JABbering Stooge

According to Jim Peterson, stuff like this NEVER happens:

But then, what do I know? I’m just a "mangina" being blackmailed by "feminazis."

*Doink* *Doink* *Doink*

Case in point, the furor over Planned Parenthood’s attempt to open a clinic in Aurora, Illinois. In an effort to circumvent the coerced pregnancy crowd’s new tactic of economic terrorism, Planned Parenthood pulled a Brewster Jennings & Associates, using a front company to file the appropriate permit applications needed to set up shop. Abortion opponents found out anyway, and raised holier-than-thou hell about it to the Aurora city council, which then illegally pulled the permit after having already approved the permit in the first place.

As Chicago Tribune columnist/blogger Eric Zorn points out:

bitter experience tells them they have to skirt the notice of those in the community who feel compelled to try to impose on everyone their opposition to abortion.

Sadly, as we have seen on many occasions, abortion foes all too often resort to violent means to such imposition.

looseheadprop has some trenchant analysis over at Firedoglake:

Planned Parenthood isn’t just abortions, it’s birth-control, pre natal and post natal maternal care, it’s sexually transmitted disease care, it’s even primary “I have a cold with sniffles” health care. It’s also breast cancer screening and general gynecological care.

For the poor. And the uninsured.

*snip*

But because the parameters of that health care include abortions–legal abortions– Planned Parenthood is, once again, the subject of demonstrations, protests and now discrimination be the government of Aurora caving in to the demands of angry protesters.

Now Aurora’s government can screech until it’s blue in the face about how evil Planned Parenthood is for not being totally on the level when applying for the permits, but they have no legal right to do what they did. As looseheadprop points out, “there is so much case law on this issue, it could choke a horse.”

In other words, the City of Aurora surrendered to terrorists without a shot being fired. For all our alleged horror when it’s enacted against us by outside forces, we freely do it to each other. Because terrorism works.

Don’t believe me? consider this comment left at an Aurora-area anti-choice blog:

I have emailed both “gentlemen” as requested. I wondered aloud if perhaps there weren’t some laws that I could ignore as long as it didn’t mess with the status quo…………

If that isn’t a terroristic threat, I’ll eat my “Impeach Cheney?” hat.

Sadly, this sort of thing happens every time the efforts of religious conservatives to subvert democracy to their own twisted ends fails. They resort to terrorism.

Because the last resort of a theocrat is violence.

Here’s some videos from Monday’s “Values Voter Presidential Debate”. It started with a choir performing the extraordinary wingnut rendition of “God Bless America”:

Umm…yeah…

You know, if a liberal group had done a song parody blaming America first for the policies of some of its politicians…

And then there was this bit from the Very Silly candidate (in the slab of concrete) John Cox, who got all paranoid about T3h Transvestites™®© - They’re in UR Skewls, Recruiting UR kidz:

Somehow, I don’t think that Eddie Izzard would want anything to do with Mr. Cox’s kids.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney polled no votes at all. Not a sausage. Bugger all. So much for all his pandering to conservative Christians who will never accept him because he’s a Mormon.

The surge is working, all right.

Does this mean that Blackwater’s unwritten policy of “Shoot First, Shoot Later, Shoot Some More And Then When Everybody’s Dead Try To Ask A Question Or Two” is finally coming back to bite them in the @$$?

Don’t bet on it.

So Ricky “The Model” Perry put in an appearance at the California GOP state convention a couple of weeks ago. And boy did he work the crowd.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has championed “post-partisan” cooperation, issued a bold call for a return to Reagan’s “big tent” and moderation during the opening night of the GOP gathering of 1,400 Friday. He warned conservative party activists who dominate the GOP to take the conciliatory middle of the road - court independents and address issues such as global warming and health care - or watch their party “dying at the box office.”

Minutes later, conservative Texas Gov. Rick Perry shattered that mood with an incendiary address deriding Schwarzenegger-style moderation and decrying California’s “bankrupt, liberal political philosophy”- exhorting Republicans to stand their ground on social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. And without ever mentioning the California governor’s name, Perry launched a blistering attack clearly aimed at his direction.

And just what did Governor Goodhair have to say about Herr Governator that drove “Cullyforneea” GOoPers wild?

“It’s a sad, sad state of affairs when liberals campaign like Republicans to get elected, and Republicans govern like liberals to be loved,” he said, getting whoops and repeated standing ovations from the 400 delegates at the opening dinner that put Schwarzenegger’s polite reception to shame.

That’s right. Here we have a moderate Republican governor, having been chastened by major losses in 2005 and 2006, looking to actually put the state’s interests ahead of partisan politics, and he’s being slapped silly by a Governor that believes in Joe Lieberman-style bipartisanship.

Contrast that with the Texas GOoPer presidential straw poll, where Perry phoned it in:

Perry’s speech wowed the California crowd six days after his videotaped message to Texas Republicans at their presidential straw poll in Fort Worth generated moderate applause.

Governor Goodhair gets much cache with his partisan sniping in California. Texas? Not so much. It’s seen as pandering by an insufficiently conservative governor:

Perry spent much of the legislative session this year fending off proposals to weaken his authority. In turn, he may have lost some appeal to members of his own party.

“Talks a good game,” said Bill Hocutt, president of the Hunt County Republican Club. “He doesn’t have the actions to back it up.”

Sandra “Sam” Criswell of Galveston said, “He’s a little too cozy with Mexico.”

Chris Howard of Houston agreed, offering her take on a border barrier to prevent crossings: “Walls have been proven to work from the Mongol hordes to the Palestinians.”

Maybe that’s why he’s been shlepping around the globe so much lately:

Since January, Perry has been to the Middle East thrice, including a trip to Istanbul, Turkey, to speak on state-federal relations at the Bilderberg Conference, a top-secret international meeting of corporate, media and political players. In August, Perry went to Mexico, where he talked up energy projects and talked down a fence between the United States and Mexico.

This from the man who famously said:

When I take my hand off the Bible, I’ll be 100 percent governor. I won’t be 39 percent governor. I’ll have 100 percent of the authority.

Now THAT’S what I call arrogance!

Well, there goes our credibility when complaining about human rights abuses in China. No wonder why he confessed to everything from kidnapping the Lindbergh baby to Britney Spears’ godawful VMA performance.

Expect reprisals against our troops soon.

Via Newsweek/MSRNC: GOP loses ground with Hispanics.

No, REALLY?! D’ya think?!

Wonder why that is?

Remember those seven soldiers who wrote that op-ed in the New York Times? The one that was largely panned by the “librul” media?

Two of those soldiers have since paid the ultimate price for Bush’s stupid war. One of those soldiers was a constituent of former Montana State Senator Dave Rye (R - Naturally). Here’s how he supports the troops:

Pardon my skepticism, and certainly no disrespect for the dead Montana soldier, but in my time in the Army I never heard such a word as “recalcitrant” escape the lips of any Staff Sergeant. I doubt if it’s spoken all that much in Ismay, either. The soldiers had the help and probably the encouragement of a writer with an agenda, from a newspaper which has always had one. Its continually declining circulation now mainly consists of those who want desperately to consider themselves sophisticated as well as compassionate, even if that means always branding the U.S. as the chief villain on the world stage—-in fact, especially if it does.

I await the inevitable onslaught from outraged liberals. (Is there any other kind?)

That’s right. Because one of our finest had the temerity to question the delusional “We’re kicking ass” back-slapping of The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible, he was too stupid to write the op-ed himself, and was thus a “librul” plant or was co-opted by the “libruls.” (And they sucked out his precious bodily fluids, too!)

We’ve seen this far too many times before - remember the soldier who dared to ask Rummy why they had to scrounge through garbage for sufficient vehicle armor? Wingnuts called him a “librul” plant, too.

This is how conservatives support the troops. They lionize them from the Cheeto-stained safety of their parents’ basement and buy boatloads of yellow magnets. That is, until the troops signal that they don’t blindly believe that every single thing conservatives do is 100000000000000000000000000% correct. Then they swiftboat them, call them “librul” plants, and rhetorically shit on their graves.

Echidne, filling in over at Atrios’ blog, writes:

It will be interesting to watch the media coverage of the anti-war march in Washington, D.C.. Will equal column inches or soundbites be given to the pro-war counter-rallies, even if they are much fewer in numbers? And would this particular neutrality principle apply in reverse?

It seems we have our answer. The Associated Press, via MSRNC, featured the anti-war protesters in only four of the ten columns it devoted to coverage of today’s protests. Then there was this gag-inducer:

The rally, organized by the ANSWER Coalition and other groups, was expected to conclude with a march to the Capitol.

Yeah, the only people opposed to the war are godless commies. Sure. Could you be any more blatantly parroting the GOP line, AP? Actually, they could. If they had done this:

The rally, organized by the ANSWER Coalition and other groups, was expected to conclude with a march to the Capitol.

Though the word choice alone has much the same effect.

Additionally, the AP failed to mention the involvement of Michelle MalKKKin in the Blathering of Smeagols counter-protest, nor did AP feel it necessary to mention the homicidal state-of-mind of the Blathering of Smeagols that had been induced by MalKKKin’s demagoguery of the possible vandalization of the Vietnam War Memorial. True reporting on unhinged conservatives screaming obscenities and trying to crash the barricades to take the scalps of some “dirty fucking hippies” is apparently taboo at the “librul” AP.