JABbering Stooge

Why does Sen. Tom Coburn hate the troops?

Shorter Debbie Schlussel:

Shocker: Man Who Shot Up Ft. Hood Soldiers Was Muslim (and a “Loyal” Muslim U.S. Soldier); Islamic Terrorism & Jihad, Period; An Islamic Doctor Who Murdered

• The massacre at Fort Hood just goes to prove that the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim — preferably in one of Adam Yoshida’s macrowave ovens!

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

Shorter Ann Outhouse Althouse:

“This despicable attack on Assemblywoman Scozzafava offends me personally and exemplifies exactly what’s wrong with Hoffman and his right wing backers.”

• War is peace! Ignorance is strength! Rush Limbaugh’s nakedly sexist attack on Dede Scozzafava is “good feminism!”

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

Who’s fascist now?

It’s getting ugly out there.

I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O’Neill called it “voter intimidation”) by Doug Hoffman supporters.

“We’ve gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters,” said O’Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party’s GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.

“Apparently, there’s some woman claiming to be a commissioner,” O’Neill continued. “Commissioner of what, I don’t know. She’s from Texas, I think, and she won’t leave.”

“This is not the way we roll in the North Country.”

O’Neill also said she had received anecdotal reports of problems at polling sites in Gouverneur, which is Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava’s hometown. But she couldn’t immediately confirm this.

And yet, in the words of “Dr.” Phil, “How’s that workin’ out for ya?”

ALBANY, N.Y. — A Democrat running in a historically Republican stronghold won a closely watched special congressional election in northern New York on Tuesday, capitalizing on a split that emerged between moderates and conservatives for control of the GOP.

With 92 percent of the precincts reporting early Wednesday, lawyer and retired Air Force Capt. Bill Owens defeated businessman Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, 49 percent to 45 percent, after a boost from unified labor efforts in the last days of the campaign and the withdrawal of the Republican candidate over the weekend.

Uh huh. That’s what I thought.

MEMO TO THE CO-DEPENDENT DEMS: This post by the Great Orange Satan is required reading going into the 2010 midterms.

With “the conservative intelligentsia,” the correct order is “shoot first, shoot later, then shoot some more just for the hell of it.” “Try to figure out if it was too good to be true” never really enters into the equation. (That’s French and gay, don’cha know?)

The next time you decide to stab Obama in the back (Which will be, ohh…about five seconds from now!), have the guts to do it to his face.*

* Cf.

So, Judas Iscariot shows his true colors once more, eh?

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told reporters today that he would in fact filibuster any health care bill he doesn’t agree with—and right now, he doesn’t agree with the public option proposal making its way through the Senate.

“I told Senator Reid that I’m strongly inclined—I haven’t totally decided, but I’m strongly inclined—to vote to proceed to the health care debate, even though I don’t support the bill that he’s bringing together because it’s important that we start the debate on health care reform because I want to vote for health care reform this year. But I also told him that if the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill.”

When will the Senate Dems wise up to the fact that Joe Lieberman has not voted for one damn thing that they have wanted since 2001, and likely never will so long as he remains a Senator? When will they punish him for constantly stabbing them in the back?

When pigs fly, if Sen. Chris Dodd has anything to say about it.

*SIGH*

How did I end up in a party of co-dependent wimps and corporate whores who keep making excuses for their abusers?

You stay KKKlassy, Rep. Gregg Harper (R — MS).

Takes one to know one, SIR:

In an interview with CBS News radio yesterday, former President George H.W. Bush called assailed the tone of our national discourse. “I don’t like it. The cables (TV) have a lot to do with it,” he said, adding that MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann were partly responsible:

• The Republican elder statesman said, “It’s not just the right.” He complained, “there are plenty of people on the left.”

  While he said he does not believe in personal name-calling, he singled out MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow calling them “sick puppies.”

  “The way they treat my son and anyone who’s opposed to their point of view is just horrible,” Mr. Bush said.

That’s right. President George Horton’s Willie Bush called Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow “sick puppies” for alleged namecalling.

My irony meter just a-sploded.

Sidebar: If Poppy Bush is truly concerned about the state of political discourse in this country, perhaps he should start by having a long chat with his good friend Pillz-E about his comments for oh…the last year or so.

Idle question: Is it possible that Rush Limbaugh put in a bid for the St. Louis Rams knowing that the NFL would balk at the notion of a racist git owning a team in a sport where the targets of Limbaugh’s special brand of bigotry dominate — just so he could get his next persecution fix?