Boehner is a moderate now!

This is getting entirely too predictable and despite that, deeply depressing.

In somewhat of a surprise, John Boehner resigned today. Suddenly, he is now a moderate. Why? Because he apparently sacrificed his career for the good of the House. Or his party. Heck, even Obama, his arch-rival said

"John Boehner is a good man. It took me by surprise, we have obviously had a lot of disagreements and politically we are at different ends of the spectrum, but he has always conducted himself with the courtesy and civility with me." 

He proceeded to call him a "patriot."

Masterful!

Simply masterful!

Check the headlines in the aftermath of the Charleston shootings. Grief, anger, racism, cause, mourning, denial (OK, this was just the baggers, but still), guns, ... Stars and Bars.

The Confederate Flag.

Cries were loud and clear to bring down that flag from governmental buildings in South Carolina (OK, not from the baggers, but still).
Then Nikki Haley announced that she'd champion the effort and get the legislature to do so. Walmart decided that they did not need anymore Confederate dollars, so they banned all that Confederate stuff. eBay and Amazon followed.

As will many others.

With the help of a racist and unwitting MSM, the rightwing has successfully steered the conversation away from guns.

A white racist shot nine black men six black men and three black women in their church.

The debate today is whether to ban a flag, and where. Like I said, simply masterful!

Duplicitous baggery

31 possible cases of voter fraud have been found from 2000-2014. That is 31 out of approximately one billion votes cast in all sorts of elections over a decade and a half.

Bagger solution: Eliminate most of early voting, require specific voter id that coincidentally poses hardships for students and very old voters.  In other words, more laws.

Because apparently even a single case of voter fraud is one too many. And the existing laws are not good enough.

Firearm related homicides in the US are at about 11,000 per year.

Bagger solution: More guns. No more laws.

Because if the existing laws are insufficient to control gun violence, what's one more law going to do?  Besides, criminals do not follow laws (So since murderers do not follow the law and will murder, there is no point in having laws against murder)

Factoid # 1299

The county with the highest percentage of people on food stamps is(?) Owsley County, Kentucky.

It's 98.5% white and 95% Republican and has the third lowest median income in the entire country.  More than half the income is through government benefits. 

Republican paradise!

Religious bias in Tejas textbooks

Shocking! Thank you Tea Party for demanding this investigation into how Islam has been a creeping influence in our schools that we are now indoctrinating our children with Muslim stuff.