Turns Out "The Party Of Life" Has Higher Priorities

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The next time you hear the rotted- out Republican Party refer to itself as the "Party of Life," because of its sanctimonious solicitousness for life before birth (but not after!), remember what its real priority is and always has been:  holding power at all costs.  To these two- legged rats, keeping power means keeping the economy from tanking and maintaining the fiction that they've been its smart stewards.  It's especially evident since the icon and Dear Leader of the party, sociopathic nitwit Donald "Moron Vector" Trump is in a fever to put people at risk in the misbegotten service of saving the economy his re- election chances. (Karma's a bitch: As we note in an earlier post below, the COVID-19 cases are increasing in states that voted for Moron Vector.)

When #gopdeathpanels started to trend as a result of comments by Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan "Under The Bus, Grandma" Patrick, dumbest person in the Senate and shame of Wisconsin Ron "Tiny" Johnson, and right- wing media twatwaffles like Fox "News'" Steve Hilton and Glenn Beck (who said "I'd rather die than kill the country" -- be our guest, Glennie!), it should have been (but likely won't be) a permanent definer of the essential hypocrisy and deep cynicism of this collection of sociopaths, con artists and misfits calling itself a party.  These "pro- lifers" are perfectly willing to sacrifice the most vulnerable to prop up their political and financial fortunes and those of the likes of Dear Leader, just like their facile abandonment of their small government, laissez- faire philosophy for a big government -- shall we say socialist -- philosophy, occurs only when their cushy asses are on the line.  (If they were going to use the cudgel of "socialism" against even the most centrist Democrats this year, the trillions of pump- priming dollars they voted to go into the private sector should dispense with that line of attack.)

Were it not for the criminal incompetence of Dear Leader in the early days of the crisis, and continuing to this day with his refusal to use the Defense Production Act to get critical supplies and ventilators manufactured and deployed, we wouldn't hear these right- wing social Darwinists revealing themselves as the selfish sociopaths that they and Dear Leader are.  Now that they've said their quiet parts out loud, don't ever let them get away with that "Party of Life" bullshit.

(Image: Drew Sheneman, The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ)

Tweet of the Day

If you think that you deserve four marriages but gay people don't deserve one, maybe it's not God's will you should be worried about.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 2, 2015

Kim "Dim" Davis, the Bible-thumping, bigoted Kentucky county clerk refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, apparently has no problem violating "God's laws" when it comes to her own situation.  Dim is on her fourth (!) marriage, and had twins that were fathered by a man other than her husband.

Dim, and the other dimwits in her office, are scheduled to appear in court tomorrow morning to face contempt charges for ignoring orders, including the Supreme Court's, to issue licenses.  We think Dim's playing this for money on the wingnut welfare circuit.  She could quit her county clerk job and land a "Christian" book deal and end up speaking to other Bible-thumping hypocrites.  Maybe she'll find a fifth husband out there, too.

Birds Of A Feather Pic

In 2010, Michelle Duggar accepted a "Mother of the Year" award from disgraced pastor Doug Phillips (right with beard), who resigned his ministry in 2013 after an adulterous affair. When she accepted that award, she and her husband already had been covering up for their son Josh Diddler Duggar's sexual abuse of several younger girls, including his sisters.  Great "Christian" holier-than-thou hypocrisy all around.

Of Beards, Blessings, and Terrorists

No one is better at exposing the right-wing's hypocrisy over the Bergdahl prisoner exchange than Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.  The wingnut Wurlitzer / Fux Channel Berghazi Bendahl poo factory has been in a lather over Bob Bergdahl's (Muslim?) beard and his use of an Islamic blessing last week at the White House.  Watch how he reminds us of Dumbya's acceptance of the blessing, and of the Fuxers' cultivation of the true domestic terrorists at Nevada's Bundy "ranch."

Very Hairy Quote of the Day

“First of all, who the f*ck are you to judge what a guy does if he thinks it might help him get his son back? And I don’t want to complicate your hatred of facial hair there, friend, but my guess is if you gave Bob Berg-dahl a bandana and a duck, you’d like him just f*cking fine.” -- Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night, reaming Fux and Friends' idiot Brian "Kill Me Now" Kilmeade for criticizing former POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's father's beard.  Shown above recently is the Fux and Friends cast, with Kill Me Now on, appropriately, the far right during one of their many homages to the Duck Dynasty's racist Robertson klan.

BONUS:  Saving us invaluable time, Steve M. over at No More Mister Nice Blog has all the craven hypocrisy of the flip-flopping right-wingers here, here, and here.

BONUS II:  Annnnd, Freak Out Nation has more (h/t Mock Paper Scissors).

You're A Bad Man, Gunga Dim

Rabid wingnut and Obama smearer Dinesh "Gunga Dim" D'Souza is out as the head of The Kings College in New York, after it was revealed that this self-promoted paragon of virtue was diddling a younger wingnut* to whom he somehow got engaged despite the inconvenience of already being married, with a teenage daughter no less. The college is a self-described evangelical institution which apparently doesn't look kindly on adulterers serving as their president.

Gunga Dim is responsible for the hate-filled film "2016: Obama's America," a classic in the genre of right wing fact-free propaganda. He's a proponent of the violent neocon "clash of civilizations" nuttery that is on a mission to engage in war wherever we can manufacture an excuse. He, of course, has never served in the U.S. armed forces. As a true wingnut, Gunga Dim doesn't believe the rules the rest of us follow apply to him. It's good that he got caught and canned.

* UPDATE: Turns out the mistress was married, too. Dontcha love those traditional values Christian Rethuglicans?!

(photo: A face that only a fellow wingnut could love)