Elijah Sets Michele Bachmann Straight

What an awesome kid.  In case you couldn't hear him, he said, "My mommy's gay, but she doesn't need fixing."

He's eight years old.

Right on, Elijah.

Protest Sign Of The Day - Republicans Want To Create Jobs (For Your Fetuses)

This sign is from a Walk For Choice protest held in Gainesville, Florida, back in February.  Though it's eight months old, I thought it's message was especially poignant.

Last month, President Obama released The American Jobs Act, a bill that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor publicly called "dead" before it even reached Congress.  Last Thursday, the political party that has been shouting from the rooftops that job creation is their number one priority, spent the entire day debating a new bill.  Was it an alternative to President Obama's job's bill?  Was it an economic stimulus plan?

No.  It was an abortion bill.

The House of Representatives debated and passed the Protect Life Act.  Many critics call it the "Let Women Die Act".  The act essentially does two things.

One, it mandates that no tax payer funds go to fund abortions.  Essentially, they're making a law to back up an existing law.  It would be like Congress holding a special session to write up legislation making murder illegal.  It's already illegal.  Taxpayer money hasn't funded abortions since the early nineties.  They may as well have called this portion of the bill the "Act of Redundancy Act".

The bill also makes it illegal for women to buy health insurance plans for themselves that cover abortions under the Affordable Care Act, also known as the Obama Administration's Health Care Reform Act.

The most controversial and disturbing part of the legislation is in the freedoms it grants to health care providers.  Current law requires hospitals give patients in life threatening situations the care they need, regardless of financial situation or their moral stance.  The Protect Life Act would give an emergency room in, say a Catholic hospital, the right to refuse to perform an abortion on a patient, even if it meant that she would die as a result.

It's likely that the bill will not make it through the Democratic controlled Senate.  If, somehow it does, there is a strong chance that President Obama will veto this monstrosity if it ever reaches his desk.

As I was writing this article, something hit me.  Every single Republican presidential candidate says that their priority is "job creation".  In fact, there was a period of about three months where, regardless of what question you asked Michele Bachmann, she refused to answer it.  During every interview she said that 1.) She was running for the presidency of the United States, and 2.) she was "there to talk about job creation".  It was as if she was a prisoner of war, and she was giving her name, rank and serial number.



Interesting fact: Since announcing her run for the White House, Bachmann has missed 46% of the votes in Congress.  She hasn't cast a single vote, in fact, since the first of August.  Yet, on October 6th, she introduced a piece of legislation called The Heartbeat Informed Consent Act.  It requires abortion providers to show the fetus on an ultrasound to the mother, and play it's heartbeat before the abortion is performed.  Under the law, if the health care provider refuses to show the images or play the audio, they would be subject to a $100,000 fine.

According to Republicans, this is "job creation", folks.  And you wonder why there are thousands of people camped out in New York City.  What bullshit.

Photo: The Spirit Of Waterloo

From The Art of Bachmann:

Waterloo, Iowa, is the hometown of both Michele Bachmann and serial killer John Wayne Gacy.  Artist Dan Lacey has the above prints available on his Ebay page for $20.00 each.  While it's the scariest damn thing I've seen all day, artistically, it's quite good.

Christine O'Donnell Walks Out Of CNN Interview

Earlier this evening, former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell walked out of an interview on CNN with Piers Morgan.  Morgan was asking her what her stance was on gay marriage and Don't Ask Don't Tell;  two topics that are covered in her new book, 'Troublemaker'.  She refused to answer the question.



Since she's not running for office, I guess she doesn't have "I am running for President of the United States" as an answer, like Bachmann.

The Ignorance Of Michele Bachmann

In reference to George W. Bush, I used to hear people say, "It's sad when an African-American student with straight A's can't get a job at McDonald's, but a white student can become president with a C average".  The presidential candidates out of the Republican party just seem to get more and more embarrassing.



It looks like someone was home schooled.

Political Cartoon Of The Day

Via Jeff Danziger:

Seriously, though.  Have you seen the guy?

Michele Bachmann Has A Bondage Fetish

A number of bloggers have noticed a trend with Michele Bachmann.  She likes to talk about slavery...a lot.  In fact, she has likened practically everything in the news to either slavery or bondage.  Take a look...

Links courtesy of I'm With Kanye:

A couple of weeks ago, Bachmann signed a pledge from The Family Leader.  It was a "Marriage Vow", that was against homosexuality, pornography, Sharia Law and even putting female soldiers into combat scenarios. The first paragraph of the vow said the following:

"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President."

Disgusting, right?  Well, when the media started ripping her apart for signing such a racist thing, Bachmann claimed that she didn't read that paragraph, depite the fact that it was at the top of the first page and bullet pointed.  Her camp said,

"She signed the 'candidate vow.' In no uncertain terms, Congresswoman Bachmann believes that slavery was horrible and economic enslavement is also horrible."

Could she have just apologized?  Did she have to liken our current economic condition to our nation's unforgivable history of rape, torture and brutality?  Really?

But that's not all.  As I have reported earlier, at a conference in November of 2004, Michelle Bachmann said the following in regards to homosexuality:

"If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage.  It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.  And that's why this is so dangerous.  It's a very sad life.  It's part of Satan, I think, to say that it is gay.  It's anything but gay."

So, just to keep track, our economy and homosexuality are both slavery.  Let's not forget slavery slavery.  That's pretty bad, too.

When speaking to a crowd in Colorado in 2009, Bachmann said about the Health Care Reform bill:

"This is slavery…It’s nothing more than slavery.”

Again, with the slavery bit?  It didn't stop there.  In January of this year, in reference to the National Debt, she said:

“It is a slavery, it is a slavery that is a bondage to debt and a bondage to decline.”

 I'm starting to think that she has a bit of a bondage fetish.  Freudian slip, maybe?  Stephen Colbert provides some insight on the topic:

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Michele Bachmann Likes Celery?

'The Brody File', a talk show on the Christian Broadcasting Network, showed an interview with Michele Bachmann today, in which she professed her love for her favorite stalky green vegetable.  Sure.  With all of the bullshit that her and her husband appear to be involved in, why wouldn't America want to know what her favorite food is?  That's what you call "hitting the issues that matter most to the American voter" as far as CBN is concerned.  Here is verbatim what she said:

“I will tell you my favorite food of all time is celery. Honest to God my favorite food is celery. Straight up celery. I will personally consume the entire stalk of celery. At the Thanksgiving table I have the plate of celery in front of me. I know it’s strange. It’s my favorite food.”

Hey Bachmann.  You're not doing that well of a job trying to prove to the world that you're not batshit crazy.  Just sayin'. 

Quote Of The Day

 “My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief.”

- Michele Bachmann, in response to the latest revelations of her "incapacitating migraines".

Wait.  What?!  That sentence doesn't even make sense.  Well, if Dubya could serve as commander in chief for eight years and not function effectively even once, I guess it can be done.  

CNN Host Lays The Smackdown On Gay Conservative Group

Finally, some journalistic integrity coming from CNN!  Early this morning, Ali Velshi spoke with GOProud's Chris Barron on CNN's American Morning.  Things got a little testy.

In case you're not familiar with Barron or his organization, GOProud is a conservative gay group.  They believe that their fiscal values as Republicans outweigh any social issues that come to the forefront regarding the LGBT community.  As a group, they are vehemently opposed to the overturn of DOMA and the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.  Not because of what it stands for, but how they were reversed.  A repeal is a repeal, right?  Not to them.  Last year, the Keynote speaker at their convention was Ann Coulter.  She's the poster child for everything that's wrong with the Republican party.  Last month, when asked what she would do if her son came out as gay, she proudly said, "Obviously, I'd tell him he was adopted, and ask for help in redecorating the dining room".

Fast forward to today...



"When my partner and I talk about the issues that impact us, we're not talking about hate crimes.  We're talking about taxes."  If hate crimes aren't an issue that you and your partner discuss at the dinner table, let me fill you in on something......YOU'RE NOT FUCKING GAY!  If you are a gay man and are going to speak to Michele Bachmann, and the subject doesn't come up about her husband's "ex-gay reparative therapy" clinic, guess what?  YOU'RE NOT FUCKING GAY!

The fair tax?  Personal savings accounts?  When your priority is to protect your wallet before your civil liberties, then you may be a conservative, but you certainly aren't a part of the gay community.  "Gay conservative" is an oxymoron.  It doesn't exist.  The words aren't meant to go together.  It's much like "Amish IPhone app".  It doesn't make sense.

Quote Of The Day

 "If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage.  It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.  And that's why this is so dangerous.  It's a very sad life.  It's part of Satan, I think, to say that it is gay.  It's anything but gay."

- Fuckwit and Republican presidential candidate, Michele Bachmann, speaking at Edwatch National Education Conference, November 6, 2004.

Michele Bachmann's New Campaign Song

Brought to you by The Drive-By Christian Broadcasting Network School of Law for Fundamentalist Government Infiltration.  Hilarious.

Quote Of The Day

“New rule: Republicans have to stop thinking up intricate psychological explanations for why liberals don’t like Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann. Let me save you all some time — are you ready? — (it’s) because they’re crazy people. People who are not that bright and full of awful ideas — pretty much the same exact reasons we didn’t for George Bush and made jokes about him. So trust me: it’s not because they have breasts — it’s because they are boobs.”

- Bill Maher, on last night's 'Real Time' on HBO