The first day of voting in the Iowa Caucuses gives us the occasion and former Democratic Representative Barney Frank give us today’s Quote of the Day.
“We aren’t perfect, but they’re nuts.” – Barney Frank on his suggestion for the Democrats’ 2012 campaign slogan.
“A miserable, hypocritical prick–whatever the system of government–is still a prick. I tend to look at the world, still, from the point of view of a restaurant guy–a small business owner. Right? Left? I don’t care. I look at “leaders” as if they were managers of my restaurant. I go away for four years and come back. If my business has gotten inexplicably worse, I have fewer customers, the neighbors are pissed, my employees unhappy and there’s money inexplicably missing from the till, I call that a bad leader. I don’t know if that’s politics or simple good sense.”
As profound as this quote is, the rest of the blog post is worth reading as well.
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Now before you conservatives go all joygasmic with happiness, don’t think that your duly elected are any better.
And who can forget the batshit kookiness that is the Tea Party! To prove that party politics’ answer to the redheaded stepchild is so totally not racist, lets take a look at a festive parade float that they decided to enter in the annual Sportsmen’s Day Parade in Naches, Washington.
With the exception of Shirley Sherrod, everybody looks bad in this one.
Breitbart was an idiot before this, but he looks bad for obvious reasons… especially for the “Context is everything” comment. He did however make the grand leap from idiot to asshole to the tenth power with his apathy about basically attempting to ruin a person’s carreer which was then topped by his idiotic the-farmers-wife-was-planted defense, but now that has to compete with Rush Limbaugh’s Obama-set-up-the-whole-thing theory. Tom Vilsack looks bad for not at least investigating the position of his employee… twice. The White House looks bad for backing up Vilsack. The NAACP looks bad when they tried to claim they were “snookered” when the fact was that they 1) just stupidly forgot that the speech was given at an NAACP event, and 2) that they just decided to not watch the whole speech. Every media outlet who ran with this looks bad for not fact-checking, but FOX News (and I use that term loosely) sets a new low… well like they have any credibility to begin with… by flat out trying to deny any role whatsoever in inflaming this whole mess. I think Rachel Maddow summed the whole thing up pretty well.
Racism should not be tolerated.
Stupidity shouldn’t be tolerated either.
Below is every political ad you have ever seen for every candidate that has ever run for office.
Marco Rubio slams Obama for using a teleprompter during CPAC speech…
… wait for it
You may want to take a second look at the people who are going to be showing up at your convention.
I’m all for people having different opinions. Life would be boring if we all thought the same. However, white supremacy is not an opinion, it’s a disease. And for whatever reason, this disease is looking at the Tea Party movement as a giant petri dish. And that’s really sad.
