Here’s a nugget of ridiculous for you.
The Laurens County Republican Party in South Carolina is chastening it up, requiring aspiring party members to pledge that they’ve never had premarital sex, and that they will never look at porn again.
No, seriously:
Day-umn. I went to bed in the year 2012 and woke up sometime in the 50s….the 1850s. What with Darrell Issa holding his ‘no girls allowed’ panel on contraception* and Frothy Mix’s backer, Foster Friess’s advice on birth control, and I don’t care that he claims it was just a joke – hey, Foster. You can have sex with the woman keeping her legs closed. I’m just sayin’ – it’s not been a good week for vaginae and uteri havers. Let’s not even talk about VA and state-sanctioned rape because then I’ll have to go out and rusty pitchfork™ someone, and I’m not in the mood to put on clothes and leave the house.
By the way, what’s going on in VA is unconstitutional and will be challenged**. In the meantime, countless women will have to endure having something forcibly shoved up their vaginae without their consent and for no reason at all except to slut-shame them/intimidate them into not having an abortion. That’s rape, regardless of if it’s sanctioned by law or not, and there is seriously something wrong with the people who thinks this is perfectly OK.
Anyway, all this anti-woman bullshit is pissing me the fuck off so much, I am contemplating pulling a Lysistrata. Oh, I can hear you protesting already. You’re saying, “Hold up, asiangrrlMN. Lysistrata organized the women of Greece to withhold sex with their husbands until they ended the Peloponnesian War. What the hell does that have to do with this bullshit the GOP is doing?”
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Posted in A Wee Bit O' Hilarity, asiangrrlMN, War on Women
Tagged GOP asshattery, Lysistrata, no sex for you
It seems that if there’s something the Clown Car Right and the Manic Progressive Left can agree on, it’s how much they dislike Michelle Obama behind the scenes.
Republican First Ladies are all saints, and Democratic ones are all cast iron bitches, apparently. Two stories indicate that 2012 as an election year means Michelle Obama is fair game. First, we get one step closer to the n-word…
Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal on Thursday apologized for an email that made fun of first lady Michelle Obama’s hair style and mockingly called her “Mrs. YoMama.”
The emails featured pictures comparing Mrs. Obama to the Grinch, a Dr. Seuss character, because of their similarly wind-blown hair.
“Sorry, just had to forward this latest holiday message,” O’Neal reportedly wrote in the email he shared with fellow Republican lawmakers. “I’ve had worse hair days, but this is pretty funny.”
According to The Lawrence Journal World, O’Neal forwarded from his personal computer the email that said, “I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing Mrs. YoMama a wonderful, long Hawaii Christmas vacation – at our expense, of course.”
Boy, I remember all the horribly racist emails about Laura Bush. Oh wait, never happened. And they’ll keep doing it and apologizing only when they get busted as long as they can keep getting away with it. Continue reading
Paul Ryan was booed (again) at a town hall meeting in Kenosha, Wisconsin last week, after one of his constituents pressed him about the GOP budget. As you may recall, Paul Ryan’s Very Serious Budget would turn Medicare into a voucher program, and amounts to little more than a decimation of the programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) on which the elderly and poor rely on to… you know… not die.
One audience member, David Drath, argued that he couldn’t survive on the proposals in Ryan’s policy, and that if those policy were enacted, “you might as well put a gun to my head.”
From Think Progress:
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Posted in Balloon Juice Cross-Posts, Teabilly and GOP Mendacity
Tagged GOP asshattery, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Ryan Budget
First, allow me to say that I wouldn’t participate in this, even as a Native American woman who would eat for free. But seriously, this isn’t sending a message, it’s an insult. It’s a flaw that brings attention to the ultimate weakness, the refusal to accept people and stop boxing them in. This isn’t sending a message, it’s a slap in the face disguised as a political point. Or to just say it and be done, it’s a cheap shot. One of the worst, because it tries to look clever and pretentious when it’s really just racist and sexist hiding behind a “statement” to the public. While I am a strong advocate of free speech, I do hate to see it used for evil even as I acknowledge its necessity.
CNN has the full article here, and you can watch the video below.
CNN.com
This is the trademark insensitivity that has come to mark the Republican stance. If this is how they plan to address equal rights and gender equality, no thanks. Any message they were trying to send, even if it was well-meaning, is lost in the delivery. It tells me where they place their value, and while I’m not surprised I am surely disappointed. There are plenty of ways to make a statement. Most traditionally, with words that rely on facts to make a point. I try to have a good sense of humor about most things, but this looks like hate disguised as a joke. The good news is, I completely disagree with what they are trying to accomplish, and a backfire of this level will actually come around to benefit the people who have earned my respect and show progress taking strides towards racial and gender equality.
This is how the next generation of Republicans view progress and equality. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
And, I suppose, I should be glad the muffins aren’t $16. I look for sunshine where I can.
It’s been a rough year for teachers in this country, particularly in the Midwest. Wisconsin notwithstanding, teachers in Michigan may be taking it on the chin from Republicans more than any other group in the country. Last Thursday, we learned that GOP House Speaker Jase Bolger’s next legislative target is teachers’ pensions.
That’s right: pensions. It’s not enough that school funding has been drastically cut back, forcing school districts into difficult financial straits. It’s not enough that they have made it “more illegal” for teachers to strike. It’s not enough that the new Emergency Manager law is being used as a cudgel to force even more wage concessions. It’s not enough that their ability to collectively bargain has been severely curtailed. It’s not enough that they will now pay more for their health insurance after giving up wages to secure what they have. No, none of this is enough. Now their pensions, the money they will live on in their retirement, are in the bullseye.
Whether Michigan school districts will see more funding next year will depend on the state’s economy, but lawmakers are working on pension reforms to free up money for Michigan K-12 classrooms, state House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, said Wednesday.
~SNIP~
“Our goal is to make schools better” by giving school officials “the tools they need” to better contain costs and improve teacher quality, Bolger said Wednesday during an hourlong discussion with the Kalamazoo Gazette in his office at the state Capitol.
“The whole point was to face reality,” he said of the Republicans’ 2011 agenda this spring on education. “I don’t think the past 10 years were helpful, where schools got marginal increases in funding, and there was not an attempt to contain costs.”
But wait! There’s more teacher-bashing goodness!
Posted in Eclectablog
Tagged GOP, GOP asshattery, Labor unions, Republicans, teachers, unions
Hiya. This must be ‘Hey, Republicans, piss asiangrrlMN the Hades off’ day (or is that every day?) because I read something this afternoon that instantly caused my bewbies to ‘asplode**. Remember our batguanocrazy buddy from Georgia, Bobby Franklin? I’ve written about him before when he wanted to make it illegal to have a miscarriage**. Well, he’s baaaaaack. This time, he’s pontificating on his FB wall about…Libya? For real? You mean he’s not talking about wimminz’ uteri for once? Well that’s a relief. He was becoming tedious on the–what? Oh. He actually IS obsessing with the lady bits again. Salient quote:
This is nothing but pure evil. How would we like it if other countries launched attacks upon these united States (sic) because of our regime’s war on our unborn? May the Lord have mercy on us!
So many things to address. First of all, any country with the wherewithal to launch a sustained attack on us HAS legal abortions. Second, why do you hate America so, Representative Franklin? Third, Your Lord is a really nasty jackhole. You know, this Libya situation is really complex. This is the question we need to ask, Bobby.
I have no idea why in Hades Franklin is even musing about Libya, but his obsession with wimminz’ uteri is really creepy. I may have more to say on this later. Or not. I have other fish to skewer. Oh, added bonus song just for Representative Franklin. You are crazy, man. Get help.
*Permanent Uteri-Stalking Syndrom/Illness
**Metaphorical, bee-yotches!
***Slight exaggeration.
Extra, extra, read all about it. It appears that the Republicans in the Senate DO have some sense of shame (except Tom Colburn, asshole). After the media pushback on the appalling behavior of the gentlemen and women from the red party in the Senate, said gentlepersons caved. Sort of. Their main stated reason for blocking the bill is because of their concern that we have no monies to pay for the bill (never mind that it paid for itself by closing a tax loophole on foreign corporations, which, of course, is unacceptable to the Republicans). This in tandem to blocking the bill because they wanted to make sure 6,600 families got a $23 billion tax break (Roughly $3.5 million per family. You’re welcome) makes them rank fucking hypocrites in my book. The original bill was supposed to be for $7.4 billion, then it was scaled back to $6.2 billion (the one that was blocked by the Republicans), and now it’s $4.3 billion–slightly more than half what it was originally meant to be, and 1/6th the price tag of the tax cut to the richest families in America.
Breaking breaking news: The compromised bill passed the Senate unanimously by a voice vote, as seen on the Twitter. I’m reading the twits, and they are from news organization, so they have more credibility than if they were from, say, me. Now, over to the House (who should pass it as they passed the earlier bill), and we are set. ETA: Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ twit: Senate (finally) passes 9/11 health bill.
Good news: They passed the damn bill.
Bad news: It’s about half what it should have been.
At this point, half a loaf is definitely better than none.
UPDATE: If Benen says it’s true, then it’s true.
