A resident of the Austin community, Jean Ray, says after 40 years of Democratic party control over the black community, the policies "are hurting,” and if there were Republicans willing to do the right job in her community, she would vote for them.Well, Romney's still got a week to make the sale. Maybe he can come to Chicago and tell Ray he was only kidding about that NAACP speech.
At National Review, Rich Lowry tells us women would vote Republican if they only knew what the Votes for Women crew knew, which is that "the Lilly Ledbetter Act merely tilts the playing field against employers and toward trial lawyers by allowing lawsuits years after alleged acts of pay discrimination." If Romney offers nothing to address their unequal treatment, at least he doesn't pander to them:
The likes of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued that women were just as capable of rational deliberation as men. The conceit of the Obama campaign is that, to the contrary, they are quite susceptible to a few powerful dog whistles and unable to see beyond their gender.If this doesn't convince you, you can read some of National Review's anti-birth-control classics. That'll show you who the real feminists are!
Meanwhile at Instapundit, Ole Perfesser Glenn Reynolds makes a particularly pathetic post-Sandy case for abolishing FEMA:
Also, the heroic first responders you saw last night were mostly NYPD and NYFD, and their counterparts in New Jersey, etc. With the exception of the Coast Guard, nearly all the rescuing was being done by state and municipal employees, not by FEMA. The Democrats’ FEMA-worship is an insult to the people who are shouldering the greater part of the load, and the danger.These city-employed FDNY/NYPD responders are of course unionized, like the schoolteachers of Wisconsin whom these guys like to spit on -- which goes for the cops, too, when they think no one is watching: e.g., "Another reason why police unions shouldn’t be allowed, as if we needed one after their politicization in the Wisconsin fracas."
I don't know who's going to win next Tuesday, but long, bitter experience has shown me this: Conservatives are never content, even in victory, because they are always aware that somebody (including, in some cases, the voices in their heads) still disagrees with them. So as the reckoning comes, if they're not crying FRAUD AT POLLS! they'll be insisting whatever fraction of a percent they got over with proves not just that they won, but also that everyone loves them. In either case it's sad that their proven affinity groups (e.g., Klansmen, the mentally disabled) are never enough for them; they're always beating off over people they know would desire them if only they could admit to themselves how beautiful they are. Consider the present gibberish their preemptive stroke.
Rebel Pundit:Paul McKinley, an outspoken Chicago resident and voice against liberal-Chicago-machine politics, Rahm Emanuel, and President Obama, spoke to me directly about the ongoing violence in the black community, explaining, “the real cause of violence in the community is caused by narco-terrorism facilitated by Chicago’s liberal-sanctuary-city status, in addition to the historically high unemployment rate among black men between of working age,” which he claims is never addressed by the President and comes last, if at all, in the liberal agenda.
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McKinley says boldly, “There is no Tea Party in my community, there is no Republicans in my community, so they can’t blame Republicans, they can’t [blame] Tea Parties; I can only blame the democrat-liberal agenda.”No, no right-wing loon presence there at all.
Conservatives are never content, even in victory, because they are always aware that somebody (including, in some cases, the voices in their heads) still disagrees with them.
ReplyDelete...they still resent being toilet trained, you know
If Romney wins by 0.0001% - Mandate, landslide, permanent republican majority. If Obama wins by 15% - tossup, ACORN, Black Panthers, voter fraud, illegitimate, Romney is president-in-exile.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, like I believe a human being actually generated that "quote." As a professional technical writer and editor of 35 years' experience, what I believe is that Rebel P. wrote that Newspeak crapola -- "facilitated by Chicago's liberal-sanctuary-city status," indeed! -- and when he asked McKinley what he thought, McKinley rolled his eyes and said, "Whatever, man."
ReplyDeleteIt must be hell to live there and see the good work done in the Cheney/Bush years being wasted. How those days must seem like Camelot now.
ReplyDeleteWith the exception of the Coast Guard, nearly all the rescuing was being done by state and municipal employees, not by FEMA.
ReplyDeleteSerious question: Are FEMA people supposed to be first response people? I thought they got there as quickly as they could but would very seldom be first response.
No, emergency response is always supposed to bubble up from local to state to federal. And as opposed to the pundit class, I know this firsthand from FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, so neener neener.
ReplyDeleteheckuva job bobby.
ReplyDeleteNow I've got an image of Rich Lowry beating off stuck in my head. Thanks! Happy Halloween to you, too!
ReplyDeletethe Lilly Ledbetter Act merely tilts the playing field against employers
ReplyDeleteYes, if only someone could stick up for the bosses! If only a leader could emerge from their ranks to challenge this oppression by the federal government! If only they could have their own goddam Rosa Parks, who helps them escape the ghetto of the back of the limo! Their own Cesar Chavez, who refuses to pick wine without the help of a sommelier!
the heroic first responders you saw last night were mostly NYPD and NYFD,
ReplyDeleteAnd we can be assured that the police and firepersons will also clean up all the debris, restore lost power, rebuild collapsed structures, pump away the water, and shelter and feed the homeless. And they won't squabble once over jurisdictions.
Is there another image of Rich Lowry I'm not aware of?
ReplyDeletethey're always beating off over people they know would desire them if only they could admit to themselves how beautiful they are.
ReplyDeleteUntil those people show a desire in someone other than Republicans, in which case they're FILTHY DEGENERATES AND WHORES.
Look, Republicans-I don't like comparing you to creepy stalkers, abusive partners, et al. I think it's kinda glib and not really an in-depth argument. And I'd honestly stop if you guys could, for a minute, stop playing the part with such feverish intensity.
When you have six people to evacuate, you take them to the firehouse or police station or hospital. No big deal. When you have six hundred people to evacuate, you need some buses and shelters opened up, so you make a couple calls. When you have sixty thousand....that's when you call FEMA, because the number of state and municipal employees that know how to deal with sixty thousand evacuees is, for all practical purposes, nil.
ReplyDeleteSurely, Elizabeth Cady Stanton would be so disgusted with Obama that she'd slide herself right into that big tent of the GOP:
ReplyDeleteWomen have been taught by their religious guardians that the Bible, unlike all other books, was written under the special inspiration of the Great Ruling Intelligence of the Universe. Not conversant with works on science and higher
criticism, which point out its fabulous pretensions, they cling to it with an unreasoning tenacity, like a savage to his fetich. Though it is full of contradictions, absurdities and impossibilities, and bears the strongest evidence in every line of its human origin, and in moral sentiment is below many of the best books of our own day, they blindly worship it as the Word of God. ...
The real difficulty in woman's case is that the whole foundation of the Christian religion rests on her temptation and man's fall, hence the necessity of a Redeemer and a plan of salvation. As the chief cause of this dire calamity, woman's degradation and subordination were made a necessity. If, however, we accept the Darwinian theory, that the race has been a gradual growth from the lower to a higher form of life, and that the story of the fall is a myth, we can exonerate the snake, emancipate the woman, and reconstruct a more rational religion for the nineteenth century, and thus escape all the perplexities of the Jewish mythology as of no more importance than those of the Greek, Persian and Egyptian.
Fair enough. I'm reminded of the maxim: everything is somebody's porn. And then I pour bleach in my brain.
ReplyDeleteIt bears repeating--perhaps the only real strategy that the modern right wing has had is to work the refs mercilessly. One would think, after so many decades of doing it, they'd be better at it than they are.
ReplyDeleteThat said, they do believe they are the only true and anointed heirs to the throne of government in these here United States, and that it is their god-given right to rule in perpetuity, however stark and unyielding the evidence may be that they are grossly incompetent, consistently deceitful and cheerfully--even giddily--corrupt.
Bleach, you say? How...titillating.
ReplyDeleteI think they'll turn on Romney quickly if he loses, Rick Santorum is more of their ideal president-in-exile.
ReplyDeleteso Reynolds was talking out of his arse again. Moriarty, hand me the surprised trousers.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, allowing women and black people the right to vote is terribly patronizing. Ross Douthat, Rich Lowry, Glenn Reynolds, Nick Gillespie, Grover Norquist, Romney and Ryan all have their best interests at heart.
ReplyDeleteHmm, it's an impossibly tough call that I'm still agonizing over like an Orange County conservative (I mean libertarian! I'm independent - really!), but I think I'll cast my vote for Black Hitler and against the party with significantly more racist, plutocratic, raging assholes. (Protest votes don't only cut one way, y'know.)
And good folks like Reynolds will smile with satisfaction as they fill out their tax forms this year, high on good will towards their fellow countrymen and glad they can do their little part to help out.
ReplyDeleteI really like how they purposely try to confuse their readers about the role of FEMA. It certainly is true that FEMA is not in the first-response business, but it never has been in that part of it. It's the longer-term recovery that FEMA deals with.
ReplyDeleteBut I guess there is no policy point too self-evidently stupid for them not to leap to defend it.
Also, the heroic first responders you saw last night were mostly NYPD and NYFD, and their counterparts in New Jersey, etc
ReplyDeleteSurely the Ol' Perfesser tears himself away from FOX long enough to watch his mid-market local news. First responders are coordinated in anything even remotely approaching an emergency by Homeland Security. Home of FEMA, in case he's missed the flow chart. The locals haven't. There's so much money flowing to them no one even complains about Fed oversight. Not in public, anyway.
My local teleprompter readers won't shut up about it. Every two-bit disaster-preparedness drill they send a camera crew to nowadays, Homeland Security gets top billing.
i find solace in the fact that if the movement can't achieve a final victory, it's really those people's fault.
ReplyDeleteNah, it took' em years to refudiate Li'l George Bush. These are authoritarian followers, remember: they will not turn on their leader until another leader tells them to.
ReplyDelete"Narco-terrorism"? Historically high unemployment rate among black men of working age? Wow. This guy really hasn't been paying attention all through the past twelve years. has he?
ReplyDeleteA resident of the Austin community, Jean Ray, says after 40 years of
ReplyDeleteDemocratic party control over the black community, the policies "are
hurting,” and if there were Republicans willing to do the right job in
her community, she would vote for them.
In Chicago. In Chicago. Which, despite Rebel Pundit's drooling fuckwittery about "liberal-Chicago-machine politics," has been distinguished by warfare between the progessive wing and the machine wing of the Democratic Party, with the Machine still tending to carry the day by pandering sufficiently to reactionary racists and completely uninformed people. You know, the standard GOP base.
And I'm not surprised if Rahmbo's policies are hurting, given how Republican almost all of his policies are. If Jean Ray has been paying attention, she saw Washington, Orr, and even Byrne get knifed in the back by the right-wing Democratic Machine. So yes, if there were Republicans willing to do the right job in her community, she would vote for them. But there aren't any. And she's likely represented in Congress by either Luis Gutierrez or Danny Davis, whom she probably doesn't want to replace with a vicious government-gutting hypocritical asshole like Aaron Schock, who is much more representative of the modern IL Republican Party. So please, go ahead and tell me that she'll probably vote for Mitt "1978" Romney because Democratic policies have been so bad for her. I could use a laugh right now.
"Everything is somebody's porn/Everything is somebody's hard-on/Night and afternoon and also morn/Everything is somebody's porn." Hand me that git-tarr, son.
ReplyDeleteSelf, to wingnut in self's head: "THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED FIRST RESPONDERS, DOUCHE BAG." There. Everything'll be okay now.
ReplyDeleteThe exit trolling starts before you go into the voting booth.
ReplyDeleteI thought that FEMA was too busy building re-education camps to bother with all that first respondering.
ReplyDeleteRight-Wing arguments to win votes of minorities and women are: "Hey women and blacks (and hispanics and teh gays) if you weren't so stupid and enslaved to liberal thinking you would realize we are trying to give you the freedom to pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Why are you so stupid to think we just want to recreate white male privilege i the Republican Party?"
ReplyDeleteSomeone should ask Chris Christie if he wants to add emergency management to his budget.
ReplyDeleteAin't I a rich man?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone, anywhere, honestly believe that FEMA is supposed to provide first responders? I mean, Reynolds doesn't honestly believe anything, but anyone else... seriously? Who is he talking to here?
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the last time I saw a "liberal agenda" from anyone.
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He has. He's just been paying attention to Fox.
ReplyDeleteBush was one of them, so the authoritarians were in denial for a long time. Romney is a middle-of-the-road, Northeastern non-evangelical- he was never the wingnut base's choice.
ReplyDeleteThat only works for people who have boots.
ReplyDeleteSo, Rich Lowry writes a piece in which he uses the term "dogwhistle" to refer to what he characterizes as pandering to women...and all us dumb bitches just fall for it!
ReplyDeleteIrony is dead.
...they still resent being toilet trained, you know
ReplyDeleteThat's one possible explanation for why they go around throwing feces.
I encourage the Republicans to spend lots of time and money trying to convince these apocryphal inner city black people to vote for Mitt Romney.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Hurricanes suck almost as much as Romney does.
In Chicago we tried the let's-elect-a-black-guy idea sort of like we're doing at the national level now, and--wonder of wonders--the equivalent of the legislative branch broke out in acrimonious warlike gridlock ("Beirut on the Lake").
ReplyDeleteThen a connected political scion took over and everyone got along gangbusters with many huzzahs following the unanimously-passed budgets. Odd how that works.
Obligatory.
ReplyDeleteHurricanes don't suck, they blow and so does Romney.
ReplyDeleteI'd say women are a lot more capable of rational deliberation than a man who ejaculated in his pants at the sight of Sarah Palin's smile.
ReplyDeleteAtlas Shrugged III: Feces Freemarket
ReplyDeleteHis personal projects bankrupted the city, leaving his successor to deal with the mess. (You'd think said political scion would know how bid-rigging works by now.)
ReplyDeleteAttention black people: You can rest easy now, because Breitbart.com is on the case.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I've never understood WTF a "trial lawyer" is. As opposed to what? A lawyer who never tries a case?
Bush won a second term. If he'd lost, he'd be even more of a nonperson now.
ReplyDelete"No Sir, I don't do research, I'm trials only"
ReplyDeleteThe ghost of Dean Martin wants a word with you.
ReplyDeleteSurely this time they can break through to the blahs about why "States Rights" was a sincerely held philosophy, why most of their family members are lazy and that voting really isn't all that important.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's clear they haven't forgot the ladies either. They have your best interests at heart, over those bastard trial lawyers and awful doctors. Go get 'em girls!
"Conservatives are never content, even in victory,..."
ReplyDeleteLike their multi-billionaire Owners, huge amounts of anything (money, power, love) are never enough. They want it ALL. They believe they're ENTITLED to it all.
Breitbart.com is on the case
ReplyDeleteEndorsed by Shirley Sherrod?
Reagan Romney: "I believe in state's rights America"
ReplyDeleteFEMA's job is to provide strategic coordination, resources and technical support. FEMA is not the National Guard or first responders. They support those folks. That's the critical role.
ReplyDeleteActually, yes. In tax law, real estate law, and contract law, winding up in front of a judge means something went very wrong indeed. However, the wingnuts have a special hatred for lawyers who specialize in product liability and class-action suits because they make the baby Ayn Rand--excuse me, "job creators"--cry. Those are the 'trial lawyers' they're referring to.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that, to wingnuts, FEMA's job is to put black people into free trailers.
ReplyDeletea vicious government-gutting sanctimonious asshole like Aaron Schock
ReplyDeleteWell, let's make it clear, Schock is more than willing to take credit for projects that he voted against, so he's not absolutely against them if they benefit his district.
(Much in the same way that Bobby Schilling will vote for pork projects for his district, even though he campaigned against pork.)
From my own personal acquaintances I know that a lot of them dropped John McCain like a hot potato as soon as the results were in. Palin, not so much.
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