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Love and Mercy, Walking Humbly, Doing Justice

Judge not least ye be judged. The judging has commenced. Interesting.

Micah Chapter 3:

⁸ He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

Hmmmmmm. From Think Progress:

While serving as a U.S. congressman, Sanford was incredibly critical of his colleagues’ marital misdeeds, including the affairs of former congressman Bob Livingston and President Bill Clinton:

“The bottom line, though, is I am sure there will be a lot of legalistic explanations pointing out that the president lied under oath. His situation was not under oath. The bottom line, though, is he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that is the oath to his wife. So it’s got to be taken very, very seriously.” [Sanford on Livingston, CNN, 12/18/98]

“We ought to ask questions…rather than circle the wagons for one of our tribe.” [Sanford on how the GOP reacts to affairs, New York Post, 12/20/98]

“I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone.” [Sanford on Clinton, The Post and Courier, 9/12/98]

“The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representatives government, because it undermines trust. And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything.” [Sanford on Clinton, CNN, 2/16/99]

What's good for the former President (and others) according to Mark Sanford, is apparently not good for Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina.

Top 10 Surprising Facts About Governor Mark Sanford (of Argentina Fame)

Sanford Bumps Iran's Ongoing Crisis Off The 24/7

Thanks Mark Sanford, Republican Governor of South Carolina and I say that sarcastically. The situation in Iran is way more important than more Republican infidelities and hypocrisy.

Another Republican Admits Cheating

Racist Organizations?

A good point was made in the swamp. I guess that if a person loathes and despises the NAACP, then that same person would not have a very good opinion regarding La Raza.

Isn't there a 'Pasty White Guy's Club', that looks out for the interest of men of whiteness? Oh no. Maybe that's those secret societities that they join in college that I'm thinking of. Something about human skeletal remains. Yeah that's it. Skull and Bones maybe.

I'm a white woman. A pasty white woman at that. A middle-aged pasty white woman. I know a lot of white guys, some pasty, some not quite so pasty. I haven't heard any of them ever mention feeling threatened by the NAACP, or La Raza. Maybe I just don't hang with the correct crowd. I hesitate to call it the right crowd.

This seems like a bunch of hooey about nothing.

It's not a complete sentence, but a stunning quote nonetheless. Here's Tom Tancredo, on Sonia Sotomayor's membership in the National Council of La Raza:

If you belong to an organization called La Raza, which is, from my point of view anyway, a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.

From their point of view, La Raza describes itself as "the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States." Basically the Hispanic NAACP. The estimated year in which Republicans regain majority status just got pushed back at least two decades. source: The Swampland at Time

I'm a fairly simple person. Maybe I'm a bit too simple-minded, but I think the KKK without the hoods and nooses, just wouldn't be the KKK, at least historically speaking. To call it an over the top comparison seems like an undergarment.

I meant understatement. Just trying to keep my sense of humor here.

My other simple thought when watching the news programs that feature Tom Tancredo is that he's just nuts. That's what it looks like in front of my teevee machine in the heartland.

Nuff said.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele, always thinkin': Blame it on 'The Gays'

I'm a thinkin' single-payer health care. If we had it, then we wouldn't be able hold the gay community responsible for wrecking health care, or taking something away from someone else.

It's the same old strategy. Divide the American people and conquer. I hope we're not falling for it again in 2010.

Think the little engine that could. I think I can, except say single-payer, single-payer, single-payer, single-payer.

Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.

[snip]

"Now all of a sudden I've got someone who wasn't a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for," Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. "So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money."

As Steele talked about ways the party could position itself, he also poked fun at his previous pledge to give the GOP a "hip-hop makeover."

"You don't have to wear your pants cut down here or the big bling," he said. "It's a metaphor for taking this party to places and to people that we've either forgotten about, ignored or feel don't want to engage with us." source: Examiner.com

Tom Ridge on not running for the Senate in PA, and shrillness

Unfortunate Sense

Bob Herbert talks some unfortunate sense regarding the Grand Old Party. I'm actually rooting for the Republican party to return, minus the nah nah nuh boo boo politics.

It’s not a party; it’s a cult. I’m no fan of Arlen Specter, but if I were a Republican, I wouldn’t be shoving him out the door and waving good riddance. This is the party of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Newt (“I’m trying to rise from the ashes”) Gingrich, and the dark force who can’t seem to exit the public stage or modify his medieval ways, Dick Cheney.

It is losing all credibility with the public because it is not offering anything — anything at all — that could be viewed as helpful or constructive in a time of national crisis. And it has been unwilling to take responsibility for its role in bringing that crisis about.

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Video: Senator Olympia Snow (R-Maine) speaks out on 'the state of denial' in the Republican party

Recognizing reality does not seem to be a strong suit of the Republican party these days. Good luck with that though. Democrats have been there before. A lot of us still remember what it felt like too.

Senator Demint: The biggest tent of all is the tent of freedom

I keep thinking as I listen to these interviews with Republican leadership and/or surrogates, that these comments are coming from the guys who had control of of the Congress and the Presidency for most of the last eight years, and got us into the fix that we're in. That I am certainly not forgetting.

Funny stuff begins around 2:56

Demint says, 'The biggest tent of all is the tent of freedom.' Sanchez responds with what the hell does that mean?

Michael Steele Defines His Job: ‘My Personal Opinion Doesn’t Matter In This’

It seems to me that the Mr. Steele is doing one of the things that Republicans hate the most, and used to attack Democrats in the past for, namely, talking out of both sides of the mouth.

I was with Rush before I was against him, or vice versa. I think I'm even confused.

God help him if members of the party realize it.

source: Think Progress

LAUER: I guess I’m asking you your personal opinion. Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh when he says that it’s common sense that as a conservative he wants the policies of Barack Obama to fail?

STEELE: Well, my personal opinion doesn’t matter in this. My job as the RNC chairman is to take into account all of the various views out there within our party and try to put together a strategy and a team that’s going to help us win elections. […]

LAUER: Mr. Steele, let me try it this way. There are many Republicans out there as well as Democrats who are unemployed right now. People are hurting across this country. Republicans like Democrats are losing their homes, they’re unable to send their kids to school. Do you think those Republicans want the policies of Barack Obama to fail right now?

Top 10 Things Overheard At The Bush Family Christmas from Brother Dave Letterman

What do you get for the guy who's wrecked everything?