Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

• Adam Fogle: time to stand up for really, really white people

  
  Tell it to a warrior.
  
  Boy Fogle has a paroxysm of (fake) liberal thinking:
  
  SC POLITICO RESPONDS TO ATTACKS ON REDHEADS
  A recent wave of anti-Ginger persecution has reached a new low after a 12-year-old California boy was reportedly [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:09pm EST
  

• What gives? Beck & O'Reilly pass over the upstate for Charleston, and Mrs. Palin blows off the whole state

  State senator Kevin Bryant, apparently pursuing the view that the private sector knows better in all things, is devoting his legislative blog to a long, wet commercial for Fox News [Waldo's comments in bold]:
  
  
  Bold & Fresh Tour 2010 There’s no shortage of people talking about what’s going on in [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  

• The New White People's Manifesto, or Jim DeMint's 30 Senator Strategy Refined.

  RNC member James Bopp, who's busy litigating against marriage equality when not busy purifying the Republican Party, has a new draft catechism out:
  
  
  "THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the'" [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:43pm EST
  

• Note the sign overhead

  Andrew Sullivan:
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:37pm EST
  

• Twenty senators would be even purer. DeMint and Olympia Snowe would reach the magical 99 & 44/100%

  
  
  
  SC Senator Jim DeMint is muscling his way into a vacuum created by the National Republican Senate Committee's decision not to pick sides in GOP Senate primaries, Politico reports.
  
  DeMint's thirty senator GOP caucus strategy seems to be building steam under the aegis [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:24pm EST
  

• Surely, then, the Pastafarians should get all you can eat therapy at Olive Garden. The fettucine alfredo is only $11.50.

  
  Leaders of the Church of Christ, Scientist, are pushing a proposal that would help patients pay someone like Lewis for prayer by having insurers reimburse the $20 to $40 cost.The provision was stripped from the bill the House passed this month, and church leaders are trying to get [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:54pm EST
  

• Change and decay, change and decay...

  TPM: 
  
  
  
  
  Carl Kasell, host of NPR's Morning Edition, will leave the radio show after 30 years. He will stay on at NPR as official judge and scorekeeper of Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me.
  The 75-year old newscaster joined NPR part-time in 1975, and became host of Morning Edition when [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:44pm EST
  

• It must be something they talk about at National Associations of Attorneys General meetings

  New York politics begins to resemble South Carolina's:
  Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s campaign fund took tens of thousands of dollars from law firms representing clients his office investigated or accused of wrongdoing, state records show.Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, a New York law' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:39pm EST
  

• They're going to add "Hate is Love."

  The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
  
  
  
  RNC weighing new message strategy in 2010By Tony Romm - 11/23/09 11:27 AM ETRepublican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Monday hinted his party was assembling a set of guiding political principles in time for the 2010 election.
  
  Since 2001 the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

• The End Times are surely nigh.

  
  Which one's the 'mo?
  
  A gay Massachusetts state senator is the choice to run for lieutenant governor next year.
  
  On the Republican ticket:
  Tisei was first elected to the House at age 22 and moved to the Senate in 1991. His sexual [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:11pm EST
  

• Death of a President

  46 years ago yesterday I was in the second grade. A little after 2 p.m. I was in class, doing math problems. The intercom clicked and popped; we looked up. The principal came on and said that President Kennedy had been shot and killed and he was closing the school [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:55am EST
  

• Mrs. Palin returns to "the real America"

  Mrs. Palin has dropped into Asheville with a gaggle of relatives and a couple of her kids (do they ever go to school any more?) for dinner with Rev. Billy Graham. Here's a video of her arrival at the airport, to the acclaim of a gathering of middle aged white [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:26pm EST
  

• Somewhere, Chauncey Gardener is smiling

  Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi is fast becoming this century's H.L. Mencken, and it's about time somebody took up that fallen standard:
  
  Sarah Palin is on an endless crusade against assholes. It’s all she thinks about. She doesn’t really have any political ideas, in the classic sense of [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:48pm EST
  

• As the book buyer from Lansing said, she'll put the 'mos back in the closet

  Frank Rich sees the GOP resorting to its usual stance when times are tough: be smiley-face conservatives while assuring everyone in the base the hate's still in the right place:
  
  
  
  The discredited neocon hacks who have latched on to Palin as a potential ticket back into [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:31am EST
  

• Time to grow up

  They got the technology, they got the new ideas, and yet somehow McLovin' spent the day staring at a potted palm hoping to find a congressional district in it:
  
  
  
  Jamie Sanderson could have saved Pudge a lot of trouble if he but' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:43pm EST
  

• This week with Congressman Bob Inglis

  Tacking further right by the week, the 4th district's congressman says if the economy gets better the wetbacks will be back and we need to stop that right now. [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:21pm EST
  

• It's a lovely notion, and if we can find one, we'll send you a unicorn for your birthday.

  Michael Rentiers, a new blogger on the SC Right, has a thoughtful post up that deserves some parsing:
  
  
  Since I am still breathing, I might as well be hoping-right?
  It’s been a long, tough week on the road.  One of those weeks with multiple pressure points and [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:13pm EST
  

• Price and Principles

  LA Senator Mary Landrieu sold her vote on bringing health care reform to the Senate floor for a $100m appropriation. Senator Ben Nelson, the former Nebraska state insurance regulator, sold his vote for a removal of the provision repealing the insurance industry's antitrust exemption. The ticket for getting a yes [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  

• Will they make it back?

  
  
  Senators Mark Udall and John McCain (shown here with Canadian defence minister Peter McKay) and Senator Jeanne Shaheen are at conference in Nova Scotia today. The vote on bring a health care bill to the Senate floor is set for 8 pm tonight.[...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:56pm EST
  

• Onward, Christian soldiers

  
  
  h/t Pam's House Blend. For a certain class of conservative, "raghead" seems to sub in just fine for the N word.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:03pm EST
  

• Like George Wallace, she aims to save us from pointy-headed intellectuals.

  Andrew Sullivan:
  
  
  As told to Bill O'Reilly, whose interview was a class above anyone else on Fox:
  I believe that I am [qualified to be president] because I have common sense, and I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many other American values.' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:27pm EST
  

• Costs of running two wars at once? Priceless.

  SC GOP's latest brainwave:
  
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:40am EST
  

• Tim Scott- freshman standout on the SC GOP's jv team

  Kudos to Jamie Sanderson for spotting this prefiled bill by Rep. Tim Scott opting out of health care reform before it's even passed:
  
  
  
  H. 4171
  A BILLTO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 38-71-15 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT IF [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:00am EST
  

• Graham and DeMint: scared to debate health care reform on the merits

  This is the sort of stuff Senators Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham are so afraid of you finding out that they will vote later today to prevent even debating health care reform (h/t Micah Snead):
  
  
  
  Speaking of Page Numbers...Posted by Dan Pfeiffer on November 20, 2009 at 11:30 [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:23am EST
  

• Knowledge workers tend not to do unions, Senator.

  More insights into South Carolina's 21st-century workforce:
  
  Thirty-six people have been charged for their involvement in cockfighting operations in Lexington and Williamsburg counties, S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster said Friday morning.The arrests are part of a 13 month undercover investigation. Officers from the S.C. Department of Natural Resources [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:57pm EST
  

• Jim DeMint's welcome to Boeing: I want to bug your cockpits.

  Wall Street Journal:
  
  
  Sen. Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, plans to introduce a bill that would break a taboo in the airline industry: allowing airlines to use information from cockpit voice recorders in cases against pilots they want to discipline or fire.Current labor contracts effectively [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:37pm EST
  

• This week with Congressman J. Gresham Barrett.

  Third District Congressman J. Gresham Barrett (R-Running for Governor) voted in favor of cutting doctors' Medicare reimbursements 21% because it will burden future taxpayers in some way his support of two open-ended wars will not.
  
  He also palavered about a bill to keep terrorists out of America.' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:32pm EST
  

• C'mon, Christians got no natural rhythm

  Rev. Ken Hutcherson, who spends way too much time obsessing about 'mos, lays the groundwork for Christianists seeking "special rights legislation" like Negroes did in the 1960s:
  
  It has been said loudly and proudly that gay marriage is a civil-rights issue. If that's the case, then gays would be' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:16pm EST
  

• Pushing the Haters back, one step at a time.

  Fair play to Cafe Press, which announced it is taking down all the Christianist Psalm 109:8 merchandise it was offering.
  
  So far the tally among SC conservative/Christianist bloggers taking a stand against wishing death the the President is: 1. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:10pm EST
  

• DeMint: term limits for thee, but not for me till way later

  Senator Jim DeMint has a Facebook page for his term limits brainwave, which wouldn't apply to him for at least seven more years. The photo of the Capitol features the House side (subliminal message: "Pelosi, liberal, San Francisco, gays, taxes...").
  
  Senator DeMint already has term limits available:
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:01pm EST
  

• Next up to walk the plank-

  Andrew Sullivan:
  
  
  A new poll shows a 43 percent swing against him in ten months. Why? Among other things, he believes Obama is a legitimate president. Moulitsas suggests:
  If I'm Charlie Crist, I realize that I'm toast in the Republican primary. I note that a three-way race [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:49pm EST
  

• She had to quit signing mid-line to press ahead with the great book signing problems of cities ahead on the tour

  In Noblesville, Indiana Mrs. Palin gave her fans a taste of her governing style: she left with several hundred teabaggers holding unsigned books. Video and disgruntled fan comments here. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:43pm EST
  

• Another Christianist fatwa

  Another A-list group of Haters has banded together to announce that the three great issues of Christianism- and, by extension, the Republican Party- are abortion, same-sex marriage, and religious liberty (i.e. same-sex marriage again).
  
  
  The Manhattan Declaration, NYT religion editor Laurie Goodstein writes, is an [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:14pm EST
  

• Equality = mendacious :: equality = lying, untruthful

  Anaconda's spewing b.s. again:
  
  
  To us, “equality” means exactly what its definition implies – a level playing field for all that doesn’t discriminate based on race, gender or sexual orientation.  Is such a position considered “progressive” for a state like South Carolina?  Who knows.  We honestly don’t [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:43pm EST
  

• "Paging Doctor Freud...paging Doctor Freud..."

  "I meet with the gays here and there. They were in my house two weeks ago. I don’t mind gays. But I don’t want ‘em stuffing it down my throat all the time," - Utah Senator Chris Buttars, explaining his opposition to allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.h/t Andrew [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:28pm EST
  

• Governor Sanford's policy Tourette's syndrome

  In time for the Boeing plant groundbreaking, Governor Mark Sanford has an op-ed in The Post & Courier arguing the Boeing success means SC should not rest on its laurels.
  
  Fair enough. What's his solution? Barking the same old same old: Tort reform, so that SC workers can't' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:10am EST
  

• Teabaggers start their own RINO hunts

  Long, excellent article excerpt:
  
  
  After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become so rife with internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money that some supporters fear it will disintegrate before realizing its full [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:53am EST
  

• A new final solution, but really bad for business.

  In a shrewd move to preserve market share, the ex-gay organization Exodus is opposed to the Ugandan legislation to make being gay a death penalty crime. Their reasoning is that if all the gays are killed, there'll be nobody to convert.' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:33am EST
  

• Being gay is like being a smoker: you can quit any time, and over and over and over

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cross posted at Truth Wins Out
  
  
  
  Here we go again.
  
  My roommate's brother tipped me off to an "ex-gay" situation happening here in my backyard in Augusta, Georgia.  Apparently this morning, the local NBC affiliate aired [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:59am EST
  

• Somewhere, Jesse Helms has just done a spit-take

  Pam's House Blend has a whopper:
  
  
  NC: Rep. Virginia Foxx claims GOP led on civil rights in the 60sby: Pam SpauldingThu Nov 19, 2009 at 21:55:52 PM EST
  Ah, it's pathetically ignorant, perpetually re-elected NC U.S. Congresscritter Virginia Foxx opening her trap again to contribute batsh*ttery to the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:39am EST
  

• SC GOP faces the 21st century, and turns its back

  One of the more interesting features of South Carolina's political culture is the debate within the state legislature over what to do about Governor Mark Sanford.
  
  The Christianist hothead Greg Delleney wants to impeach him, and the sooner the better.
  
  The charge will be something along the lines [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:28am EST
  

• Here's one of those better ideas they say they have. Let's get it on Twitter and shoot it out to the kids!

  E.J. Dionne says the Republican strategy in Congress is simple: draw their paychecks and vote no against everything. Create a traffic jam and a sort of legislative road rage. An example (emphasis added):
  
  
  Republicans are using the filibuster to stall action even on bills that most of [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:46pm EST
  

• Thanks, VUI

  Fair play to blogger Voting Under the Influence, who took up Waldo's challenge and called out the Christianists peddling gear calling for an early death of President Obama by citing Psalm 109: 8. 
  
  Waldo asked if this sort of thing disturbed any of the bog swinging bloggers [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:26pm EST
  

• "Say it ain't so, Joe!"

  Look for a slow Tweet week for Congressman Joe Wilson: his Twitter advisor, David All, is at a blogging conference in France also frequented by homosexualists. American ones. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:21pm EST
  

• Jesus wants you to give generously this Christmas- to WalMart

  h/t Snead 303 for showing how Mrs. Palin is unleashing the animal spirits of her party:
  
  
  'Limited Government,' 'Traditional Values' and 'Putting Homos Back in the Closet'As Palin Week rolls on, I can't imagine anything more revealing about her base supporters than this blurb from Ben Smith's [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:10pm EST
  

• Whoopsie...caught again

  According to Fox News, here's the crowd at Sarah Palin's first book signing event:
  
  
  
  "No, wait....it's a production error! THIS is the real shot:
  
  " [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:03pm EST
  

• SC health care: prayer and a Barcalounger

  An  800-pound Greenwood County man has died after spending eight months in his recliner.
  
  The former preacher's widow says he didn't want help because he was ready to see Jesus, and adds that he didn't weigh more than 500 pounds. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:53pm EST
  

• "O, God, guide and strengthen your servant Jim as he leads his party to such a level of purity and density that they become as a black hole in deepest space. Amen"

  Palmetto Morning:
  
  CUTTING OFF THE NOSE — “GOP voters are more likely to agree with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) than with those who say they want to broaden the party, according to a new poll.  The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey shows 51% of GOP voters would prefer a candidate [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:20pm EST
  

• This week with Congressman Joe Wilson.

  
  
  Today a study says South Carolina ranks among the bottom five states in health of its residents. In fact, after six years of steady improvement, the state's ranking has dropped for the second year in a row:
  
  South Carolina (2009)
  America’s Health Rankings™
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:10pm EST
  

• Start hoarding gold

  SC Senator Jim DeMint has linked up with Congressman Ron Paul to go on about Paul's Federal Reserve fantasies. Of course, when you sign on with Paul you also get his more subterranean racist and homophobic urges as well, and all the racists and Birchers who trail in his [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:19am EST
  

• DeMint's little elves tell a broader story about what his pink slips mean

  SC Senator Jim DeMint's been on Fox News explaining the "pink slip" campaign he's managed to catch up to and claim to head:
  
  
  
  VAN SUSTEREN: Senator, nice to see you, sir.SEN. JIM DEMINT, R - S.C.: Greta, welcome to my place.VAN SUSTEREN: Indeed. I see you have some pink slips. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:14am EST
  

• We're old hands at waterboarding

  A new book on Theodore Roosevelt underscores something only mentioned in passing Edmund Morris' biography and mentioned in a New Yorker article last year:
  
  If racism is nothing new, Mr. Bradley’s readers may still be surprised at the xenophobic ugliness of the photos, letters, cartoons, lyrics and political' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:45am EST
  

• From the people who said the President's address to school kids was indoctrination

  Comment Central:
  
  
  November 18, 2009The weirdest children's book ever?It’s a close run thing, between Katharine DeBrecht’s first book – Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! – and her second: Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!
  I think, though, that the Radicals [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:34am EST
  

• West Virginia celebrates 56 years of giving Robert C. Byrd a job and getting precious little in return

  West Virginia's Strom Thurmond, Senator Robert C. Byrd, is now the longest-serving member of Congress in history with 56 years, 326 days under his belt. Counting his state legislative service, Byrd has been on the public payroll for 63 years.At almost 92 and regularly hospitalized this year, Byrd's pretty much [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:27am EST
  

• "We don' need no stinkin' Supreme Court!"

  TPM:
  
  
  A new study by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services adds some expert imprimatur to what many progressives have been saying all along: The Stupak amendment to the House health care bill--which will prevent millions of women from buying health insurance [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:10am EST
  

• Somewhere, Ronald Reagan is laughing, but can't remember why.. oh, yes... free cheese!

  A bit of "let them eat cake" over at The Secular Right:
  
  
  
  The Feds Feed the ChildrenThe Agriculture Secretary was promoting his department’s new hunger (or, in contemporary parlance: “food insecurity”) survey on CSPAN this morning, and promising to expand the federal government’s role in [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:50pm EST
  

• Switch parties and feel better, apparently. But if it was that simple, wouldn't the drug companies have scaled back their drug ads already?

  Natch, the Republicans are against mental health care coverage, too (this wingnut says it's a partisan issue):
  
  
  ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2009) — A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:33pm EST
  

• Beachfront GOPers think global warming's a fraud. Let's wait and see.

  The P & C:
  
  Sen. Lindsey Graham apparently dodged a pie in the face on Monday when Berkeley County Republicans declined, for now, to censure him for the sin of recurrent bipartisanship. The county party's executive committee has decided to wait until January, and the Dorchester GOP reportedly [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:26pm EST
  

• So the lack of women in the SC GOP elected ranks is coz they're not crazy enough?

  A Guardian piece underscores how women get ahead in the Republican Party: they act as point guards, staking out the loonier limits of base-pandering so the lumbering old white men can tiptoe in later, after cocktails at the country club:
  Bachmann later condemned those who had made [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:22pm EST
  

• Don't confuse us with the facts, Haters say

  Savonarola's channeling some of his wackadoodle pals over the marriage equality issue in DC, and for those who know the District's constitutional status- or just common logic- it ain't pretty (clue: it's the right-wingers who've been opposing statehood for decades coz they know it's a solid Democratic vote pretty [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:10pm EST
  

• This week with Congressman Henry Brown

  It's been a slow week for the First District's Congressman Brown. He did manage a statement about Veterans' Day, though:
  
  
  
  Just this Saturday, I had the honor to meet with World War II Veterans from South Carolina’s First District who participated in the Lowcountry Honor Flight' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:41pm EST
  

• More Hate Party antics

  Let's see if anyone in the SC conservative blogdom will call this out as wrong:
  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
  [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:18pm EST
  

• Coming: Revenge of the Republican Righters

  For when you finish Going Rogue: Simon & Schuster imprint Threshold Editions has announced that former White House aide Karl Rove's new memoir will be entitled Courage and Consequence and will be released March 9, 2010. Threshold, known for its lineup of conservative political authors including Glenn Beck, Mark [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:05pm EST
  

• The Pope is peeved, too

  Bad news for Savonarola:
  
  BALTIMORE — A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to investigate the clergy sex abuse scandal has found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday.[...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:50pm EST
  

• Mrs. Palin's teeming intellectual life

  Slate has come up with an index to Mrs. Palin's indexless book, including what she could have told Katie Couric:
  
  books and magazines, references to
  ________A Conflict of Vision, 385
  ________Animal Farm, 27
  ________Buck, Pearl S., 180
  ________Bible, the, 15
  ________cookbooks, 15
  ________Lewis, C.S., 27
  ________Nash, Ogden, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:40pm EST
  

• W's heir: the post-fact candidate

  
  Important as it was, the campaign of Barack Obama was not the only history-making element of the 2008 presidential election. With Sarah Palin, we crossed another epochal divide. The boundary between reality television and American politics (already somewhat weakened by the continuous "American Idol" plebiscite) finally collapsed.
  Her campaign's basic [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:19pm EST
  

• "Ah say, ah say, that was a joke, son-"

  Voting Under the Influence is shocked- shocked- that you get good ol' boy politics in departments run by people  with monikers like this:
  Governor Mark Sanford made much ado about the how the previous DOT head was a “good ole gal” and that “good ole boy” favors were being' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:37am EST
  

• Mrs. Palin's odd child-bearing practices (including giving speeches)

  Maureen Dowd:
  
  
  Of course, the subtitle of Sarah Palin’s book is “An American Life.”Because she is the lovely avatar of real Americans — ordinary, hard-working, God-fearing, common-sense, good, ordinary, real Americans.If you are not living an American life, you are, to use a Palin coinage, living “bass-ackwards.”Palin [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:50am EST
  

• So far, two books. Maybe three if you count the one she didn't write.

  Mrs. Palin reveals her reading list to Red State:
  
  
  One of the criticisms leveled by the right when Palin was chosen as McCain’s nominee is that she had not shown she’d done the reading to lead, i.e. read the Hayek, Friedman, Goldwater, Bastiat, to form her thoughts. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:53am EST
  

• More on Jim DeMint's fellow haters

  The other day Waldo noted the massively crowd-unsupported hate rally in front of the Department of Justice by the leaders of many of the nation's leading gay-haters (no Daniel J. Cassidy; no Fred Phelps, though), and how many have ties to SC Senator Jim DeMint.
  
  Box Turtle [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:23am EST
  

• Life tenure: not just for federal judges

  Earl Capps finds a state legislator who's not on board with Jim DeMint's "stop me before I run again" pledge. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:38am EST
  

• -or does hate trump principle?

  Savonarola has another of his periodic posts up claiming the Obama administration is "illegitimate."
  But Daniel J. Cassidy continues to cling to his federal appointment as a member of the SC Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Which means he's serving the administration he argues is [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:27am EST
  

• No free market solution, apparently

  A nice irony at The Washington Times, the Christianists' pet news organ, after all these years railing against federal interventionism and liberalist laws:
  
  
  Miniter sues Washington Times over mass weddingsThis has to be the weirdest story of the day: A former Washington Times editorial-page editor will' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:55pm EST
  

• It's not self-abuse if you're a Republican

  The conservatives keep wrestling with how they can use organs to their advantage:
  
  Sarah Palin's media blitz has pushed her Facebook fan number over the million mark.The page is now, as Rich Lowry noted today, "a must-read organ of conservative opinion."A Utah congressman says Miss Prejean's organ works [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:51pm EST
  

• Just say no

  Both SC senators voted against breaking the filibuster against the nomination of David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:42pm EST
  

• The costs of war

   Based on numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the VA estimates that 18 veterans a day — or 6,500 a year — take their lives, but that number includes vets from all previous wars. [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:38pm EST
  

• The Hill:Could Illinois ...

  The Hill:
  
  
  Could Illinois Senate candidate Patrick Hughes be the next insurgent Republican candidate to get the backing of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)?
  Hughes is slated for his second meeting with DeMint on Thursday (the two also met in September), and DeMint’s Senate Conservative Fund website is [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:28pm EST
  

• "Just keep thinking, "no homo, no homo, no homo..."

  The conservatives are up in arms that the President bowed to the Emperor of Japan.
  
  Slate explains that bowing was a commonplace from before the founding until the 1920s in this country, which puts the lie to the screech that "in all our 233 years presidents don't bow"' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:02pm EST
  

• Somewhere, Senator Jim DeMint is smiling

  Next time you read another hysterical article by a conservative about how marriage equality will cause civilization to collapse overnight, consider this:
  
  For Gay Couples, ‘Traditional’ Divorce Isn’t Always an OptionBy TARA SIEGEL BERNARDIt’s divorce week here on the Bucks [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:13pm EST
  

• Death Comes As The End

  A respected chain of gay newspapers has shut down, victims of the financial crunch:
  
  
  
  Gay weekly Washington Blade closesStoried 40-year-old paper among sister publications abruptly shuttered
  By Paul SchwartzmanWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, November 17, 2009 
  
  The Washington Blade, the weekly newspaper that chronicled the coming-out [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:11am EST
  

• Of course it's not a hate crime

  A Georgia high school teacher has been charged with putting a hit on a student he thought was gay.
  
  
  Teacher Randolph Forde
  
  The teacher's lawyer says it was just a joke and the whole business has been overblown.
  
  Doubtless KKK cross burnings were [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:48am EST
  

• Just some youthful exuberance

  Of course it wasn't a hate crime:
  
  
  
  
  On November 14 the body of a gay 19 year old was found a few miles away from the town in which he was residing in called Caguas.  He was a very well known person' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:40am EST
  

• DeMint: by my fellow haters shall I be known

  
  
  So the nation's most enthusiast homo-jihadis got together yesterday for a press conference and rally. They're upset because the Department of Justice doesn't persecute gays enough. Here's a list of the crowded speakers' list:
  
  The official list of speakers and participating organizations now includes: Pierre Bynum' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:10am EST
  

• When the GOP can turn its back on an RN working two jobs serving people with insurance, who still can't get health insurance, then it really has become the Hate Party.

  Waldo rarely shed tears over the nightly news, but he did this evening watching this report on a free clinic held in New Orleans. It's one funded by viewers of Countdown with Keith Olbermann. They've donated $1.7 million so for a series of them in the capital cities of' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:50pm EST
  

• DeMint: federal court jurisdiction subject to case by case popular vote

  Jim DeMint, who's all over "defending the Constitution," apparently hasn't read the bits about the judiciary, and particularly congression legislation defining- as per the Constitution- jurisdiction:
  
  
  Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, said in an interview that New Yorkers are being forced by the Obama administration to' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:52pm EST
  

• DeMint: my litmus test for the GOP is...me!

  What a busy fellow Jim DeMint is: in addition to his taxpayer-funded website, and his campaign website, he also has the Senate Conservatives Fund website, for a PAC he founded last year. It was mentioned in a NYT story (posted below) about how DeMint wants to handpick senators from other [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:43am EST
  

• The purge rages on, always needing fresh meat to feed the rabble

  Now Jim DeMint's going after Florida governor Charlie Crist's Senate campaign:
  
  
  “Some of the Republicans who’ve been around a long time, they’re the big spenders, they’re the big government people,” said Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, who as chairman of [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:29am EST
  

• In Jim DeMint's GOP, apologies when necessary, but consequences? Never.

  So the chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party gave an interview to a radio host. The party chair is gay. Towleroad picks up the narrative:
  
  
  
  RADIO HOST TO GAY NH DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR RAY BUCKLEY: 'YEAH YOU FAGGOT. THAT'S RIGHT I SAID IT AND I [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:16am EST
  

• Git 'er done...

  A new poll says southern Republicans love Joe Wilson for baring his fat ass in a joint session of Congress. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:44pm EST
  

• "The Penguin for President? Holy Civil Liberties, Batman!"

  Dick Cheney's got his daughter out on the corner again:
  
  
  2012Dick Cheney In 2012? Daughter Liz Floats Idea
  
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:29pm EST
  

• There's still the long skirts of the Catholic Church

  Box Turtle Bulletin finds evidence of a split in the No 'Mo Ranks now that the LDS Church has come out for a form of gay rights legislation: the Haters may start to be seen as what they are:
  
  
  Another Reason To RejoiceJim BurrowayNovember 14th, 2009There’s another' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:23pm EST
  

• The Sunday Palin Alert

  
  
  
  So the movie 2012 is out. It's based on the idea that some Mayan calendar predicts the world will end December 21, 2012.
  
  If true, it will, if nothing else mean that the most Sarah Palin will ever be is President-elect.
  
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:19pm EST
  

• The nocturnal sex habits of liberals revealed.

  Out on Planet Gay Patriot, where being a good conservative trumps having a functioning brain stem, and where everybody but they are unpatriotic (well, except the right wing of the GOP, which steadfastly refuses to admit them despite their right-wingery), they are saying the United States federal courts cannot [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:02pm EST
  

• On another off streak, Savonarola picks up his widget and goes home.

  Waldo's noticed an interesting thing over at The Sunlit Uplands, which Waldo reads, you could say, "religiously."
  
  Savonarola had a long run as SC's most influential blog according to Blognetnews.com. He had their "#1" widget up there at the top right side of the page.
  
  While [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:48pm EST
  

• This week with Congressman Bob Inglis

  In our weekly tour of SC congressional websites, 4th district representative Bob Inglis has video up of himself toeing the party line on health care reform, and a press release calling for the unspent TARP funds to be used to reduce the deficit. It's a nice pivot, sounding conservative' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:51pm EST
  

• -thus the gigantic South Carolina biotech sector.

  NYT: SC's "Fightin' Joe" Wilson reads speeches written for him by lobbyists for the biotech giant Genentech:
  In separate statements using language suggested by the lobbyists, Representatives Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri and Joe Wilson of South Carolina, both Republicans, said: “One of the reasons I [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:35pm EST
  

• No need for death panels, then-

  Prediction by a UVa political science maven:
  
  
  LarrySabatoIf Sarah Palin is the 2012 GOP nominee for President, the Republican party platform will be the longest suicide note ever written. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:25am EST
  

• DeMint: government can't redefine marriage so government must define marriage.

  Senator Jim DeMint has been raving- unfiltered by his media handlers- on the Faith 2 Action radio show hosted by Christianist Janet Porter. For an illuminating glimpse into what DeMint's really doing on the public dime every day, click here and then click the "Most Recent Program" tab.
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

• Somewhere, Anita Bryant is offended.

  An article in The Times of London begs a question: with some many accomplished, highly credentialed present and former  pageant winners in the country, why do Republicans always lionize the stupid ones?
  
  
  
  Her name is Carrie Prejean, she is 22, until recently she held the title [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:30am EST
  

• Your Saturday assault on civilization.

  NYT has a story about a concert pianist who, with a packed schedule and glowing reviews, came out as a transgender woman a decade ago. Same skills before and after, but the bookings went away and the teaching posts vanished.
  
  A Canadian university ranked her first of 103 [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:14am EST