House M.D.
AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE A CONSERVATIVE TEA PARTY BECAUSE A CONSERVATIVE TEA PARTY DON’T STOP!
Seriously. You might have thought that the tea partiers had packed up their homemade often misspelled signs and their bejeweled flag t-shirts so they could get back home to their miserable lives but think again. They’re like a band of traveling gypsies who dress poorly and keep showing up uninvited. On Thursday thousands of activists who aren’t really sure what they’re protesting camped out at the Capitol for what was referred to as the “Super Bowl of Freedom,” sponsored by Republican members of Congress.
Per WashPost:
Many of the demonstrators chanted “Weasel Queen,” their pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid; they were covered in fake blood and carrying dolls representing aborted fetuses, as the Grim Reaper led them in chains to hell.
In the front of the protest, a sign showed President Obama in white coat, his face painted to look like the Joker. The sign, visible to the lawmakers as they looked into the cameras, carried a plea to “Stop Obamunism.” A few steps farther was the guy holding a sign announcing “Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds” [sic], accusing Obama of being part of a Jewish plot to introduce the Antichrist.
But the best of [Michelle] Bachmann’s recruits were a few rows into the crowd, holding aloft a pair of 5-by-8-foot banners proclaiming “National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945.” Both banners showed close-up photographs of Holocaust victims, many of them children.
Could there be any more mixed messages? There are like eight different protests going on here. When in doubt, throw in the Holocaust, the Grim Reaper and a couple of fetuses. For good measure.
Naturally our own Rep. Jeb Hensarling was out there rallying the troops and, according to WP, standing in front of the tastefully done Dachau banner. Rep. John Carter pointed to the House office buildings and, apparently forgetting for a minute that he’s a House member, encouraged the protesters, “Go get ‘em!” No. Really. I have no idea why Texas gets a bad name.
The ubiquitous Jon Voight brought the D-list star power to the event, standing with the lawmakers and saying of Obama, “Could it be he has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Reverend Wright to damn America?” I’m pretty sure the only people who’ve been programmed are the feeble-minded and easily brainwashed protesters. Go get ‘em.
Tagged: jeb hensarling, john carter, tea party.
rkw says:
Too bad that the holocaust victims, along with aborted fetuses and the grim reaper could not be there to protest their own misrepresentations.
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Bill Brasky says:
Oh thank God, Eileen Smith is here to save us from ourselves.
Your perspective is much like your lower intestine…stinky.
Pffffffft.
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potted meat Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
you do it, Bill.
/waiting.
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Eileen Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Someone has to save you. God handed me the job.
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West Texas Hillbilly says:
I’m hungry. Somebody make me a conservative fetus sandwich.
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potted meat says:
This whole event was so over the line, so offensive: have these people any idea of how OUT THERE they are? A large banner of dead corpses piled up…….the Jewish, Gypsy, Polish, Catholic communities should come forward and attack these ‘representatives’ with ‘enough, and expose them for the idiots they are, and the lies they are creating , in desecrating the dead.
The only thing that made any sense, was the original CT, that the moneyed families control the government lackeys….but you have to say that Bush was playing that game, if you accuse Obama.
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Lake Worth Monster says:
When I used to teach 8th and 9th graders, it was somewhat amusing to hear how getting a zit was on a par with getting cancer or being embarrased at the party last Friday was absolutely the worst thing that had ever happened to anybody. At least we could hope that someday these adolescents would grow up and have real world experiences that would put these inconveniences into perspective. Apparently some of these folks haven’t grown up if they equate getting their insurance paid for with the willful extermination of over 6 million people. Maybe they really were born on third base and thought they hit a triple after all.
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Kate says:
It is safely inappropriate to equate genocide with anything other than genocide.
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Don't Mess w/ Pink says:
I love it when the whackos are all a-doodle. It means someone somewhere is doing something right.
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all_hail_the_pink Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
“a-doodle”…that’s funny…I like it!
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Don't Mess w/ Pink says:
And meanwhile, the rest of us are joining “An Arbitrary Number of People Demanding That Some Sort of Action be Taken” on Facebook. 98,000 members, or something, demanding that someone doing something about something. It’s all the rage.
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Rog says:
This just in. The Teabaggers have scattered and gone home. It seems an African American asked if he could join the group.
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all_hail_the_pink says:
Crazy…your table is ready! Seriously…what is going on in the minds of these people? They blame everyone else but themselves…someone get them a mirror.
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Caldonia says:
The liberal wingnuts that commented above just cant ‘get it’….The demonstrations are about Government controlling our lives and having to live in a ‘Nanny’ state. Controlling the health care delivery system is a big step toward influencing the perspective of those who must depend on a government bureaucracy for their health care and even basic survival.
…and just fyi for those who don’t know, the Holocaust was a product of a very complex legal structure relating to health and social issues which were lifted by Hitler in the mid 30’s almost verbatim from the legal system that was in place in America during the 20’s and 30’s. A legal system influenced by Margaret Sanger, planned parenthood,and geneticists as well as by US Supreme Court decisions upholding sterilization of mentally challenged citizens in the US.
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West Texas Hillbilly Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Caladonia, your tin foil hat is too tight. You can continue to pay profits to health insurance companies that will decide if your treatment fits their quarterly business plan. It’s up to you.
How’s that Nazi Fire Department, Police Department, Defense Department, Education Department, and Highway Department treating you these days? And probably Health Department for you or your parents…
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Don't Mess w/ Pink Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Oh, my. I almost actually started to reply to the comparison of our legal system to the Nazis’. Then I found the mind I had lost and decided to have a bourbon and water instead.
/And that’s “liberal elite” to you, Caldonia.
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Lake Worth Monster Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Cal, And? You just disproved your point. All of the so-called pieces you mention were in place in the USA in the 20’s and 30’s and guess what? No Holocoust over here, even with the ‘Socialist’ agenda of the New Deal. No Nazi takeover. Your arguement doesn’t add up if you spend time to think about it. Wearing a dark suit will not cause dandruff, stepping on a crack will not break your mother’s back and a national health care system won’t cause anything resembling 1930’s Germany. We seem to have survived Medicare and Medicade for the past 50 years, even prospered and I fail to be convinced by your arguement that extending it to some of the 46 million Americans who can’t get health insurance will be the end of the American way of life.
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Outsider Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I hope I never get it.
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Dukakis in a tank Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Caldonia is just mad because he got sterilized back in the 20s and/or 30s. In America, of course.
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Cronopio says:
Oooh, the crazy is strong in Caldonia.
*backs away slowly*
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potted meat says:
Tin Foil Republicans.
it’s official.
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Jed says:
don’t do that. you’re giving us official tin foil wearers a bad name, lumping the new doofus crew in with us.
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Pinkie Swear says:
Michelle Bachmann scares the crap out of me. She’s got the crazy eyes.
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Pinkles says:
I kinda like being called a ” liberal wingnut”…beats the crap out of being known as a “teabagger”
“adolescent” + “teabagger” is redundant, so it follows…
the only thing I don’t get is why I keep hearing the same shit: “Nanny state”, “government controlling our lives”, “Nazi”
…now the new fancy and pretty lies about the Ft. Hood shooting: “PC is what done us all in”….”It was only a matter of time before ‘they’ infiltrated our military”
Doesn’t anyone think for themselves, fer crying out loud?
can’t they come up with some new stuff? It’s been a year
good LORD, quit watching Becker’s pecker and go find a book or something. You’re doomed, accept it and move on
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Pinkles says:
On the tragedy at Ft. Hood: How many conservative geniuses want to take a shot at asking questions such as:
Is it possible that this guy was a bad doc, in addition to being a shhh….whisper now: Muslim?
Is it possible that this factored into his inability to put his oath as a doctor above his religion?
Will any of his superiors be questioned as to whether or not the “concerns” about his performance at Walter Reed were adequately communicated upon his arrival at Ft. Hood?
Is it possible that these “concerns” were not adequately resolved and that Walter Reed did what so many others in medicine do: “pass the trash”?
Ooh, here’s a nice juicy one for conservative know-it-alls: Don’t our soldiers deserve the best, most disciplined, professional and competent medical personnel tending to their needs?
Why are we insulting our military personnel by using such politicized and sensationalized garbage to rationalize why this doctor was allowed to continue to practice when there were so many red flags about his ability to do his job?
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treehugger Reply:
November 8th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Why are we insulting our military personnel by using such politicized and sensationalized garbage to rationalize why this doctor was allowed to continue to practice when there were so many red flags about his ability to do his job?
Its Texas. They thought he’d fit in.
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treehugger Reply:
November 8th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Quotation marks. Sorry ’bout that, Pinkles.
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potted meat says:
If you make me coffee, I’ll answer these questions, and tell you the secrets of the universe.
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West Texas Hillbilly Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
42.
/now you have to make your own coffee.
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Big Pharma CEO says:
The right wingers who are convinced government sponsored healthcare will kill healthcare providers and therefore “choice” always make me laugh. Our profit margin for working with HMO’s is around 17%. My margin for working with Medicaid and Medicare is around 55%(which is about 85% better than GM). If Jesus hears my prayers we’ll expand Medicare to everyone. I’ll then buy a yacht I’ll call the Lady Miss Barney Frank, and I’ll swim around naked in my pile of money like Scrouge McDuck. Also that little old planned Obama tax increase on top earners to pay for it looks like a rounding error against my income. But thank you to all the right wingers making $40k/yr for sticking up for my estate tax waiver. I know I’ve got three Washington lobbying firms, an accounting firm, and every tax shelter imaginable but I know the only thing that really helps me work the system is a paranoid mob in Ron Paul t-shirts. Eileen, excellent work as always.
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all_hail_the_pink says:
God, I love you true Pinksters!!! I do have one question…when did we start answering to the Catholic church to make decisions about legislation in this country? No disrespect to the Catholic faith but I don’t remember consulting a Jewish rabbi or a Muslim imam before passing any kind of legislation. I’m just saying…
Oh, and as to Cal…just remember…you can’t fix crazy!
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potted meat says:
I agree, except , what % of ALL legislation has Isreali influence?
There is a cottage industry around this question.
There is a stronger feeling than perhaps anytime since it’s creation, that, to much American policy is influenced by Israel, and Isreal is afforded a different set of ‘rules’ than all the other countries.
I am not adding support or detraction to any of this: not this late at nite, but it is all there for all to view.
/’nite.
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Pinkles says:
“It’s Texas. They thought he’d fit in”
:D
PM, I ain’t domesticated but I hear if you put a spoon or two in them jars of instant and put some hot water in to boot, you might have something there
not like the donuts, which is a whole other kinda deal involving those rolled up biscuits, a couple of small children near a good grease fire and what not…but
;D
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Anonymous says:
sounds good! plus, the great fun of popping open the biscuit can.
mmmm.
let’s see, where did I put the hot water…..
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Trev says:
Tea Party – the lynchmob that dare not speak its name.
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Morgan K Freeberg says:
Just dang, Eileen. You’re so angry you’re about to explode. Your words practically leap off the screen.
What is it about people who want to be controlled by others? They’re always so cool and happy until someone else comes along to stand up for liberty and freedom…and it’s like they suddenly realize they should’ve been protesting that way all along. That’s what it looks like. Self-loathing.
Stop hating yourself so much, Eileen. Life’s too short. You might start by sticking up for your own control over your life, so others don’t have to do it for ya.
Have a great day!
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Eileen Reply:
November 9th, 2009 at 11:25 am
I so dig your blog.
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Pinkles says:
Okay, that one by Freeberg trumps the hugger
sorry hugger
Yeah, Eileen: quit bein’ so mad at the Republicans. Love that liberty and freedom!
/That was awesomely funny!
great start to a rather dull Monday ;)
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treehugger Reply:
November 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
No worries. Its always tough to compete with the sense-of-humor deficient troll of the week, whomever it might be.
I guess crazy doc took the hypocritic oath.
Too early?
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West Texas Hillbilly says:
Morgan, two questions: Were you the patriot with the Dachau sign or the Joker sign? Did the psychiatry degree come with your decoder ring or did you need to save even more box tops?
Have a great day being ruled by the Democratic majority in this country!
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slick says:
I heard the teabaggers had a band at their event that offered such fine tunes as “Press 1 for English”. That’s class.
Tip of the Day: A true patriot does not refer to themselves as a patriot.
Remind me how “liberty and freedom” is curtailed by allowing me an option to purchase something, such as a public insurance plan? Is it the “liberty and freedom” of insurance companies, exempt from traditional anti-trust regulation, to rip me off that you want to preserve?
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Don't Mess w/ Pink Reply:
November 9th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Hey, slick! Nice to see you!
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Don't Mess w/ Pink says:
Uh, oh. I checked out the Morgan T. Freeberg blog. I noted that s/he’s a Palin supporter (credibility FAIL) and that s/he cross-posted this thread. So we can expect some more whackadoodle comments.
I also found no rational specific criticism of any of the health care reform proposals. Go figure.
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treehugger says:
Oops, better clear your cache.
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Cindy A says:
Wish I could laugh but am just too darn disappointed that the same Americans who supported Bush and his fabricated war for killing people are then against Obama and his attempt to help those of us live who are trapped by pre-existing conditions and truly do need health care reform. Just seems all upside down crazy.
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Don't Mess w/ Pink Reply:
November 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Crazy being the operable word.
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Pinkles says:
So, the thread was cross-posted, huh?
/SPIES! FUN!
Oh Lord if the Winkies and Palinites come, let ‘em come. I need variety-the kids are starting to behave…Christmas blackmail started sooner than they expected.
Cheer up Cindy. We may get to play with loopies today.
And besides also…if one of ‘em has the Palin tome, maybe we can find out if there are actual words in it. In English.
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Morgan K Freeberg says:
Why all the hatin’ and hurtin’ over cross-posting? Pinkles, West, et al…you folks are so much smarter than everybody else and you seem so proud of it. Free advertising for you. You’re welcome.
Regarding the legislation itself…yes you have to be incredibly “smart” to like it. Some folks are missing their health care, so it proposes a fine and a jail term for anyone who doesn’t buy it. And then it costs us so much money that you could spend a quarter as much just giving cash to people to buy all the health care coverage they want.
Seriously. Try the analogy with ice cream. Some folks can’t get ice cream, so we’re going to spend $1.2 trillion of taxpayer funds on ice cream (probably store it in an open pickup truck out in the desert overnight)…and then throw people in the slammer for not buying it.
Yeah, that’s definitely the way to go, folks. Your smarmy ridicule has helped me to see the light.
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Don't Mess w/ Pink Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
No, see the problem we have is with people who don’t understand the program and make up statements like “it costs us so much money that you could spend a quarter as much just giving cash to people to buy all the health care coverage they want.” Sorry, but that is just flat-out bullshit.
Look, I’m for a single-payer system under which the government would essentially do what you are advocating — provide insurance to everyone and control costs and the provision of care just like they do with Medicare. But that little idea hit a wall because virtually all Republicans and those Democrats that have been bought and paid for by insurance companies insisted that the private-sector insurance companies must get to play. That leaves one solution. Mandate that everyone purchase insurance and set up a market-based mechanism (the insurance exchange) to provide competition to control costs, and then subsidize lower income levels to a degree. It is the same as the mandate in most (all?) states that you must buy car insurance. It should work, and it is a small price to pay to avoid citizens in the wealthiest country in the world dying from lack of health care.
If you don’t really care that people are dying, we can debate that. And if you want to debate specifics of the program, we can do that. But come with the real information. Not just the lies you hear Glen Beck spouting.
Finally, the reason your analogy comparing this to ice cream doesn’t work is, well, because it’s like comparing ice cream to health insurance. It doesn’t make any darned sense.
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Jed says:
numbers, pls.
or not.
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Jed says:
i like the analogy better with food.
some people can’t afford food, so we’re going to spend a ton of money, then require that people buy food with it.
just as long as they don’t get in front of me at the heb.
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potted meat says:
So now you want insurance *AND* food !?!
man…..
where does it end?
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Jed says:
government-run security forces for protection of life and property.
damn socialists.
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potted meat says:
Roads AND water supplies?
sheesh.
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Jed says:
i could do without the roads.
they’re just for moving the engines of oppression around.
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potted meat says:
You know, as long as there is sex and drugs, we can probably live without the rock and roll.
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Christopher says:
hey now, wait a minute here. . .since when did Jon Voight drop to D-list?
here’s an abridged history of government wisely using our tax dollars:
USPS: doing great!
Social Security: awesome, right?
Fannie Mae: good call
Medicare and Medicaid: medi-miracle
Freddie Mac: sweet
Department of Energy in 1977: let’s keep talking about ending our dependence on foreign oil for another 32 years, it’s fun to talk about
bailout: jobless recovery; saving jobs means creating jobs. . .umm, no.
cash for clunkers: great for helping more people get into more debt before they loose their jobs
cap and trade: don’t talk about that stuff the government was a part of in the past, this will work out perfectly, i promise
health care: you see the trend, right?
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