Showing posts with label your own facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label your own facts. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

January 6th Hostages Mark and Jalise Middleton and the Coming Republican attack on America

 Facts don't care about your feelings is an oft-quoted shibboleth by rightwingers.  But, what they really mean is their subjective take on society is logical reality and anything you counter their argument with is emotion based and dismissible.

We posted our crimes on Facebook
"Ass whooping' coming" - Jalise 01/05/21
In fact, their feelings are all that matter to MAGA Republicans; Facts are irrelevant and often detrimental to them, therefore Facts (and Truth and Reality) are jettisoned for their preferred narrative. 

This is nowhere more evident with January 6th.  As the saying goes Fuck Around Find Out (FAFO).  I happened upon the so-called MAGA Derek Zoolander, a disreputable chap named John Strand.  Strand is a January 6th criminal who was arrested, charged, and incarcerated for his part in the violent Trump-led successful attempt to halt the peaceful  transfer of power and thus far unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States.

Since his actions on that day, he's fully embraced the Jan6th persecuted political prisoners victimized by the Biden Department of Justice, Kamala Harris Department of Justice.  He calls himself a J6 hostage, repeats the lies about the event itself being peaceful & patriotic, and claims he did nothing wrong.  Of course, when Strand was flush with the excitement of that day, entering the Capitol to trash the place and stop the certification, exuberant, arms raised in triumph he stated, "We stormed the Capitol, it's Insane." and declared himself "amongst the first dozen patriots" who "literally made history just now".

Here's the story of the Underwear Hurricane!
The man authorities came to blame!
For something he had done!
But, as the official spokesmodel of the criminals, besides grifting for money, he's also taken to bemoaning that he and his fellow criminals are facing justice while pushing ridiculous lies about other Jan6th Insurrectionists.  So, Strand pushed the bogus claim about the convicted criminal Texas couple Mark and Jalise Middleton, who were convicted in Federal Court and sentenced and are now going to serve their sentence.

According to trial evidence and police body-worn camera footage, as the officers struggled with the group of rioters, a male individual, later identified as Mark Middleton, pushed against the barricades and the police line with his body. Officers are heard on body-worn camera footage repeatedly ordering Mark Middleton and others to “Get back!” In response, Mark Middleton is heard yelling “f— you!” as he continued to push against the police barricades. Evidence showed that Mark Middleton resisted MPD officers, grabbed onto an MPD officer’s left hand or wrist, and pulled the officer forward towards the crowd.

            At the same time, a female individual, later identified as Jalise Middleton, is seen on body-worn camera footage repeatedly grabbing and striking the same officer over the barricade with her hand. Another officer then approached to assist, and Jalise Middleton struck that officer as well. Video footage shows that the couple continued to grapple with and strike at the officers, and attempt to pull an officer into the crowd, as various flags were jabbed toward the officers’ faces.

            MPD officers later deployed a chemical spray, forcing the Middletons to retreat from the barricaded line. Both defendants later posted social media messages touting their key role in helping to breach the barricades by fighting officers and that they had only stopped due to pepper spray.

But, Strand posted this beautiful peaceful couple were in prayer and attacked from behind by the Police and are victims of Kamala Harris weaponization of the Department of Justice and thousands of replies on Elon Musk's Nazi Twitter pile on this miscarriage of justice and hope for the day when they can slaughter as many Democrats as possible.  Are the replies bots?  I don't know.  What matters is the lies Republicans tell themselves and their followers and the Fear & Anger rightwingers manifest in themselves as they believe and incestuously amplify their lies to each other.

This, by the way, explains the entire allure of senile traitor Trump.  MAGA zealots see him stride through American society like a colossus, flouting all conventions, actively ignoring Laws, getting away with massive scams and schemes which would land any of them into jail, all the while the Corporate Media kowtows and fawns over his every word, deed, and action.  Trump takes what he wants, does what he wants, shits on those who displease him, encourages hatred and death upon those who oppose him.  This is what they want to be and by latching onto him they gain some small portion of that invulnerability. 

So, as the Trump train reaches its' final stop this November 5th there are going to be a lot of desperate, financially and legally strapped people, with few options, and less hope.  Those are the sort of people who can be induced to act out.  They did so on January 6th, 2021 and when Trump calls on them to do it again...  well I don't know what's going to happen and while I doubt there will be any large-scale violence,  Republicans are going to do something.  Be prepared and don't be caught unawares.  If you can be brave do so but, protect yourself and your loved ones and be ready to defend America from another Republican led attack on Freedom and Democracy.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Conservative Fury! Senate Democrats to take away flavored Cigars

Democratic Senators, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wrote FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on Thursday urging her to ban flavored cigars. Brown joined by his Democratic Party colleagues Senators noted "these products pose a serious threat to public health" and "Flavored cigars are putting children's health at risk and increasing nicotine addiction and tobacco use among young people."
ROAR! You can pry my Hibiscus-Passion Fruit flavored cigarillo from my cold dead, nicotine stained fingers!
"Tobacco companies embody the adage ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,’" Senator Brown said in a statement. "From Joe Camel to tobacco candies and now flavored cigars, Big Tobacco is always trying to find new ways to hook young, impressionable customers—and those customers are our children.”

Faux News promoted this as more nanny-state regulation run wild and ran a story that The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association authored a petition asking Congressmen, Senators and FDA officials to: Please don’t regulate premium cigars like cigarettes! Of course, No such petition to Congress would be complete without this type of language: And As an adult I want to make my own choices in life and not have a bureaucrat at the FDA making those choices for me.

Damn FDA bureaucrats! If I want to sell cigars soaked in formaldehyde shouldn't I have that choice?

People see what they what to see. Conservatives have created an alternate history for themselves with which they must view every issue as a left/right dichotomy.

It is incontrovertible that Tobacco Companies appeal to the youngest demographic possible, with the exception of those which cater to a different niche or audience. Thus what Senator Brown is saying is true "Big Tobacco" is always trying "to find new ways to hook young, impressionable customers". It's merely good business to get customers attracted to your product as soon as possible.

But what this really shows is those who are offended and up-in-arms over Nanny State Over Regulation have no idea what they are angry about, if they did they would know the main market for funky flavored 6-for-a-dollar gas station cigars are marijuana smokers. You see "dope-smoking criminals" remove the tobacco from the cigar, pack the now empty leaf with weed and have thus created a blunt.

So, if this regulation had been targeted against Hookah Lounges or Head Shops the reaction from Faux and it's bevy of conservative genuflecting sycophants would have been much different.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Capitalism Wills It! OWS or the Tea Party? Tear Down the Faux Capitalist System.

#Occupy is calling for those accountable to be brought to justice.

Justice would be the end to the current American Capitalist System, which can be better described as Neo-Feudalism, with all profits privatized and all loses subsidized. It's really that simple, the 1% have been cultivating a political elite (The Republican Party and Business-Friendly Democrats) who cater to their whims, use the power of the Federal Government to control the economy and transfer Trillions of dollars into the hands of a small cadre of politicos, military leaders, lobbyists, and multi-national Corporations.
A University of Zurich study shows 147 interconnected Corporations - mainly Banks - control 40% of the World's Wealth.
We have an increasingly stratified class system in America, the problem is so many of the 99% refuse to believe the evidence before their eyes and fall back on the comfortable narrative peddled by the Guardians of the Rich.

The Republican Party and the Right Wing has to put the focus on President Obama, or SEIU, or ACORN, or Teachers, or lazy minorities because the fact is the system they set-up and tended to, is a rotten evil one in which the 1% have now garnered a vast majority of the wealth of the Nation. The 400 richest own more wealth than 150 Million Americans. The 1% own 70% of all Corporate Stocks. Since the 1960's the mobility of Middle Class families has been downward.

Tax laws and Governmental policy has focused on shifting the burden of the Nation onto the Middle Class to sow dissent, drive wages, and living standards down in the Race to the Bottom.

However, such blatant theft and oppression wouldn't last long if the 1% didn't turn around and blame others for the theft. Hence the "welfare queens" rhetoric and the entire mythos the Right wing has been incessantly repeating for 30 years.

It's never been more clear the distinction than when a grass-roots up-rising of the 99% called for an end to the Wall Street Corruption and were immediately smeared, called Nazis and infiltrated by Right Wing Agent Provocatuers. It's difficult for many to drop what they've been spoon-fed by Toxic Right Wing radio, Faux News, and Conservative Think Tanks.

For decades these organizations have been focused on convincing a sizable segment of the population the problems, the regressive tax structure, the deference to the Rich, the stagnant wages, the loss of the industrial base, the inflation, the growing disparity and tremendous inequality between the Well-Off and everyone else, lies with individuals (mainly liberals and minorities) and not the corrupt system itself.

And that's where we find the Tea Party Dupes and Charlatans and the Republican Blame Barack Obama for Everything Campaign. Here is an excerpt from the most recent Tea Party Nation broadside against Socialism:
Resolved that: Our President, the Democrats-Socialists, most of the media, and most of those from Hollywood, have now encouraged and supported "Occupy" demonstrations in our streets, which are now being perpetrated across the globe, and which are being populated by various marxists, socialists and even communists, and are protesting against business, private property ownership and capitalism, something I thought I'd never see in my country, in my lifetime.

I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.

I hereby declare that my job creation potential is now ceased.

"I'm on Strike!"
Reading the comments I came upon what, I think are plants but, could be the realization of decades of active disinformation,
The EPA needs to be closed. Think of the money that the government would save if it was closed. Think of the money that businesses would save if it were closed and their regulations were rolled back keep.ing only those needed to keep our enviorment clean. You add closing the department of education and let the states educate their chrildren, close the department of energy that is not needed because the free markets. - Wayne Thomas Inman

You're singing my tune. We will reduce hiring anyway. With all the regulations, it's better to outsource, partner, or utilize the services of independent contractors. That's what four of my five startups are doing right now, and we will continue to use the services of only experienced, independent business people until one of three things happens. 1) We get a government that boldly gives us back our freedom. 2) The majority of small businesses agrees to conduct a tax strike and bring down the government unless the Congress commences immediately to impeach and expel every representative, every senator, every executive branch officer, and every federal judge who has failed to uphold the Constitution in accordance with the interpretation of those who ratified it. 3) Every business person agrees to ignore all unconstitutional regulations and to act as a group to put under citizens arrest any government official or agent who attempts to enforce the unconstitutional regulations. If we wait until the second or third option is necessary, we will also have to band together with armaments to defend our businesses against rioters and looters. Make my day! And let's keep the military on our side. - Ed Stoneham(note the double spacing after periods)

agree, 100% with Melissa; Obama is the root cause of killing jobs in America by his policies;
further, he is killing the coal industry, as well the oil and gas industry and this winter millions of Americans will pay for higher costs to heat their homes - Claire C. Benson
Close the EPA. Obama is killing the Coal Industry. The Free Markets shall save us! Don't hire or if you do "outsource". These are, Classic Capitalists. If the policies they hold to be true, cause suffering to their fellow man or takes their lives; So Be It! Capitalism Wills It!

It's what American Capitalism has always been, whether it be against the women workers at the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory, in New York City or the Miners in the Massey Energy Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. Capitalism has failed the 99%.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Mosque Building and Zoning

Lighthouses are more useful than Churches. ~ Benjamin Franklin, The Greatest American Founding Father

Since when is the President of the United States in charge of New York City zoning codes?

I'm against the "Ground Zero Mosque" being built in New York but I'm also against every church being built. America can only become free when every Palace to Idiocy is torn down, when every temple, shrine, church, synagogue, mosque and scientology center is destroyed and replaced with useful buildings like libraries and aquariums.

Religions are evil. They breed ignorance. They enshrine malevolence and intolerance. They preach prejudice and bigotry. There are no good Religions.

And while no religion is true, good or beneficial, islam is especially evil and pernicious as of late. And if this was Saudi Arabia I would be angry at the islamic leadership which uses their evil ideology to enslave and murder, but this is America. In America the conservatives use Christian Fascism to oppress their fellow Americans. Christian Fascism is written into several state constitutions, it's used to attack evolution and don't dream of running for president unless you have a burning cross clasped firmly in your hand.

Of course, the "Ground Zero Mosque" isn't about islams' conquest of the West, it's a rallying cry. The White Christian Fascists clearly don't accept President Obama and the mosque issue allows them to call slyly call him a you-know-what under the guise of conflating Obama's religious beliefs but the mosque issue also shows conservatives don't care about religious freedom. Conservatives are racist bigots and prejudiced fascists. Catholics and Jews are barely tolerated but if you deviate from the White Christian Fascism Power Structure you aren't American to a Conservative.

So, by all means don't build the islamic cultural center in New York but let us dismantle all the bigoted houses of christian evil and remove the tax exemption on the Christian Fascists and save Democracy before the Conservative Tearrorists launch Armageddon.

Updated:
It has been fantastic to see the Right flail about exposing their inherent bigotry, religious intolerance, and christian fascism.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Liz It Up

That Evil Asshole Liz Cheney The Torturers' Daughter is at it again. Even with no job experience other than riding Dick into a Government Job, Fascist Fox News continually puts Liz on the air to lie and incite Sedition.



Liz had to lay low for a couple months when the Al Qaeda 7 Attack Ad she and Chicken Hawk Bill Kristol crafted backfired and got them flak from Iran-Contra Traitor Ted Olson (widowed husband of the ardent anti-Clinton Barbara Olson who was killed on 9/11), BJ Prosecutor Kenneth Star and 9 Bush Administration Legal Experts. But, it doesn't matter. Liz Cheney is part of the Team crafting a Conservative Narrative.

Liz's role is to Attack to foment discontent by lying about everything every time she is invited on air. Republicans and conservatives realized years ago that by making outrageous accusations against Liberals, even when those accusations were shown to be 100% false, which they most often were, the accusation itself carried political power. And that is how the idea came to create an Alternate Conservative Reality.

In this alternate reality Conservatives and Republicans are Heroes and not the liars, criminals, thieves, self hating homophobes, chicken hawks and murderers they in fact actually are. The alternate reality is a short hand in which 'Ditto Heads' can ignore history and believe fantasy.

Of course, Republicans and conservatives are not content with merely living in their own Oxycontin addled fantasy realm, they must drag down the rest of America as well. So conservatives take the long approach of doctoring textbooks to prove Newt Gingrich and Phyliss Schlafly birthed America after slaying the dinosaurs who had eaten the all the Indians and were trying to stop Adam and Eve from bringing the Constitution to Jesus in Washington DC which was built by happy young Africans only too willing to Come to America!

Related:
I'm posting this from Driftglass:

only Fox News would have the huevos to task Liz Cheney with leading the charge with statements like this:

"I think there are some things that clearly rise to the level of needing independent investigation."
And this:

"There is not an impeccable record of integrity there on the part of the former president."
And this:

"Clearly, you need somebody to come in and take a look at exactly what happened."
And this:

"There is a lot here that just smells funny."
And this:

"I want to know what the president knew."
And this:

"This is very reminiscent of the campaign finance scandals back in the mid-'90s when they were selling the Lincoln bedroom."
And this:

"I think the American people have a right to know here."
And this:

"Were any laws broken? Was an offer made?"

Yes, that's Liz-Spawn-of-Dick Cheney -- the degenerate daughter of the depraved, unrepentant and conspicuously uninvestigated, unindicted traitor and war criminal of a Vice President -- who is calling for independent investigators.

Liz-Spawn-of-Dick Cheney -- whose entire professional life is nothing but the poison fruit of her Daddy's bloody, treasonous career -- who insists that this all "smells funny".

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Crafting a Conservative Narrative

All you need are Lies.

The Republican Party has spent much energy successfully crafting an alternate reality in which their Right Wing Toxic Media Scum and Battered Voters can wallow. In this alternate reality Republicans are Heroes instead of cheap disgusting fascist corporate lackeys who hate America and wish to destroy Democracy and instill a Hegemonic One Party Republican Rule. The End Goal of Republican Government is the murdering of all non-Americans, the assignment of the Poor to perpetual slavery and the working of Americans to death in Corporate Bondage. Republicans have largely succeeded in these goals in the Coal and Oil Industry which claims the lives of thousands of Americans who work for slave wages.

However, the majority of Americans have not accepted the Republican Fascist Lies and on a nationwide scale are steadily voting for Liberals and good respectful governance. Occasionally their are setbacks, Michele Bachmann and Steve King can eke out victories in their heavily gerrymandered districts in which conservative bigots take a baseball bat to their heads and groins and convince themselves they aren't voting for the criminally insane.

In this Sideways Conservative Universe, Sarah Palin is smart and not as mentally deficient as her son Trig, Conservative Cowards Ronald Reagan, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and every speaker at the CPAC convention are War Heroes and not fucking disgraceful Chicken Hawk Cowards:
A quick look at the list of CPAC Speakers:
Dick Armey - most inappropriately named congressman ever, voted Aye for the 2002 Authorization of Force, voted Nay on the Oath of Enlistment.

John Ashcroft - 6 Vietnam Deferments, that even surpasses Dick Cheney!

Michele Bachmann - She has made the citizens armed and dangerous and has taken a blood oath against America's Greatest Enemy, The President...

Glenn Beck - Beck is the Generalissimo of the 9/12 Army and is currently at war with the Marxists, who infest his mind. Never served in the American Army.

John Bolton - "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy" He was glad Liberals died over in Vietnam because it increased his chances of congressing with women.

Andrew Breitbart - Ring leader of a botched Conservative Domestic Terrorist incident led by racist James O'Keefe. Oh he never served.

Robert Davi - I know what you're going to say, he's an Actor and played a Vietnam Vet and FBI Agent in the Greatest Movie Evar, Die Hard.

Tucker Carlson - Bow Ties and floppy hair are persona non grata in the military.

Liz Cheney - shouldn't she be anti-war? It's the whole reason she even exists as Liz managed to keep her father out of Vietnam.

Ann Coulter - no comment.

Jim DeMint - he's a Republican of course he didn't serve.

Newt Gingrich - Three Divorces = Three Purple Hearts in Conservative Wisdom.

Tim Pawlenty - a typical Republican Kleptocrat, Pawlenty has been in Government since 1988, 22 years without a real job. Hey Tim! The Government doesn't create jobs!

Mike Pence - even though nothing was going on in the late 1970's when he turned 18, still declined to serve.

Tom Price - Damn it, he's a Doctor not a Soldier!

Mitt Romney - I hear that during the Vietnam war the french peppered Mormon missionaries with baguettes daily. It was hairy. His 5 Sons inherited his Cowardice and never served either.

Marco Rubio - could've served in the Gulf War, choose to go into politics as soon as he was done with law school. Isn't the lack of military service and being a DC Lawyer what the Right claims is wrong with Democrats?

Rick Santorum - must have been adopted because his Father worked as a Doctor in the VA hospital system in the 70's, tough work with so many wounded vets. Rick didn't inherit any of his father's desire to be close to the military.

Erick Erickson - puffy faced racist Birther, was so angry that 130 Macon Georgia Police Officers wanted to unionize, Erickson stated: I’m thinking I’ll have the City Attorney draft me legislation to dissolve the police department and contract with the Sheriff to provide public safety services. So like all conservatives Erickson not only hates the Military but Police Officers as well.

Jason Mattera, Racist - Quite Infamous amongst Generation Chicken Hawk, the Young Conservatives who are convinced America is involved in World War IV yet have no intention of risking their pasty asses. Operation Yellow Elephant has deatiled posts concerning Mattera's legendary cowardice and despicable behavior. Mattera is quiet a loathsome man and a typical conservative a coward who has railed for years that Radical Islam is the biggest threat to America and this generation's struggle but has spent the last 7 years on College Campuses "fighting" liberal professors and struggling to sculpt his eyebrows just right.
Chicken Hawks one and all.
Of course, there's a simple explanation for Republican Cowardice. When Liberals undertake more dangerous assignments and hazardous duty while Republicans seek deferments and avoid serving overseas Republicans know they have a better chance of conniving women to have sex with them. Republicans are only able to have heterosexual sex when the woman has been duped and Republicans only get homosexual sex when they pay for it, which is often.

Democrats unfortunately think Republicans are serious when they wave flags and champion war, but the only reasons cowards like Karl Rove, Saxby Chambliss, Dick Cheney and Jason Mattera root for war is because they can't get women when held in competition with Liberals, so they hope Liberals will go to war and die.

But, ultimately the sad realization is the Alternate Reality Spun by Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, Limbaugh, Fox News is real to conservatives. Conservatives cling to their shackles and won't fight this insanity, won't struggle to free their minds and loosen their bonds but instead will aid the Republican Party in enslaving the rest of America who strives to live a life of Freedom and Liberty in accordance with the Founding of the Nation.

A Life which the Republican Party seeks to Destroy.

Friday, May 21, 2010

The Party of The Absurd

Only you can set you free ~ Cult of Personality, Living Colour
It's been a rough few weeks since I last posted. In that time America has witnessed how Collective Insanity can destroy a political party as the Republicans have careened from the mere absurd into depths of pure malevolence.

The Republicans have shown themselves to be comprised of Violently Stupid, Actively Ignorant Racist Self Hating Homosexual Chicken Hawk Homophobes who are only to happy to work to defend the Plutocracy while oppressing and killing the rest of the World.

Republicans love to call their Treason, Patriotism and their Intolerant Religious Bigotry, Freedom as they feed their more and more insular and self deluded cultists their daily pablum of Insanity.

What the Republicans have been doing for decades is setting up a self-contained Narrative in which their Insane can Believe.

The Republicans lie with abandon because no matter what Glenn Beck, Sarah Plain, Racist Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and all the Toxic Commentators say is true becomes true to the Violently Stupid Conservative Troglodytes.

And it's not going to stop...

Monday, February 15, 2010

Center Right Front and Center

Coming of Age in the Plague of Reagan and Bush
Watching Capitalism gun down Democracy ~ Your Next Bold Move, Ani DiFranco
Democrats have won the Presidential Election Popular Vote in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2008. The only reason Bush managed to win in 2004 was because Redupelicans used Bush's Abject Failure of SEPTEMBER 11! Shouting it every time they could and frightening the evangelicals by making scary noises about Marriage and threatening them with catching TEH GAY.

As the election power of Screaming September 11 fades the Republicans fall back to the classic move of blaming their failures on the Democrats. Liz Cheney is the latest Republican, joining Dana Perino, Mary Matalin, Rudy Guiliani in claiming they weren't responsible for the failure of 9/11. [When is it no longer Bush's Fault?]

However, it's only a part of the Grand Strategy of the Republican Party. Republicans and Conservatives are engaged in a generations long struggle to create a set of facts which they can reference and continue the duping of their followers. From this set of facts, Redupelicans can continue to get Americans to vote against their interests.

It's a brilliant strategy. The constant repetition of the Center Right Republican truth, the false piety, the Talk Radio invective, the Fox News blather, the mass produced propaganda books (Liberals are Fascists! Liberals are Godless!) have allowed Republicans to steal the wealth of America and funnel Trillions of Dollars to their Corporate Controllers for over a 100 years.

However, the Right's greatest recent success has been in taking over the Texas State Board of Education which exert extreme influence over the information which goes into Nation-wide K to 12 Textbooks. With their school board power the Right has succeeded in reducing the age of the earth, highlighting the strengths of Creationism, glorifying Newt Gingrich for freeing the slaves, praising Phyllis Schlafly for saving American Women from the Perils of Learning and correcting the record of racist Republican Bigots who loved Martin Luther King Junior so much they wanted him to die to truly appreciate him.

Conservapedia, perhaps unsurprisingly started by Phyliss Schlafly's son and while widely panned and recognized as a joke has still garnered the support of the extremists on the right for their de-liberalization of the bible project; stating Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations. While this is absurd it's not what current people or Theologians believe but whether or not the Conservatives can brow-beat their children and future ones into accepting the Conservative Bible.

Both parties are made up of people who view themselves at the top of the American Social Stratification ladder; Especially when they reach the level of the Federal Government. And like all rich powerful self-important people they don't believe the regular laws apply to them, however, the Right shields and defends their members when they transgress because they view the exercise of political power as the highest good, when the Republicans are doing the exercising.

That way when the Bush unleashes the Smokin' Gun Mushroom Cloud lie and Dick Cheney simply states, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction, the Right is more than willing to believe those lies or if unable then to accept the Noble Lie Theory.

Unlike the bigots who suddenly emerged for fiscal responsibility when a black man became President, but looked the other way when Republicans stole Trillions, I will hold the Republican Party responsible for their lies.