Day: November 3, 2009
Turn Off Your TV Now. Tea Baggers Coming to Capitol
Get ready. The mouth-foamers are preparing to take the tea party to the Capitol. When debate begins Thursday in Congress on the health care reform bill, Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) want their odious, easily duped, irrational and not so bright supporters there to disrupt the proceedings.
In case you missed it, Bachmann revealed late last week that the right — with the help of the anti-reform group Americans for Prosperity — is calling for a big rally in D.C. this coming Thursday to protest the reform proposals.
“This is it for freedom,” Bachmann said. “If you believe in liberty, and if you’re rejecting tyranny, this is it.”
What’s up with this “tyranny” crap anyway? Do they even know what the word means? American Heritage Dictionary:
1. A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power
2. The office, authority, or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler
3. Absolute power, especially when exercised unjustly or cruelly
4. a. Use of absolute power
4. b. A tyrannical act
5. Extreme harshness or severity
Collins English Dictionary:
1. a. Government by a tyrant or tyrants; despotism
1. b. Similarly oppressive and unjust government by more than one person
2. Arbitrary, unreasonable, or despotic behaviour or use of authority
3. Any harsh discipline or oppression
4. A political unit ruled by a tyrant
5. (Historical Terms) (esp in ancient Greece) Government by a usurper
6. A tyrannical act
These same ninnies were fine with George Bush knowing which library books you checked out, and secret searches of your house by Dick Cheney but they think that providing access to health care is…TYRANNY?
Expect the usual shouting, pushing, waving of misspelled signs, and reddened white faces we came to know this summer whenever anyone tried to get worthwhile input on the kind of health care reform we would all like to have.
Investigation: ‘Spanky’ Legislator Was Lying About Sex with Lobbyist
Now, however, the FBI has cleared the Sempra lobbyist, Heidi DeJong Barsuglia, of wrongdoing:
The female lobbyist who was the subject of sexual boasting by former Assemblyman Mike Duvall issued her first public statement Monday,describing his allegations as untrue and her experience as a “professional and personal nightmare.”
The statement from Sempra Energy lobbyist Heidi Barsuglia came in response to an announcement that the Justice Department would not file any charges over the conduct described in a legislative committee tape in which Duvall can be heard detailing sexual encounters with two lobbyists.
Sempra Energy also issued a statement saying its own investigation into the matter had concluded and that Barsuglia, who had denied any wrongdoing from the outset, would return to work.
“What is shocking to me and my family is that anyone would have taken seriously the statements of someone boasting about his alleged exploits or even believed for a moment that they were true,” said Barsuglia, who was identified in an ethics complaint as the former lawmaker’s mistress.
Next up: Duvall will probably be hearing from Barsuglia’s lawyers:
Barsuglia’s attorney said Duvall’s comments defamed her and that he did little to repair the damage after they were made public.
“Her reputation, her job, and her exemplary career have all been placed in jeopardy by Duvall’s disgusting remarks,” Segal said.
In his political campaigning, Duvall of course claimed to be a “family values” conservative and a believer in the sanctity of marriage — and an opponent of gay marriage. He was caught on tape saying this:
“She wears little eye-patch underwear. So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And so, we had made love Wednesday — a lot! And so she’ll, she’s all, ‘I am going up and down the stairs, and you’re dripping out of me!’ So messy! …So, I am getting into spanking her. Yeah, I like it. I like spanking her. She goes, ‘I know you like spanking me.’ I said, ‘Yeah! Because you’re such a bad girl!’…”
And so her birthday was Monday. I was 54 on June 14, so for a month, she was 19 years younger than me. I said, ‘Now, you’re getting old. I am going to have to trade you in.’ And she goes, ‘[I’m] 36.’ She is 18 years younger than me. And so I keep? teasing her, and she goes, ‘I know you French men. You divide your age by two and add seven, and if you’re older than that, you dump us.’”
On the tape released in September, Duvall couldn’t quite remember the name of the second woman — “Oh, yeah, Sher, Shar, Shar… Oh, she is hot!” So no word on whether Sher-Shar has been cleared or even investigated, or if she even exists.
Leaving aside Barsuglia’s career and professional reputation, the best news out of the investigation is that, if Duvall was lying about his sexual adventures, his wife Susan can rest easy that, despite her husband’s claims, he did not have unprotected sex with the lobbyists.
