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GOP "Scamdal"-mongering Just Reminds People Why They Hate Republicans
GOP "Scamdal"-mongering Just Reminds People Why They Hate Republicans
by Troubadour
Every once in a while, Republicans forget the first rule of being a parasite: Hide. For a while, they prospered in the relative obscurity of doing nothing, contributing nothing, and obstructing all attempts by the Obama administration to do Something, at the behest of their ultra-wealthy masters who don't need and don't want American government to work (or even really exist). Like barnacles on the Ship of State, they were known in the general public largely by the constant drag on progress they exerted, which had the ironic - and for them, desirable - effect of being blamed on the guy at the wheel.
For most people, the Republican Party's brazen corruption, hypocrisy, and treasonous lust to punish the nation for voting against them was an unseen irritant that only served to increase their annoyance with the President for not acting as though the difference in visibility were a difference in power. And then Republicans went ahead and reminded everyone that, yes, they are The Problem, and have been The Problem all along. At a time of economic hardship created by them and exacerbated by their refusal to pass any form of economic stimulus in years, they've opened the taxpayer spigot to fish for scandals to benefit themselves, and are publicly making a spectacle of the fact that they consider the US government their private property. Thanks for the reality check, assholes.
It has been a damn long time since this country had any problems that weren't directly caused or deliberately worsened by GOP psychopaths - certainly longer than my lifetime. Let's take a little stroll down memory lane:
I'll skip all the treasonous fuckery they've engaged in since then, since it's basically been a monotonous shriek of psychotic criminal behavior, paranoid conspiracy theories, pathological compulsive lying, and doing everything humanly possible to destroy America short of hacking nuclear launch codes (and they don't do that probably just because they don't understand numbers). Suffice it to say that they adamantly refuse to allow their rich financiers to pay one single penny more of taxes to this country that has been so unbelievably good to them, and repeatedly threaten the violent overthrow of the United States of America and the murder of the President if somehow their obstruction is overcome and the taxes of their masters are raised from effectively zero to 3%. Meanwhile the whole nation suffers as a result.
And into this context - try to keep in mind all the shit that's gone before as I say this - they're launching a sweeping investigation into What Obama Knew and When He Knew It about the actions of an IRS official he fired instantly upon being informed of the guy's actions, for investigating the Tea Party (a hyperpartisan, for-profit astoturf / terrorist-affiliated organization) because it claims to be a tax-exempt, non-partisan, non-profit citizens group. So now the focus is ironically no longer the Obama administration, who had been in the spotlight for years, but rather on the GOP who has returned to Clinton era form by wasting everyone's time and money manufacturing "scamdals" while they laugh in contempt at the very idea that they would spend taxpayer money to benefit the nation rather than further obstruct, erode, and destroy it.
Let's put that in explicit perspective: The GOP is spending more time and money investigating the treatment of the Tea Party by the IRS than they spent investigating all eight years of ceaseless, brazen criminal activity, treason, and the deliberate destruction of the American economy by the Bush regime, combined. And yes, these people still call themselves Americans.
We remember who you are, you pack of thieving slimeballs. We remember what you've done. And we see what you're doing now.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/19/1210236/-GOP-Scamdal-mongering-Just-Reminds-People-Why-They-Hate-Republicans
by Troubadour
Every once in a while, Republicans forget the first rule of being a parasite: Hide. For a while, they prospered in the relative obscurity of doing nothing, contributing nothing, and obstructing all attempts by the Obama administration to do Something, at the behest of their ultra-wealthy masters who don't need and don't want American government to work (or even really exist). Like barnacles on the Ship of State, they were known in the general public largely by the constant drag on progress they exerted, which had the ironic - and for them, desirable - effect of being blamed on the guy at the wheel.
For most people, the Republican Party's brazen corruption, hypocrisy, and treasonous lust to punish the nation for voting against them was an unseen irritant that only served to increase their annoyance with the President for not acting as though the difference in visibility were a difference in power. And then Republicans went ahead and reminded everyone that, yes, they are The Problem, and have been The Problem all along. At a time of economic hardship created by them and exacerbated by their refusal to pass any form of economic stimulus in years, they've opened the taxpayer spigot to fish for scandals to benefit themselves, and are publicly making a spectacle of the fact that they consider the US government their private property. Thanks for the reality check, assholes.
It has been a damn long time since this country had any problems that weren't directly caused or deliberately worsened by GOP psychopaths - certainly longer than my lifetime. Let's take a little stroll down memory lane:
- Ronald Reagan sells missiles to Iran, an avowed enemy of the United States, in order to fund fascist terrorist insurgencies in Central America. The word for this is treason. GOP yawns. "What'r y'all gittin' worked up about? Stoopid libruls."
- Reagan deploys US Marines to Beirut for no apparent reason, with no apparent mission other than to "establish a presence" (the actual, official term used for it) and 241 of them are killed in a terrorist attack. GOP yawns. "So...is this going to raise my taxes? No? Thank God, for a moment I thought something bad had happened."
- Reagan finishes Presidency with an economy in ruins and the distinction of having the most appointees convicted of felonies in all of American history. GOP response: "BEST...PREZDINT...EVUH!!1!"
<...>
I'll skip all the treasonous fuckery they've engaged in since then, since it's basically been a monotonous shriek of psychotic criminal behavior, paranoid conspiracy theories, pathological compulsive lying, and doing everything humanly possible to destroy America short of hacking nuclear launch codes (and they don't do that probably just because they don't understand numbers). Suffice it to say that they adamantly refuse to allow their rich financiers to pay one single penny more of taxes to this country that has been so unbelievably good to them, and repeatedly threaten the violent overthrow of the United States of America and the murder of the President if somehow their obstruction is overcome and the taxes of their masters are raised from effectively zero to 3%. Meanwhile the whole nation suffers as a result.
And into this context - try to keep in mind all the shit that's gone before as I say this - they're launching a sweeping investigation into What Obama Knew and When He Knew It about the actions of an IRS official he fired instantly upon being informed of the guy's actions, for investigating the Tea Party (a hyperpartisan, for-profit astoturf / terrorist-affiliated organization) because it claims to be a tax-exempt, non-partisan, non-profit citizens group. So now the focus is ironically no longer the Obama administration, who had been in the spotlight for years, but rather on the GOP who has returned to Clinton era form by wasting everyone's time and money manufacturing "scamdals" while they laugh in contempt at the very idea that they would spend taxpayer money to benefit the nation rather than further obstruct, erode, and destroy it.
Let's put that in explicit perspective: The GOP is spending more time and money investigating the treatment of the Tea Party by the IRS than they spent investigating all eight years of ceaseless, brazen criminal activity, treason, and the deliberate destruction of the American economy by the Bush regime, combined. And yes, these people still call themselves Americans.
We remember who you are, you pack of thieving slimeballs. We remember what you've done. And we see what you're doing now.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/19/1210236/-GOP-Scamdal-mongering-Just-Reminds-People-Why-They-Hate-Republicans
Fantastic indictment of the depraved Republican Party. They should be charged with sedition for a number of reasons (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022863698 http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022855750)
Howard Dean agrees with the "parasite rule": when you suck, hide (keep a low profile).
(Dean) you know, it's very interesting. these guys are probably around 23% in the polls. i am shocked that the vaunted republican party message machine is as incompetent as this. if you're 23% of the polls, you do not get advanced by running negative ads about someone else. basic politics. all they're doing is driving their own negatives down, no credibility. clobbered in the last election. i think they're doing everything they can to make sure congress goes democratic in 2014. it's great.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022790812
Please kick and recommend this important thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022857091
The Only Scandal Regarding the IRS is How EVERY Tea Party Group Obtained 501(C)(4) Status
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022867025
‘Doctored’ Benghazi e-mails rankle Dem lawmaker
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022864633
where the f*ck is the media on this one?????
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022866146
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