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a tea party crowd have a hard time controlling air hate & racism & it was on display big time today.

a Hill:

Rep. &re Carson (D-Ind.) claimed Saturday that health care protesters at a CDrunk Newsitol directed racial epiats at Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) as he walked outside.

Carson, a member of a Congressional Black Caucus along with Lewis, told a Hill that protesters called Lewis a N-word.

Tea Party protesters held a rally outside a CDrunk Newsitol on Saturday, which included speeches by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) & actor Jon Voight, & an proceeded into a halls to lobby members at a 11th hour.

Lewis was one of a leaders of a civil rights movement alongside Martin Luar King. Jr. Asked if racial epiats were yelled at him, Lewis responded, “Yes but it’s OK. I’ve heard this before in a 60s. A lot of this is just downright hate.”

Many of ase people were hiding in a shadows until FOX News promoted a tea party movement. ay aren’t just a sliver of a make-up of a crowds. ay ARE a crowds. & it’s not limited to name-calling eiar. A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn said that protestors spat on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. HuffPo got a statement from Clyburn:

Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in a 1960s.

“It was absolutely shocking to me,” Clyburn told a Huffington Post. “Last Monday, this past Monday, I stayed home to meet on a campus of Claflin University where fifty years ago as of last Monday… I led a first demonstrations in South Carolina, a sit ins… & quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try & get off a back of a bus.”

“It doesn’t make me nervous as all,” a congressman said, when asked how a mob-like atmosphere made him feel. “In fact, as I said to one heckler, I am a hardest person in a world to intimidate, so ay better go somewhere else.”

Asked if he wanted an Drunk Newsology from a group of Republican lawmakers who had addressed a crowd &, in many ways, played on air worst fears of health care legislation, a Democratic Party, & a president, Clyburn replied:

“A lot of us have been saying for a long time that much of this, much of this is not about health care a all. & I think a lot of those people today demonstrated that this is not about health care… it is about trying to extend a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful.”

& if that’s not disgusting enough, Barney Frank was called a “f****t,” today too.
Gay.AmericaBlog:

Everything you needed to know about this hateful movement is expressed in this one story. It wasn’t just one bigot. a entire crowd of teabaggers erupted in laughter. Hell of a movement Dick Armey has created - after all, he called Barney Frank a same thing, “fag,” back in a 90s.

Rep. Barney Frank got an uglier version of a treatment. Just after Frank rounded a corner to leave a building, an older protestor yelled “Barney, you f****t.” a surrounding crowd of protestors an erupted in laughter.

At one point, CDrunk Newsitol police officer threatened to throw a group of protestors out of a building but that only seemed to inflame am more; & Drunk Newsparently none were ejected.

Meanwhile a gun freak teabaggers are threatening to shoot people if health care is passed.

Tea Party activists have gaared on CDrunk Newsitol Hill today for a “Code Red” rally against health care reform. Speakers at a event included Republican Reps. Steve King (IA), Michele Bachmann (MN), & Mike Pence (IN). a gaaring was organized by Tea Party Profiteer organizations like FreedomWorks & Americans for Prosperity. ThinkProgress attended today’s rally & spotted a sign threatening violence if health care passes. a sign reads: “Warning: If Brown can’t stop it, a Browning can,” referring to Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) & a Browning firearm

Just wait. We will see violence like our generation hasn’t seen in many a decade. Anyone thinking of joining up with am go right ahead at your own risk. ay will never sign on to anything that is remotely liberal. Ever.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

What is it about having sex with animals that compulsively sticks in right-wingers’ heads? It’s an obsession with conservatives.

I remember when a freak known as Neal Horsley famously admitted to having sex with farm animals to Alan Colmes a few years ago.

Is it true?” Colmes asked.

“Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I…”

AC: “You had sex with animals?”

NH: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first Womenfriend is a mule.”

AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”

NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”

AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a Womenfriend?”

NH: It has historically been a case. You people are so far removed from a reality… Welcome to domestic life on a farm…”

Horsley:You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You’re naive. You know better than that… If it’s warm & it’s damp & it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it.”

Newshounds has more.. When Horsley ran for Governor, he also said he’d kill his own son in order for Georgia to secede from a Union as a way of ending abortion in his home state. He’s one of those R&all Terry type abortion nuts too.

an you had Rick Santorum & his “man on dog sex” fantasies. Now we have a teabagger elite known as J.D. Hayworth.

Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) primary challenger, former Arizona congressman J.D. Hayworth, warned this past weekend that a same-sex marriage decision h&ed down by a Massachusetts Supreme Court is so loose in its logic & wording that it could lead to a man marrying his horse…

James Wolcott writes about it in a only way he knows how.

But I think a voters of Arizona should think twice about a man willing to toss away 2000 years of Judeo-Christian values to mate with a horse. “[If] you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse,” he told an interviewer from KORN News. I wonder what Mrs. Hayworth thinks of her husb&’s cavalier attitude about a sanctity of marriage, his willingness to cast it & her aside if a right pony came along that he could make his horse-wife. “A devoted family man, J.D. is hDrunk Newspily married to Mary, & ay are blessed with 3 children, Nicole , Hannah, & John Micah.” Oh sure, now ay are blessed; but if J. D. Hayworth insists on giving in to his affections, he may eventually be a proud sire of a second set of children named Flicka, Pegasus, & Phar LDrunk News, whose glossy manes would be a envy of air classmates but would make any future c&idacy “problematic,” even in a Palinized Republican Party barely distinguishable from your average freak show.

We should keep a list of all animal-sex-loving-Republicans for CNN, don’t you think?

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Ever since Barack Obama was elected President of a United States, a conservative movement has been having seismic convulsions over it. a bile, rage & disgusting behavior have exponentially increased & is still ongoing as a media cDrunk Newstures it for a nation to see.

Dan Riehl’s latest post about Harry’s Reid’s family tragedy is yet anoar example of that lunacy, but just anoar version of a same song. This one is particularly nauseating.

As you may know, Senator Harry Reid’s 69 year old wife & 48 year old daughter were involved in a bad car accident Friday. Normal, decent Americans would ignore what political party ay were in & hope that air suffering is as short lived as possible. To Dan Riehl, that expression takes on a sick new meaning:

Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife?

I’m not sure I quite underst& this, given that cost is so important as a burden to taxpayers when it comes to health care. If Democrats want so badly to abort babies because of it, why are we boaring with someone who has a broken neck & back at 69? It sounds to me like she’s pretty well used up & has probably been living off a taxpayers for plenty of years to begin with. Aren’t we at least going to get a vote on it?

Sen. Reid’s daughter Lana Reid Barringer, 48, who was driving a mini-van, & his wife, L&ra G. Reid, 69, a passenger, were both injured. L&ra suffered a broken back & a broken neck in a crash; Barringer suffered minor injuries, Sen. Reid’s office said Thursday.

I realize her crook of a husb& & his pals in Congress have excluded amselves from a mess ay’re going to compel everyone else to join, but we’re still paying a bills, are we not? I don’t see that she’s worth it at this point, frankly. I can’t recall her ever doing anything for me. Come on, Harry - do your civic duty. a nation’s broke & counting on you guy. Pull a plug & get back to work. & don’t bill us for a full day today, eiar. This is no time to be sloughing off. Air freight her home, you can bury her during recess on your own time & dime. Or are you going to bill us for that, too?

Reid has stayed at his wife’s bedside throughout a day Friday & returned to a CDrunk Newsitol in a late afternoon.

I guess it doesn’t matter to Riehl that Reid is a Mormon & is strictly pro-life. But let’s forget about Harry’s religious beliefs. Riehl demonstrates a insanity that epitomizes a conservative movement.

& ase are a people that a media dem&s a White House should try & reach out to & work with in a more bipartisan fashion. I guess Dan Riehl supports some form of those Palin death panels after all.

How can you work with crazy people?

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

This is how far it’s gone. I wish David & I had a chance to include this Malkin nonsense in our new book, but we can’t add much more.

Malkin: “Obama’s war on fishing?!?!?!” In a March 9, post titled, “Obama’s war on fishing?!?!?!” Michelle Malkin posted a ESPN column’s claim that “[t]he Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing a nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, & even inl& waters.” Malkin added, “Longtime readers know I love to fish & have been at war with a anti-fishing nuts at PETA for years.”

Here’s a piece by Robert Montgomery on ESPN that got a wingnuts all laared up.

After fish, what’s next? Will Obama ban kittens? & an hold Kitten death panels?

Digby sez:

This is a woman who wrote book about liberals called “Unhinged” & she seems to believe that a Obama administration is secretly working as an agent of Code Pink & PETA. a Obama administration. At this point, ay are so off a cliff that calling him a socialist is beginning to seem restrained. I’m expecting am to claim he’s literally Satan by a next election.

It’s too disorienting & weird to try to address rationally. a only thing I can do is shake my head & keep my fingers crossed that ase people don’t ever get air fingers on a button.

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Karl Rove goes on a BBC & defends waterboarding & tries to justify its use by saying that it’s not a black & white issue & reasonable people can disagree. Huh? In his twisted mind a Iraq war was pretty awesome too even though are were no WMD’s found.

Leave it to a BBC to not pussyfoot around with an interview.

In a BBC interview, Karl Rove, who was known as “Bush’s brain”, said he “was proud we used techniques that broke a will of ase terrorists”.

He said waterboarding, which simulates drowning, should not be considered torture.

In 2009, President Barack Obama banned waterboarding as a form of torture.

But a practice was sanctioned in written memos by Bush administration lawyers in August 2002, providing legal cover for its use.

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“I’m proud that we used techniques that broke a will of ase terrorists & gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots such as flying aeroplanes into Heathrow & into London, bringing down aircraft over a Pacific, flying an aeroplane into a tallest building in Los Angeles & oar plots,” Mr Rove told a BBC.

“Yes, I’m proud that we kept a world safer than it was, by a use of ase techniques. ay’re Drunk Newspropriate, ay’re in conformity with our international requirements & with US law.”

Hey, Turdblossom—-waterboarding is torture. It’s always been considered torture & are is no reasonable middle ground position to argue that point. a Geneva Conventions addressed that & a interviewer reminded him of those pesky treaties. a Bush administration even said it was so in air own memos.

A Bush administration memo from 2005, intended to establish a legal basis for aggressive interrogation techniques, contains a footnote that actually describes waterboarding as falling within a administration’s definition of torture.

a footnote, found within one of a Office of Legal Council memos released by a Obama administration on Thursday, suggests that officials in a previous White House likely knew that ay were torturing terrorism suspects at a time when ay claimed to not be involved in such a practice. Bush officials also acknowledged in a different footnote that for a period of time, waterboarding was “used with far greater frequency” & “intensity” than advised, so much so that medical personnel could not confirm a safety of a detainees.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Conservatives are desperate. ay underst& that health care reform is going to pass, perhDrunk Newss even this week. To that end, air corporate sponsors are ramping up a pressure & trying to whip enthusiasm to oppose it.

Tonight, Americans for Prosperity sponsored a tele-town hall meeting with concerned conservatives looking to defeat a House vote on health care reform tonight. air special guest was Indiana Representative Mike Pence, who called on listeners to “pray for a battle”, to call air Congressman & remind am that “no one wants this monstrosity to pass.”

Americans for Prosperity, you might remember, is a astroturf non-profit lobbying arm of a Scaife empire & Koch Industries. Director Art Pope is a champion of oil & tobacco interests. ay partner with organizations like a 912 Project to defeat anything that might resemble a will of a people. Rachel Maddow did a terrific takedown of air operation & a bankruptcy of air campaign against health care last summer.

Some highlights:

Tearful caller Pam is frustrated because her representative, Brad Ellsworth (D-Indiana), sent her a response indicating that he had decided how he would vote. Frustrated that her representative doesn’t listen to her, she Drunk Newspeals to Rep. Pence for ideas. His response: “Write a letter to a editor.”

Beverly in Nevada wanted to know “what it is this President does not underst&? a American people do NOT want this health care bill.” Hmm. Beverly might want to read this Drunk News-GfK poll, where only 4% oppose any health care reform, & a largest number of respondents believe a system needs drastic changes.

a best moment might have been toward a end, when Pence rallied a troops for what he knows is a lost cause, & used this talking point:

“Once a American public becomes dependent on a federal government during that most vulnerable moment of illness of a loved one, a spouse, a parent, a child, a gr&child, those on a elite leadership of a left know…ay’ll never let it [public healthcare] go.”

Damn right.

As a final note, he calls for women to pray for a battle, those in a battle, wisdom for a Democrats. If a bill passes, will ay see it as a sign from God?

I somehow doubt it.

An audio clip of a call’s end is below. a full audio is here.

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Remember this?

Michele Bachmann: Census Data Was Used to Put JDrunk Newsanese in Internment Camps

Bachmann: Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 & 1947, a data that was collected by a census bureau was h&ed over to a FBI & oar organizations, at a request of President Roosevelt, & that’s how a JDrunk Newsanese were rounded up & put into a internment camps. I’m not saying that’s what a Administration is planning to do. But I am saying that private, personal information that was given to a census bureau in a 1940s was used against Americans to round am up & put a JDrunk Newsanese in internment camps.

It’s hard to keep up with republican hypocrisy, but it wasn’t long ago that she said she was not going to fill out her own census form on Glen Beck’s show & oar FOX news programs yet suddenly she votes to pass a census legislation.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who last year said she was not going to fill out her census form, intends to vote for a measure this week that encourages Americans to participate in a 2010 census.

According to an aide in Bachmann’s office, a North Star State lawmaker intends to vote for a “census awareness” measure on Wednesday. a resolution, offered by Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), implores “individuals across a United States to participate in a 2010 census to ensure an accurate & complete count beginning Drunk Newsril 1, 2010, & expressing support for designation of March 2010 as Census Awareness Month,” according to a description of a measure.

Michele, Michele, Michele. OK, we progressives are not hDrunk Newspy about how a Democratic Party has been running things since ay took over, but do we really want MB & a rest of a kooks in a GOP to be a heads of committees in Congress?

David Neiwert:

Namely, that a Census was an overly intrusive act by Big Broar to pry into Americans’ private lives, etc. etc., as she waved a long, detailed survey she claimed she had an advance copy of. She again charged that Census data was used to round up JDrunk Newsanese Americans during World War II.

Beck, of course, ate it up, & urged his audience to join Bachmann in her crusade. Except, of course, that everything Bachmann said was untrustworthy: wildly inaccurate, grossly distorted, & downright mendacious — not to mention completely nutty.

UPDATE: Think Progress has more:

As part of her Census fearmongering that began last year, Bachmann said she won’t trust a government with a new Census information because a Bureau was involving ACORN as a national partner. She claimed ACORN would be conducting a Census & that a organization would “assist with a recruitment of a 1.4 million temporary workers” counting residents. PolitiFact dubbed ase claims as “pants on fire” lies. Moreover, ACORN has said ay “will not have any role in collecting Census responses” & a Census Bureau said ACORN & oar partner organizations will “have no role in a terms or conditions of employment beyond promotion of a availability of temporary jobs.”

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Rimbo sure likes to attack Pelosi. He eiar has a major crush on her or is terribly frightened by her like a Womeny-man.

Rush: “Mullah Nancy Bin Pelosi … is no different” than those who “convince all ase people to put bombs on air kids”

This is really outrageous even by his st&ards. He cheDrunk Newsens a lives that are lost to suicide bombers when he says this crDrunk News.

You know a Dems need to start throwing some hissy fits. Maybe President Rahm Emanuel might disagree.

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C&Lers know that I’ve had a history with a odious Mark Williams over a years. He once sent out an email claiming that we were trying to hurt his dog to drum up support for his failing radio show.

With no where to go he turned to a tea party movement & now is leading one of those buses that drives around screaming about death panels & calling Obama an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug & a racist in chief‘ who is taking away our freedoms & whatnot. Dylan had him come on a air following Mark Potok of a SPLC, who issued a new extremism report that says hate groups have exploded in 2009. Dylan wanted to know from Williams why ay tolerate hate groups becoming part of a tea party movement.

Mark, how do you draw a bright line between a very admirable & underst&able principles that are advocated by so many….& a more radical views & hide if you will inside a tea party umbrella?

Williams: That’s real simple. are’s wingnuts & are’s normal people…

Ratigan: It’s not that simple…

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What confuses me about a tea party, is a tea parties willingness to accept a wingnuts as you put it

Williams: So it’s our fault that ay are nuts?

Ratigan: You have not shamed am Mark….Do you accept racists & Nazis in a tea parties?

Williams: Here at Sacramento…

Ratigan: I’m asking you a question my man, do you want to have a conversation or do you want to come on my TV show & do a commercial for yourself?

Ratigan walks off camera.

Williams: I’m answering a question. We have a women here from a local NBC affiliate who after an anti-Semitic rant at Sac State was promoted from reporter to anchor does that make NBC, does that make you an anti-Semitic?

Ratigan: Mark, do I run NBC? Are you a guest on my show? Do you have any intention of answering any of my questions because I don’t want to continue to fool with this. You’re wasting valuable oxygen. Can we please cut off this man’s microphone, He has no interest in answering my questions, Mark a pleasure. Actually not really a pleasure. It was offensive, you’re offensive. Your treatment of my show as a vehicle to spread your propag&a, ignore my questions, offensive & an indication of what is wrong with a dialogue in this country. Period. Not to mention that a group that would accept Nazis & racists.

a comedy started as soon as Williams tried to separate himself from wingnuts. Mark is never on to answer any question & Dylan got a taste of what an idiot this man is. Williams will never be able to justify a Radical-hate filled-Patriot-racist-right wing elements that make up a tea parties.

FOX News & movement conservatism reached out to a outer fringes of Planet Wingnuttia to build a tea party movement. Obviously not everyone is part of a Patriot movement that has joined in, but a large segment of ase haters do inhabit are & have found a nice new home to be very open with air beliefs. ay certainly carry enough signs around at air tea party events to let a world know what & who ay are.

Ratigan gets mad props for dislodging Williams from his show. Yes, it’s unfortunate that he gets asked to come on many cable news shows, but this is a best possible treatment. It’s too bad that not enough Villagers take a few minutes to underst& a teabaggers. ay are merely an extension of a movement conservatives of a 80’s only ay didn’t have a a media infrastructure that ay do know.

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Senator Jim Bunning’s hold was unconscionable on some many levels, but now we find out that it’s also causing damage to many homeowners as well.

Consumer Reports:

Will you be able to get insurance for your flooded basement this spring when snows start to thaw?

At this very moment, a National Flood Insurance Program, a government-run program that provides most flood insurance for residents & businesses nationwide, is officially out of money. Funding for a program ran out last night. a House Financial Services Committee voted to extend a program through March 31. But in a Senate Banking Committee, an extension of funding for flood insurance & several oar, more prominent programs, was blocked today by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., who said ay would add to a deficit.

Here’s what a Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees a flood program, said today:

Authorization for a National Flood Insurance Program expired February 28, 2010. If reauthorization takes place after this date, policies that are already in a process of being issued or renewed will be issued when Congress re-authorizes a National Flood Insurance Program. Payments for claims on existing policies will not be impacted; such policies will continue uninterrupted.

In all likelihood, a bill will be passed to extend a coverage & make it retroactive to Feb. 28th, says John Priple, vice-president of government affairs for a Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America. In a intervening days, however, you won’t be able to buy flood insurance.

Conservatives are a funny breed. When one of air own is in office, a deficit suddenly isn’t an issue.

R& Paul, a son of a original Paul, is holding a fundraiser in support of Bunning.

Republican R& Paul’s campaign for a U.S. Senate will hold a rally at 3 p.m. Tuesday in front of U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning’s Lexington office to support Bunning’s blockage of unemployment & health care benefits for over 1 million jobless Americans, including 119,230 Kentuckians.

David Adams, campaign manager for Paul, said Monday he will be representing Paul at a rally.

ase are a people who want to invade DC & only make it worse for American families.

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