(On we go...Part One is here, Part Two is here, Part Three is here, Part Four is here, Part Five is here, and Part Six is here.)Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for acting like an adult here on the issue of raising the debt limit, coming up with a plan to raise the ceiling by $2.7 trillion along with $2.7 trillion in cuts, which largely come from “winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” as opposed to Man Tan Boehner and his fellow Repugs who don’t give a damn about the deficit and want to do all they can to stick it to Obama (and gut entitlements as well as preserving those stinking Bush tax cuts, of course – the NYT said Reid’s deal wasn’t so hot, but at least he tried to move the ball the right way, as it were)…
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“Pastor” Rick (Half Of America Doesn’t Pay Taxes) Warren here (yet another h/t Atrios - maybe a record this year)
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U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema, who ruled that NY Times reporter James Risen did not have to testify in court about who gave him details on a top-secret CIA program targeting Iran; Judge Brinkema ruled Risen would only be required to take the stand to verify the accuracy of his reporting and would not be required to identify any confidential source or sources (wise – here)…
…but on the other hand, Judge Brinkema might have unnecessarily opened up the proverbial can of worms, as noted here.
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Former U.S. House Rep Bob Edgar, now head of Common Cause, who was arrested here along with 10 other religious leaders in July after they knelt to pray in the Capitol Rotunda to protest proposed cuts to social services prior to the conclusion over that utter nonsense in the matter of raising the debt ceiling (Edgar is also a United Methodist minister…exactly the sort of person we need in government, as opposed to the type of cretins we generally have now)
...and speaking of cretins...
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Repug U.S. House Rep Doug Lamborn of Colorado, who said here that associating with President Obama is like “touching a tar baby” (he later apologized, yet again, as well he should...at least the third such instance this year by my count)
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Former Dregs of the Year Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao, who said here after that ridiculous debt ceiling vote nonsense played itself out in August that he was prepared to go through all of it again (once more, idiot voters send this life form back to Washington over and over…unfortunately, McConnell’s antics affect not just Kentucky, but the whole country)
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“Holy Joe” Lieberman for this (presumably, so we can fight them “there” so we don’t have to fight them “here,” and yes, that’s snark...this guy can't be gone soon enough)
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“Uber Alles” Buchanan for referring to Obama as “boy” here (and kudos to Al Sharpton for not letting him get away with it…seriously, why is Buchanan still on TV?)...
…and more here (unbelievable).
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Repug Iowa Governor Terry Branstad for vetoing a tax break for the poor because it didn’t lower corporate taxes (here – what a scumwad)
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Once again, the bar is set low, but I have to give it to Governor Bully for this (lots of other stuff wrong with this guy of course, but he "found the nut" here)
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Our brave Navy SEALs and other personnel killed in Afghanistan in August here (I’m sure the Pentagon is doing some kind of a review to determine why the #@!! so many of them were in that chopper together, including Chief Petty Officer Michael Strange of Philadelphia)
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Actor Jeremy Irons for this charming quote (and by the way, for all of his good performances, he should have paid me to sit through “Dead Ringers”…h/t Daily Kos)
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The 11th Circuit Federal Appeals Court for ruling against the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate here (commerce clause, people – how many goddamn times do we need to keep repeating that?)
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Shery Lanford Smith of the Sumter County, Wisconsin Tea Party (figures) gets it for making yet another joke here about killing President and Mrs. Obama here (ha ha – have fun explaining this to the Secret Service, wingnut).
And Joe Nocera of the New York Times actually felt he had to apologize to these cretins (actually, he should’ve apologized for that horrible column about Boeing and the Dems in August)…
…and I guess Nocera would apologize to the Teahadists for this too.
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Judge David Hamilton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit earns a mention here; he upheld a lawsuit by Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, two contractors who went to Iraq to work for an American security firm and became whistleblowers when Mr. Vance grew suspicious that the company was involved in illegal activity, including weapons trafficking (the suit by the two claims they were “physically threatened, abused, and assaulted by the anonymous U.S. officials working as guards”).
And by the way, the parties named in the suite are Former Defense Secretary Rummy “and others” (Bushco will face the music one of these days, and hopefully, this is the beginning of that process).
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Minnesota Twin (and former Phillie...and now a Phillie again - yaay!) Jim Thome for hitting his 600th career home run in August (here)…
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Baby Newton Leroy Gingrich for saying here that same-sex marriage is to blame for our lousy economy (OWWWW, TEH STOO-PID!!! IT BURNS US!!! And he's the frontrunner - hilarious)…
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Willard Mitt Romney for criticizing Obama's vacation in Martha’s Vineyard here (here we go again) – turns out the Mittster will be there the same day (what a moron)
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Crazy Tom Coburn for this (and he will never face criticism over remarks like this from our corporate media – ever)
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Pope Benedict XVI for this (a little more of what you might call "social action" would be nice to go with this too, Your Holiness)…
Worst Attempt at False Equivalency By A Dem Who Should Know Better
The term “firebagger” was coined by Obama campaign staffer Ray Sandoval in an attempt to demonize those on the left who may be a bit strident at times (though we’re just about always right on the issues, as it happens) by equating us with the teabaggers, presumably meant as a shot at the blog firedoglake (here - and the geniuses in the Obama Administration actually wonder why “the professional left” gets mad at them).
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Antonio Diaz Chacon, who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate, as the story tells us; on top of that, he also announced that he’s here in this country illegally (I don’t typically encourage that, but I admire his courage for standing up and doing his best to defeat the wingnut narrative that all illegals are nothing but law-breaking scum living off the “big gumint” teat…by doing so, Chacon single handedly has made a tremendous case for common-sense federal immigration reform AT LONG LAST!)
Dregs of the Year NomineePuppy dog-eyes Paul Ryan for calling the cops on unemployed constituents who staged a sit-in at his office to protest Ryan’s plan to pay for access to his town hall meetings here (oh, but he’s a common sense, Catholic conservative according to our corporate media, not a shameless lackey for the “pay no price, bear no burden” investor class doing ALEC’s bidding…sure he is)
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“Straight Talk” McCain and Huckleberry Graham for thanking every country but the U.S. for their role in topping Quaddafi in August here (the lengths that some people won’t go to in order to take a swipe at Number 44 – why do they hate America?)
Dregs of the Year Nominee (“One Really BAA-AAD Idea” Citation)
PA Gov. Tom “Space Cadet” Corbett gets it for his education budget cuts that forced schools in Carlisle, PA to use sheep to cut grass instead of lawnmowers here (unbelievable).
Dregs of the Year Nominee (Special “Born Free…Of Intelligence” Citation)
Texas (of course) GOP congressional candidate Roger Williams compared welfare recipients to donkeys here (takes one to know one, dude).
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Repug U.S. House Rep Steve Chabot of Ohio for banning cell phones and video recorders (which happens to be illegal) from his “town hall” events as a response to push-back he got over lying about Planned Parenthood here (this tactic is also utterly appalling – what country am I living in again?)...
…though it looks like somebody got the message to this clown (here).
Dregs of the Year Nominees (Commemorative “Seven Days In May” Citation)
William Gheen, head of the hardline anti-immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration, who appeared on the talk radio show of “Christian” wingnut Janet Mefferd to discuss plans for an actual military coup against Obama here…so the citation goes out to Gheen, Mefferd – who apparently treated this in kind of a typical blasé manner instead of telling Gheen that he and his pals are nuts and engaging in a criminal act – and those shadowy characters who are actually discussing and probably planning treason against this country; I just asked the question, but I’m keen to ask it once more…what country am I living in again?)
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Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, who said here that he expect unemployment to remain high “for years” (for a guy who wrote his thesis on the Great Depression I believe, he sure is dumb as a rock when it comes to putting people back to work)
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Daniel Webster and Tim Griffin for this…
“Perhaps A Distant Relative of Chase Utley?” Commemorative Citation
As noted here…
Global news outlets and blogs in Asia have focused this week on a young woman who graduated top of her class at a prestigious college in Singapore. Except they aren't raving about the student's accomplishments. They're abuzz with a bad word she dropped in her graduation speech, according to Singapore's Straits Times.Might as well blame those lazy, overweight, unemployed Americans for that also, huh?
"We f–king did it!" Trinetta Chong exclaimed to congratulate her peers at Nanyang Technical University's 2011 graduating ceremony. The 23-year-old's remark came after what a local reports called a "rousing" six-minute speech.
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation, for using unpaid Chinese laborers to complete the memorial here (the dedication ceremony was postponed from August 28th due to Hurricane Irene – I seem to recall Dr. King having a thing or two to say about economic opportunity; in fact, supporting it was the last thing he did before he died...more here)
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Stuart Varney of Fix Noise gets it for saying the poor lack “a richness of spirit” here…
You know what? Upon further consideration, I must tell you that I don’t even know what the #@!$ that means, but if nothing else, it’s still pretty damn stupid.
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“Goodhair” Perry earns a mention here for billing the U.S. $350 million, supposedly for the cost of Texas incarcerating undocumented immigrants; the thought process (or what passes for one) I guess is that it’s the fault of the federal government for not passing immigration reform.
As noted here, that same supposedly awful federal government assumed $10 million of Texas debt when that state entered the union in 1845 (no idea how that translates to current dollars). So Perry really should shut his pie hole on this (but why pass up the chance for a good sound bite, I guess?).
Oh, and Perry wrongfully claimed that "tort reform" has been a panacea in his state, when in fact, you could argue that it has increased Medicare spending in his state, as noted here.
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Glenn Beck for calling Hurricane Irene a “blessing” here (typically disgusting)…
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California school superintendent Larry Powell for this…
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The Pima County, AZ Republican Party for this (hard to find the words to truly communicate my disgust)…
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President Obama for backing down on creating and enforcing a new standard on ozone pollution here (it’s almost comical to see how many times President Hopey Changey gets rolled by his foes…we need a fighting Dem, but unfortunately, we’re stuck with someone who, more often than not, is nothing but a martinet...lately, though, he's shown a bit more of a spine, which I attribute to OWS)
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New York State Rep Leo Berman of the Crazy Party here for being the one to get all that “anti-Sharia law” crap propagated all over the country, particularly the south of course (a “solution” in search of a problem)
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Repug U.S. House Rep Jim Renacci of Ohio for banning a cameraman from the Democratic Party-aligned group American Bridge from his most recent town hall here (I’m sure Mikey the Beloved is taking notes)
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Repug U.S. House Rep Mike Coffman of Colorado, who said here that having Peace Corps volunteers teaching English in China is “an insult to the American taxpayer” (oh yeah, it’s the fault of the Peace Corps that our supposedly august captains of industry in this country, in their eternal, dunderheaded stupidity, gave away the computer hardware business to China and the lion’s share of software development to India to turn a quick profit, to say nothing of adding to the deficit they pretend to care about…God forbid we should act like we belong to a community of nations – so “pre-9/11,” right?)
Dregs of the Year Nominee (Collectively)
The Richmond, VA area Holiday Inn that cancelled an engagement with that sleazy weasel Eric Cantor, citing liberal protestors that the Inn said were “a security threat” here (a demonstration was planned the same night Cantor was slated to speak – yeah, and your breakfast buffet stinks too)
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Alex Dicandio, a college student in Tampa, attended a Phillies road game against the Florida Marlins and tried to catch what would have been a ground-ruled double at the very least by Hunter Pence of the Phillies (possibly a home run) with his cap, and ended up interfering with Marlins’ right fielder Bryan Petersen here (and yes, Dicandio is a Phillies fan apparently since he was wearing a team jersey).
Pence was ultimately ruled out on the play, quite probably negating two runs that would have given the Phillies the lead and possibly a win in a game they ended up losing in 14 innings.
So what did Dicandio say? “It should have been a home run.” It probably would have been, doofus, if you hadn’t interfered (yes, calling the player out in that situation is a stupid rule, though it is a matter of interpretation I realize, but trying to change that is a topic for another day; because of the ump’s ruling, Phils manager Charlie Manuel complained and was tossed, and the team played the rest of the game under protest).
Do Gooder of the Year Nominee
Mike Lofgren, former staff member of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote a column here for TruthOut in which he explained why he left Capitol Hill after 30 years and why Republicans are not to be trusted and have devolved into a cult, in his insider opinion (kudos for speaking truth to stupid).
More later (we're getting there).
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