The Gift That Keeps On Giving (Or You Stupid Motherfucker)…by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #292 | @MDWorld
Mitt Romney says that the reason HE lost is because Obama promised gifts to African Americans and Latinos. Paul Ryan says the same thing.
I thought Obama won fair and square, yet the GOP insists the reason they lost is because Obama gave “gifts” to Blacks and Latinos.
I’m Black, yet somehow I have not gotten any gifts.
Where the FUCK is my gift?
I want MY gift.
Look, I know that Romney and Ryan lost their home states, and lost the woman, Black, Latino, and labor vote (among others), but I don’t give a fuck. I want the GIFT I was promised.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both lost in their home states. Those states rejected them because they were two FUCKED UP candidates, out of touch with what they thought was important.
Imagine losing your home state. Just how FUCKED up is that?
This gift thing is after the GOP said that Obama won because of an “act of God,” namely Hurricane Sandy.
I agree with the GOP on that.
It WAS an act of God that gave Obama the election.
God chose the Black guy.
Now there is a movement in some states to secede, and a movement to impeach Obama. Right Wing, Birther conservatives fuel both movements.
There is no one in GOP leadership that has distanced themselves from these movements. To be fair, there have been some in the GOP that have distanced themselves from the “gift” narrative. That would be great if other things, like rape, were not so FUCKED UP within the GOP.
Obama won. Period. Get the FUCK OVER IT, BITCH.
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November 16th, 2012 at 7:37 am
Yes, because offering rich people a 20% tax cut is not anything at all like a “gift.”
November 16th, 2012 at 8:34 am
But Martha, these are the people who create the jobs!
Or WOULD have created jobs if we elected their boy. Now that Obama’s staying put, these rich job creators are in a petulant frenzy and won’t create any more jobs and won’t open any more Applebees and will continue to fire anybody who can’t do the work of three. Goddamn it, if they can’t be slaves, the Republicans will show them — let ‘em starve!
Or, in other words:
Let ‘em eat Twinkies!
November 16th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
To be fair, the GOP leadership in both houses has told McCain where to stuff his Watergate style hearings into the Libyan embassy attacks. Apparently even they have a line that they won’t cross. Of course, this new found sense of decency doesn’t extend to stopping their caucus members from flat out lying about what the administration has said or done.
November 16th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Hey Doug, I don’t want to go down a rathole, but since you brought it up, the whole Benghazi attack situation was a goatrope from the very beginning.
From a military perspective, I find the whole thing especially troubling, because by most accounts, not only were the embassy requests for help ignored before the attack, they were ignored DURING the attacks as well. To a military person like me who honestly believes the motto, “Leave no one behind,” the apparent lack of response before, during and after the Benghazi incident — if true — was tantatmount to dereliction of duty.
Imagine for one second you were on the ground there that night like Stevens, or the others, literally begging for help that never came.
Yet you’re advocating there be no independent investigation and that Americans should just move on and let the administration investigate itself? Have you no conscience?
I don’t give a rat’s ass about the politics of the situation. The fact is, we don’t abandon our people to a horrible death if there’s anything at all we can do to help them. And from everything I’ve been able to ascertain to date, with the length of time of the attack, and the resources in the area, we appear to have had plenty of time to send in help if there had only been an order to do so.
Shrugging off an investigation smacks of partisan protectionism. To ignore this debacle hurts morale not only for the State Department people world-wide who are in dangerous asssignments, but military personnel as well.
And frankly, Ambassador Stevens and the rest of the dead deserve far better from the government that put them in harm’s way.
November 16th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Well, according to Conservatives, Bill Clinton lowered the decency standards for every public man that came after him with the extra-marital blowjobs he got in the Oval Office.
George W. Bush, Rumsfeld, Rove and co. lowered the standards for every public man that came after them with the “You just don’t question the administration in the middle of a war, no matter how unlawful and immoral the administration is acting.”
Russ, you’re either with Obama, or you’re a sympathizer of the Muslim Terrorists. Let the man work.
November 16th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Rene — If that quote you cited is real, whoever uttered it was an idiot.
But to your point, since you were the one who made it, according to this administration — at least early on during this whole sordid ordeal — we weren’t at war in Libya. The locals spontaneously rioted because of some cheesy YouTube video.
November 16th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Doug,
Have you (or anyone) noticed that John McCain has taken the conservative train ALL the way to the extreme Right?
He seems to no longer consider anything except ‘fuck you Obama.’
Damn, is he still bitter that he got his ass handed to him back in 2008? Perhaps he should take a moment and thank God he’s still breathing at his age and stop trying to give himself a heart attack.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
MOTU,
Senator Cranky Pants has hijacked the conservative train and derailed it…but he’s not bitter.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
We’re beginning to see some serious shift changes within the party. Whether the old guard or the neo-libertarians take over remains to be seen, but it’s becoming clear that the Tea Party is over as far as the Republicans are concerned. Which could be the best thing that ever happened to the Tea Party… but without the Koch money, they’re most likely vaporizing.
They’ve got two years to rebuild; less than that if they want to be certain to keep their Congress majority. It’ll be fun to watch. It’s great fun to see them all jockey.
Where does that leave John McCain? Largely ignored, sitting between Abe Simpson and the Mole Man waiting for a visitor.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Russ,
There are already multiple investigations going on. CIA, FBI, State Department and multiple Senate and House committees. What McCain isn’t going to get is a Watergate or Iran-Contra dog and pony show. The time and place for those investigations is when parts of the Executive Branch are actively trying to derail investigations. This isn’t happening here. If help was denied during the attack, it will come out. Of course, help can only be denied if it exists. The administration requested an increase in the world wide embassy security budget. Not only did they not get the increase, the House cut the budget by $300 million. A fact that most of the GOP forget when they thought that they could make a campaign issue out of the attacks. Getting back to McCain; while he was grandstanding for the press yesterday and claiming that the administration wouldn’t give Congress details regarding the attack, he was missing a committee meeting that did exactly that. Many of his colleagues have decided that using the embassy dead for political gain is distasteful at best.
November 17th, 2012 at 8:01 am
But…something happened! And it’s worse than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor combined! I still don’t understand what makes this attack worse than any other.
November 17th, 2012 at 11:00 am
Neil,
It happened a few weeks before an election and the bla…I mean Democrat, was in charge. You know, the flaming liberal destroying the country with policies to the right of Eisenhower and Nixon. The president willing to listen to proposals to change Social Security and Medicare, during deficit negotiations, when that commie bastard Ronald Reagan refused. The whole thing is just another attempt to discredit a man that a sizable portion of the GOP has an irrational fear of. I say irrational because its based on what they “know” Obama really “wants” to do, instead of what he has actually said or done.
November 17th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
…or the fear is based on the fact (as a wise man once opined) that he’s Bla…I mean Democrat.
November 17th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Doug, the main difference I always say is the GOP fears the Democrats for what they think they’ll do. Democrats fear the GOP for what they’ve actually done.
November 17th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Neil,
Oôoh, such a good set up; but I’ll be good! Anybody else want to hit this one out of the park?
November 18th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Wait, if the GOP are saying that Obama won because of an Act of God, doesn’t that mean they support him now? Because if Romney had won, you can damn well bet that the wingnuts would be saying it was “God’s will”.
Never mind. Back to the serious comments now.
November 18th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Doug — As I recall, the Watergate hearings weren’t a “dog and pony show,” and if they had never taken place, Nixon never would have been forced to resign.
Re-read my original post at the top, because that’s exactly why I think there should be an independent investigation which all of the player agencies should be required to cooperate with.
Ambassador Stevens was a loyal Democrat who was left by his bosses to fend for himself while under attack, and, adding insult to injury, even in death his fellow Democrats are trying to downplay the whole incident with a “there’s nothing to see here” attitude.
That’s a pretty frickin’ disgusting attitude to have for the party that’s supposed to the compassionate one.
November 19th, 2012 at 3:10 am
Try rereading my post before you imply a lack of reading comprehension on my part. I explained why Watergate and Iran Contra were needed. This does not reach the that level. An entire town of people who would benefit from a joint committee think that the normal committee hearings will be all that’s needed. When the only people calling for a joint committee are a Senator racing towards irrelevance and members of the public that would criticize Obama if he cured cancer, a joint committee would be a dog and pony show. Oh,the Ambassador served regardless of the party of the sitting President. Being a Democrat has crap to do with anything. He was a patriot and what happened to him is being investigated.
November 19th, 2012 at 6:24 am
Russ,
The US is still at war against terrorists, correct? And questioning the President on matters of national security is disloyal. Are you disloyal?
This is the extent of the damage Bush did. After an American President leads a country into an manufactured war with manufactured “evidence” and gets away with it, then all bets are off.
It’s only when there is a Democrat in the White House that some people start to worry about abuse of power and accountability.
November 19th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Doug — Your same arguments applied to those seeking to break the Watergate story. It was all political in the beginning, and it always is. Initially, Watergate was a minor story that only the Washington Post was pursuing — and the post then, as now, was a liberal-leaning newspaper.
Partisan Democrats never go after their own, nor do Partisan Republicans.
November 19th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Rene — What the hell are you talking about?