Are The Republicans Finally Learning Something?

Big news over the weekend. Elizabeth Lauten, a GOP staffer for a Republican Congressman, made a snarky mean-girl FaceBook post about the Obama daughters acting like the teenagers they are at the yearly "pardoning of the turkeys" ritual.

When the backlash happened, she immediately issued one of those non-apology apologies that the GOP is so good at -- "I'm sorry if you took offense at my words", etc. etc. And then, when that didn't mollify the critics, she "resigned" her post. You know, Republicans never get fired -- they just "want to spend more time with my family" or some such nonsense.

Look at that FB post again. "Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at the bar." I'd like to point out that we are talking about a couple of kids here, not the Bush Twins, who were notorious for entering and drinking at bars when they were nineteen-year-old semi-adults, and who were asked to leave Argentina because their wanton partying had become an embarrassment to the United States. In fact, that whole post could have very easily been about the Bush Twins. Read it over again but with "Dear Jenna and Barbara" in the salutation, and see if you agree with me.

I took a lot of flack for my relentless posts about the Bush Twins on this blog. Apparently White House children are supposed to be totally off limits.

Harry Truman took a bit of flack when he fumed at a critic of his daughter Margaret's musical ability, "Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!"

And Margaret Truman was an adult when that happened.

Let's also not forget that Rustydick "Pimple-ass Draft Dodger" Limbaugh will go down in infamy for his comment about 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton being "the White House dog".

He never apologized for that, not even the patented Rethug "sorry that you took offense" apology-that-is-not-an-apology. Which shows that the more money you have, the more money you can raise for The Party, the less responsibility you have to shoulder when you say stupid stuff. Poor Elizabeth Lauten didn't have the cash or the clout, it appears.

So back to the question: Are they finally learning something? No.

You Might Be a Conservative If...

I just love this stuff. Here's a terrific list of "warning signs" that may prove you are a conservative, including:

1: You’re irate over the president taking so many vacation days on the taxpayer’s dime (61 thus far), but you thought George W. Bush earned every minute of his leisure time (196 days at the same point in his presidency).
2: You’re happy with your 40 hour work week, paid vacations and company-provided healthcare, but you’re strongly anti-union, because those commies haven’t done anything for you lately.
. . .
13: You accuse president Obama of raising your taxes to the highest point ever, even though they’re lower today than at any time since 1950.
. . .
22: You believe that no matter who’s in the White House, the office, if not the man himself is deserving of your respect. The only exceptions to this rule, are if his middle name sounds Muslim, and if he’s not at least as white as that black guy who works down in the mailroom at the office.

There are lots more. Go ahead and read them and shake your head in sad-but-funny disbelief.

RU Freakin' Kidding Me???

I've watched the battle in the upstate NY 23rd District with a certain amount of dispassionate pleasure -- after all, it isn't MY district, and the battle between the Democrats, the Rethugs and the new and improved "Conservative Party" candidate has been the basis of a lot of jokey cannon fodder.

But the latest development falls into the YCFMTSU category ("You can't fuckin' make this shit up").

Now, after being soundly trounced in the election by the Democratic candidate, the so-called Conservative Party candidate is going apeshit over the whole thing. First he conceded, then he un-conceded, then the latest is that he unconcedes his unconcession...

Fuck, the whole thing gives me a headache. The latest is, now that it's clear that he can't possibly win in a fair count, "fraud at the polls".

Does anyone besides me recall the 2000 election when the Rethugs (and their running-dog lackeys, such as the so-called Conservative Party of New York, which I believe in the year 2000 was nothing more than a PO Box) excoriated Al Gore for the very same thing????

Talk about you can have your cake and eat it too... It makes me fucking sick. That's all I have to say about it.