Today, newly Democratic Senator Arlen Specter said that he hopes the Minnesota Supreme Court will rule in favor of Norm Coleman and that he will once again be seated as a United States Senator.
Someone get this man a primary opponent ASAP.
The revelation comes courtesy of an interview the Pennsylvania Senator gave for the New York Times Magazine. The complete interview will be available this weekend.
Arlen Specter recently made my list of Democratic Senators that are in the back pocket of the banking lobby. Specter voted against consumers by opposing the bill that would help to renegotiate home loans for thousands of home owners.
Many Minnesotans are pushing Norm Coleman to drop his pending lawsuit. In fact, failure to seat Al Franken is chipping into Governor Tim Pawlenty’s approval numbers.
The Minnesota Supreme Court will wait until this summer to make a ruling.
With all the innuendo in the following video, you’d think that Michelle Bachmann was gunning for the lead role in Milf Fuckers 39 instead of reelection in Minnesota’s 6th district. On Saturday, Bachmann and Governor Tim Pawlenty gave speeches at a tax day tea party.
Bachmann is angry that the government is having an orgy without her and that it has already “spent its wad.” To be fair, Bachmann simply wasn’t the prettiest girl at the party and the government just couldn’t hold out when they heard this speech by North Carolina congresswoman Virginia Foxx.
We need some real opposition in this country. Not some fire and brimstone, good versus evil nutjob that believes the second coming of Christ will happen the second we have single-payer healthcare in this country. The ideas are so archaic that you have to go back to 18th century, Salem Witch Trials logic in order to wrap your head around the idiocy.
For the love of Nathaniel Hawthorne and all reasonable people, get Bachmann the hell out of Congress.
Bill O’Reilly giddily “corrected” an answer Obama gave during his press conference last night on “The O’Reilly Factor” relating to the torture of detainees in the United States. Here is the clip.
That's the biggest projection since Ryu's Ultra-Hadoken.
For those of you who haven’t seen the above video, I’ll try to give a fair interpretation of what was said by both Obama and O’Reilly.
Obama: Churchill understood that if you start taking intelligence shortcuts by torturing detainees, then that corrodes the character of a country.
O’Reilly: Obama should have used a better example than the British Government. Afterall, they tortured several members of the Irish Republican Army.
Does Bill O’Reilly think that the average viewer of the O’Reilly Factor is so dumb, that they do not know that Winston Churchill was out of power and even dead by the time things started heating up the IRA in the 1970s? Clearly Obama was evoking the pedastool that the world puts Churchill on when discussing war and foreign policy, not the actions of the entire history of the British government.
What’s next O’Reilly? Maybe we can’t fully trust the marriage vows of Gordon Browne because Henry VIII went through so many wives. Different times, different leaders, different situation.
I’m about to pull a Fox News. Bill O’Reilly is sympathetic to terrorists. With a name like O’Reilly and a proven track record of agressive attacks on the Britsh Government’s handling of the terrorist-Nazi-socio-fascist-communists of the IRA, I have to wonder who O’Reilly really pals around with on the weekends. He’s got his eyes on Northern Ireland.
I can’t even tell you what the fuck North Carolinian congresswoman Virginia Foxx is talking about. If you shut your eyes, you may think that the hate spewed from Foxx’s mouth could only be attributed to someone as dumb as Michelle Bachmann. Here is the video:
The Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed. But we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery, it wasn’t because he was gay. The Hate Crimes bill was named for him, but it’s really a hoax.
Where are the facts to back up your claim? Who is we? You and Fred Phelps? Every major newspaper and the local police department agreed that Matthew Shepard was lured from the bar by two men and then beaten to death. He was not committing a crime.
Foxx’s statement was made while the House was debating a new Hate Crimes bill. Apparently, Matthew Shepard’s mother was in attendance.
I’d like to see a source outside of godhatesfags.com that will corroborate Foxx’s foolish story.
In a 13-10 vote today, the New Hampshire Senate passed legislation that would allow same sex marriage in the state. An amendment was added to the bill that allows clergy members to refuse to marry gay couples.
The storm is coming.
Civil marriages will now be for both opposite sex and same sex couples. Before the bill passed clergy could refuse to marry couples for any variety of reasons. Let’s say I want to get married to a Catholic girl, in a Catholic Church, but refuse to raise my children Catholic. The priest would refuse to marry us. In other words, the additional amendment is just to appease religious types. Clergy have always had that right.
Democratic governor John Lynch still needs to sign the bill, but he’ll get enormous pressure from fellow Democrats to do just that, even if he claims that he “personally believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
Congrats to the people of New Hampshire. Now more gay-tolerant than the entire west coast.
During her time in the United States House of Representatives Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) has been a laughing stock. From calling on a violent revolution in the streets to blaming Democrats for swine flu, Bachmann has pushed the limit on reasonable thought.
Put the coke down.
But hold all insanity queries until tomorrow because Bachmann has temporarily regained intelligence. Bachmann, along with Alan Grayson (D-FL), Ron Paul (R-TX), Walter Jones (R-NC), Peter Defazio (D-OR) and Corrine Brown (D-FL) signed a letter today encouraging more transparency in the activities of the Federal Reserve.
Here is the full letter:
Dear Chairman Spratt,
As you meet with fellow conferees to reconcile the House- and Senate-passed budget resolutions, we urge you to adopt the Senate provision regarding the Deficit Neutral Reserve Fund for Increased Transparency at the Federal Reserve in the final version of the resolution. This language calls for the Federal Reserve to identify banks and other financial institutions that have received more than $2.2 trillion in taxpayer-backed loans and other financial assistance since March 24, 2008.
Under Chairman Bernanke, the central banking system has opened a range of extraordinary funding facilities that are providing additional credit to banks, large financial institutions, and primary brokers, as well as guaranteeing commercial paper. All of this activity is happening in secret, with the Federal Reserve disbursing money and credit to the large financial institutions that have put our credit markets and economy at risk. The Federal Reserve has resisted FOIA requests, and will not make public even the terms of payment for the contractors it is using to run these extraordinary programs.
At the very least, Congress and the public should have knowledge about which banks are receiving taxpayer money, what they are doing with the money, and the credit risk taxpayers are taking on through the Federal Reserve. The Senate language encourages such transparency, allowing for audits and public disclosure of secret loans and financial assistance from the Federal Reserve to these large institutions.
We urge you to include the Senate language in the final Budget Resolution.
The Federal Budget today passed the House of Representatives without a single Republican vote. How’s that for bipartisanship?
A “hacker” allegedly managed to get into city council candidate Nidia Lopez’s Facebook account and sent porn to many of her friends. Lopez immediately apologized to her supporters and blamed her opponent for the incident.
Only 10 supporters so far. Ouch.
Lopez wrote the following on her Facebook wall:
Please be advised that Ms. Lopez’s facebook page was hacked and the videos that you might have received from her facebook page were not sent out by Nidia R. Lopez nor her campaign. … We apologize for these unfortunate circumstances and we are confident that this matter will be corrected very soon. It has become obvious that Nidia’s opposition for the City Council has become desperately worried that Nidia’s message for change and her candidacy has become a serious threat to their efforts. Unfortunately they will stop at nothing to deter her. … Ms. Lopez’s opponents unfortunately want to resort to immature pranks and a smear campaign because they do not possess a platform nor solutions to address the issues facing the Journal Square residents. … please call your family and friends to let them know that our opponents have become desperate and that our commitment to delivering change we can see is strengthened with these types of attacks.
My bet? These “hackers” just guessed her password. It’s like the Sarah Palin email incident last year. If you have an easy password, then you leave yourself at risk.
Don Larsen, a Republican delegate from Springville, Utah, pushed a resolution to the Utah County Republicans titled, “Resolution opposing the Hate America anti-Christian Open Borders cabal.” In the resolution Larsen says that an “invisible government” is feeding money to the Democratic Party so that Christianity will erode and our borders will open. The head of this invisible government is no mere man, but Satan himself.
Barack Obama listens to this guy.
The bill is rife with quotes from the Bible, something that clearly belongs in our government. Larsen stresses the importance of knowing good (Republicans) and evil (Democrats) and that the rift between the two parties fulfills biblical prophecy. Larsen says that “Satan’s ultimate goal is to destroy the family and these people are playing a leading part in it.”
Sane Republicans in Utah narrowly rejected the resolution. Led by David Rodeback, a demon in disguise, Republicans decided that aligning themselves with fundamental Christianity may alienate some voters.
This is some Orwellian dickery. Florida Republican Representative Adam Hasner hosted the “Free Speech Summit” over the weekend where a keynote speaker demanded that the Koran be outlawed and that religious freedom should not include Islam. Hasner also left the House chamber during a Muslim prayer on Monday.
Hasner invited Chair of the Parliamentary Party of The Netherlands Geert Wilders to speak at his “Free Speech Summit.” At the event, Wilders said that Islam was not a true religion, that the Koran calls for hatred and terrorism, and that free speech should not apply to Muslims. Here is the video:
Hasner also showed Wilders’ movie FITNA at the summit and applauded its Anti-Islam message.
Wilders is a devoted Catholic and apparently hasn’t read the portion of the Bible where God tells Aaron to slaughter every Canaanite in sight. The good people of Florida need to get rid of Hasner. He clearly hates the founding principles of this country.
Democratic Representative Lon Burnam of Texas will call for an impeachment vote for Court of Criminal Appeal Chief Justice Sharon Keller. Keller ordered that the court be closed while a death penalty appeal was being prepared.
Michael Richard, in better times.
Burnam said Keller’s “gross neglect of duty and willing disregard for human life” should be grounds for her immediate dismissal from the court. During a September 2007 appeal, the legal team for death row inmate Michael Richard experienced computer problems and asked that the court stay open past the 5pm deadline. Keller refused and Richard was executed at midnight.
This is exactly the kind of excuse you give to a professor when your paper is late. Computer difficulties. But why the hell don’t they just have a 24-hour section of the courthouse? Richard deserves every moment leading up to his execution to prove his innocence. Keller would have been immediately removed from the bench in any other state except Texas.
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