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Santorum Staffer Thinks Ladies Shouldn't Be President…

Posted on January 17, 2012 by | 11 Comments

Because they’re always crying and getting their periods and stuff.

 One of Frothman’s staffers thinks that broads shouldn’t be president because of God and because it’ll ruin your childrens’ lives.

You see, it’s God’s “highest desire” to have women barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen, like, all the time.  (God should get out more, methinks.)  And, I guess, when women aren’t perpetually pregnant, shoeless, and baking pies, civilizations crumble or whatever.

I don’t know.  I can’t understand these people but they frighten me:

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"Santorum Spreads Ignorance To History" by @DCPlod

Posted on January 3, 2012 by | 12 Comments

[Here's a guest post for your enjoyment from luhf of ABLC's life, Danielle Blake aka @DCPlod. -ABLxx]

As a Brit with a keen interest in American history and politics, it always tickles me to see Americans, especially prominent ones, talk out their asses when it comes to their understanding of Britain and our history.

So take a bow, Rick Santorum.

Now, we already know that history is not the current GOP field’s strong point. Michele Bachmann, who has cast herself as the American ‘Iron Lady’, placed the Falklands conflict that defined Margaret Thatcher’s premiership in 1992, 10 years after it actually happened and a whole 2 years after Thatcher had resigned as Prime Minister. Seriously failtacular stuff. And Rick Perry of course presides over a state whose textbooks provide, shall we say, a less than factual account of history. But Santorum’s grasp of the fall of the British Empire is, as Conor Friedersdorf puts it, cartoonish:

“If you look at every European country that has had world domination, a world presence, from the French to the British — 100 years ago, the sun didn’t set on the British Empire,” Santorum said at an appearance in Sioux City, Iowa. “If you look at that empire today — why? Because they lost heart and faith in their heart in themselves and in their mission, who they were and what values they wanted to spread around the world. Not just for the betterment of the world, but safety and security and the benefit of their country.” “We have taken up that cause,” Santorum added. But now, he said, “We have a president who doesn’t believe in America.”

In the context given by the Huffington Post, Santorum was saying that what caused the decline of Britain’s empire wasn’t the 2 devastating world wars or restless natives getting rather fed up of being exploited and treated as non-citizens of their own countries, but the British social safety net. Wow – to think Gandhi could have had himself a good meal instead of fasting and struggling non-violently for Indian independence in 1947, by just waiting for the NHS created just the year before in 1946 to fell the mighty Empire. Poor guy. Continue reading →

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Michele Bachmann Believes in Liberty for Light Bulbs but Not for Women

Posted on November 7, 2011 by | 3 Comments

<blank stare>

Concerned that her platform of All Batshit Craziness All the Time — the components of which includes (1) Obamacare is an extinction-level event; (2) Jesus is my co-pilot; (3) HPV vaccines will mess up your brain and/or turn your daughters into ladies of the night; and (4) never look directly into a camera or else the terrorists win — is not batshit enough, Michele Bachmann has decided to dial up the batshit craziness to a whole notha level.

In a speech to the Family Research Council, some word-like sounds escaped Bachmann’s face-hole, and long story short, Michele Bachmann is concerned that some of her co-candidates are socialists.  Not Obama-level socialists, mind you, but cheapskate or “frugal” socialists.

Speaking to the conservative Family Research Council, the Minnesota congresswoman explained that President Barack Obama was engaging in a “massive redistribution of wealth and a politics of Occupy Wall Street envy to achieve his purposes.”

“The president’s economic policies — most notable of which is Obamacare — represent the most ambitious social economic engineering project in this history of the United States,” Bachmann charged. “Contrast that with the 10th Amendment — I’m sorry the 10th Commandment — which teaches that we should not covet that which belongs to our neighbor.” Continue reading →

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Has the Herman Cain Bubble Burst?

Posted on October 19, 2011 by | 6 Comments

You know what they say about living by the sword.

In politics, the same goes for polls.

As Rick Perry realized when the mere prospect of his entrance into the 2012 Republican presidential race made him an automatic frontrunner immediately following the announcement of his candidacy, polls are flattering. In Perry’s case, the polls proved to the pundits and the naysayers that he could be a contender, that he could win the GOP nomination, and that people liked him – or at least that they liked him more than they like the other guy, which, in the GOP primary race, actually meant that they didn’t dislike him as much as they disliked the other guy.

And then the polls suddenly proved the opposite.

Once the media sinks its talons into a candidate, which is what happens when public opinion polls show him or her as a potential frontrunner, every aspect of his private and public life is opened up to mass dissection, dissemination, speculation and criticism. Every piece of legislation he backed, every gaffe or false statement he makes, every twitch, stutter and scratch goes instantly viral.

It happened to Perry. It happened to Michele Bachmann when she was briefly considered a contender in the 2012 Republican presidential race, and it’s what is now happening with Herman Cain, whose straw poll victory in Florida turned him into a top-tier candidate almost overnight.

Cain went from being ignored by both the media and the other candidates to being an instant political celebrity. Needless to say, the scrutiny hasn’t done him any favors.

Not only has he caught fire for his opinions about Muslims, his claim that poor people should blame themselves for not being rich, and his statement that the United States should build an electric fence along its border with Mexico, the last week of Cain news coverage centered on the heart of the pizza executive’s campaign platform – his signature 9-9-9 tax proposal.

During the GOP debate in Nevada Tuesday night, the 9-9-9 plan was eviscerated by every candidate on stage, from the frontrunner on down.

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The Power of Enemies

Posted on September 17, 2011 by | 10 Comments

Americans hate Congress but love their congressmen.

via Business Insider

They loathe big government and support budget cuts but can’t part with any of the specific programs that contribute most to the national debt.

Polls show a neck-and-neck race when respondents have the option of choosing a generic Republican to go up against President Obama in the 2012 general election, but when forced to pick between the incumbent and one of the eight candidates in the Republican primary race, polls give Obama a much wider margin of victory.

The president’s American Jobs Act received a “lukewarm” reception when it was announced, with 45 percent of Americans supporting it, but the specifics of the bill polled much better:

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Bachmann Goes All Judge Mental On Us

Posted on August 16, 2011 by | 2 Comments

ABL asked me to grab this one over from my place, and I obey.

Michele Bachmann insisted on Meet The Press on Sunday that she “doesn’t judge gays.”  To his credit, Fluffy called her out with a clip, then she ignored it and pressed on anyway.

It’s no secret Bachmann isn’t the biggest fan of gays. But when Gregory played a clip of Bachmann saying homosexuality leads to “personal enslavement” and “bondage,” she responded simply by saying “I am running for the presidency of the United States.”

“I am not running to be anyone’s judge,” she added.

“But you have judged them,” Gregory pressed.

“I don’t judge them,” Bachmann responded. “I don’t judge them. I am running for the presidency of the United States.”

Bachmann echoed her position that marriage should be between a man and a woman. But she said she “ascribes honor and dignity to every person, no matter their background.”

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Dear White People: Stop Trotting Out Black People to Tell Us That Slavery Was Hella Sweet

Posted on July 28, 2011 by | 14 Comments

Cheesus Rice

Oh yeah. She's virulently antigay, too.

I just read an article over at Politicususa that was so WTF!?-inducing, that I put a record on just so I could make it scratch — skr-r-r-reeek!! — after which, I slapped myself, did a double take, rubbed my eyes with closed fists, did a shot of whisky, and then read it again.

That’s how absurd what you’re about to read is.

But first, let me back up.

A couple weeks ago,  Michele Bachmann signed a Families Values Are Awesome and Homosexuality Will Kill Your Children pledge, which noted that while slavery was, like, totally the worst, at least little black childrenses had two parents back then.

The “slavery preamble” to the Conservative Nutbag Pledge read as follows:

“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA?s first African-American President,”

Needless to say, that didn’t go over too well; the odious clause was removed from the pledge, and Bachmann made some silly claim that she hadn’t actually read the slavery preamble (even though it was the first damn clause in the pledge, hence the term “preamble”).

But never mind that. Point is, the conservative nutbags realized that it is absolutely inappropriate for a white person to laud the virtues of  black family life under slavery.

It’s much better if you get a black person to do it.

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Oops – here’s why I think Marcus Bachmann’s sexuality matters.

Posted on July 19, 2011 by | 5 Comments

It dawned on me, sometime between last night and this morning, that I hadn’t actually said in yesterday’s post “why I think it matters” that Marcus Bachmann might be gay. I was, I will admit, kind of worked up!

So, here’s why I think it matters:

  1. If Marcus Bachmann is gay, and has spent his life not just in denial but actively persecuting people like himself — OMG, look at what our shared homophobia can do to a person. If Marcus Bachmann is gay, then in among the wasteland of the lives ruined, wasted and shattered by the homophobia that he so spews with such venom, is his own. And furthermore:
  2. If Marcus Bachmann is gay, and has spent his life not just in denial but actively persecuting people like himself — OMG, look at how fucked up our society is. Not only did we produce this monster, but we are aiding and abetting the damage that he is wreaking.

We’ve already seen all of this in the long list of outed anti-gay crusaders to which I referred last night, and the fact that our cultural norms and mores can produce and support such a disturbing level of self-hate is, or certainly should be, deeply, deeply troubling.

None of which is to say that if Marcus Bachmann is not gay that he gets a pass on his malignant homophobia. It is odious, it is genuinely life-threatening, and it must not be allowed to further warp our national dialogue. And it remains a very clear indication of just how fucked up we are.

It’s just that if he (or one of his children, or his wife) is gay — all that gets turned up to eleven. And a half.

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Why I think Marcus Bachmann might be gay (and why I think it matters).

Posted on July 18, 2011 by | 10 Comments

Updated, below.

Not very long ago, a bit of audio tape emerged in which Marcus Bachmann, husband of Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, likened gays and lesbians (and, one presumes, the entire LGBTQ community) to “barbarians”:

We have to understand: barbarians need to be educated. They need to be disciplined. Just because someone feels it or thinks it, doesn’t mean that we are supposed to go down that road. That’s what is called the sinful nature.

Given the virulence of the hatred in those remarks, not to mention the fact that Mr. Bachmann appears to have been involved with/aggressively pushed the so-called “reparative therapy” designed as a “cure” for homosexuality, much was subsequently made of the fact that Mr. Bachmann’s voice sounds not dissimilar to that of the standard-issue stereotypical “gay man” — a bit foppy, a bit high-pitched, the hint of a lisp. Much was also made of the fact that he dances in a mildly flamboyant fashion. The idea underlying all of this japery was and is, of course: OMG it’s so funny, he hates gay people but dude is soooooo gay!!1!

Here’s the problem with that:

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