Yes, Repug Voters Are to Blame

Charlie Pierce says Fuck You to the people who voted for Roy Moore.

And, no, when it comes to the people who voted for Moore, I don’t have to “respect their beliefs.” I don’t have to “understand where they’re coming from.” I don’t have to “see it from their side.” These people are preparing to make a lawless theocratic lunatic one of 100 United States Senators, and that means these people are about to inflict him and his medievalism on me, too. If you think that Roy Moore belongs in the Senate, then you are a half-bright goober whose understanding of American government and basic civics probably stops at the left side of your AM radio dial. You have no concept of the national interest and very little concept of your own, unless, as I suspect, you’ve made your own fears, and hating people and hawking loogies in all directions, the sum total of your involvement in self-government. You are killing democracy and you don’t know it or care. If you had any real Christian charity in your hearts, you’d keep Roy Moore in the locked ward of your local politics and not loose him on a nation that deserves so much better than him.

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I’m out of empathy for this stuff. I’m out of pity. I’m out of patience. And, not for nothing, but Moore’s opponent is a guy named Douglas Jones. In 2001, Jones convicted two men for the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963, one of the iconic white supremacist terrorist acts of that period. One of those bastards already died in prison and the other keeps getting denied parole. If you’d rather be represented in the Senate by a lawless theocratic lunatic, rather than a guy that finally got justice for four murdered little girls, well, you deserve anything that goddamn happens to you.

Wake Me When He Orders Abortion on Demand

Complete. Utter. Bullshit.

From his simple sound bites to his breaking of Vatican rules, Pope Francis has made being Catholic cool in his first year.

"Cool"?  Really?  How about "humane"?  How about "reality-based"? How about "putting science before mythology and people before patriarchy"? How about "selling off everything the Vatican owns to provide birth control for poor women and condoms for gay men"?

How about "turning every child-raping priest over to law enforcement and demanding they be imprisoned for life"?

How about the fucking media stop falling for this con artist's game and pay attention to the Catlick church's continuing crimes against humanity?

Number 112

 

Died on the very same day as Number 111, the second of Kentucky's latest sacrifices to the insatiable maw of the permanent Warren Terra.

From Cincinnati.com:

Spc. Christopher A. Landis, 27, of Independence died Feb. 10, on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, from wounds received when the enemy attacked his patrol with a rocket propelled grenade in Kapisa Province, Afghanistan, the defense department said.


He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C. and deployed to Afghanistan in the fall.


“He gave his life to protect us and our freedom,” said Independence Mayor Donna Yeager. “We mourn for him and his family.”

Yeager said that once she receives official notice of the soldier’s death, she’ll order that flags at the Independence Municipal Center and other public buildings in the city be flown at half staff.

Landis enlisted as a cryptologic linguist in the U.S. Army in March 2011. He completed initial entry training at Fort Jackson, S.C., followed by Arabic language training at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey, Calif., and then advanced individual training for Cryptologic Linguist at Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas.

He had already received a Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star among others.

He is survived by his parents, two brothers and a sister. His family declined any interviews.

That wailing and gnashing of teeth you hear is not from family and friends of Spc. Landis and Pfc Gray, not that they are not grieving. No, their grieving is drowned out by the anger, the fury, the rage of combat veterans - of WWII, of Korea, of Vietnam, of the Gulf War, and of Iraq and Afghanistan - who are sick unto death of the pointless waste of American lives and treasure that is the unsalvageable shithole known as Afghanistan.

Find out more here.

Alison May Be Stupider than AynRandy

Zandar nailed this one:

I'm not sure what Alison Lundergan Grimes is thinking in her lates line of attack against Mitch the Turtle, but not even I buy her argument that Obama administration EPA regulations are somehow McConnell's fault.

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This is a nonsense attack coming from McConnell's right when his primary challenger Matt Bevin blames the guy for coal regs, but for Grimes to make the argument is not only disingenuous, it's stupid.  Running away from President Obama isn't going to make Democrats in the state vote for her.

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Grimes better figure out a smarter position on coal regs in Kentucky than "They're Mitch's fault."  It's insultingly stupid to the people who would want to vote for her.

Could not have said it better myself.

Mitch Handing Grimes Huge Opportunity on Syria

Hey Alison: You know what would prove you're not an empty dress, show you hate President Obama and reveal Mitchie-poo to be a cowardly worm - all at the same time? Announce you oppose the attack on Syria.

Chris Hayes gave you your whole argument last night. As usual, MSNBC embed sux, so click the link.

At the end he talks about actual, pragmatic, useful options that would help millions of people and earn us gratitude and friends in the region - pretty much the opposite of what missiles will do.

Scott Lemieux discusses the weakness of the pro-attack case and concludes:

The case for attacking Syria fails on multiple levels. The best-case scenario is pretty much that a limited amount of destruction is inflicted on Syria pointlessly. Congress should say no.

Sequester Cuts to Defense Hit n Kentucky

Think the federal budget is bloated? That you can't cut domestic spending enough? Tell that to your neighbor who's going to lose her house if this shit goes on much longer.

From the Herald:

Furloughs began Monday for some of the employees at Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County responsible for the safe and secure storage of chemical weapons.Blue Grass Chemical Activity (BGCA) began furloughing 108 employees, the agency said Monday. The furlough is expected to run through late September and will require employees to work 32 hours a week rather than 40 hours a week.

Steve Benen:

Just over the last week or so, one ridiculous policy -- Republicans' sequestration cuts, approved two years ago -- has undermined the federal government's capacity to battle wildfires, hurt the federal court system, undercut job growth, and even canceled 4th of July events. The political world shrugged, if it noticed the effects of the sequester at all.

With this in mind, I don't imagine Pentagon furloughs will generate much attention, but they should.

More than 650,000 civilian workers in the Defense Department will be taking their first of 11 furlough days this week.

The Pentagon's 11 weeks of furloughs kick in on Monday, which result in a 20-percent-weekly pay cut through September for 680,000 of the Pentagon's roughly 800,000 civilian employees.

Those are a lot of numbers, so take a moment to look beyond the statistics and think about the human element: a whole lot of Americans are about to take a huge pay cut for a few months, not because they've done a poor job, but because congressional Republicans support unnecessary spending cuts for no apparent reason. This will affect their ability to pay their bills and purchase good and services, which means undermining the economy.

There was a time -- I believe it's a period of American history known as "last year" -- when the right was outraged by the very idea of cutting Defense spending.

And yet, 680,000 Pentagon employees are taking a steep pay cut -- and being told to stay home without pay -- because of a policy that was designed to hurt the country. Congress isn't rushing to prevent these furloughs; Congress isn't even talking about these furloughs. It just a rolling disaster on auto-pilot.

To reiterate a point from last week, the political world seems to have moved on, and it's fashionable to suggest the sequester is meaningless, but these cuts continue to take a real toll on real people. Congress has the ability to end this pain and turn off the deliberately damaging policy, but for now, it's not even an option being considered in Washington.

To add insult to injury, the sequester cuts not only add hundreds of thousands of people to the unemployment rolls, they also deny those people the unemployment compensation they have earned.

Impeach Obama

Please, oh please kind and wise teabaggers, impeach that ni**er in the White House!  And do it before the 2014 elections.
 

Impeaching Obama for even less than they impeached Clinton for is the one and only thing that could flip the House to the dems while saving the Senate.

Do it, repugs:  Do it now.