Showing posts with label Merkin politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merkin politics. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Spouse of US Supreme Court judge starts her own teabagging lobby group.

And just guess which judge that might be.

Bingo. Virginia Thomas, who stood by her man in spite of his history of sexually harassing female colleagues is
launching her own rightwing lobby group.

As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action.

"I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you," she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. [...]

In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative "core principles," she said.

The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from various sources - including corporations - as allowed under campaign finance rules recently loosened by the Supreme Court.

"I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country," Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said on the panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great."

Ginni may have also felt the call of the
buckets of munnee to be made from the Tea Party Patriots Nation.

Monday, 8 December 2008

Lessons about Feminism from a Virulent Feminist Hater

Via small dead brains, we find out that self-righteous rightwing political zealots never spare the hyperbole when they deign to shrieeekkk about sexism.

Never mind that this one gets downright hissy when it's pointed out to him the faux outrage he claims in the name of women's rights, regarding a 'sexual assault' he compares to the gang rape depicted in "The Accused" is actually a disgraceful, dumb and drunken gesture directed at a cardboard figure.

For which an apology has been issued.

It is so instructive how right-wing ideologues such as Andrew Breitbart trivialize the real, harmful and life-threatening violence that is done to girls and women when they use their deliberately wrong-headed understanding of feminism as a weapon to batter their political opponents.

The pic of Breitbart was found at LoneStarBear.

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Fetus Fetishists' Nightmare

Obama chooses head of Health and Human Services: Tom Daschle.

Hee. The Catlicks call him a nightmare.

So, that means Merkin pro-choicers are dancing in the streets, right?

Not necessarily.

Daschle's record on reproductive and sexual health and rights is a mixed one. NARAL Pro-Choice America rated him 50% for his support for the (non-medically termed) Partial Birth Abortion Ban, and for the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, a bill that makes it a crime to prosecute a perpetrator for two crimes in a violent crime against a pregnant woman. Daschle, also, however, opposes the ban on abortion procedures in military hospitals and supports expanding funding embryonic stem cell research.


*sigh* Six of one, half-dozen of the other. Looks like women's rights are subject to 'bipartisanship' again, aka 'we'll-get-around-to-you-uppity-bitches-eventually-ship'.