Traitors! umm Nut Cases!...er Nut Sacks! I mean Tea Baggers!

Is this real? Are there people out there actually claiming "Taxation Without Representation"? (Outside of DC I mean). Was there some set of circumstances where they couldn't vote for a congressperson or senator? Was Obama not democratically elected? The answer to the last 2 questions is an obvious "No". The answer to the first 2 questions is a surprising "Yes".

Interesting...the republican party, in an attempt to create a "grassroots" movement, has put millions of dollars into the promotion of "tea parties", an anti-tax propaganda venture in the hope of rejuvenating the conservative movement...job NOT well done. By making vague claims of some sort of "unconstitutionality" of Obama's policies, the conservative movement has alienated itself from a country that overwhelmingly supports the president. While we know from past conservative actions that they will cut off their nose to spite their face, it's hard to believe the outrage incited by the frothy mouth El Rushbo, or the just plain silly Glenn Beck, could be taken seriously, and for the most part it isn't. I'm not what you would call over patriotic, (don't get me wrong, I love my country, but realize we are only one of many), but what Faux news, along with Glen "Rodeo Clown" Beck are doing may be considered treasonous. Making false claims of misrepresentation because your guy didn't win the election is as despicable as it is dishonest.

As the sin of Pride runs rife through Faux News, so does support for the president, (and his policies), across the country, (excluding undereducated white southern males of course). Can we learn anything from fake populist uprisings built on the flimsiest of reasons? Yes and it is this...Glen Beck is a real "Eye-Hole"...



Thanks again to ArtMaggot Hysteria for the use of his work, as he sums up Mr. Beck quite well...

The Descent Continues...Part II

The Battle Ensues...

In this corner we have Michael "The Man in Black" Steeeeeeeeele...

And in this corner, weighing in at over 20 million listeners, "El Rushhhhhh Booooooooooo"!

As the fight unfolds we realize this is not the simple infighting of an inclusive whole, but a battle to the death for the mantle of "Conservative Leader".  Can Steele  capture the conservative dynamic and deliver it to the republican party, WHILE changing the face of the party?  Will El Rushbo drive his listeners so far away from compromise that there is no hope for a viable republican party?  Let's take a look...

Steele fires the first shot, calling Limbaugh an "entertainer" and his comments "incindiary", trying to bring a moderate tone to the Republican leadership.  The problem with this is that Limbaugh's listeners are anything but moderate, and unfortunately they were a great chunk of what made up  the previous republican party.  So by alienating Rush and his fans, you are essentially giving up the most rabid conservatives in favor of, (or at least hoping for), a more moderate version of the republican party.  Will this work?  Didn't Obama get those moderates already?  If you can't count on Rush's 20 million to vote, then do you push left in the party, (thereby pushing the dem's more left)?  (By the way, after firing this "first shot", Steele promptly apologized for even questioning Limbaugh.) 

The point we are getting at here is that the republican party of the last 29 years is done.  It started with Reagan and ended with Bush.  What is left are the social conservatives that won't drop the abortion debate, and wealthy people.  I've got to tell you, that ain't much of a base to work from.  The main concern, (and should be deeply troubling to conservative thinkers), is that 

Rush Limbaugh is not a superior intellect, nor is he a leader, he truly is an entertainer, with his bottom line ending at a paycheck every week.  Can the republican party moderate itself from the divisiveness that the conservative movement has thrived on?  Can the republican party survive without the Far-Right?  Will Limbaugh realize soon enough that he may kill the republican party completely?

As the Descent Continues...(you would think that there would be a bottom somewhere don't you?) 

The Descent Continues...

While attempting to watch Governor Bobby Jindal's rebuttal of Barack Obama, I was struck by the sense of ineptitude in the republican party right now.  While it's pretty standard to have a rebuttal of the presidents statements in that format, it seems that whomever wrote Mr. Jindal's speech needed to at least ACT like they were paying attention to what the president was saying.  In Obama's speech in which he specifically stated that he wasn't' for "big government", Mr. Jindal's reply ignored this and rambled on about the vague "bureaucrats" that he faced down during Katrina.  Given the colossal failure of the republicans regarding Katrina, opening this wound isn't such a good idea. But what is really embarrassing is that the whole story was made up!  So not only did it seem the rebuttal was ill-written, not only did it ignore the content of Obama's speech, the glaring failure of the young Jindal was a contrived story of him facing down "big government", a complete farce...

Right now our president is running loops around republicans, out smarting, out maneuvering and out performing them at every turn.  Jindal who was talked about as a presidential candidate in 2012, not only ruined that possibility, I'm wondering if he'll even be re-elected...

"Golly Andy, the bureaucrats won't let us save the people..."

I'd like to thank ArtMaggotHysteria for letting me use his artwork.  There is always fresh material, give the site a visit and return often, always something fun...

   

He must be a migrant worker...

"One of these faces is not like the other, one of these faces just isn't the same..."

Mr. Boehner's face is a little more , ahem, "golden" than the others.  Are we supposed to believe that this man cares more about the American middle class than Obama does?  A skeleton, Ratman, and LeatherFace, is that all the conservative "movement" has left?

By the way, Boehner doesn't represent a warm, sunny, southern district, he's from Ohio.  Fako Bako.