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VIDEO: No, birthers, Pres. Obama will indeed be on the Arizona ballot, says John McCain
Paddy previously posted Arizona Goes Birther: Secretary Of State Says It’s ‘Possible’ Obama Won’t Be On Ballot in which Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett said he wasn’t convinced President Obama was really born here in the United States, so of course, the logical next step was to threaten to keep him off the ballot in November.
Come on, lighten up, what’s a birther to do?
Here’s what John McCain is doing: Just saying no. This is the second time he’s had the presence of mind to act like a statesman regarding the president. Remember this?
Now McCain is responding to Bennett, via Phoenix television station KPNX, by way of Livewire:
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Revealed: Koch political machine funneled $55 million to front groups for ads smearing Dems, helping GOP win in 2010
Via democurmudgeon.blogspot.com
“Koch grinned as he told me that the Tea Party is composed of ‘just normal people like us.’ A few moments later, I asked if the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision had helped him with electing the new Congress.”
You know how the Koch brothers like to call themselves small government libertarians? Actions speak a whole lot louder than words.
One of my favorites, Lee Fang, does it again. Check this out:
Charles and David Koch, the billionaire owners of of Koch Industries, are known as big spenders when it comes to lobbying and influencing public policy. Now, a new document filed with the IRS reveals how the Koch political machine funneled over $54.5 million in previously undisclosed funds to a litany of front groups designed to smear Democrats.
The disclosure suggests that a very wide variety of Republican groups active in the last major election, from pro-life organizations that ran ads on abortion to shadowy fronts that aired partisan commercials with the infamous Ground Zero Mosque conspiracy, have been highly dependent on Koch money. The document also reveals that the Koch’s political network spent much more on electing the current Congress than previously known. [...]
Sean Noble, a Republican consultant, was hired to help administer the Koch war chest. According to Politico, Noble was part of a group of GOP operatives who met regularly with Karl Rove’s Super PAC to target 120 House of Representatives races in 2010. The close coordination was pivotal in helping the Republican Party capture 63 seats in one of the biggest midterm election landslides in modern history.
The Koch machine in all it’s disgusting g(l)ory.
Please read the entire report chock full o’ details here.
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VIDEO- WI GOP Rep. Sean Duffy on “cool, hip” President Obama: “He could dance, he could sing.”
Spotted by CREDO SuperPac’s @TakeDownDuffy campaign, Wisconsin teabagger Rep. Sean Duffy (7th district) was on Fox & Friends saying President Obama was elected because “he could dance, he could sing”:
‘Nuff said.
H/t: @murshedz
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ENTIRE VIDEO: Rep. Joe Walsh tanks first debate with Tammy Duckworth
Joe the Asshat for a full hour. Enjoy.
Oh, and Joe? There’s no such thing as “the Democrat party.” It’s the Democratic party, to which Democrats belong.
DCCC (there’s much more at the link):
Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-08) tonight soundly lost the first debate to strong Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth. Walsh simply could not defend the indefensible: Congressman Walsh is a deadbeat on jobs who voted for an irresponsible budget that protected tax breaks for billionaires and Big Oil while ending Medicare and making seniors pay $6,000 for the same health care. For all his bravado about taking on Washington, Congressman Walsh’s record shows that he is part of the problem.
On the other hand, there’s Tammy…
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Indiana Senate: Richard Mourdock topples veteran Richard Lugar in Republican primary
I have to say this was a hard one for me. The Lugar office has always been nice and helpful, and I always received a written letter about my questions. Donnelly is meh, but hopefully meh is exactly what Indiana is looking for. Added- Holy crap, he beat Lugar by almost 20 points.
Sen. Richard Lugar’s 36-year Senate career is now history.
The Associated Press called the race for Mourdock about 7:45 p.m.
Lugar was defeated in today’s Republican primary election by Treasurer Richard Mourdock, ending his bid for a seventh term in the U.S. Senate.
(snip)
Lugar is an Indiana icon who has influenced everything from the political makeup of Indianapolis to global nuclear proliferation. As mayor of Indianapolis, he led the effort to create Unigov, combining city and county government. And as the GOP leader in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he’s played a lead role in combatting the spread of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union.
But while voters may have appreciated those things, in the end he was seen as a figure from the past who didn’t have a place in the Republican Party’s future.
Voters cited his age, 80; his Virginia address where he’d lived since 1977; his votes for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominees and his support for keeping earmarks in the hands of the legislative branch rather than surrender that power to the White House. And party insiders noted that Lugar had been a distant figure, not bothering to come to party events in Indiana until this year, when it was too late to kindle the relationships that could help him win.
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Tea Party not amused by Sarah Palin Tea Parody big-mouth “art cooker” sculpture (+ VIDEO)
A statue of Sarah Palin by artist J. Taylor Wallace (J. Taylor Wallace / April 18, 2012)
How did I ever miss this one? The tea baggers are not amused:
J. Taylor Wallace brought his ornamental metal “art cooker” – Sarah Palin Tea Parody – to the Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, Illinois, from the National Ornamental Metal Museum Cooking Extravaganza in Memphis, Tennessee
Sarah Palin statue finds a home in Chicago
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-sarah-palin-statue…Sarah Palin Sculpture To Roast A Pig At Bridgeport Arts Complex
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/04/20/sarah-palin-sculpture-to-roast-a-pig-a…
The Atlantic Cities has some, er, interesting photos as well, plus this:
“I’ve gotten some really lovely emails, like, ‘You suck, and you’ll be the next one to burn,’” says Wallace. Here are a few choice selections from the artist’s inbox:
It is a matter of time till you are the pig, was it fun for you pig.
Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame by insulting someone. Looks more like a morph of H Clinton and R Maddow, anyway. [...]
“Amid the hate speech, I have also been called ‘gay’ in what is I presume an attempt to insult me by a particular demographic of individuals,” Wallace says.
What fine, loving, Christian, pro-life values.
H/t: @bmaz
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Headline of the Day- Teabagger Style
From the Des Moines Register in Iowa. How the mighty have fallen.
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Poll-itics: Interest in Tea Party is waning; the more people learn, the less they like
Via WaPo, we find out that the Tea Party isn’t faring too well these days. Support is relatively unchanged since last year, but Americans are bored with the tea baggers, and the more they hear about them, the less they like them.
You know who’s the most bored and turned off? Women… including independent and Republican women.
Women in particular have lost curiosity and become more negative about the movement…. [T]he percentage of women who say they’d like to hear more has dropped significantly.
The entire poll is here.
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