It Only Makes Sense

This news today:

"Gohmert: Force Women to Give Birth to Fetuses With 'No Brain Activity' 

Where else do you think he's going to get people to vote for him?

Tea Party Watch

Hard at work again!  Some of you may know that Tuesday was supposed to be the day the Tea Party re-emerged as a mighty force* in electoral politics.  Here is a notice about the great day, from our old friend, Jim Hoft:**

I thought that it would be a good idea to check in on several of these events, to see how they did.  So, here are some pictures, from various cities. Now, I know that it is generally impossible to get all of the attendees at a demonstration in a picture at one time, but still, these were all taken by Tea Partiers themselves, and presumably offer a pretty good clue of how big these national demonstrations really were:

Well, Green Eagle (apparently having nothing constructive to do this week) took each of these photos and counted the visible people in them.  They're pretty low resolution, so I may be off by a little here, but where I couldn't tell whether something was a person, I gave the teabaggers the benefit of the doubt.  Here's the count, from the first picture to the last:  51, 11, 59, 30, 26.  That's an average of about 36 visible protesters per demonstration.  Again, in fairness, I remind you that there were undoubtedly people at all of these demonstrations that weren't in the pictures, but so what?  Suppose the average attendance was twice this (72) or three times (108)?  That would still represent a horrible, embarrassing, humiliating turnout for a massively funded national movement. 

Let me repeat something I realized when I first started going to these demonstrations and reporting on them, at the very beginning of the Tea Party movement:  there is no there there.  This is an entirely synthetic spectacle, in which people like the Koch brothers pay to turn out a minimal number of people- maybe a couple of buses full- and then count on the right wing noise machine to vastly overstate their attendance, and then berate the pathetic mainstream media, who apparently can't count up to 100 or so, into reporting that this miserable showing represents a real national movement.

The Tea Party does not exist, except as a figment in the very fevered imaginations of people who can look at pictures like this and think they represent any real American movement.  Once again, the press has been sold a charade.  But like the charade that claims global warming is a hoax, the charade that says the way to straighten out the economy is by making the poor pay when the rich gamble and lose, the charade that said that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States, the charade that government regulation is holding the economy back, instead of keeping it from disaster, the charade of the current Benghazi, IRS and AP pseudo-scandals, that's all the Republicans have.  Luckily for them, they have so many willing buyers in the national press, or the pack of them would have been driven out of the country long ago.


*Not that it ever was, as regular readers of Green Eagle will be aware.

**The Dumbest Man on the Internet, in case you have forgotten.  Although he has a lot of competition for that title.

Why the Scandal Outbreak?

A lot of people have been speculating about why the Republicans suddenly decided to ramp up their scream machine about three nonexistent scandals all at once.  I thought at first that this might represent the start of a massive campaign to tar all Democrats as evil, in the run up to the 2014 Congressional races. This may have been in their minds, but I think I now have a better answer.

An examination of Republican behavior the last couple of years tells me that the Republicans were planning to base their entire campaign on the budget deficit, simultaneously doing everything they could to prevent the economy from improving, and screeching continuously that the Democrats were to blame.  This position, of course, was not a serious one, but was intended solely to justify their attempts to force "austerity" on the country; this term actually meaning taking more and more from ordinary people and giving it to the real Republican base- the hyper-rich.

Unfortunately, their great crusade has been dealt two crushing blows lately.  First of all, the "research" on which the push for austerity was based has been shown to be shot full of holes, and particularly in the case of the seminal Reinhardt-Rogoff paper, to likely be just one more deliberate right wing misstatement of the facts.  And far more importantly, even the halting efforts of the Obama administration to deal with the budget deficit left to him by Bush have now succeeded in reducing the deficit by half, and bringing it into acceptable territory. Let's not give Obama too much credit for this- if he had supported Keynesian (translate: "true") economic policies in the manner advocated all along by Krugman, Brad DeLong and others, we would be in far better shape today.  But still, the budget deficit is not at this point a decisive issue to any rational person.

So, the Republicans need something else to stir the cauldrons of outrage.  The truth is that, in five years, they have found virtually nothing to really blame on Obama, so here come the phony scandals:  Benghazi- a meaningless tempest in a teapot based on Republican lies and forgeries; the IRS "scandal," nothing but an attempt to smear the IRS for doing what was its clear job: investigating the applications of political organizations which claimed, in acts of patent perjury, to not be engaging in politics; looking at phone records to discover a very serious leaker of classified information, in a totally legal manner.  Republicans once again count on the corporate press to take their side on all of these scandals, and here we go.  Revising public statements about Benghazi during a time of considerable confusion about what happened becomes a worse crime than Republicans starting a war of aggression and allowing the rich to destroy the economy, just as Clinton's blow job was.  And we are left where we started- frightened, vacillating Democrats, who seem to believe in nothing but staying in office, against feral Republican attack dogs.  And seeing as how the media are totally on the side of the dogs, it's no wonder that so many of our nation's easily soluble problems have become impenetrable morasses, and that meaningless phony scandals push real news out of view.

Laugh of the Day

From Daily Kos:  "It's pretty much official: Harry Reid will wait until July to have the big fight with Republicans over the filibuster."

Sure.  He'll wait until July.  He'll wait until Hell freezes over.  Who could believe for a second  that Harry Reid will ever summon up the courage, or the respect for democracy, to stand up to Republicans?  This guy is probably the worst majority leader in a century.  He's proven it again and again, and the likelihood that he is going to figure out what his job is in the next two months is approximately zero.

Wingnut Wrapup

It never stops.

Let's just start out today with this stirring declaration:

"An open letter to the Supreme Court of the United States of America
SUBMITTED BY A FRIEND OF RENEW AMERICA — We the People, by the authority vested in us by the Declaration of Independence and secured as unalienable rights by the laws of the U.S. Constitution, do hereby respectfully request the Supreme Court of the United States uphold and defend........."

Well, I guess that was enough of that, huh?  No sense making you lapse into a coma this early in my post.

Twitchy:  ‘They’re gonna look good next to us’: President Prop-aganda recruits Marines to hold umbrellas"



Yes, this is one of the current Conservative outrages- President Obama had a Marine hold an umbrella for him.  God, will the indignities never stop?

Town Hall:  "BREAKING: House votes to repeal Obamacare 229-195"

For the 37th time, with a collective cost estimated to be about $45 million.  Result: nothing.  Conservative government in action.

Town Hall:  "Definition of Insanity: Raising Tax Rates and Expecting a Higher Result"

Real definition of insanity:  Anything right wingers are for.  How could you ever think you'd get more money if you raised rates? 

Scott Carter, Town Hall:  "Is There Any Among You That Can Challenge the Claim That Gold Will Double Again"



Brad Jackson, Red State:  "Is the Deficit Really Shrinking?"

Of course not!  That would go against right wing talking points, so it must be false.

Bob Owens:  "I wanted to give everyone an update on Tripp, my daughter’s adorably dumb and incredibly sweet pit bull that had a quartet of seizures the other night and morning. Quite a few of you donated money to defray the costs his care and treatment, so you have a vested interest in his recovery.

We picked him up from the vet shortly before noon yesterday, and he was still very doped up from the loading doses of phenobarbital that the vet put into his system to control the seizures."

Pit bull, huh?  You gave your little daughter a pit bull.  Don't worry, Bob, the drugs will wear off in a couple of days, and Tripp can get back to planning when to eat your daughter's face off.  Listen, Bob, if you want to play macho games with a dog, how about risking yourself instead of your daughter?  Typical chickenhawk right winger- violence is fine as long it happens to someone else.

Bryan Preston, PJ Media:  "How Barack Obama’s ‘Tone’ Left Americans Defenseless and Abandoned in Benghazi"

Oh, now it's his "tone" that was responsible for Benghazi.  Eight months and millions of dollars spent trying to cook up a scandal here, and now you're claiming that it all happened because he isn't a foaming-at-the-mouth warmonger like John McCain.  We tried the warmongers under the last administration.  Not 4 Americans dead, 4600.  How did that work out for you?

Rick Moran, PJ Media:  "What Did the President Know About the IRS Scandal and When Did He Know It?"

See, if we just use the same words as they used for Nixon, that makes Obama just the same as Nixon.

And now, a perfect example of what right wingers have to complain about when they can't find a real Obama scandal in five years:

John Boot, PJ Media:  "Into Nonsense: 4 Ways The New Star Trek Shills for Surrender in the War on Terror...If J.J. Abrams and his screenwriters had their way Obama would not have even taken out Osama bin Laden..."

Star Trek Liberal appeasement.  No, I haven't seen the movie, but if you don't think this is one of the biggest loads of crap you've ever heard, you're brain dead.  I've worked on about fifty movies, and twenty or thirty TV shows, and I don't really remember ever sitting around talking about how to use our shows to "shill for surrender in the war on terror."  Just how stupid are these people, or how stupid do they think everyone else is?

Paula Boyard, PJ Media:  "Can the Left and Right Find Common Ground on Common Core and High-Stakes Testing?"

No.  Not as long as the right's only interest in education continues to be turning it over to for-profit companies.

Richard Fernandez, PJ Media:  "The most striking characteristic emerging from accounts of the IRS audits of the administration’s political enemies is the sheer, unbridled malevolence of them. It was, like a friend told me over dinner, as if we had suddenly awoken “in the middle of the third Obama term” to find everything that could never happen, all that was said to be impossible — indeed unthinkable — suddenly upon us."

Everything?  You mean Sharia law and Communist dictatorship and tens of millions of Christians murdered and concentration camps and all right wing media shut down and worldwide economic collapse and Al Qaida having seats in the cabinet and the military marching in the streets seizing everyone's guns and a foreign spy in the White House and the U.N. taking control of the country and all the other things like that which you have been predicting for five years now?  Boy, it must have happened since breakfast, because I hadn't heard about any of that.

Fred Hutchinson, Renew America:  "Cosmic evil and terrorism...The war by America, Britain, and Israel against Islamist terrorism is destined to be a long war in which all the depths of good and evil will be sounded. This essay concerns the question of whether or not Islamist terrorism is a "cosmic evil."  Today's Islamist terrorists are clearly evil – but are they a cosmic evil?"

Let me try to explain this to you, Fred.  Islamic terrorists:



Cosmic evil:

See?  Not the same thing at all.  Now, go back to your nap.

Michael Barone, Town Hall:  "IRS and AP Scandals Cast a Big Chill on Free Speech "

Yeah, they drove you right off the internet, right, Michael?

Worst Headline of the Day:

Shawn Mitchell, Town Hall:  "Listening to the Pimp with the Limp"

Huh?

Bryan Preston, PJ Media:  "Barack Obama’s ‘Tone’ Left Americans Defenseless and Abandoned in Benghazi"

Right.  It was Barack Obama's 'tone," not the $400 million that Republicans cut from the State Department's security budget.  So glad I understand it all now.

Noah Beck, Amereican Thinker:  "Obama-gate and World War III...Americans are the biggest losers from the slew of scandals now rocking the White House, but who are the biggest winners?  Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, and Russia."

Yes, three phony scandals ALL AT ONCE!!!! And they are going to start WORLD WAR III...Oh my God, oh my God, what are we ever going to do?!!?!?? 

Unfortunately, I have to agree with Noah here, on some level.  When one of our parties turns into a pack of subversive traitors determined to destroy our government's ability to function, who could benefit more than our enemies?  Good work there, Republicans.

And let's move on the the most laughable right wing nonsense of the decade:

William Sullivan, American Thinker:  "If Government Were a Business, Obama Would Already Be Fired...In the world of business, and in the real world outside government, leadership is invariably implicated in failure"

Oh right, William, just like all those bank CEOs and Wall Street guys who were fired for destroying the economy in 2008.  No, if we really ran the government like a business, every time Obama screwed up, we'd give him a ten million dollar bonus.

C. Edmund Wright, American Thinker:  "How to Bring the Right (Yes, All of Them) Together

Well, I can't say that I actually read much of Mr. Wright's article, but here's my suggestion of how to bring the right (yes, all of them) together:

It's worked before.

Guy Benson, Town Hall:  "Whoa: US Hasn't Detained Five Benghazi Terrorists Due to Trial-Related Evidentiary Concerns"

Of course that might be because the crime was committed in another country and it would take an act of aggression against them to capture the five guys.  But hey, We're America, Buddy.  We go where we want and do what we want! 

I wonder how people like Guy would take it if, say, the Iraqis came over here and seized Bush and Cheney for killing a few hundred thousand of their people.  But of course, that's different, right?

John Hayward, Human Events:  "Everyone at the White House knew about the IRS scandal, except the President"

Just think about the last administration, where everyone knew how to tie their own shoes except the President.

Roger Simon, PJ Media:  "PJM EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama...According to the diplomats, what these whistleblowers will say will be at least as explosive as what we have already learned about the scandal"

Which is to say, nothing.

And now a perfect example of why Conservatives are soulless monsters:

PJ Tatler:  "Allen West to Receive ‘Heroes of Conscience Award’"

Allen West was forced out of the military for toturing prisoners.  What a hero of conscience.


Late Correction:  I've now determined that the photo above that I identified as Islamic terrorists is actually a shot of people celebrating the opening of the first Jack in the Box in Teheran.  Their masks got a little crushed in shipping.

Not One Cent for Tribute

I've been watching the massive devastation of the tornadoes that struck Oklahoma yesterday and today.  Before we get around to sending them any money, I hope that people will keep in mind that both of their Senators and four of their six Representatives voted against the final Hurricane Sandy relief package.  And those two Senators, Inhofe and Coburn, are right at the front of the corrupt anti-global warming pack that is guaranteeing that things like this happen more and more as time goes on.

Call me insensitive, or any other name you want to use.  I'm tired of having them stab us in the back every time and then come around whining that we are horrible people if we don't give them whatever they want.  Let the folks from Oklahoma who keep electing these evil people fix their own God damned State.

An Iraq Story

Saddam Hussein- a terrible, blody dictator, yes.  But also a man who saw that a greater portion of his country's wealth went to useful causes than in any other Arab country.  He oversaw the building of the best infrastructure in the Arab world, the best educational system, the most universal health care.  Women and non-Muslims enjoyed greater opportunities and security than in any other Mideastern country (Israel excepted, of course.)

Saddam is gone now, and all of the above has vanished too.  Iraq seems about to descend into sectarian warfare which will crush the lives and hopes of a large part of its people, largely thanks to the American aggression that destroyed civil society in that country.  I think it is time to talk about how this mess of a country came to be in this state.   It is a story that few people in the U.S. have any knowledge of, but it is an interesting one.

The current country of Iraq is made up of three Vilayets, or provinces, of the now almost forgotten Ottoman Empire.

 Here you can see the Ottoman empire at the start of World War I.  As you can see, there is no entity called Iraq.  If you know where Iraq is on the map, you can clearly see the three Vilayets that made up the inhabited area that is now Iraq.  (Note some inland areas which were essentially uninhabited but are now part of Iraq are not shown as part of the Ottoman Empire- it basically ignored them because they had no political or economic value.)

By the twentieth century, the Ottoman empire had been rotting away for a hundred years.  Egyptians in the early 1800's led by Muhammad Ali (not the boxer, the guy he named himself after) had established a good deal of autonomy.  For decades the Ottomans' Balkan territories had been descending into nationalistic, sectarian warfare, which would eventually precipitate World War I, and sweep away this empire of a thousand years.

In the aftermath of World War I, the victorious allied countries abrogated to themselves the right to control the future of the Middle East.  Britain was given the "mandate" to run the area which is now Iraq, which in part required them to provide military security to that area. 

After the war, a Conservative politician who had disgraced himself by becoming the chief advocate of the disastrous Gallipoli invasion, and who was now trying to work himself back into a position of power in Britain, accepted the unenviable job of running the mandate.  You may have heard of him- his name was Winston Churchill.

Like Conservatives everywhere, Churchill's only real interest was in dealing with his responsibilities by doing as little as possible, and spending as little as possible.  He was faced with providing a stable environment for these three Vilayets, the one to the north primarily Kurdish, the center one primarily Sunni and the southern one primarily Shiite, which had never been united, except as the property of the Ottoman empire.  Here was his plan, which he induced the British to accept at the Cairo Conference of 1921:  The three provinces would be united into one country.  The British would accept no military responsibility other than providing an air force for the region.  The rest of its military responsibilities would be sloughed off on a new government that the British would create.  Churchill decided that he could give the government a veneer of legitimacy by picking one of the three sons of the Saudi King as its leader.  The eldest son was out of the running of course, because he was heir to the Saudi throne.  That left the other two, one of whom was an intelligent and decisive person, the other, Faisal I, a weak, easily influenced tool.

Attendees at the 1921 Cairo Conference, where the Conservative

British government decided that their budget deficit was 

more important than the welfare of the Iraqi People.  That's Winston at the bottom right.

I hardly need tell you who Churchill and the British chose to head the new country of Iraq.  The guy was "approved" by the Iraqi people in a meaningless, rigged election, but owed his position entirely to the British, and therefore accepted Churchill's scheme for security in the country, despite everyone knowing that his government was grossly short of the money and support necessary to  provide adequate military resources for the task.  Thus was created a country that was strategically untenable from the very beginning, entirely to satisfy Conservative demands for budget cuts in Britain.  And thus was begun Iraq's rapid descent from monarchy to dictatorship to chaos.

King Faisal the First of Iraq

Sad to say, the story does not end in Iraq.  What happened to the "good" son, who was passed over for the weak one?  Well, he was not one bit happy about the situation, and made very credible threats to the security of the new country, backed by many Arabs who saw him as by far the best choice for king.  So the British decided they had to buy him off.

Now, let's turn our attention to another British Mideast mandate- Palestine.  As you may know, by the end of World War I, the British, through the famous Balfour declaration, had determined to split their Palestinian mandate into two countries- East of the Jordan river, and including about two thirds of the mandate, a State governed by the resident Arabs, and West of the river, a State for Jews, who had been returning to their homeland in large numbers since the mid-19th century.  This arrangement, approved by the League of Nations, was never to be allowed to take effect.  Instead, Churchill bought off the other son by giving him the land East of the river as his own little kingdom, and leaving Jews and Palestinians to fight over the remainder, seemingly forever.

What the West has left behind.  Is it any wonder that they don't like us?

Thus, in one blow, Churchill, acting according to ageless Conservative cant designed to buy the goodwill of the voters by cutting government costs, managed to create the Iraq quagmire and the Israeli-Palestinian one too.  Once again, Conservative politics produced nothing but disaster, but on it goes, inflicting its disasters over and over again.  And as long as greed exists, and contempt for anyone of a different ethnic background,  it probably always will.

Why The United States Is About To Fall to Fascism

In one short lesson:

President of the United States (falsely) accused of altering Benghazi story for some sort of unexplainable political advantage:  Penalty, impeachment.

Republicans actually caught forging documents about Benghazi for the purpose of destroying the President:  Penalty, nothing.

Just More to Complain About

Miscellaneous nonsense from the last couple of days:

A. The Deficit

Now that the deficit is shrinking rapidly, what do you think will be the Republicans' response?
a.  Hey, we don't actually need to screw poor people and old people any more.
b. It's time for another tax cut for the rich!

Take a guess!  If you're wrong, you get a 6" railroad spike through your ear.  Not that it will make much difference- if you choose a, you obviously don't have a brain.


B. The Real IRS Scandal

The real IRS scandal is that all of the synthetic, funded-by-the-rich Teabagger groups, and Karl Rove's money factory, and all of the rest of the bogus organizations organized for the sole purpose of electing Republicans, were not immediately stripped of their tax exempt status, and the people who submitted the legal forms asking for that status imprisoned for perjury.  And this includes the Catholic Church and all of the many evangelical churches around the country that openly flout the law by using their positions to campaign for Republican candidates.

C.  Eric and Louie

So, it's big news that Eric Holder actually had the balls to talk back to Louie Gohmert.  See, Barack, it didn't hurt so much to tell the truth.  Why don't you try it some day?  You're great at making speeches, if not much else these days, so how about telling the American people that the Republican party has turned into a traitorous fifth column that is sabotaging the country as fast as it can?

D.  Barack's Base

And while we are on the subject of Obama, it's clear that he's decided that the people who elected him twice have nowhere else to turn, so he can afford to let them rot, in order to maintain faith with those who he really cares about- the Wall Street financiers and the bankers who put up the money for the quadrennial dumb shows to convince people that he is slightly less of a corporate tool that the Republicans.  Right now, Obama's behavior the only thing on earth that promise to resuscitate the Republican party from the land of the living dead.  Which is just a way stop, by the way, on the road to the land of the dead dead, where the Republican party belongs, and where it would have been if it hadn't been rescued by the feckless Obama.  What an opportunity he had to really make a difference, and what a pathetic result, thanks to his determination above all else to keep the money flowing, from the people who wrecked the economy into his campaign coffers.

E.  Give It Up Already, Bob

And how about that idiot Bob Woodward, comparing Benghazi to Watergate?  This guy is the Charles Lindbergh of reporting.  He does one attention getting thing in his whole life, and spends the capital pushing right wing ideas for the next forty years.  At least Adolf Hitler is dead, because otherwise, Woodward would be pushing him too, like Lindbergh did.


Sort of makes you wonder if Carl Bernstein wasn't responsible for the whole Watergate investigation, and Woodward just got to go along for the ride as the token goy.

Lies and the Lying Liars

This is absolutely astounding news.  As everyone who isn't hibernating in a cave must know, the Obama administration has been the victim of an endless series of Republican claims that it has lied about what happened in Benghazi, with many Republicans calling for Obama's impeachment for these alleged lies.  Now, we learn this, from CBS News:

"MAJOR GARRETT: Scott, Republicans have claimed that the State Department under Hillary Clinton was trying to protect itself from criticism. The White House released the real e-mails late yesterday and here’s what we found when we compared them to the quotes that had been provided by Republicans. One e-mail was written by Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes. On Friday, Republicans leaked what they said was a quote from Rhodes. “We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation.” But it turns out, in the actual e-mail Rhodes did not mention the State Department. It read “We need to resolve this in a way that respects all the relevant equities, particularly the investigation.” Republicans also provided what they said was a quote from an e-mail written by State Department Spokesman Victoria Nuland. The Republican version notes Nuland discussing: “The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda’s presence and activities of al-Qaeda.” The actual e-mail from Nuland says: the “…penultimate point could be abused by Members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings…” The C.I.A. agreed with the concerns raised by the State Department and revised the talking points to make them less specific than the C.I.A.’s original version, eliminating references to al-Qaeda and affiliates and earlier security warnings. There is no evidence, Scott, the White House orchestrated these changes."

The vicious, evil, unpatriotic subversives who have been doing everything they can to destroy the functioning of our government have now been demonstrated to be themselves the liars about the whole thing (as if this was not inevitable.)

After months of endless show trials and posturing on this issue, who will now investigate this?

Who will work for months to see how these lies were generated?  Who will see to it that those responsible for tearing down the fabric of our government will be dealt with?  Who in the press will find these clear lies half as important as the phony lies that Obama was alleged to have told?

Who?  No one.  Because that's not the way you treat Republicans.  Destroy Democrats because you can't stand it that they keep winning elections- do nothing to Republicans in the face of treason, corruption and war crimes.  That's the rule in this country.

Wingnut Wrapup

Yeah.  Again.

Katie Kieffer, Town Hall:  "Journalists Must Be Bulldogs...What happened to the bulldogs in the media? When it came to covering the Benghazi terrorist attack, the media sounded like a pack of Chihuahuas."

Katie, when a bulldog bites into something, it makes sure that the target has some meat on it.  Think about it.  Bulldogs don't waste their time chewing on nothing.

Town Hall:  "MSNBC: Yeah, Benghazi Could Lead to Impeachment for Obama"

The way Republicans behave, sneezing in front of a microphone could lead to impeachment for Obama.  Or shooting a jump shot.  Or...no, wait a minute- Green Eagle could get caught up in this and spend the whole day on it.

Daniel Horowitz, Red State:  "This is a Scandal We Must Not Let Slide"

Which one this time, Daniel?  On second thought, who cares?

Anita Crane, Renew America:  "Downfall coming through coalition of Islamists and Marxists?"

Don't forget the lizard people from outer space, Anita.  I'm sure they are in on it too.

Hugh Hewitt, Town Hall:  "The Internal IRS Whitewash of the Great Tea Party Purge: We Need A Special Prosecutor"

I think you mean a special persecutor.  Like maybe this guy:




And he's even cuter than Louie Gohmert.

Walter E. Williams, Town Hall:  "...if you want lessons on hating America, college attendance might be a good start."

Yeah, like Liberty University or Regent University, or Glenn Beck University, or any other Conservative education scam, where they teach you to hate everything this country is supposed to be about.  But they make good money doing it, so it's all right.

George Will, Town Hall:  "If IRS Under Bush Admin Targeted Progressives 'We Would Have All Hell Breaking Loose'"

No we wouldn't, you lying son of a bitch.  The Bush Administration IRS targeted liberals on multiple occasions, and you guys never gave a damn.  The incidents passed with hardly a second thought, probably because no one ever expected anything better from Bush and Cheney, for obvious reasons.

Bob Dane, Town Hall:  "American Workers Ask: “What’s in it for me?  Senate Bill 744 will grant legal work authorization to 57 million green card holders and non-immigrant guest workers over the next decade."

Funny that, when it's about immigration, it's perfectly fine for American workers to ask what's in it for them.  When it's about anything Democrats want, it just proves that they are a bunch of no good, lazy ass moochers.

Todd Starnes, Red State:  "IRS Targeted Well-Known Christian Ministries"

And it's about time too.  I'm sick of subsidizing their hatred.

John Hayward, Human Events:  "Left-wing groups sailed past the politicized IRS...Heightened scrutiny? Not if you had ties to Barack Obama.  Left-wing groups sailed past the politicized IRS"

Surprise, surprise, another lie!  In fact the only group actually stripped of its tax exempt status was a left wing group.  But what does the truth mean to Republicans and their press stooges?

Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit"  "Obama Administration Releases 100 Pages of Benghazi Emails …(But No Word on Why Barack Was AWOL)"

Oh I don't know, Jim, maybe that's because your claim that Barack was absent during the Benghazi crisis is ANOTHER LIE, just like everything else you guys have to say.

Stephen Stone, Renew America:  "Mormons morphing Boy Scouts into 'Girl Scouts'?"

Boy, that would be a trick.

Tim Dunkin, Renew America:  "Impeach, impeach, impeach!"

I'm afraid that is as far as I got into Tim's post.  Sorry.  I took a nap instead.

Eric Giunta, Renew America:  "Meet Florida conservatives targeted by Obama's IRS"

No thanks.  I'd rather be chewed on by alligators.

Cliff Kincaid, Renew America:  "Five months before Barack Obama was elected to his first term as president, Herbert Romerstein and I finished a Washington, D.C. briefing on "The Stealth Candidate" – Barack Obama – and his communist connections. I opened it up for questions. "I'm Dana Milbank from The Washington Post," said the questioner. "So what's the upshot? Do you think that Barack Obama is a communist?"  Not wanting to fall into an obvious trap, I replied, "We have no way to judge."

But Herb told Milbank: "No, let's answer that one a little differently. We're telling you that you're not doing your job. We didn't say Obama was a communist. We said that you have to do due diligence in tracking down what Obama really is because right now he's a stealth candidate. So, if you don't do your job, that's your problem."

Dana Milbank also didn't do his due diligence in tracking down whether or not Cliff Kincaid regularly has sex with farm animals.  After all, there's less evidence for Obama being a Communist than there is for that.

Michael Bresciani, Renew America:  "Where is America - as the clock approaches the midnight hour?"



There.  Wasn't that better than listening to a couple more minutes of right wing crap?

Dick Morris, Renew America:  "Using IRS against your enemies an 'impeachable offense'"

If you're a Democrat.  If getting a blow job is an impeachable offense, I guess anything is.  On the other hand, committing one of the worst war crimes since the Nazis is apparently not so serious, if you are a Republican.

Joseph Farah, World Net Daily:  "The Benghazi lies just keep coming"

They'd stop if you guys would just shut up, Joseph.  Think about it.

Breitbart.com:  "IRS leaked info on conservatives to media...The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending."

When you apply for tax exempt status, that information becomes public.  Don't like it?  Pay your taxes, asshole.

Racist Cheap Shot of the Day:

J. R. Dunn, American Thinker:  "If Obama had an Uncle...he'd look like Kermit Gosnell."

Because they all look alike, right?

Nick Chase, American Thinker:  "The Still-Forgotten Obama Lie"

Oy.  Another one.  And what is it this time?

"... we have a hot tip for you: there's one big Obama lie that's two years old that you completely missed.  In fact, you suppressed the truth.  And you don't have to dig very hard to find this lie; it can still be downloaded at any time from whitehouse.gov for your own inspection and analysis.  It's the Obama long-form "birth certificate" forgery."

God in heaven above.  What does the word 'lie' even mean to people who are still pushing this?

Astute Bloggers:  "THIS COULD BE EFFING HUGE: What did the national security briefings Romney received say about Benghazi?"

Yeh, it could be huge.  And it could also be absolutely nothing.  Guess which one Green Eagle is placing his money on?  The Astute Ones continue:

"If Romney got a national security briefing that was in effect EDITED by the Obama Administration, then Obama should JUST EFFING RESIGN.

REALLY.

If Romney received edited intel' ... well, that would be beyond dishonorable.

It would mean Obama was deliberately deceptive and destructive to our entire electoral process and our democracy."

Because it was Obama's responsibility to spill every piece of top secret intelligence he had to a sociopathic pathological liar who was willing to stoop to anything to destroy him.  Right.

Greg Gutfield, Breitbart:  "Here is a simple fact: a liberal president operating with a liberal media leads us to a really unpleasant place--populated with programs, policies, and principles that are woefully inept and corrupt."

On the other hand, a conservative president operating with a conservative press leads us to wars of aggression and depressions.  Oh, and did I mention that the "woefully inept and corrupt" thing is a lie?  Surprise, surprise.

Patrick Caddell, Breitbart:  "Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama"

Obamagate. So they have given up on anything specific, and are finally admitting that the real outrage is Obama being President at all.  And you know why, don't you.  Being Black- an impeachable offense.  Even being half black.  If he was all black they'd be out buying the rope for the lynching.  With tax exempt social welfare funds from Karl Rove.

Guy Benson, Town Hall:  "Benghazi: New Emails Confirm State Dep't Drove Political Edits to Talking Points"

Actually, they confirm the exact opposite, but so what?

Michael Reagan, Town Hall:  "Do you think the Benghazi, IRS and AP stories might have been covered any differently if the president's name didn't start with "O" and his party didn't start with "D"?"

Yeah, they would have been totally ignored, Michael,  just like practically all of the treasonous, corrupt conduct of your father when he was President.

Repair Man Jack, Red State:  "Restoring The Republic: Destroy The America Left...Do Everything In Your Power To Destroy The Modern Left."

Well, at least he's honest.  I read the same sort of thing not that long ago. Let's see, where was it now?  Oh yeah, in Mein Kampf.  Jack asks the following question:

"What does the average American Leftist really believe about Americans with whom they disagree?"

If they are people like you, Jack, we think that they are lying, traitorous, hate filled scum that will betray us to anyone for a few hundred dollars.  And by the way, we're right.  Deal with that, asshole.

Roger L. Simon, PJ Media:  "Back in the USSR: ‘Honey, Disconnect the Phone’  With the IRS evidently watching our every move and the AP and who knows who else under surveillance, I feel quite literally like I'm back in the USSR. And I haven't even left home."

Try holding off on your daily drinking until dinnertime, Roger.

E. Michael Maldoff, World Net Daily:  "Could THIS THREAT LEAVE HALF IN U.S. DEAD?  Threat surges as sun spots zero in on Earth"

And people at World Net Daily still wonder why no one takes them seriously as a news organization.  On the other hand, work this idea up.  You might be able to sell it to SciFi Channel.  At least you'd be doing honest work for a change.

Newsmax:  "Like a Rock: Study Shows Republican Men Are Stronger"

From the neck down.

And that's it.  I'm out of here.

Green Eagle Can't Resist a Cheap Shot

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars, here's a typical Conservative candidate, a guy who claims to be named Richard Sheridan, speaking to a reporter that dared to question his rabid gaybaiting:



But is this really a guy named Richard Sheridan, or is he not in fact this occasional visitor here at Green Eagle:




And bonus points for answering the following question:  Which did you find more interesting, the guy's rant or the turkeys in the background?  Inquiring minds want to know.