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The Company They Keep

Regarding yesterday’s mjh’s blog — The Asshat of History: Ugh. This guy is as bad as you would imagine.

Be sure to read EJ Dione regarding what the NAACP is really saying about the Madhatters.

E.J. Dionne Jr. – What the NAACP is really asking on racism within the Tea Party

Here’s what Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, asked of the Tea Party during a speech at the civil rights group’s convention in Kansas City, Mo.: "Expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions. We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards."

The NAACP is doing what conservatives have done for decades in demanding that liberals and progressives separate themselves from left-wing extremists who trashed America, burned flags and praised foreign dictators. The racists are the Tea Party’s flag-burners. It’s fair to ask the democratic left to condemn extremism. It’s fair to ask the same of the democratic right. (Note the small "d.")

When I reached Jealous by telephone, he went out of his way to emphasize that his group is not making a blanket charge of racism. "We have never called the Tea Party racist," he said. "We know there are black Tea Party members, and we want black people to feel comfortable taking leadership positions in all parties in this country."

But speaking of Tea Party leaders, he added: "We’ve seen the signs, we’ve heard the slurs, and all we’re asking is for you to act responsibly and say there’s no space for bigots in the Tea Party."

E.J. Dionne Jr. – What the NAACP is really asking on racism within the Tea Party

And, Yes, there is racism in the Tea Party movement.

ThinkProgress has produced a short video demonstrating the vile racism that has been exhibited at some Tea Party events:

DENNIS: The Tea Party does not focus on the pigment of people’s skin. […]

TEA PARTY ACTIVIST1: He’s too black to be President.

TEA PARTY ACTIVIST2: I’m a proud racist, I’m white.

TEA PARTY ACTIVIST3: Afro-Leninism! Coming to you on a silver platter, Barack Hussein Obama!

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The Asshat of History

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool – or racist – than to speak and remove all doubt. The following quote shows how callous and ignorant the speaker is.

NAACP, Tea Party Volley Over Racism Claims : NPR

"You’re dealing with people who are professional race-baiters, who make a very good living off this kind of thing. They make more money off of race than any slave trader ever. It’s time groups like the NAACP went to the trash heap of history where they belong with all the other vile racist groups that emerged in our history," Mark Williams, a national spokesman for the Tea Party Express, said.

NAACP, Tea Party Volley Over Racism Claims : NPR

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Oh, Puhlease: This Week’s WTF?!

Is there anyone more fearful or naïve than the Madhatters? Hasn’t the Republican Party used fear forever? Gotta go puke now.

A new billboard in downtown Mason City features a photo of President Obama, flanked by pictures of German dictator Adolph Hitler and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.

The billboard features phrases like “Live Free or Die” and “Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive.”

It’s the same spot where a billboard last fall featured the phrase “Obama-Nation, Live Free or Die” with the Communist symbol of a hammer and sickle. The billboards were paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party.

Think Progress » North Iowa Tea Party displays billboard comparing Obama to Hitler.

Dump Duhbya

Worst President EVER (IMO)

Think Progress » Presidential scholars: Bush is the worst president of the modern era, bottom five of all time.

This year’s poll of 238 scholars found that President Franklin Roosevelt was once again ranked on top, joined by Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Teddy Roosevelt to complete the top five. However, President George W. Bush did not fare well since the last poll was conducted in 2002. He dropped 16 places to 39th, making him the worst president since Warren Harding died in office in 1923, and one of the bottom five of all time, according to the experts:

Today, just one year after leaving office, the former president [DUHbya – spit on the ground] has found himself in the bottom five at 39th rated especially poorly in handling the economy, communication, ability to compromise, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence. Rounding out the bottom five are four presidents that have held that dubious distinction each time the survey has been conducted: Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin Pierce.

Bush was rated second from the bottom on “intelligence,” “foreign policy
accomplishments,” and “handling of U.S. economy.” [mjh: Good gawd, I pity the fool dumber than Duhbya.] …

President Reagan “dropped two places from 16th overall in 2002 to 18th today.” President Obama was ranked 15th. [mjh: IE, higher than Raygun.]

Think Progress » Presidential scholars: Bush is the worst president of the modern era, bottom five of all time.

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But who will protect the global mega-corps? Republicans to the defense!

Galling:  “[BP] shouldn’t have to be fleeced and make [made] chumps…” Chumps?!  Poor BP!

Not surprisingly, Bachman ignores the independent body set up to manage the money from BP. It’s no ATM.

Think Progress » Bachmann: ‘I’m not a shill for BP.’

Before Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) became BP’s biggest fan and apologist yesterday, one of the loudest voices criticizing the Obama administration was Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who said that BP needs to stand up for itself:

“They have to lift the liability cap,” said Bachmann. “But if I was the head of BP, I would let the signal get out there — ‘We’re not going to be chumps, and we’re not going to be fleeced.’ And they shouldn’t be. They shouldn’t have to be fleeced and make chumps to have to pay for perpetual unemployment and all the rest — they’ve got to be legitimate claims.

“The other thing we have to remember is that Obama loves to make evil whatever company it is that he wants to get more power from. He makes them evil, and what we’ve got to ask ourselves is: Do we really want to be paying $9 for a gallon of gas? Because that could be the final result of this.”

Think Progress » Bachmann: ‘I’m not a shill for BP.’

Good gawd, how does this fool come out of Minnesota, of all places.

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WTF?!

Some on the right have said repeatedly that Obama embarrasses America by showing too much respect or deference to some foreign leaders, instead of the bully-swaggering of Duhbya [spit on the ground], when he wasn’t kissing Saudi princes. Now we see a Republican stick his head out of BP’s ass in order to kiss it. Pretty embarrassing, I think.

Think Progress » Joe Barton to BP: ‘I apologize’ for the White House ‘shakedown.’

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) speaking to BP CEO Tony Hayward:

“I’m speaking totally for myself, I’m not speaking for the Republican Party, I’m not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself. But I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion shakedown…

“So I’m only speaking for myself, I’m not speaking for anybody else, but I apologize, I do not want to live in a country where anytime a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is again in my words amounts to a shakedown. So I apologize.”

[NOTE:] Barton has taken $1.4 million from the oil and gas industry, including $27,350 from BP.

Think Progress » Joe Barton to BP: ‘I apologize’ for the White House ‘shakedown.’

Remember the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez: Through a decades-long process in court, penalties were steadily whittled down to a trifle, even as Exxon’s profits rose ad nauseum. Corporations rule, and Republicans salute.

[Updated 9:47pm]

Think Progress » More GOP Lawmakers Hop On Bandwagon To Smear $20 Billion Escrow Fund As ‘Chicago Style Shakedown’ 

Last night, the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the largest caucus of Republican House members, fired off a statement declaring that the $20 billion dollar negotiated by BP and the Obama administration for victims of the oil catastrophe in the gulf is a “Chicago-Style Political Shakedown.” Echoing this sentiment, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) told BP executives that he is “sorry” for Obama’s “shakedown” of their company.

Think Progress » More GOP Lawmakers Hop On Bandwagon To Smear $20 Billion Escrow Fund As ‘Chicago Style Shakedown’

Texas rep. Barton backs off defense of BP « New Mexico Independent 

After perhaps underestimating the amount of populist ire directed towards BP, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, has now apologized for apologizing to BP chairman Tony Hayward. Reports indicate that Barton was forced to apologize by GOP leaders or face losing his spot as ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Texas rep. Barton backs off defense of BP « New Mexico Independent