Shouldn't they call themselves the "Lynch Party"?

Should the “Tea Party” movement organize itself to run congressional candidates across the country, it would poll better than the Republican Party, according to a new survey by Rasmussen Reports.

In the national telephone poll of 1,000 likely voters released Monday, 23 percent said they preferred to vote for a candidate from the yet unformed “Tea Party” for Congress in 2010. The Republican Party trailed the non-existent political organization by 5 percentage points, getting the support of 18 percent of respondents. [Link]

This is a really stunning and scary state of affairs. The extreme lunatic fringe has become the mainstream among rethuglicans, and the few remaining sane, moderate members are reduced to the status of a fringe.

Goldfinger...

Dah dah dah... he's the one... the one with the loaded gun...

I'm still not sure of the veracity of the story I linked to in my previous post, but here's a doozy: it seems Goldman Sachs executives are arming themselves in case of a populist uprising.

This story tells you everything you need to know about who really runs this country. It does strike me as a little needlessly paranoid on Goldman Sachs's part. The mob can always be manipulated into mindlessly acting against its own interests. If you can get them foaming at the mouth about socialism and death panels when someone tries to give them access to health care, you can do anything with them.

As Thomas Frank wrote in What's the Matter with Kansas:

The angry workers, mighty in their numbers, are marching irresistibly against the arrogant. They are shaking their fists at the sons of privilege. They are laughing at the dainty affectations of the Leawood toffs. They are massing at the gates of Mission Hill, hoisting the black flag, and while the millionaires tremble in their mansions, they are bellowing out their terrifying demands, "We are here," they scream, "to cut your taxes."

Goldman Sachs health care plan

(Reuters) New York: Having inoculated its employees with H1N1 vaccine dosages usurped from pregnant women and children, Goldman Sachs has increased its vigilance against the contagious virus by banning employee contact with spare change.

An internal memo outlines steps staff should take to avoid becoming ill, starting with the eradication of the potentially infected currency that may have lodged itself under the seats of their automobiles. The hazardous materials are being collected and sent to Small Business for disposal.

The memo also advised employees to “resist the urge to open your own car door ; let your driver do it.” [Link]

I couldn't find this at the Reuters site so I don't know if it's legit or satire. Still, it's a good summary of right-wing attitudes to health care.

The men who stare at moose

The fact that the number-one issue currently roiling the lunatic-right mob is a picture of Sarah Palin in jogging shorts speaks volumes about what a bankrupt, irrelevant joke the rethug party has become.

First of all, Palin is - by her own freely chosen actions - a private citizen, not even the governor of Alaska or mayor of Wasilla any more. It's not like anyone owes her presidential decorum. Secondly, the fact that this issue is dragging on so long is testament to the woman's total lack of substance. There have been beefcake photos of Barack Obama on the covers of magazines, and the world didn't stop turning. Everyone moved on, because there is a hell of a lot more to Obama than bare-chested photos.

Palin's petty, whiny book, in which she refuses to take responsibility for the self-destruction of her presidential campaign, further confirms that she is totally out of her depth on a national, statewide or local political stage. Her 15 minutes of fame are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over. She should go back to the Little House on the Tundra and pump out a few more babies.

Sarah Flailin'

Does anyone with the IQ of a tog turd - i.e. everyone except the mob - still think Moosejaw Mooselini would make a good president?

She's a creationist. She can't tell Iran from Iraq. She is the willful ignorance, stupidity and backwardness of the mob personified.

What's most disgusting about Palin is that not only is she totally out of her depth, she is too stupid and clueless to know it. Hell, she was out of her depth as mayor of some one-horse burg in the tundra. She was mayor of Wasilla for less than a year, but plunged the town $25 million in debt (25 times its usual annual operating budget) and made it a byword for political corruption in Alaska. Just think what she could do to the country!

It's 100% certain that the Twit-in-Chief will be the rethug nominee in '12, and the only question is whether her running mate will be Orly Taitz or Joe the Plumber. I'd love to think this is good news and that Obama will bury her. But as the saying goes, nobody ever lost a penny underestimating the intelligence or taste of the American public.

Fox fux up

Fox "news" falsified their coverage of the teabagger rally at the Capital building, by splicing in footage from a much larger teabagger rally on 9/12 to give the impression that the crowd was larger than it really was.

Can anyone still say with a straight face that Fox is a legitimate news network?

If the bag fits...

Having proudly and gleefully taken the name "teabaggers" to themselves last summer, the mob (collectively having about two neurons firing) has belatedly realized the sexual connotations of the word, and they are shocked - SHOCKED! that Democrats would refer to them this way.

LMAO! Tell ya what, rethugs. If you don't like being called teabaggers, I'll gladly call you what you are - douchebags and scumbags.