Sarah Palin turns in her resignation

The media is speculating that she may be doing this to gear up for a presidential run in 2012, but I think the Republicans are just flat out tired of having Palin around in an official capacity (Governor of Alaska) while being the living personification of every conservative Christian and Republican stereotype there is.

I believe someone at the RNC is cleaning house, and has taken down Bobby Jindal in his excruciatingly flubbed rhetorical response to Barack Obama’s address to Congress, Mark Sanford’s public nervous breakdown where he, out of nowhere, admitted to sticking his pen in several other ink wells, and now Sarah Palin’s resignation.

While  it’s quite obvious that the Republicans need to reboot instead of continuing to rehash, it does beg the question of what they could possibly reboot into.

They have practically deified Ronald Reagan, even though in his second term he was already falling out of favor within the party, they really just need “heroes” and have resorted to revisionism to make one out of Reagan.

The truth is that the coalition of factions that have given the Republicans power (intolerant Christians, corrupt business interests, and militaristic jingoists) have never really shared anything in common besides an enemy (the Democrats), and so after 8 years of Bush (a textbook Neoconservative) repeatedly making nothing but token attempts to persecute homosexuals and outlaw abortion, the Christian element of the “Reagan Coalition” began to collapse.

That is to say the Fundamentalist/Belligerent Christians saw that they no longer had *any* use for the Republicans, though the Democrats positions appealed to them in some cases, and I believe it was that which secured the win for the Democrats in 2008.

What few Republicans are left tend to be like the witch, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, and so some elements of the Republican Party are quickly trying to shore up their losses by becoming an anti-intellectual know-nothing party for the 21st century, but at the same time they’re getting rid of figures that would prove to be a liability to their core supporters.

Bobby Jindal is the son of foreigners and would never be elected by the white supremacist Christians that back the Republicans, Mark Sanford was an adulterous philanderer (which is not something you want leaking out right before an election), and Sarah Palin, while close to what they want, is actually far too stupid and crazy even by mainstream Christian standards.

The Republican base is far too small and fickle to rely on, Bush got into office both times by the very smallest of margins, and McCain just got his ass kicked.

What I expect in 2012, is that the Republicans will prop up someone that’s religious (but not too religious), pro-big business (but explains their platform as anti-taxation), and a militaristic jingoist (who covers this expansionary policy up as keeping you safe.)

Good thing that Jeb Bush is around, huh?

An American Carol would have Charles Dickens spinning in his grave

I made the mistake of renting “An American Carol” out of the Redbox machine, and I have to say I’m glad it was only a dollar.

From the looks of the preview, it was going to be a humorous satire of Michael Moore, and instead it became an utterly tasteless far right-wing caricature of the left, complete with uber-douchebag Bill O’Reilly.

The movie is about 2 hours of non-stop “Ann Coulter could have written this shit” that portrays the left as anti-American and too stupid to even realize it.

From beginning to end, the movie makes two-dimensional arguments about why everyone should have a gun, why America should immediately declare war on others unprovoked as a knee-jerk response, and why Christianity should be super-privileged and completely beyond reproach, elevated far above everyone else, and why nobody but these super-privileged far right wingers should enjoy the protections of the First, Fourth, or Fifth Amendments.

This is essentially a right-wing Christian Mein Kampf, only the arguments are even less inspiring and the film has a distinctly over-the-top American far right sardonic overtone.

The movie has no redeeming quality whatsoever, and only serves as propaganda to elevate the “bread and circuses” Republican politicians and their mindless followers.

If you put Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Hal Turner, and my dad into a blender, the consistency of the resulting product would roughly match this lower-than-film-school quality abomination.

Cheating governor drama continues

Just when you thought the fake apologies and horseshit was over…

OK, I know that nobody would think that.

This is America, Governor Mark Sanford is a public figure, and I don’t know why his family is off limits when the Republicans were having a field day with Clinton getting a blow job back in ‘98. (Or when Mark Sanford, as a congressman, voted to impeach Clinton for it)

Only Mark Sanford is worse, this wasn’t just a momentary lapse in judgment,  it was an ongoing affair that his wife knew about for several years and had to not talk about in public for fear of ruining her husbands reelection campaigns and cashing in the futures of their four small children. (The youngest of which is now 10.)

So if anything I feel sorry for them, because this Mark Sanford piece of shit will be burned, and rightfully so,  but his children are now humiliated and will have to bear the brunt of this.

Meanwhile in the South Carlina capital, lawmakers are investigating whether Sanford followed proper procedure when he left the state to go have that Argentinian home wrecker nuke his corn dog.

Somehow I have my doubts that he wrote “Dear Mr. Speaker, I will be incapacitated and unable to fulfill my gubernatorial duties for the next 7 days while I go chase a piece of Latina ass. P.S. Please feed my goldfish”

Clinton *DID NOT* disappear for 7 days and abandon the country while he went to chase tail. Mark Sanford did abandon his state.

You know, for the party of morality and leadership, the Republicans provide neither, and maybe the Democrats don’t always but they’re not the ones beating their chests and calling themselves paragons of virtue while they’re trying to get lucky in an airport bathroom with a male prostitute ( Fmr. Republican Senator Larry Craig).

Speaking of Republicans and deriliction of duty…

Here in Indiana, the legislature had to be called back into a special session because our Lame Duck Republican governor is hiding under his desk and offering no real answers on how to go about a state budget.

When Gov. Mitch Daniels does come out from under his desk, all he ever says is “Under my plan, education won’t be cut”, and failing to mention that’s because Indiana got the federal stimulus money from the Obama plan.

Meanwhile the Republicans in the legislature are fighting the “Daniels Plan” (if you can call it that, with their own plan which does in fact seek to slash education and Medicare and other things, and the Democrats have to fight the Republicans to stop them from doing that.

The Indiana government has effectively had a stroke of state between an ineffective governor who doubles as a compulsive liar, and the Republicans and Democrats fighting each other over the scraps.

Then if that wasn’t bad enough, the Republicans  are trying to hijack the special budget session (which is already costing Indiana taxpayers millions because of the Republican lack of leadership) with another bill to Constitutionally ban same-sex marriages, because apparently the biggest Republican concern with the looming  budget crisis that they have caused, is to distract with divisive social issues and to try to illegalize human rights that they already made illegal under statute years ago.

Indiana is a joke, I mean a big joke, and the bitch of the joke is that we still have over TWO BILLION DOLLARS left over from when our governor committed treason and leased our state assets to foreign companies years ago.

But we can’t touch that says Bush’s Man Mitch, because it’s a “Rainy Day Fund”.

It’s simply unbelievable that these Republican traitors, hypocrites, and high criminals keep getting reelected, largely because the people that always fucking turn out to vote are the Christians who will take the “Guns, Gods, and Gays” Republican lip service time and time again, while the same Republicans cheat on their wives, take lobbyist money from the companies they’re supposed to regulate, and sell public assets to foreign countries.

If you *are* a Republican and reading this, and voted for these types, I’m sorry to inform you that you were fucking stupid, but it’s never too late to redeem yourself, and if you feel like you can’t do any better next time, then here you go. Please STOP fucking up the country I have to live in.

The Samurai would disembowel themselves for fucking up far less than you people have.