Dick Cheney is unpatriotic pond scum. His latest round of Obama bashing has taken him down to a new level. It’s one thing to disagree with policy, but Cheney has resorted to the lowest level of personal attack on the President.

Cheney addressing the latest attempt by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab to blow up an airliner in flight said in his acerbic statement:

He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.”

Cheney also said Obama outwardly “pretends we aren’t at war” and he repeated his months-long criticism that the new president has made America “less safe.”

Cheney also asked in his patented sardonic way:

Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency: social transformation, the restructuring of American society.”

Cheney seems to think we are at war with a state. Wrong. We are at war with an ideology. There are no western fronts to line up the artillery and blast them to smithereens, or unload the latest 30,000 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb on the communication center. Even Patton couldn’t pull this one off.

These guy’s communication center is a cave somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Cheney blasts the current administration for the exact same decision the Bush administration made with Richard Reid, you know, the shoe bomber? Bush was on vacation when that incident happened. 6 days later he made a comment.

Reid was tried, convicted and sentenced in Federal court. Same with Zacarias Moussaoui.

Apparently, Cheney doesn’t have any faith in a U.S. Justice Department when he is not pulling the strings. I guess he is also still pissed that Scooter Libby didn’t get off scott free.

Cheney is trying to put the Obama administration in as bad a light as he can so he hopes the public will forget just what deep shit the Bush administration (with his blessing, of course) put us in. Their administration drove us to the brink of financial insolvency, started a war with a country that had zero to do with the 9/11 attacks, and alienated the U.S. from all but our stanchest allies.  

9/11 happened on the Bush/Cheney watch. We should never forget that. They had the intelligence that Bin Laden was going to try something, but they sat on that. Then they blamed Iraq, and started that war and basically forgot about Afghanistan.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the official White House blog:

It is telling that Vice President Cheney and others seem to be more focused on criticizing the Administration than condemning the attackers…

For seven years after 9/11, while our national security was overwhelmingly focused on Iraq — a country that had no al Qaeda presence before our invasion — Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda’s leadership was able to set up camp in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they continued to plot attacks against the United States…

Meanwhile, al Qaeda also regenerated in places like Yemen and Somalia, establishing new safe-havens that have grown over a period of years. It was President Obama who finally implemented a strategy of winding down the war in Iraq, and actually focusing our resources on the war against al Qaeda…

Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the president.

Strangely off-key indeed. Turn in your U.S. lapel pin Mr. Cheney. If you think our government isn’t doing all that’s humanly possible to protect you, then leave. Your vitriolic partisan bullshit is no longer relevant.

So, the Republican Party has no where else to go but…down.

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), the front-runner in the Republican primary election for U.S. Senate is being tagged as gay by one of his opponents in the race, Andy Martin (aka Anthony Martin-Trigona).

Who?

You know, Andy Martin. He has run for numerous elective offices over the last three decades in Illinois, Florida and Connecticut. Hasn’t won anything I don’t think, but he sure has a solid source when it comes to the subject of Rep. Kirk’s sexual orientation. He has taped an ad with the shocking “truth”:

Illinois Republican leader Jack Roeser says there is a ‘solid rumor that Kirk is a homosexual’.  Roeser suggests that Kirk is part of a Republican Party homosexual club. Lake County Illinois Republican leader Ray True says Kirk has surrounded himself with homosexuals. Mark Kirk should tell Republican voters the truth.”

Maybe Andy should tell the Republican’s the truth…He doesn’t have a shot at winning so he falls back to the old Republican playbook, make shit up and hope it sticks!

Kirk, a U.S. Naval Intelligence officer, was unavailable for comment because he is on active duty serving our country.

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Patrick Brady had this to say about Martin and the ad:

The Illinois Republican Party disavows the statements made today by Mr. Andrew Martin in his statewide radio advertisements. His statements today are consistent with his history of bizarre behavior and often times hate-filled speech which has no place in the Illinois Republican Party. Mr. Martin will no longer be recognized as a legitimate Republican candidate by the Illinois Republican Party.”

Kirk began his candidacy with an endorsement from his ex-wife who he had just recently divorced.

What?

She stepped to the podium and said, “I support him 100 percent. He’ll make a great senator.”

Stand by your man girlfriend! Uhhh, paydays are on Friday.

Martin has never won elective office. He completed law school and passed the bar exam, but the Illinois Supreme Court’s Character and Fitness Committee refused to grant him a law license.

The Chicago Sun Times has more interesting tidbits about Mr. Martin:

• Martin objected at one committee meeting when staffers retrieved a document from his Selective Service file labeling him unfit for military service because of a “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.” Martin called committee members “scum.”
• When reporters report these facts, Martin sometimes sues them alleging libel. His penchant for filing so many lawsuits later dismissed as frivolous has enraged some judges who have held him in contempt of court over the years. Some of his court filings have included anti-semitic comments.
• Martin garnered some national attention for pushing rumors that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that the Hawaiian birth certificate Obama posted on his Web site early in his campaign was a fake.

Rumor monger, a birther, and has a “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.” Oh, anti-semitic too.

God love the Republican Party…

And for the people of the great state of Illinois -

Please vote responsibly.

The all knowing and all powerful Rush Limbaugh said on “Fox News Sunday” that President Obama is “pursuing a ‘radical’ agenda that is putting the economy and national security in peril.”

And who should know more about pursuing a radical agenda than Rush Limbaugh. The man can’t even properly vet “news” stories. He reported the “story” of President Barack Obama slamming the Constitution in his college thesis as fact on his show. But after Limbaugh found out the piece was a fake, he didn’t apologize for his mistake, he just said something like “well, it sounds right.”

He calls Obama a “child” driven by his “out-of-this-world ego.”

Rush, I thought you were off the Oxycontin.

Rush goes on to say that “And when they get this health care bill — if they do — that’s the easiest, fastest way for them to be able to regulate every aspect of human behavior, because it will all have some related cost to health care — what you drive, what you eat, where you live, what you do — and there will be penalties for violating regulation. It’s going to be the biggest snatch of freedom and liberty that has yet occurred in this country.”

I guess it does make sense that a fat, drug addicted person might be nervous of the ramifications of health care reform. It might tighten up “doctor shopping”. I can see where Rush might be upset about that. Personally, I can’t wait for the regulation of insurance companies. They have been ripping off the average consumer for years.

Rush, take a look back at how well the “free market” regulated itself in the banking industry. And look at the rate of increase of health care premiums and services over the last 10 years. The average person doesn’t have the millions of dollars like you do to be able buy the best health care. $12,000 a year for premiums is just out of reach for the average worker.

And it’s the average worker who keeps people like you in business.

Remember those lyrics from Arlo Guthre’s “Alice’s Restaurant”?

“And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, “Kid, I want you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W …. NOW kid!!”

And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me.”

Now, let’s set aside the Group W irony for a moment.

Mother rapers, father stabbers, father rapers, oh my!

Liz Cheney is a fact stabber, or worse, a fact raper!

She says that W (that would be George W, not Group w) did not want to close Gitmo. Wrong. He said he would like to close it in 2006:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-14-bush-gitmo_x.htm

She says that her father never made an Iraq to 9/11 connection. Wrong.

In a 2003 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cheney said that “the Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack.” And of course there were many “soft” references to Iraq over the years by Mr. Cheney.

Liz Cheney said on the syndicated Fox News Radio John Gibson Show suggesting President Bush honored America’s heroes with a bit more class than his successor.

I think that what President Bush used to do is do it without the cameras. And I don’t understand sort of showing up with the White House Press Pool with photographers and asking family members if you can take pictures. That’s really hard for me to get my head around…It was a surprising way for the president to choose to do this.”

Wrong. As we know, Bush never made a trip to Dover. Ever. CBS’s Mark Knoller reported yesterday that Obama was the first president to visit arriving dead at Dover during the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Liz Cheney is a fact stabber…a fact raper! I wish she would just go sit down on the Group W bench and just shut the hell up. It’s one thing to debate a position. It’s quite another to pull facts out of your ass.

We’ve had enough “ass pulled” facts over the 8 years of the Bush administration, thank you very much.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday night accused the White House of “dithering” over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

Dithering you say Mr. Former V.P.? Better than being a blathering idiot.

So let me get this straight. Terrorists attack the US. Your administration determines that it’s the Taliban that’s responsible. Your administration also determines they are operating out of bases in Afghanistan. Your administration then sends troops to Afghanistan, which like 99.99% of the country supported. The date: 10/07/2001.

Then, your administration decided that Iraq was so much more of a threat and decided to start a war. The date: 03/19/2003.

At the height of the Iraq surge, 26,000 US troops were in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq.

8 years later, and where is Osama Bin Laden? You had him in your sights, and you let him get away. Then, you start the war with Iraq. Weapons of mass destruction and all. What did you find? Nada, squat, zero, zilch. You found an old man in a hole and declared Mission Accomplished. After your administration screwed it up, now the current administration dithers?

The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger. It’s time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity.”

So this war wasn’t a necessity when you were in office? 6 times the number of troops in Iraq than in Afghanistan? So the Afghan war was for you, what, like a hike in the woods? Why didn’t you take care of business while you were in office.

Please just fade away Mr. Cheney. We have had enough of your blathering nonsense. Your legacy has already been written.

Just go duck hunting…

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on Tuesday was unconcerned that a new Washington Post/ABC News poll indicates just 20 percent of the American public are willing to call themselves Republicans.

Steele said on CNN’s “The Situation Room”:

What I’m concerned about is how they vote…at end of the day you can call yourself whatever you want” – as long voters ultimately choose candidates who favor small government, business-friendly policies.

That’s at the end of the day where I’m focused as a party chairman.On delivering candidates and delivering a message that empowers people and lifts them up, not puts the government in front of them as the president and Democrats in congress are doing now.”

“…at end of the day you can call yourself whatever you want.”

Nicely said Mr. Steele. OK, how about reasonable. Tired of the FudSlinging. Tired of the antics. Tired of obstructionism. Tired of not moving the country forward. Tired of those in power spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt just because. Tired of the same old “stop them at any cost” approach. Tired of politicians asking for forgiveness for their sins.

Must make you proud to be associated with a party where members are no longer willing to publicly announce their affiliation. Doesn’t that tell you anything? Remind you of any parties (political or otherwise) in past?

Time to wake up Mr. Steele. It’s starting to look like hard core Republicans have something  in common with lepers of old – real estate, virtual as it is. “Let me show you this great island property. Remote, quiet and best of all, everyone is tanned and thinks alike!”

Gov. Tim Pawlenty rolled out a series of new health care initiatives yesterday. I feel sorry for Minnesotans already…

Gov. Pawlenty made clear that the proposals are intended to be a “market driven” contrast to President Obama’s health care plan currently being debated in Washington.

“Market Driven”. Oh, you mean profit motivated. Continue…

He termed the Democratic health care bill that ultimately emerged from the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday as “a tax and spending bill masquerading as a health reform bill.”

Oh, you mean stop anything that will help the average citizen. Continue…

• The first part of his proposal would let Minnesotans purchase health insurance plans across state lines.

And interstate banking paved the way. And we all know how well that worked. Continue…

• The second part of his proposal would establish a “tiered provider system” for the state-run programs MinnesotaCare and Minnesota Advantage that would make consumers pay more for clinics.

And paying more is…what the average consumer wants? Is he taking a queue from cable companies? Continue…

• The third part of the plan would require adults making at least 133 percent of the federal poverty level pay for some of the health care expenses under MinnesotaCare.

And paying more is, again, beneficial how to the average consumer? The Republicans just don’t get it. Screwing the average working consumer is not in the best interest of the country. Stop throwing Hitler’s name around and get to work on getting a cohesive, well thought out plan implemented.

People are dying, literally dying, every day for health care reform.

Just do it, or get the hell out of the way.

Rush Limbaugh said it on his show today. He agrees with, sympathizes with and empathizes with the Taliban.

Yeah, but his [Obama's] agenda is to weaken this country, to remake it, and that’s what he’s been rewarded for. How can he now protect us from a ruthless enemy?…

…Our president is a worldwide joke. Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about, and that is he doesn’t deserve the award! Now, that’s hilarious. I’m on the same side of something with the Taliban. And that we all are on the same side as the Taliban. But, see, the problem here is not the Nobel Peace Prize. The problem is how we look at the Peace Prize. We legitimatize it by saying, well, it’s a “peace prize.” It’s not a peace prize. It has nothing to do with peace. The Nobel Peace Prize is just an extension of the United Nations objective to destroy the United States. The Nobel Peace Prize is an instrument that is used to influence negatively domestic policy in this country…

…You know, folks, this Obama presidency, now, seriously is looking like some kind of idiot reality TV show. Ozzy Osbourne and his family had that reality TV show. This is what we’re watching here. The whole country has to listen to this crap and watch this crap every day. Every Friday it’s something, either the Olympics or it’s the Peace Prize, every day. We have an amateur president stepping in it every day, day after day, and his crazy friends are out there praising him to the hilt. You know what I’m going to do? Every year the EIB Peace Committee will issue a Screwup Award to the person or persons or group or groups that are the biggest screwups, and this year the award goes to Barack Obama. I am not going to be left out of the award business again. The EIB Peace Committee has spoken.”

Rush Limbaugh is an overweight, prescription drug abusing, ego maniacal  piece of pond scum.

But he is doing all of this for the purest of reasons. Money. He said it in an interview with NBC. Ratings = Higher Advertising Rates which equal Money. And he wants all the money he can get. Just check out the ads on his website. But Carbonite for your on-line backup? $54.95 a year? SOS Online Backup was PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice, and it’s only $34.95 a year!

So it makes you wonder how he really feels about Obama, the Democratic party, African Americans and women.

Probably the same. Money will do that to you. So will Oxycontin.

Obama’s agenda is to weaken the country? No Rush, it’s your agenda. Your fact distorting rants to whip up a minority into an Obama hating frenzy is what emboldens the enemy. The “Tal-ee-bahn”, as you ignorantly refer to them as, uses your rants as propaganda for their cause. Killing Americans.

Are you are proud of that?  The majority of us are ashamed of you for that.

Check this out from American Politics Journal:

Limbaugh invented modern hate radio, radio for the stupid and insane, radio for the paranoid and ignorant, radio for those fearful of change and longing for a return to the imaginary “values” of a past America, and radio that liberals love to listen to – because Rush is just one big comedy act to us. Dark humor it’s called.”

It was written over a year ago. Funny how not much changes in the world of conservative talk radio.

But, this is America after all. And he has every right to say it.

Fox News ran a newspaper ad today accusing the network news organizations and the other cable news outlets of not covering the Tea Party protests last weekend in Washington.

Of course, all the outlets did cover it, and they all put out statements to that effect.

Fox News. UnFair and UnBalanced.  I mean really. They could have said that the others didn’t cover the rally as much as they did or as intensely as they did. That would be fair.

Fox is really stretching the boundaries of even an entertainment channel now. 1st Glenn Beck seeing carvings on the 30 Rockefeller Center complex as past predictions of Obama’s coming, now outright lies about competitor coverage.  What’s next, on air fights with Keith Olbermann?

I think someone needs to check on the tea the folks over at Fox are drinking.

45,000 Americans dead in a year because of no access to primary health care. 45,000. That’s a big number.

Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. Dead because they couldn’t get or afford health care. Sue Riek couldn’t afford $5,000 a month for the premium. $5,000 a month. That’s a big number too.

So, what’s the answer? Just let them continue to die? Well, that’s a real right to life stance. So if life begins at conception, then when does it end? I know, that seems to be a silly question, but really, when does it end? When you no longer can afford to stay alive, that’s when. If you can’t pay, then pray, ’cause that’s all the help you are gonna get. Cryn’ won’t help you either.

Just ask the woman who died on the floor in the hospital, while the staff just kept walking around her and stepping over her. Oh, sorry, you can’t. She’s dead.

America is better than that.

Now, if we could only educate people about what Czars do in this country.

Under what President did the 1st Drug Czar work for? (Hint: He was "Not a crook")

And, if you want to know them all, LMGTFY:

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