Welcome to the banana republic.
“Cory Booker: GOP “manipulating” his criticism of Obama’s Bain Capital attacks” – Mollie Reilly (Huffington Post)
Bullshit, Cory. You’re the mayor of a city in New Jersey whose re-election campaign is going to be funded by the bridge and tunnel crowd, and you thought that by taking a “brave stand” against Obama’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital record, you’d score yourself some points and some easy campaign donations. A real Democrat wouldn’t be seen in public with fat fuck Governor Sandwiches, much less be in a “funny” video with him.
“Emails show how Hawaii stiffed Arizona Secretary of State’s Birther Investigation” – Nick R. Martin (TPM)
In an exclusive scoop, The Daily Sausage has obtained a previously unpublished email in this series.
From: Jill T. Nagamine
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:11 AM
To: Drake, Jim; Bennett, Ken
Subject: Re: Request from the Arizona Secretary of State’s OfficeDear Mr. Bennett and Mr. Drake—
Fuck off.
Thank you,
Jill T. Nagamine
Deputy Attorney General
State of Hawaii
“How the Banks Bought the Tea Party: Cash transforms populist insurgents to reliable vote for financial industry” – Josh Israel and Adam Peck (ThinkProgress)
This article manages to completely miss both the forest and the trees.
The Tea Party was never a “populist insurgent” movement. They were astroturfed into existence by Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, and fed a steady diet of Glenn Beck and Fox News to drive up turnout and give the House back to the GOP in 2010. As Charles P. Pierce has notably pointed out, the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement is that the Occupy movement was at least yelling at the right buildings.
The Tea Party has elected to national office a group of people so egregiously unqualified as to be criminal in their political negligence. We’ve moved past “career politicians” and into “low level grifters” and “charlatans and cranks” territory.
Treating these people like they’re a legitimate outside political movement is a mistake. They are the GOP. They always were. And they’re a wholly owned subsidiary of the same people that own the GOP.
“Legal Highs: Making the Drug War obsolete” – Vaughan Bell (MindHacks)
This just in: drugs win Drug War. America surrenders, has laziest/best weekend ever.
“Man loses $22,000 in new “Policing for Profit” case” – Phil Williams (News Channel 5)
This just in: Drug War not actually about drugs anymore.
This is some third world shit right here. This is what happens in failed states. Legalized, normalized extortion. Excessive force. Use of military tactics and equipment against a civilian population. Suppression of dissent.
We’re all living in the world’s most prosperous banana republic.
“GOP Problem: “Their voters are white, aging and dying off” – Halimah Abdullah (CNN)
The tipping point is Texas. A young, Latino population could force Texas purple, and without Texas the GOP cannot win the White House.
“The Super “Connected” 1% CEO: The Incredible Take of Billions of Dollars of Failure” – Mark Ames (AlterNet)
If you’re not born into the 1%, your only hope is to be adopted by them. It’s the new American Aristocracy. It doesn’t matter how much or how epically you fail, there will always be a high paying job for you somewhere.
“Is Texas waging war on history?” – Katherine Stewart (AlterNet)
Children are our future. Gotta indoctrinate them early.
“Today’s GOP: Worst Political Party since the Civil War” – Martin Longman (AlterNet)
If I’m a conservative, I”d be getting really concerned that people are starting to wake up to the fact that the GOP is now comprised almost entirely of loony tunes nut jobs and the media is starting to notice.
