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[Royal☭]

Discerning individuals have known that Obama is a half-reptile man since.... 2005...?

[Büge]

Discerning individuals have known that Obama is a Vardan pawn since.... 2005...?

[Shinra]

It starts out as just "Sign a treaty saying you'll take care of the disabled", but that's only the first toe into the giving-up-your-sovereignty pool. Next thing you know, they'll let their inspectors get rid of our nuclear weapons. Then it's just a hop, jump and a skip to one of their Sustainability Enforcers politely making you get back on your Chinese-built touring bike and return back to your Accommodating Living Unit and be quiet. And once that happens, you can kiss most of the human race goodbye as the half-reptile men will finally being their interbreeding plans.

And that's why we can't agree to start treating the disabled well. We're doing it for your freedom. Remember to kick a guy out of his wheelchair today to let him know how much you love being free.

Look you gal-dang idjert, you think yer so smart with yer ivory league edu-tower and your big fancy book-learnin, but I know when they put that nigger back in the white house and slapped a fresh coat a' black on it he was gonna sign one a them treaty-mc-jiggers, that way he could skip the true patriots in our house of representatives and hand the power straight over to the monkey-boon or whatever his name is in that there Unutted Not-Nations. Did you know them idjerts signed a treaty to take away EVERYBODY'S guns and the NIGGER supports it?

^^ this is every conversation I've had with conservatives about the UN in the last six months. Seriously, this is what we've come to. We are not part of the international community anymore because half of our two-party system consists of flailing infants.

[Healy]

But just in case you thought the GOP was moving toward the center, well, today's news is they've found a whole new minority group to alienate: the disabled.

A vote to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities fell short in the Senate Tuesday, with the measure receiving 61 votes, six less than the 67 needed for ratification. Thirty-eight Republicans voted no.

The treaty promotes equal rights for disabled people around the world, including those with physical disabilities such as blindness. If the Senate had voted for ratification, the United States would have joined 126 other countries that are party to the treaty, which was modeled on the Americans with Disabilities Act. Ratifying the treaty would have given the United States greater standing to push other nations to pass measures similar to that 1990 law.

Think THAT'S cold?

Supporters of the treaty included two former Republican presidential candidates, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, both of whom suffered from disabilities as a result of their military service. Dole, who is 89 and has been battling health issues, lobbied senators from a wheelchair in the Senate chamber before the vote was taken.

The GOP: anti-woman, anti-black, anti-brown, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-science, and anti-veteran.  And I'm sure I've missed a few.

The party's descent into disrepute is happening far too slowly.

Jesus Christ, the GOP can't jump off a cliff fast enough.

[Ted Belmont]

Jim DeMint ragequits the Senate.

[Mongrel]

"I ALWAYS MEANT TO ONLY DO TWO TERMS. YEAH."

[Thad]

Wow, they're not even waiting until they get voted out to become lobbyists anymore.

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank research organization - the premier idea group for the conservative movement. This will give me the opportunity to help take our case to the American people and to translate our policies into real ideas.

Is that why you voted against their healthcare plan, Jimmy?

[Royal☭]

It's telling now that he's outright saying he has a better chance of crafting legislation by being a lobbyist than a congressman.

[Thad]

Derek Khanna fired.

(For those of you just joining us, he's the guy who wrote an absolutely amazing paper advocating copyright reform, which his bosses retracted the very next day.)

[Brentai]

I guess the good has to balance with the evil when it comes to sudden ejections.

[Mongrel]

It would be an amazing coup for the Democrats to hire the guy and steal that position, but that's simply not gonna happen.

Interestingly, this whole sequence of events is probably the most blatant federal example of a party being bought and paid for I can think of in a little while (not THAT long). I mean, that stuff is always bubbling pretty visibly near the surface these days, but this was even closer than most events.

Not that voters will notice of course.

[Healy]

I said it before and I'll say it again: GOP can't jump off a cliff fast enough.

[Shinra]

Charlie Crist, Democrat.

[Angry Beaver]

He can't win, and honestly running again would probably stick us with another 4 years of Governor Voldemort.

[Thad]

It would be an amazing coup for the Democrats to hire the guy and steal that position, but that's simply not gonna happen.

Haha, no, not with Dodd in charge of the MPAA and Biden in the VP's office.

Interestingly, this whole sequence of events is probably the most blatant federal example of a party being bought and paid for I can think of in a little while (not THAT long). I mean, that stuff is always bubbling pretty visibly near the surface these days, but this was even closer than most events.

Yeah, it's like they're not even trying.  I mean, there was that half-assed little "This had nothing to do with Hollywood lobbyists, the paper was just released without proper review" nonsense, but I can't imagine they expect anyone will actually believe that.

Not that voters will notice of course.

Right -- this isn't going to get a whole lot of coverage in the mainstream press.

As far as the independent online press, well, hellooooo Streisand Effect, but ultimately this is just going to be one more small piece of the GOP's excruciatingly slow slide to public disfavor.  Most people quite simply don't vote based on copyright stance.  (Though that, of course, is a catch-22; if a major-party candidate WERE to take a public stand on the subject that was different from every other damn major-party candidate's, I imagine we'd see a bump in the youth vote.)  Hell, as impressed as I am by Khanna's position on copyright, if he were to run for office I'd still have to hear his stance on science/women/immigrants/gays/the disabled before I'd commit to voting for him.

I DO see Khanna landing on his feet; SOMEBODY is going to want to hire him after this.

[Thad]

Taibbi: Jim DeMint: The Fireman Ed of Politics

So this is a mutual split. The Tea Partiers were sick to the point of puking of RINO types like Boehner who are gearing up to put the Republican Party's name on a massive tax increase and may eventually bend on choice, immigration and gay rights. The Republican establishment, meanwhile, is sick of waking up every morning wondering which of the party's extremist dingbats has decided that the best way to win national elections is to give interviews calling carbon dioxide a safe, naturally-occurring gas or demanding that unmarried, sexually-active women be barred from teaching children. The disgust these two groups feel for each other is genuine and in some cases may actually exceed the disgust they feel toward opponents on the blue side of the aisle.

Any pundit who tries to claim he knows where all of this is going is lying. This schism could be a disaster for Republicans (because it will further alienate the rank-and-file, middle-and-working-class voters from the party establishment, which will now be bashed from the outside by DeMint and the Tea Party), or it could actually be a good thing for the Republicans' future prospects (there's a way to look at this as a long-overdue purge of the party's moron faction).

Or it could all be irrelevant. Remember, the Democrats were facing a similarly bitter split not too long ago, when their party's mainstream unforgivably backed Bush's idiotic Iraq invasion and then saddled us with a war-waffling presidential candidate in John Kerry. And just like the Republicans after Romney, the Democrats after the Kerry loss felt hopeless, depressed and self-hating – you heard a lot of "Screw it, I'm moving to Iceland" talk. Four years later, the party sold the identical Kerry policy package in an exciting new Obama wrapper, and suddenly people were partying in the streets. You just never know how these things will turn out.

[Büge]

Gingrich: If Hillary Clinton Runs In 2016, Current GOP 'Incapable Of Competing'

[Shinra]

Every once in a while Newt leaks a bit and ends up being likable. Fuck.

Is it just me or does Paul Ryan sound a little bitter about Mitt's failed strategy?

[Brentai]

Republicans figure out a way to vote on raising taxes without voting on raising taxes.  Or rather, they're sponsoring two bills, one with a tax increase and one without, and will vote on both.  I guess the reasoning is that when somebody asks later, they can say they voted not to raise taxes (and omit the part where they also voted to raise taxes).

I wanted to get all upset that they put honesty as a lower priority than upholding their dumbass social price-fixing scheme but then I realized they're only really trying to bluff the barons who are going to hold them responsible for it.  Ah, this'll be fun.

[Thad]

I really don't think the barons are that stupid.  I think they're trying to bluff the blue-collar people who vote Republican because they THINK they're going to be barons someday.

...this is...really, really half-assed and transparent.  Leads me to believe they really DIDN'T have a plan for the last year and a half that they knew this was going to happen and they really were putting all their eggs in the "sweep the elections" basket.

Guess I'm not being entirely fair.  As I've said, Boehner HAS made the shrewdest political move in all this, by punishing a few of the key Congressmen who refused to play ball and got us into this mess in the first damn place.  Bit of a contrast to all the Democrats lining up to kiss Joe Lieberman's wrinkled ass four years ago.