Politics Plus

Ever since he explained that “Die Quickly” is the key feature of the Republican Health care Plan for the poor and middle classes, I have been a fan of Alan Grayson.  That’s what gave me the idea for “The RepubliCare Death Benefit”.  He has written a highly interesting piece about how he is being attacked by a website popular with the Republican base.  Here’s a taste:

Yesterday I had the temerity, the gall, the (dare I say it?) chutzpah to point out that for the past five months, every single elected Republican in Congress was a white Christian.

The Nazis are not pleased. Frankly, I have never been a favorite of theirs, but now they are really pissed off.

The “white nationalists” congregate at an online watering hole called Stormfront.org. The home page, in Fraktur font (look it up), proudly boast that “Every Month is White History Month”. Stormfront.org is famous for, among other things, trying to dictate the results of a Fox News online poll on racial segregation, because it takes one to know one, or something like that.

Lest you think that this is a non-serious matter, please be advised that according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Stormfront members have murdered almost 100 people during the past five years alone. No Members of Congress yet, though.

So yesterday at Stormfront, under the heading “News,” subheading “Politics & Continuing Crises,” there popped up a report called “Jew revealed: Florida Rep. Alan Grayson attacks GOP as the party of white Christians.”

The writer explained his sad tale: “I tried to unsubscribe before[,] yet this Jew keeps sending me his lunatic Europhobic and anti-Christian rant that reeks of atavistic hatred.” [Note to neo-Nazis: Punctuation has a purpose. Use it properly.]

Talk about “atavistic hatred.” He didn’t call me a schweinhund. But he wanted to. I could tell…

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Please click through.  There's lots more.

Those Stormfront Republicans sure were fast to jump to defend their party of choice.

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how lunatic InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.

Rupert Murdoch: Basically, just don’t be Muslim.

Fox, O’Reilly, CNN and right-wingers of all kinds have been harping away at the Muslim community all week about the need for moderate Muslims the world over to condemn the Charlie Hebdo attack and subsequent violence in Paris. Many Muslims and their leaders have done just that, although Fox can’t seem to locate these numerous condemnations. Bill Maher grudgingly seemed to make some distinction between more moderate and extremist Muslims on Friday night, though he still refers to the “Muslim world” as a single block of identically minded violent people. But Rupert Murdoch does them all one better. Blame moderate Muslims, even if they condemn extremist jihadis.

On Friday evening, the News Corp CEO took to Twitter [Fascist delinked] to express his feelings that all Muslim people, even the peaceful ones, “should be held responsible” for “their growing jihadist cancer.”

It seems there is only one solution: Don’t be Muslim. Just stop being Muslim. But that is probably not enough. Stop being from the Muslim part of the world. You can’t expect us to be able to tell who is Muslim and who is not.

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Does this extreme Republican actually believe people can change their heritage? Maybe he cold tell them to be Latinos, so he can express his hatred by calling they illegals instead.

This is only one of six Republican lunacies from last week alone. Click through for the other five.

I trust you remember the controversy that erupted when some on the left nicknamed General Davis Petraeus as General Betrayus.  I was one.  I later issued a correction.  I’ll get to why I was wrong to admit I was wrong later, but for now, Petraeus probably did end up betraying us after all.

The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against David H. Petraeus, contending that he provided classified information to a lover while he was director of the C.I.A., officials said, and leaving Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to decide whether to seek an indictment that could send the pre-eminent military officer of his generation to prison.

The Justice Department investigation stems from an affair Mr. Petraeus had with Paula Broadwell, an Army Reserve officer who was writing his biography, and focuses on whether he gave her access to his C.I.A. email account and other highly classified information.

F.B.I. agents discovered classified documents on her computer after Mr. Petraeus resigned from the C.I.A. in 2012 when the affair became public.

Mr. Petraeus, a retired four-star general who served as commander of American forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan, has said he never provided classified information to Ms. Broadwell, and has indicated to the Justice Department that he has no interest in a plea deal that would spare him an embarrassing trial. A lawyer for Mr. Petraeus, Robert B. Barnett, said Friday he had no comment…

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Rachel Maddow has more detail and interviewed Michael Schmidt, the author of the above article.

The reason I was wrong to retroactively approve Petraeus’ Iraq strategy is that bribing Sunni terrorists to join us, arming them and training them provided only a temporary respite, because he also propped up the Maliki regime, that would not share any power or wealth with the Sunni.  He left behind a highly trained and well armed force of angry Sunni.  These are the basis around which ISIL formed.  He is as responsible for the existence ISIL as ChickenHawk Cheney and his puppet, Crawford Caligula.

Now considering all the effort DOJ spends going after whistle blowers, it’s absurd not to prosecute this man who did more damage to our security than all of them combined.

I disagree with Schmidt in classifying this war criminal as a war hero in the video. Add one more Republican to the list of war criminals that Eric Holder should have prosecuted, but hasn’t.