Hillbilly Report: Mitch McConnell Wins Esteemed Insurance Puppet Award

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by: RDemocrat

Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 19:44:19 PM EST 

Mitch McConnell has had a long and distinguished career in the Senate watching out for the greediest and least patriotic among us. He has been a constant enemy to campaign finance reform and fair elections that would not allow Corporations to buy off politicians like, well Mitch McConnell.

Today, his hard work has been rewarded by an esteemed award. Mitch McConnell Wins Esteemed Award Public Campaign Action Fund, a campaign finance watchdog group has awarded Mitch McConnell as their first "Insurance Puppet": 

"Senator McConnell has taken $523,000 from health insurers, and given more than 50 floor speeches spouting their talking points," said David Donnelly, Public Campaign Action Fund's national campaigns director. "As the Senate begins its second day of debate on health care reform legislation, the insurance interests are getting their money's worth from their 'Insurance Puppet,' Mitch McConnell."

The debate over health care legislation has highlighted the problem of money in politics, and the need for comprehensive change in the way elections are financed," Donnelly added.

"It's time for Congress to pass the Fair Elections Now Act." Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced the Fair Elections Now Act in order to reduce the pressures of fundraising on federal candidates. It provides qualified candidates the option to run for office with a mixture of small donations and public funds.

Yes, this is something that Mitch McConnell can wear as a badge of honor because he is a puppet of anyone that will pay to steal wages, rights, and benefits from working Americans. It is no surprise he is the first "Insurance Puppet" touted by this group. Congrats Mitch!!: Photobucket You can now take your rightful place among the "Pork Kings of Kentucky."

source:  http://www.hillbillyreport.org/diary/938/mitch-mcconnell-wins-esteemed-award

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The Torturer: Finally a film for the right wing

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Home sales continue to increase in October by 3.7 per cent

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You might be a rightard if ...

you win the lottery and then complain about taxes on your hard earned money. 

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Little Green Footballs' conservative blogger breaks with The Right

The right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff.

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, a conservative-leaning political blog, officially announced his break with the right in a post on Monday evening. Johnson is co-founder of Pajamas Media, and Little Green Footballs has been named one of the top 100 most popular blogs.

Succinctly titled "Why I Parted Ways With The Right," Johnson's post argues against the fanaticism of politicians like Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Pat Buchanan as well as the conservative blogosphere ("Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies, into racism, hate speech, and bizarre conspiracy theories (see: witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source)").

He also cites the "anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for fascism, violence, and genocide." He concludes:

The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff.

I won't be going over the cliff with them.

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/01/little-green-footballs-ch_n_375357.html

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Athiest Life v. Religious Life video

This is an excellent video that explains the rationality and advantages of a secular life style sometimes referred to atheism or agnosticism.

Rightardia believes that secular humanism is a more rational approach to the world and that most religions are based on mysticism and irrationality. We prefer the term secular humanism because atheism has negative connotations.

Secular humanists like Richard Dawkins do not discount the existence of God. Dawkins simply requires proof!

Atheism is a double negative that religious people prefer to hang on 'non-believers' The non-belief in a non-entity is logical. The unproven belief in a supreme being is illogical.

Who is this supreme being? Who created the supreme being? Where does the supreme being live? Religion has no answers for any of these questions and prefers an a priori approach: that's just the way it is. You must have faith.

Secular humanism has a more positive outlook: show me or shut up! Prove it. This puts the onus onto the religious community to prove that God exists rather than the secular humanists, atheists, agnostics and other non-believers to prove otherwise.



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Billionaires for Wealthcare Pop Quiz: Test that Ivy League education

Posted on | November 30, 2009 

While we may be super-rich, our assets have been tied down with lobbyists these days, and so our friends at CREDO have jumped in to help the  Billionaires for Wealthcare out.

Their site OMGGOPWTF.com lets you quiz your friends on the GOP’s insanity, and help a good cause – in this case, us, the Billionaires! Every time you answer a question correctly, we get 10 cents. There are five questions, so that means that if we get 1000 people to take the quiz and you score okay… we get $500 dollars.

Just go to OMGGOPWTF.com, take the quiz, and CREDO will put $$$ in our Billionaire piggybank. It’s that easy!

Forward the Status Quo!

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The Gawker: GOP writes it's own attack ads

This is great partisan run down of the 2012 GOP presidential opposition.  The only persons that seem to be left standing are Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty. Evangelicals did not embrace Romney because he is a Mormon and Pawlenty lacks the charisma of Bible Spice. It doesn't look good for the GOP in 2012 at all.

Mike Huckabee's clemency towards a prisoner who went on to shoot four police officers has given his potential 2012 opponents a gift. But he's not the only GOP hopeful who's written his own attack ads. Most of the motley crew trying not to look like they're lining up a White House run in a couple of years have one or two clear, concise moments of idiocy that they will spend months dodging, obfuscating and fudging around:

Mitt Romney: once strapped his dog, an Irish Setter named Seamus, in a carrier, to his car's roof. The dog got so scared that it crapped all over the car. The reporter who broke the story, in this Boston Globe profile meant it as an anecdote that demonstrated Romney's crisis management — because he stopped and hosed the car down or something. In fact it added to the slightly cold, creepy atmosphere that surrounds Romney. Also, he refuses to deny he wears special Mormon underpants.

Newt Gingrich: was having an affair at the same time he led the pursuit of Bill Clinton for having an affair. This is apparently not hypocrisy because Clinton was impeached not for having the affair but for lying about it.

Rudy Giuliani: is probably going to stick with running for the Senate in New York. But in case he decides to step onto the more vicious national stage once more, it's worth remembering that he used public money to finance an affair, remains friends with corrupt former police chief Bernie Kerik, cross-dresses and runs a very shady business.
  
Ron Paul: is a racist. Or at least it seems that way if you read quotes from a political newsletter he put out in the 90s. Here are some extracts that would make delicious additions to campaign commercials in, well, anywhere black people live

Bobby Jindal: his appearance in this video is bad enough. He looks like some combination of Kenneth the Page and Pinocchio. But in it he claims to have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a New Orleans lawman during Hurricane Katrina to cut through red tape and rescue people. Except he didn't. He overheard a conversation after it all happened. 

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That leaves Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty — who is ironically seen as boring precisely because he is so scandal-averse.

We're choosing to ignore South Carolina Governor and hiking enthusiast Mark Sanford because it beggars belief that he would even consider running for President after running away to schtup an Argentinian lady and lying to everyone about it.

If you're wondering why Sarah Palin is not on this list — it's because she's bulletproof. She has been repeatedly caught lying, cheating and stealing. She's been repeatedly revealed as a moron in clever-person's glasses. Any other politician would have been sunk by any one of these scandals. But Sarah Barracuda has built a brand based on narcissistic ineptitude and a perpetual victim status. Perhaps the other candidates should try it.

source: http://gawker.com/5416003/the-gop+ers-who-have-written-their-own-attack-ads


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