Category: Wing Nuts

Church and State, episode 2: Mitt Romney and Immigration

~ susie ~ 2 Comments

Jesus Christ is back, and he’s pissed.

Well, not so much pissed, but troubled with Mitt Romney’s less than Christian stance on immigration. And why would He not be? Isn’t it a fact that Jesus’s parents fled Bethlehem for Egypt, after King Herod ordered the execution of all babies under the age of 2? Isn’t it true that when they returned, it wasn’t to Bethlehem, but to Nazareth?

You’d figure preachy ol’ Mitt Headroom and Paul “the Objectivist Christian” Ryan might realize that. And you would be wrong.
Continue reading “Church and State, episode 2: Mitt Romney and Immigration” →

Piggie of the Week: Mitt Romney

~ susie ~ 2 Comments

Here’s our latest Piggie of the Week. It is none other than everyone’s favorite head of hair, the man who thinks Americans are not entitled to basic shelter and sustenance, the man who makes Montgomery Burns look like a philanthropist, the man who stole his entire schtick from M-m-m-m-m-Max Headroom, THE MAN WHO IS BETTER THAN YOU AND 47% OF THE REST OF THE COUNTRY: Willard “Mitt” Romney.

…and boy does that cocksucker deserve it.

‘Reasonable Republicans’ an extinct breed

~ odd man out ~ 2 Comments

Paul Krugman:

Several commenters have asked that I provide examples of Republicans making reasonable economic arguments; some of them seem to be saying that I’m proving my bias if I don’t provide such examples.

But it doesn’t work that way: if all Republicans are saying unreasonable things, then it’s a distortion — indeed, a form of bias — to insist that there must be reasonable Republicans.

Now, what you can quite easily find are examples of people who used to be Republicans, or even still consider themselves Republicans, saying reasonable things — say, Bruce Bartlett or David Frum. But the very fact that they’re reasonable has led to their excommunication from the movement!

Jump, Sheldon, Mr. Yang is calling

~ odd man out ~ 1 Comment

From NYT:

When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company’s “chief Beijing representative,” a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin.

Mr. Yang arranged meetings for Mr. Adelson with senior Chinese officials; acted as a frontman on several ambitious projects for Mr. Adelson’s company, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation; and intervened on the Sands’s behalf with Chinese regulators. Mr. Yang even had his daughter take Mr. Adelson’s wife, Miriam, shopping when she was in Beijing.

“Adelson and I had a good relationship,” Mr. Yang said in a recent interview in Hong Kong. “He should thank me.”

Mr. Yang joined the Sands in 2007 as the company worked to protect its interests in Macau, where its gambling revenues were mushrooming, and pressed ahead with plans for a resort in mainland China. Boasting of ties to the People’s Liberation Army and China’s security apparatus, Mr. Yang was hired for his guanxi, that mixture of relationships and favors that is critical to opening doors in China, according to former executives.

But today, Mr. Yang, along with tens of millions of dollars in payments the Sands made through him in China, is a focus of a wide-ranging federal investigation into potential bribery of foreign officials and other matters in China and Macau, according to people with direct knowledge of the inquiries.

The investigations are unfolding as Mr. Adelson has become an increasing presence in this year’s presidential election, contributing at least $35 million to Republican groups. On Tuesday, Mitt Romney’s running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, is to appear at a fund-raiser at the Sands’s Venetian casino in Las Vegas; Mr. Adelson is likely to attend, a person close to him said…

PA congressman likens birth control mandate to 9/11

~ odd man out ~ 1 Comment

There’s Philly and then there’s the rest of PA, much of which is represented in the legislature by Republican yahoos such as this guy:

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) today compared a new regulation requiring insurers to provide women birth control without a copay to September 11th or Pearl Harbor.

In a speech on the House floor, Kelly said it was such a travesty that women wouldn’t be paying hundreds of dollars a year in copays that it should go down in history as a great tragedy similar to those two events that killed thousands of Americans:

“…I want you to remember August 1, 2012 — the attack on our religious freedom. That is a date that will live in infamy, along with those other dates…”

Scrapple TV’s Piggie of the Week

~ susie ~ 4 Comments

It’s been a while since I posted a Piggie, but with the Pennsylvania GOP disenfranchising nearly a million registered voters, it’s time to call a swine a swine, and a poll tax a poll tax:

<object width=”460″ height=”215″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/rY1yQvU_jxE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/rY1yQvU_jxE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”460″ height=”215″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”></embed></object>

Please share widely.

Koch fundraiser in Hamptons for Romney

~ susie ~ 3 Comments

At $50K a head:

The line of Range Rovers, BMWs, Porsche roadsters and one gleaming cherry red Ferrari began queuing outside of Revlon Chairman Ronald Perelman’s estate off Montauk Highway long before Romney arrived, as campaign aides and staffers in white polo shirts emblazoned with the logo of Perelman’s property — the Creeks — checked off names under tight security.


They came with high hopes for the presumed Republican nominee, who is locked in a tight race with President Obama. And some were eager to give the candidate some advice about the next four months.


A money manager in a green Jeep said it was time for Romney to “up his game and be more reactive.” So far, said the donor (who would not give his name because he said it would hurt his business), Romney has had a “very timid offense.”


A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. “I don’t think the common person is getting it,” she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. “Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.


“We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”