We are blogging today directly from the floor of the Texas Republican Party Convention.. The tenor of the Convention has already been set. During the opening ceremonies recognized the Tejanos that fought for and signed the constitution that made the Republic of Texas possible. Ordinarily, this would be quite appropriate. But with the latest Arizona legislation in the air, this recognition smack of placation. More Later
June 11, 2010
Day One, Texas Republican Party Convention
April 3, 2010
Another steaming pile of Maher…
The Democrats are always the first to whine about name calling. They are constantly getting their “panties in a wad” about something. But when their completely unhinged commentators step across that line, “crickets…..”. Recently on Leno one of our faves had this to say:
“I thank the tea baggers….Any tea baggers here tonight? They’re the ones who got it passed. I’m sure they’re saying, “What are you talking about, Bill? I was so against the health care bill, I marched on Washington with tea bags hanging from my hat, dressed up in my founding fathers costume with a picture of Hitler, you know, and Obama’s face on him and, you know, screaming about his birth certificate.” And America saw that and said: “What loons. We’re going with the calm black man.”
Of course that was Bill Maher. The term “tea baggers” is a derogatory sexual term aimed at the Tea Party movement. For those of you from Lake Jackson, this is how the Urban Dictionary defines the term “tea bagging”: [Graphic]
multiple meanings. 1) one who carries large bags of packaged tea for shipment. 2) a man that squats on top of a womens face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as “teabagging” 3) one who has a job or talent that is low in social status 4) a person who is unaware that they have said or done something foolish, childlike, noobish, lame, or inconvenient.
Of course Bill doesn’t stop there, he continues on:
“Oh, they’re such sore losers. Sore losers. And I’m not just talking about the gunfire. I mean, you expect that from the right wing when they lose a a political battle. Of course, the bricks through the window, the death threats on phone machine you know?” That’s all acceptable, you know? You have to throw a little tantrum when freedom, as we know it, dies because I know what it means to be a patriot, is to make sure that kids don’t get checkups.”
If you believe Bill, then all Republicans want children to go without checkups. When Rush Limbaugh stated he wished Obama would fail (i.e. his socialist agenda), he was lambasted on all sides. Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, the current targets of Democratic ire, are constantly criticized by the left often calling them divisive and accusing them of demagoguery. But when Maher makes statements like these about Sarah Palin,
“John McCain told how he once carried a brain-dead woman through an entire campaign.”
“Thinking you can look at a babbling, barely house-broken, uneducated being and say that’s our leader doesn’t make you enlightened. It makes you a Sarah Palin supporter.”
“Sarah Palin screaming about death panels? You know what, Sarah, if we were killing off useless people, you’d be the first to know.”
March 31, 2010
The Nostrildamus Hearings, marching ever closer to communism…
Rat boy is at it again
.Taking an old cue from the House Committee on Un-American Activities, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Representative Waxman (D) intends to hold hearings to intimidate and vilify Caterpillar, Verizon, AT&T and Deere.
It seems these firms have publicly made it known that the newly passed health care reform bill will have an adverse effect on their bottom lines. Caterpillar claims the measure will raise their costs by $100 million just in the first year. The chairman turned Politburo chief, Waxman, has asked each of the corporate representatives to provide full documentation detailing how they arrived at their estimates. This is clearly a move to intimdate and silence any dissenting voices against the Health Care Reform act.
I say bully! go ahead and make an ass of yourself. Vilify the companies that are providing goods and services, generating revenue, and more importantly jobs. But you better make hay while the sun shines… these asinine displays of complete arrogance will be remembered come election day…
Heads must fall…
There are not too many days here lately that I get home and don’t find an impassioned plea in my email inbox from the RNC Chairman Michael Steele asking for a donation to fight off one cause or another. “Could you send us $25, $50, $100, $500 or more to the RNC today!” If you send money to the Republican Party, do you ever wonder where the money goes?
I know…. about $2000.00 of it went to take the “Young Eagles” to a lesbian-themed nightclub in West Hollywood. According to their website, the Voyeur is a “A destination for provocative revelry that combines eroticism and nightlife exclusivity. An alluring ambience designed with elegance and comfort while maintaining underground vitality.” In other words S&M shows, topless dancing and dancers simulating lesbian sex. But it doesn’t stop there, the exessive spending includes fees for private jets, car services, plush hotels, and catering Meanwhile, the RNC Chairman was missing in action on a “book tour” on company time. All in all, under this Chairman the RNC has raised less money and manged to spend more.
I was never a big fan of Steele. Like the rest of the current Republican leadership, he lacks the fire in his belly to stand up and fight for the ideals that make this Party great. Instead, he’d rather make nice and capitulate to the legacy media while throwing other conservatives ‘under the bus’ on the weekend shows. During an interview responding to the Rush Limbaugh statement about hoping that the Obama socialist agenda fails, Steele had this to say “Let’s put it into context here. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh, the whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it’s incendiary, yes, it’s ugly” It’s quite a shame, I had sincere hopes that the first black man to lead the RNC would be the one to resurrect the Party of Lincoln, the ”Grand Ole Party”. Now how fitting would that be?
I don’t know about you, but if I gave money to the RNC, I’d be asking for it back… But then again, I stopped throwing money down that hole, a long time ago…
March 22, 2010
How much is the life of a baby worth…
… or countless thousands. How about $726,409.00? $726,409.00 was all it took for Bart Stupak to walk away from his principles, and vote for legislation that not only contains abortion language in the bill, it appropriates $7 billion for abortion services for the next 5 years. And, the language of the Bill was purposely written to skirt around the Hyde amendment. Plus sec 1303 has language that uses federal funds to subsidize health plans that cover abortion. Oh, but wait a sec… the POTUS promised an Executive Order to prohibit federal funding of abortion.
There is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits Executive Orders, and Congress at any time may overturn an executive order by passing legislation in conflict with it or by refusing to approve funding to enforce the Executive Order.
Well done Mr Stupak, you held out for a worthless compromise. And I sure that $726,409.00 grant for rural airport renovations is just coincidental too…
On standing on principle, Stupak told the Catholic News Agency on March 26th “The health care reform bill would have passed the House without the votes of Rep. Bart Stupak’s pro-life Democrats because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “always carries a number of votes in her pocket.”
Hmm, the votes are there already… and… I cold vote my conscience… … … what’s behind door number 3 Bob?



