(Part One is here, Part Two is here, Part Three is here, and Part Four is here.)Dregs of the Year Nominees
Life Always, for running their billboards in predominantly black neighborhoods that call abortion “black genocide,” or something (and featuring the pic of you-know-who); gee, wingnuts, maybe the abortion rate among African Americans and poor people generally wouldn’t be so damn high if you clowns didn’t fight funding for Planned Parenthood, which, among other things, provides information about contraception and birth control (here)…
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Wisconsin State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, who bragged about “break(ing) the power of unions” here, though, at the time the bill passed killing collective bargaining rights for most public employees, Fitzgerald was all about “getting our fiscal house in order,” which of course you can’t do anyway when you’re passing more stinking, budget-busting tax cuts…liar
Dregs of the Year NomineeThe High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for rejecting the appeal of Troy Davis to stay his execution and give him life instead while he prepared for a new trial (here...as we know, Davis was later executed in the worst travesty of justice that I personally have ever seen)
(By the way, add the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board, to say nothing of the Savannah police force...as far as I'm concerned, though, the most guilty culprit is former Chatham County DA Spencer Lawton, the chief architect of this obscenity.)
Dregs of the Year Nominee
Rand Paul for this (one of these days, this guy is going to get called out for being the total bozo that he is, and that can’t come soon enough)
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Rand Paul again, for saying here that, if you believe in a right to universal health care, “you believe in slavery” (about what you would expect from “Doctor” Paul, who was “certified” as an ophthalmologist by a board he appointed himself)
Dregs of the Year (Possibly The Millennia, Again) Citation
Repug State Rep of Indiana Eric Turner, who said here that women would pretend to be raped to get free abortions (dear God)
Dregs of the Year Nominee
Repug U.S. House Rep Tom Marino from our own beloved commonwealth, who apparently doesn’t know that Libya is in Africa (here - and as the cherry on the icing on the proverbial cake, he’s on the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa…your Republican Party on the job, people)
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“Lex Luthor,” who attended a Special Olympics photo-op on the day that announced deep budget cuts to programs that help the developmentally disabled in his state (here - as Think Progress says, it looks like somebody will have to sell a lot of T-shirts…way beyond disgusting)
Dregs of the Year NomineeTransocean gets a citation here, the bunch contracted by BP to build the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that blew up in the Gulf of Mexico last year, for giving its top brass big bonuses for “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history,” as noted in the company's Proxy Statement and 2010 Annual Report.
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“Pastor” Terry Jones, who went ahead and burned the Koran anyway despite requests from individuals such as Secretary of Defense Bill Gates that he not do so; as a result, a dozen people died from riots in Afghanistan – now, this numbskull wants to “put Mohammed on trial” (as a TP commenter noted here, someone ought to put Jones on trial instead)
Dregs of the Year NomineePaul Ryan (here, here and here - Ryan will return at some point)...
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Repug U.S. House Rep Bill Posey for this…
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Crazy Jim Inhofe for this…
Do Gooders (FINALLY!) of the Year Nominees
The 14 Democratic congresswomen mentioned here (if we had more women in government, half the crap that goes on wouldn’t take place)…
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OK, we know what outgoing Repug Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl said in April here was particularly stupid; namely, that 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortions, when in reality, that number is closer to 3 percent, and no federal dough can be used for abortions anyway. And we know his explanation that he “didn’t intend for that to be a factual statement,” or whatever, is a hoot also. However, I’m citing him here for a wholly other reason, and that is for throwing his “press person” under the bus on the whole “factual statement” thing.
Senator, you’re a lying idiot. Stand up and take the hit for your screwup like a man instead of blaming some grunt in your office who probably makes a fraction of what you do.
Dregs of the Year Nominee
Marilyn Davenport of the Orange County, CA Repug Party here, for sending out an Email with an image of President Obama as an ape along with his “parents” (oh, but it’s the fault of the “liberal media” for reporting it and not ignoring it – sure it is…she later apologized, as well she should)
Do Gooders of the Year Nominees
The managers of the Lowe’s store in Sanford, North Carolina who helped save all 100 customers in their store when a tornado hit in April (here)…
Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
Repug Indiana State Senator Vaneta Becker for this – the bar is set low once again, I know, but I give her credit for actually saying it (see once more what I said above about women in politics)
Dregs of the Year Nominee (Commemorative “One Toke Over The Line” Citation)
Republican Rhode Island State House Minority Leader Robert A. Watson (R), who made derisive remarks about a “gay man from Guatemala who gambles and smokes pot,” then proceeded to get himself arrested for DUI and marijuana possession (nice)
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The Tennessee GOP for this…
…and Repug U.S. House Rep Scott DesJarlais from that state for this…
…and Repug U.S. House Rep Lou Barletta of PA for this.
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Oklahoma State House Rep Sally Kern, who said here that “blacks” don’t work as hard as white people (what century is this again? – she later apologized, again, as well she should)
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Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels gets it here for signing a bill to defund Planned Parenthood in that state (So what if a bunch of poor women can’t get contraception or screenings for cervical cancer? Oh, and please pass the sweet and sour shrimp).
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Repug U.S. House Rep Blake Farenthold of Texas, who compared unemployed Americans to alcoholics and drug users here (let’s give him a taste of it after November 2012 to see how he likes it)
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Joe Scar, for saying that President Obama made “some very tough choices that his own base did not want him to make,” and that he went “against his own ideological leanings” in authorizing the mission to kill bin Laden (as TP notes here, Obama’s "base" presumably forgot to be angry at Number 44 for going against their wishes, or whatever, judging from the celebrations nationwide upon the news of bin Laden’s death)
Dregs of the Year NomineeMikey The Beloved gets a dishonorable mention for not holding a town hall meeting with constituents for the two-week period when Congress was off for the Easter/ Passover break in April, which would have taken place right after he voted for “Ryan Care” (of course, he DID manage to hold a “tele”-town hall phone call with constituents earlier in April, a tactic he criticized Patrick Murphy for in the 2010 campaign).
Fitzpatrick was a lying coward when he served from 2004-2006, and he’s no better than that now.
(Oops, he DID have a “town hall” of sorts…at a senior center in Plumstead Township on Friday May 6th at 2:00 in the afternoon as noted here, when just about all of the people who could call him out were working…yep, still a coward.)
Dregs of the Year (Maybe The Last Decade) NomineeDubya for this (so disgusting that I almost wish someone would “walk it back”)…
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The Champion sports apparel company gets a dishonorable mention for dropping Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall as a spokesman (here).
Now I’m not going to tell you that I agree with every single thing that Mendenhall said, including some 9/11 “truth” stuff that, to be perfectly honest, I wonder about myself (though I have no facts to question “the official story,” so I’m not sure what I can do at this point – all I’m going to say is that, concerning Towers 1 and 2, I know what controlled demolition looks like, and don’t give me this “sympathetic vibration” crap about Tower 7), and I don’t think bin Laden deserved an ounce of sympathy. However, we do have such a thing as free speech in this country, and even though I’m quite sure Mendenhall will be OK financially in spite of this, I don’t think he should have been punished for speaking his mind.
Dregs of the Year NomineeI could probably spend most of my time cataloguing the idiocy of Repug U.S. House Rep Allen West of Florida, but because I don’t wish to punish myself, I try to pick and choose among the very worst of what he says and does; here, though, he makes the patently false claim that China is in charge of the Panama Canal (I hope all of the meatheads who voted for this clown and got rid of Dem Ron Klein are happy with themselves).
…and here and here are more for the West file…
…and West does it again here, breaking the law that the flag shall not be below ground (yeah, I would say that underwater kind of counts here).
Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
I could never have imagined a universe where I would end up giving hockey player Sean Avery of the New York Rangers, one of the NHL’s worst agitators, credit for anything, but in May, he spoke out on behalf of gay marriage in the state of New York here.
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Flush Limbore, who told listeners to send Mother’s Day flowers to their “mistress” here (speaking from experience once more, I’m sure)
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The numbskulls in Brooklyn who run the Hasidic paper Der Tzitung for scrubbing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and another woman from the photo of the White House team watching something onscreen pertaining to the killing of bin Laden in May, as noted here (I didn't care about this photo in May and cannot imagine why so many people are preoccupied with it, but I don’t want to hear about supposed religious objections…I don’t mean this as an attack on Clinton, but what are the clowns who run this paper going to do if, one day, she is elected president?)
Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
New Hampshire Dem Gov. John Lynch for vetoing a so-called “right to work” bill from the wingnuts, and doing so in a forceful manner (here...three cheers for the Granite State!)
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Meredith Attwell Baker, a former FCC commissioner who approved the NBC-Universal merger and then took a job with the company as “Senior VP of Governmental Affairs” (your basic betrayal of the public trust here, people – this will doubtless kick off another round of mergers of entertainment and communications companies that will further consolidate the corporate voice)
Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
Sen. John McCain for saying straight up here that torture didn’t provide the information that led to the killing of bin Laden (glad to see him not pandering to his party’s utterly loony base and basically telling them where to go…good for him)
…and by the way…
Do Gooders of the Year Nominee
Primarily to the Navy SEALs who got bin Laden, but also to President Obama for authorizing the raid, managing to do something Dubya and “The Big Dog” couldn’t do
Dregs of the Year Nominees
Another for the Supremes and the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR (here)...
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Philly boxer Bernard Hopkins for his ridiculous comments about former Eagles quarterback Donavan McNabb here (one too many head shots, apparently...yes, McNabb's career is definitely in its descent at this point, but he did manage to put up some good numbers for the Eagles for awhile - there's such a thing as class; maybe Hopkins should buy a dictionary and look up the meaning of the word)
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Pretend Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul gets a dubious mention for saying we should abolish FEMA (here, particularly stupid in light of this)…
…and saying we’d be “better off” without the Civil Rights Act (here)…
…and calling Social Security and Medicare “unconstitutional” and comparing them to slavery here.
Dregs of the Year Nominee
Ben Stein, who wrote the following in response to the arrest of IMF Bank head Dominique Strauss Kahn on sexual assault charges here (h/t Atrios…I honestly thought it was a parody at first also because it was so utterly tasteless, but nope, Stein was serious)
Dregs of the Year Nominee
Governor Bully for this (and as noted here, he’s soooo popular, isn’t he?)
…and berating a constituent for asking him whether or not he sends his kids to public or private school here? What a thug – and no, her question wasn’t “completely ridiculous.”
Update 12/9/11: It looks like Governor Bully was at it again here...
In response, I give you the following (here)...
This is a guy who made a national name for himself standing with a microphone alone in front of a crowd. You weren't supposed to know those crowds were carefully chosen for maximum adoration, or that loyal Republicans were given heads-up when the Christie roadshow steamed into town. In NJ, we're used to seeing people who dare to challenge Christie get slapped down, to cheering crowds. And dare to ask if the Christie team plants favorable questions to him? You get his tough-guy talk, then he shuts your mic off.Your Republican Party at work once more, people, telling you to sit down, shut up, and go along with the program while you lose your job, your retirement, your health care, your home, etc., etc., etc.
Update 6/8/12: Christie continues to be an utter embarrassment.
Dregs of the Year Nominee
Little Ricky for this (Lord knows I’ve disagreed with John McCain about a lot, but when he says that torture doesn’t work…well, I would just shut my mouth in response)
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for claiming here that it’s “unconstitutional” to close a tax loophole whereby the existence of a “subsidiary” corporation gives the parent company the option not to collect taxes from that subsidiary in another state (here...needless to say, Amazon has greatly benefitted from yet another gift of our tax code to the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch)
Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
Tenth grader Amy Myers of Cherry Hill, NJ, who offered to debate Moon Unit Bachmann on the Constitution (here...of course, Bachmann refused – and a Dregs citation to the alleged human beings who threatened Myers in response)
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John Watson, C.E.O. of Chevron, who, during a hearing about tax breaks for oil companies in May, said “I don’t think American people want shared sacrifice. I think they want shared prosperity” here (oh, and did I note that, in April, Chevron reported that its first-quarter net income rose 36 percent from the same period last year to $6.21 billion?).
And you have the unmitigated gall to expect a tax break?
Read this, you selfish bastard, and find a clue as to what shared sacrifice really is (i.e, May unemployment rate of %9.0).
And there are people in this country who still wonder what gave birth to the Occupy movement.
More later...
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