Tag: Birthers
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I personally don’t have standing to bring litigation in court. But I support conservative legal organizations and others who would bring that to court. I think that is the valid and most possibly effective grounds to do it. I know all the information I’ve been able to get my hands on through the media…But obviously with the mainstream media as a filter, that’s not a whole lot.
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), confirming that he is a birther and supports lawsuits demanding Pres. Obama produce his birth certificate yet again. Vitter’s comments on Sunday prompted an announcement on Monday from former Louisiana Supreme Court justice Chet Traylor that he will challenge Vitter in a Republican primary. Traylor said he’s long considered a run, but calls from within the GOP during the past two weeks urging him to do so caused him to act.
CA Primary: eMeg, Carly Dodge Birther Bullet – Orly Taitz Loses GOP Nod for Secretary of State
There was one contest in doubt, however. And with results in, the only bad news for the state’s liberal majority is that Birther queen Orly Taitz lost her bid to run as the Republican candidate against incumbent Secretary of State Debra Bowen, a Democrat, in November.
Taitz received 368,210 votes, but her opponent won with over 1 million votes. (Now we know that the approximate number of certifiable nutcases in California is 368,000, or about 1 percent of the state’s population.)
Taitz’ loss is also another sign of the weakness of the tea party mob phenomenon in California — as was the loss of tea bagger Chuck DeVore in the U.S. Senate Race. DeVore received just 19 percent of the Republican vote.
GOP Wins U.S. House Seat in Kenya – Or Is It Indonesia?
Depending on where you believe Pres. Obama was born, the Republicans apparently won the House seat in that district in a special election:
Hawaiin Charles Djou has become the state’s first Republican Congressman in 20 years after winning 39.7 percent of the special election’s vote. Democrats Colleen Hanabusa and Ed Case won 31 and 27.8 percent of the vote. The district includes President Obama’s Hawaii hometown.
The district went 70 percent for Obama in 2008. Analysts say the Dems lost because they fielded too many candidates, none of whom would clear the floor, and so the Democratic vote was split, while Republicans voted as a block.
The seat comes up for election again in November.
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.
Poll: Key Birther and Neo-Confederate Demographics Align
There was speculation earlier this year that the true dynamic behind the tea-bagging movement was not opposition to taxes but rather racist anger over the election of an African-American president. After all, taxes had been lowered, not raised at that point, and the only tax hikes on the table targeted people making over $250,000 per year, which was probably about five or six times the income of an average tea-bagger family of four.
Facts don’t matter to bigots. And this this stubborn refusal to accept documentary evidence is the most convincing argument yet for the proposition that the Birther movement is a racist phenomenon at its core
The tea-bagging movement appears to have ended on July 4, when attendance at rallies was down across the country, in part because Fox News failed to promote the events 24/7 as they had for events in April.
Birthers were out in force at tea-bagger rallies from the beginning, carrying signs demanding that Pres. Obama release his birth certificate — which, of course, his campaign had done in June 2008. (To see how the connection lives on in the Intertubes, just plug keywords like “tea party,” “obama” and “birth certificate” into the Google and stand back.)
As tea bagging sputters to an end, Birtherism appears to be moving up. For example, there are a dozen or so proud Birthers in the U.S. House, including one marquee brand name, Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and one in the Senate, Richard Shelby of Alabama.
Now a new poll has found that Birthers are predominantly Republicans — no surprise there — and that the South leads all other regions by far as a hotbed of Birtherism.
