Think this guy has ever read the constitution?

Teabaggers across the nation are gathering in large groups of 1000 or sometimes 2000 to protest paying taxes today.  If your like me your probably confused that people would protest taxes given that Barack Obama will be lowering taxes on 95% of all Americans.  So as a public service to the teabaggers everywhere here is a video explaining exactly why they are pissed off.

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Well, the Sun came up this morning so as we have grown accustomed to in these situations John McCain is back on the attack against his rival John McCain. The fierce fight between the maverick John McCain of the sometimes not so distant past and conservative lapdog and Bush’s boy toy of 2008 has been a virtual bloodbath to this point.

The current battle over immigration and border security started back in 2006 and as always John McCain found himself on the opposite side of the issue as that of John McCain. John McCain, in accordance with his unabated man love for George W. Bush, had adopted Bush’s position that comprehensive immigration reform was needed.

“Our nation’s immigration system is broken. And without comprehensive immigration reform, our nation’s security will remain vulnerable. That is why we must act.”

John McCain in 2006

His rival John McCain however ran on a harder anti-immigrant position last year. While many people will argue that John McCain was simply pandering to the racists and bigots that make up a large part of the Republican base this is just a wild guess.

[I] have pledged that it would be among my highest priorities to secure our borders first, and only after we achieved widespread consensus that our borders are secure, would we address other aspects of the problem in a way that defends the rule of law and does not encourage another wave of illegal immigration.

John McCain in 2007 refuting the words of John McCain in 2006

Recently John McCain has responded to his rival, John McCains, attack on his lenient immigration and border security policy by saying …

“We get in this kind of a circular firing squad on immigration reform in the Congress of the United States, and the lesson I learned from it is we’ve got to have comprehensive immigration reform.”

John McCain in 2008 Defends himself against John McCain’s Smear Tactics

This furious debate back and forth over the past 2 years between john McCain and John McCain is growing even more heated and the media has finally caught on. Watch this short video about the brutal back and forth between the two men. It’s hard to tell John McCain from John McCain but if you listen to the context I think you can distinguish between them.

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Clearly the reporter is also confused about which John McCain was which and she even seems to make the common mistake that they are both the same person. I fully understand this and will admit to making the same mistake when I was younger. What finally clued me in was the realization that the paradox created by so many opposing views within one person would be fatal.

It would be simpler for the Democrats to win in November if they were only facing one opponent. However by their deception the Republicans have found a way to field two candidates, both named John McCain, who together represent both sides of nearly every position. If John McCain ever stops fighting against John McCain the results could be devastating for the Democrats.

(h/t to The Carpetbagger Report and Think Progress)

William ~ WWJV4.com

“Unfortunately, those Web sites are just a small fraction of evidence you can find on a Google search of combinations of “Jews” “pornography” “sex slavery” “Israel” and “prostitution.” Let’s save our Jewish brothers and sisters from this tyrant king porn dragon before we get to another world-wide pogrom.”

I normally don’t write during the weekends but seriously how many times will I get to write the phrase Tyrant King Porn Dragon in my lifetime? Thanks to Eschaton for the link.

Today John McCain stopped in the 9th ward of New Orleans in an effort to pander up a few votes and take a few shots at his rival John McCain. Analysts have long been wondering why John McCain had not used this tactic earlier considering John McCain’s horrible record on support for the aftermath of Katrina. Late or not John McCain was in rare form today landing several potentially campaign ending blows on his rival.

McCain Attacks McCain on Actions Day of Levee Breaking

Let Them Eat Cake!

In New Orleans today John McCain stated that had he been president he would have been on a plane and headed immediately to the nearest Air Force base. This is clearly an attack on John McCain who chose to celebrate his birthday with the President on the day the levee’s broke instead of coming to the aid of those effected by hurricane Katrina. Of Course John McCain was only a Senator so having a photo op with best buddy George Bush probably seemed more important at the time.

McCain Attacks McCain on Handling of Disaster

Throughout the day John McCain repeated his pledge that “Never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the disgraceful way it was handled”. Many believe that this statement is attacking his opponent John McCain’s refusal to vote for many bills providing relief for the people of New Orleans. Below is a list of bills that John McCain voted against provided by The Democratic Party.

• McCain Voted Against Emergency Funding Bill, Including $28 Billion for Hurricane Relief
• McCain Voted Against Five Months of Medicaid For Hurricane Katrina Victims For Up To Five Months
• McCain Voted Twice Against Establishing A Commission To Study The Response To Hurricane Katrina
• McCain Opposed Granting Financial Relief To Those Affected By Hurricane Katrina

McCain Attacks McCain Supporter John Hagee

A while back John McCain sought out and was proud to accept the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee. Hagee has gained notoriety for saying, among other things, that Hurricane Katrina was a punishment from God sent down to smite New Orleans because of the gays. A viewpoint that John McCain obviously shares, otherwise the endorsement of such a bigoted and hateful man would never have been accepted let alone sought out.

Today, standing in front of the people of New Orleans, John McCain attacked and denounced the hateful words of John Hagee.

It’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense. I dont have anything additional to say. It’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, it’s nonsense, I don’t have anything more to say…it’s nonsense. I reject it categorically. ~ Via Think Progress

By extension John McCain was also denouncing the hateful embrace of those words from John McCain. No response yet from John McCain or John Hagee after this attack on their faith, a topic that has so far been off limits between the two men. In the highly religious Republican party the John McCain that manages the most endorsements from hateful bigoted leaders will have a huge advantage in November.

John McCain’s wholehearted support and poorly hidden man love for George Bush makes him particularly vulnerable to these kinds of attacks. If John McCain wants to survive until the general election he needs to fight back against these attacks. Otherwise John McCain will continue to contradict everything John McCain has spend the past 25 years building. The way things are going I won’t be surprised if John McCain doesn’t succeed in completely destroying John McCain’s image as an honest politician and maverick, an image already in tatters.

Now I have talked with enough blind and dumb as shit war supporters to never want to do so again. However on the plus side this exposure has led to me deciphering the “Republican Surge is Working Argument Flowchart” which I am sharing with you today. I have included the surge and two common arguments so you can see how it works, but its the same regardless of specifics. In fact I would say it applies to every argument you will ever have with a conservative.

Enjoy and feel free to use or modify this.

I agree with John McCain that we owe veterans more than we are giving them. I would just ask McCain why even though he says he supports the troops and is running largely on his service history he refuses to do anything that would actually repay the troops for their service.

John McCain has flat out refused to support our troops by endorsing Jim Webb’s new GI Bill that would improve education benefits for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Or maybe he shouldn’t have killed the dwell time amendment last summer that would have ensured our troops had enough time to rest and recover between deployments.

Think Progress has compiled a nice list of other ways that McCain has shown his support for the troops:

• Voted AGAINST an amendment providing $20 billion to the VA’s medical facilities. [5/4/06]
• Voted AGAINST providing $430 million to the VA for outpatient care “and treatment for veterans,” one of only 13 senators to do so. [4/26/06]
• Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.5 billion by closing corporate loopholes. [3/14/06]
• Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.8 billion by ending “abusive tax loopholes.” [3/10/04]
• Voted AGAINST a $650 million increase in veterans’ medical care funding. [8/1/01]

I guess what McCain really meant wasn’t that we owe veterans a debt we can never repay but instead that we owe veterans a debt he will never repay.

Update: This morning on The View McCain said that veterans need “significant educational benefits in return for serving” yet he still wont sign Senator Webb’s GI Bill to provide it for them. ~ 4/10/08

William
WWJV4.com

Besides, if John McCain could raise more than the paltry 15 million a month he would probably attract beautiful and talented women too. As it is I think the McCain Girls are doing great and should keep at it. It takes real skill and courage to pull off this kind of brilliant satire. Stephen Colbert has to be jealous. Thanks for the laughs and I look forward to the next song.

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Update: I got an email from a reader that this video wasn’t working.  Well I checked and it appears that “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by The MCPS – PRS Alliance Ltd.”.  Thats too bad because it was hilarious. ~ William 4/9/08

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McHenry recently got over feeling sick about a McCain presidency and is now a supporter. Think there will be any outrage from the conservatives for John McCain to disavow his Troop Hating comments? Me neither.

Can you imagine the outrage if a Democrat had said the same thing? The right wingers would be all over it. Instead since its a Republican were just now hearing about it from the liberal blogs while the mainstream media has remained silent. I’ll be updating this story in case the mainstream media covers this but there are a few networks I’m particularly interested in.

News Network Coverage:

• CBS – No Coverage So Far
• CNN – No Coverage So Far
• Fox – No Coverage So Far
• MSNBC – No Coverage So Far

Note that this is my first time trying out Google Alerts so I may miss something. If I do please post it in the comments. I may also be way off base and the mainstream media may jump on it now that the story has broken. I would be surprised but you never know.

UPDATE: Apparently McHenry was referring to a foreign contractor and not a US Soldier.  I don’t think this makes any difference though.  It’s not like the guy wasn’t following orders and risking his life just like our soldiers.

If you remember back in January John McCain made a scathing attack on John McCain’s ability to fix our failing economy saying that John McCain “doesn’t really understand economics”. As expected this attack did not go unanswered. John McCain countered in the very next sentence by assuring voters that even though he may not understand economics, his financial adviser Phil Gramm did. In a surprising show of partisan unity John McCain agreed with John McCain that if there is one thing voters can count on John McCain doing, its following his advisers and lobbyists.

Those watching this back and forth expected that to end the fight but then stories started popping up exposing the pivotal role Phil Gramm had in creating our current economic crisis. No word on whether or not John McCain was behind those stores in an underhanded attack to smear his rival John McCain. No matter though the Democrats smelled blood and both Hillary and Barack jumped into the economic massacre.

The beating that John McCain endured would have ended the candidacy of a lesser man, but John McCain fought right back. In a deft move that countered not only his fierce rival John McCain’s earlier statements but both Hillary and Barack, a political triple play if you will. Yesterday John McCain released a statement that he in fact knows more about the economy than the entire Democratic party and that his grandpa invented the economy. He then took reporters on a bus tour of the economy’s childhood, pointing out historic landmarks, sharing candy, and telling really long stories.

This fight between John McCain and John McCain is just starting to heat up so a response is almost guaranteed. What isn’t so clear is if the Democrats can take advantage of the Republican infighting. One thing is certain though, if John McCain and John McCain don’t stop tearing each other down before the General Election the Democrats will surely walk to victory.