come they never apologize to them?
I guess they only apologize to Republicans. Not only do they believe in situational ethics, situational “facts”, but also, apparently, situational manners.
They really are just a propaganda outlet for the GOP and everyone should have recognized that by now…
Still, I can’t believe they were as rude as they were to the President of the United States, on more than one occasion, never apologized, yet they apologize for a much lesser offense to this woman…
From The Huffington Post:
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says it’s “insulting” that Fox News host Chris Wallace asked her if she’s a “flake” when she appeared on his program on Sunday morning.
Wallace apologized for the question in a web video after he interviewed the presidential hopeful.
“A lot of you were more than perturbed, you were upset and felt that I had been rude to her,” says Wallace in the clip posted online. “And since in the end it’s really all about the answers, and not about the questions, I messed up, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean any disrespect.”
Asked if she accepts the apology by ABC News’ Jon Karl, Bachmann said, “I think that it’s insulting to insinuate that a candidate for president is less than serious. I’m a very serious individual.” When pressed on the matter further she said, “Those are the small issues. I’m focused on the big ones.”
via Michele Bachmann Asked If She Accepts Chris Wallace’s Apology For ‘Flake’ Question (VIDEO).
Lost in the 21st Century 
Ten Things I Hate About Republicans
As a start, let’s remember the classic premise under which the Republican Party has traditionally built its platform: “A strong national defense and less government intrusion into our daily lives.” Doesn’t sound too bad on the surface, but the devil is in the details and how the GOP has evolved over the last 30 years.
The GOP used to be the bastion of White Shoe Lawyers, Old Money and the Corporate Elite. At least they were straight forward about their goals in those days. It was all about preserving capital within the family, making money and leaving every one else alone as long as those goals were achieved.
Then came the unholy alliance with the Religious Right. Then they had to pretend they gave a damn about abortion and gays. There went the part of the platform about “less government intrusion into our daily lives.” Out the window. The proverbial baby with the bath water,
That eventually led to most sensible people leaving the GOP. This was all just too tacky for the Country Club Republicans to accept. So, they moved to the Democrats and we saw the rise of the Corporatist Wing of the Democratic Party.
Arguably, a lot of today’s Democrats are very similar to the Republicans of 30 or 40 years ago. That means a lot of people don’t quite fit anywhere. However, the Democratic Party is more open to dissension and discussion, so most of these folks stay with the Dems and try to work it out. The Dems negotiate, the GOP purges like the Stalinists of yore….
But I digress…let’s get back on topic.
What do I hate about the “modern” GOP? Let me tell you…
1. They are mean- these folks go for the jugular vein. They don’t discuss, they don’t book dissent, they kill. Truth is usually the first victim. They have obviously read their Machiavelli and believe you can’t wound a prince, you must kill him. (See Rick Perry)
2. They lie with impunity- The modern GOP does not believe in facts, they believe in propaganda. They will look you in the eye – or more likely television camera- and lie. Their goal is to create an alternate reality that benefits the Rich without anyone getting wise to the situation. (See Fox News)
3. They are hypocrites- They claim moral superiority and belief in “traditional” family values while serially abandoning wives and families for new trophy wives. (See John McCain and Newt Gingrich)
4. They are plastic- If Ken and Barbie ran for office they would be Republicans. I’m convinced the GOP and fundamentalist ministers keep the hairspray companies in business. I would just love to put all the GOP debaters in a wind tunnel and see how they came out. I wonder if their hair is real or if it’s like some play-dough helmet they put on everyday….(See Mitt Romney and Rick Perry)
5. They are proud of their ignorance- They hate science and won’t believe simple facts. They can’t be bothered to learn or study the issues. (See Herman Cain and Sarah Palin-among others)
6. They are intolerant of other religions or the religious views of others- Each of them seem to be convinced they have a direct line to God and he speaks only to them. Anyone who disagrees with them is bound for hell. (See Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum)
7. They are heartless- Ideological purity is of the utmost importance-particularly to the Libertarian Republicans. These guys believe in almost no government. If you get sick and don’t have any money, it’s okay to let you die. They think you should have planned better and worked harder. (See Ron Paul)
8. They are anti-intellectual- Used to be we wanted the smartest guy or gal in the room for our President. Not the GOP. Not only are they proud of their ignorance, they dismiss intelligence and intellectual curiosity as signs of ideological weakness. They think people who actually study the issues and the facts are wasting valuable time. To them, facts are to be adjusted to drive the agenda and one shouldn’t think too much about things like starting a war with Iraq because someone insulted Daddy. (See George W. Bush)
9. The are vengeful- They truly believe there are only two important concepts in politics: Loyalty and Revenge. You must be loyal, without asking questions, or you will face their revenge. (See George W. Bush and Dick Cheney)
10. They are always out for themselves- Their motto really should be “I’ve got mine, screw you.” They don’t believe in anything that stands in the way of profiteering. It’s all about “me” to them. They don’t even recognize the existence of anyone else as that would require them to stop gazing at themselves in the mirror and reading their bank statements. (See Sarah Palin)
I could go on, but I’ll stop here for now….
I’m sure before the Republican Presidential Primaries are over, I’ll be able to add to this list…..
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