Yes, it’s real.
Introduction Video from Rachel for Congress on Vimeo.
Rachel Brown is the LaRouchian whackadoo who burned her proverbial 15 minutes of fame comparing Obama to Nazis at a Barney Frank town hall meeting last summer, which led Frank to compare her to a dining room table. Today, she’s running against Frank in the primary…as a Democrat.
The scramble to fill Indiana Senator Evan Buh-Bayh’s (D – INO) still cheek-warm seat in the nation’s most vaunted deliberative body has taken a turn toward the campy, the Mellen-campy.
There’s a fast-moving, fast-growing movement to draft Rock And Roll Hall of Fame member John Mellencamp to play a full-time gig in the United States Senate.
IN a statement released today, Bubba sez:
America stands at a historic crossroads. At last, we are close to making real health insurance reform a reality. We face one critical, final choice, between action and inaction. We know where the path of inaction leads to: more uninsured Americans, more families struggling to keep up with skyrocketing premiums, higher federal budget deficits, and health costs so much higher than any other country’s they will cripple us economically.
Our only responsible choice is the path of action. Does this bill read exactly how I would write it? No. Does it contain everything everyone wants? Of course not. But America can’t afford to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Analysis:
The corpulent, caucasoid beast born of the Southern Strategy, reared by Reagan, and funded by the likes of Dick Armey has turned on it’s Masters. A new poll from Rassmussen suggests that more ‘moderate’ Republican Congressfolk looking to renew their DC parking pass — and (ahem) government-run personal healthcare plan — might face primary challengers in the form of Tea Party candidates.
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.
The Republican Roadster, the once-feared electoral muscle-car of the 80’s and 90’s isn’t exactly ‘track ready’ these days — if being lapped by barely literate (judging from the signs) old white people atop an armada of Rascal Scooters is any indication. The Party of Lincoln and Roosevelt, of Ike and AuH20, is long gone. Has today’s GOP taken the Teabagger ramp, launching in a fatal arc over the shark?
Apologies if this post is a little too ‘inside blogball’ for the some of the Moose/lurker set. I hope you’ll indulge me anyway.
Remember the TexasDarlin’ (TD), the spurious Democrat and progressive blogger, elevated to infamy during the flame-rich primaries for her incendiary diaries? Once a member of the pro-Hillary royal court at MyDD, she dominated the w[REC]k list along with fellow gold-polishers like Alegre (Is This Snark?) for much of 2008. When things started to look bad for Hillary’s chances re: securing the Democratic nomination for POTUS, TD went all PUMA-licious on our collective ass, and started her own little blight of site — once all her racist drivel triggered the ban-hammer at every sane place on the web. A horde of mindless, pitchfork-and-torch wielding PUMA Patriots happily followed unto the breach, readily trading their Hillary is My Hero fanny-packs for a sparkly set of Sarah Palin pom-poms. A perfectly sensible shift of political loyalty, if you’re a completely fatuous muttonhead.
Anyway, TD recruited a Birfer harpy with the nom de douche “DrKate” from (IIRC) Larry Johnson’s NoQuater Whitey’s Discount Video Shoppe, to feature-write for her little Kompendium of Teh Krazy. TD has since faded away, and her viper pit has ceased writhing; it’s gone dark some months ago (speculation: committed to an institution? wishful thinking: Syphilis). DrKate on the other paw, a self-proclaimed warrior for the Constitution, is still going strong. A quick perusal of her across-the-board disgusting blog indicates that she’s managed to eclipse her prior patron’s reproachable asshattery. DrKate’s take on the recent tragedy at Ft. Hood is excerpted (in part) below the fold, so brace yourselves, ’cause this stuff is Take-It-To-Eleventy nuts.
Fresh scat from the Birfer loons, via HuffPo:
In his decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by Orly Taitz late last month, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carterr mentioned that some witnesses complained that the birther chief urged them to lie on the stand. Now, more details are out, as one of the witnesses has made his affidavit public.
Come on, is there anything more entertaining than soap opera drama, infighting, and adulterous sex among the architects of the Barry Hussien O’bama ain’t a REALZ ‘Murican sub-species? No, there isn’t.
When I was in High School, I worked summers as a lifeguard at the community swimming pool in my rural northern California town. My boss, a guy named Craig, was a former student of my father’s (the local high school social studies teacher).
Sometimes, Craig’s son Josh used to come to work with his dad, along with his younger brother and sister. Today, Staff Sgt. Joshua Keyes, 30, is a Para-rescueman or “PJ”, (Para-jumper). He keeps lookout aboard a HH-60 G, “Pave Hawk”, helicopter, of the 55th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, United States Air Force (USAF). In the photo above, Sgt. Keyes provides medical care to a battlefield casualty, Saturday, October 24, 2009, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Just caught this terrible news on MSNBC. So far, reports indicate seven dead (7) and possiblly a dozen wounded. Suspects were in US Military uniforms.
FORT HOOD (November 5, 2009)-Army officials have confirmed a violent incident has happened Thursday afternoon on post.
The reports indicate there may be at least twelve and maybe even as many as fifteen victims involved in this incident.
Details have not been released but it is known that ambulances and police are converging on a location in the center of the sprawling military post.
Ambulances from several agencies have been dispatched.
One unconfirmed report indicates an armed gunman has fired several shots and may have hit several people.
Ft. Hood officials report the area is not secure.
Joe Wilson lets slip a skosh more of his nationally famous stoopid-i-tee. Via TPM:
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) says President Obama has endangered American lives by not doing more to alleviate the nation’s short supply of H1N1 vaccine.
Except earlier this year, Wilson, along with 170 of his Republican cohorts in the House voted against the Supplemental Appropriations Bill ( H.R. 2346, which included the investment of $2 billion to assist the government in combating the H1N1 outbreak and to allow for further pandemic flu preparedness and response capacity.
I’m working late tonight on a critical issues analysis for a wind farm project in (where else?) Kansas {laugh track}. So for a little distraction/break I pop over to facebook, and the status message for some girl I went to high school with catches my eye.
Something wicked this way comes.
You know, the kind of ‘friend’ you only just barely recollect, but accept their ‘add’ request to avoid the guilt of denying them. Hey, they were obviously kind enough to remember you, right? Anyway, from some of the things on her wall (e.g. Sarah Palin supporter, consistent negative votes in Obama related polls, and lots of Jesus bling) I can safely gather that she’s probably a Republican. Oddly, this 12-second recon of her online persona tells me more about her than I’ve ever known.
