Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller
Greg Zoeller slid into the Indiana’s 42nd Attorney General office at the same time ACORN stole the election for Obama – November, 2008. He was reelected to a second term in 2012. Prior to being elected Attorney General, he was the Assistant to braintrust Dan Quayle in the White House. He and his family are members of Christ the King Catholic Church.
Zoeller is best known for advocating the mandatory drug testing of all pregnant women in Indiana. When that was met with predictable outrage, he backpedaled, trying to discredit the people who raised the flags on this reprehensible program. Why do these shit-for-brains think they can gaslight entire populations when there is a transcript and an audio recording, and we can hear with our own ears exactly what they said? The hubris of thinking that could work!
Zoeller filed briefs in support of gay marriage bans and authored an amicus brief, also known as a friend-of-the-court brief, urging the nine justices not only to explicitly permit prayer at government meetings but also to set a new, definitive standard allowing most religious activities in the public square.
This week Greg Zoeller found something even more wasteful to do as AG than that guy who harassed gas stations and 7-11s after 9/11 (albeit PR gold if you’re building wingnut support to run for Indiana governor). He filed a lawsuit against the IRS challenging its authority to fund Obamacare’s insurance subsidies for individuals and enacting penalties against public employers that don’t meet the health law’s minimum worker coverage requirement. If successful, the challenge would prevent Americans from receiving the government assistance that makes Obamacare’s insurance marketplace plans affordable in the first place.
This morning I saw Ted Cruz rallying teatards over the cliff, thanks MSNBC. I’ve seen people all fired up and pissed off before, but I’ve never seen anything like this teabagger thing. For the life of me, I can’t figure out what it is they’re so pissed off about, and they don’t seem to know either.
“Something something, ideologic purity” and everyone to the left of the Tea Party is a rabid Black Panther/Islamofascist-hugging socialist and we have hooves, like all good allies of Satan… the size of government and keeping government out of peoples’ lives, but…where were they all a few years ago, when the size of government had ballooned to humungous proportions, larger than any government since the Johnson Administration? Where were they when the Busheses were doing warrantless wiretapping? Where were they when Dubya suspended Habeas Corpus?
A radical group of low-IQ extremists, dressed in costumes, bloviating their soul-depressing freedom-vomit all over the airwaves all the goddam time at every venue possible, (seriously, you couldn’t walk around DC in the summer of 2010 without tripping over some middle-aged white non-racist wearing a tinfoil tricorner hat and yelling at government buildings about that Kenyan socialist Marxist un-American President Obummer), groomed on the Grover Norquist idiom that “government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub”, they will riot because they’re stupid and unfocused, if they had a single functioning brain among them, they wouldn’t riot–they’d go pay the Kochs, the Paulsons, the Blankfeins and the Haywards of the world a neighborly visit to “discuss” the situation in a clear and unambiguous fashion.
The Tea Party insurgence happened at a time when the biggest qualification for running for Congress was having absolutely no legislative experience whatsoever. They ran on a platform of dismantling the government and, now that they see their opportunity, they aren’t intending to let a little thing like default or the collapse of the American economy stop them. If some Republicans want to marginalize the Tea Party now, they will need to spend time and money reedu-macating their low information voters. They did it with the Birchers, back in the day…granted it took almost 20 years and they didn’t eradicate the Birchers they just drove the infection into remission. The modern Tea Party is nothing if not a spectacular re-blooming of that virulent strain of lunacy. For Republicans to reboot, they have to tear down the whole echo chamber. Just punch a hole in it and shit’ll still echo. They’re *entirely* responsible for having let the cancer spread this far and they will have to pay up to cure it.
On behalf of those who rely on the government for their salary, pension payments, social security, food assistance, Head Start, WIC, veterans benefits, enrollment for small business loans, getting into clinical trials to cure diseases, getting a passport, having food-borne illnesses tracked or any other number of functions, fuck you, teatrads, fuck off and die.
Dear Bones
I’m sorry. I mean, what’s a guy to do when being held hostage by lunatics? First you let them run riot and you want Bamz to pull your creamsicle ass out of the fire and give you something – anything – that will allow the insaniacs to save face. If you can get to declare a victory, even if it’s only a tiny one, all of you will magically become grownups and start doing the responsible thing, right? LOL ROTFL or whatever. Tell me another one, Bones, and while you’re at it, realize that you are the one who fucked yourself over by refusing to be a brave patriot, and President Obama is under no obligation to help someone who will only turn around and attempt to use it against him.
Bones, you need to come to grips with the fact that you are a giant loser. Your speakership is already gone in one way or another. When you reach the stage of acceptance, maybe you will take take collect the pieces of your dignity stewn all over the House floor and do the right thing. You are putting your sad old party’s entire majority at risk, which is saying something considering they’ve tried to gerrymander themselves into a semi-permanent House majority.
Look, Bones, you look relatively sane and normal. Look around you. My God, man, at least a third of House Republicans could get reelected even if they got their faces tattooed with swastikas en masse and showed up to work in orange jumpsuits blaming Barbaro the dead horse for the nation’s problems. The magic of gerrymandering, people. It’s not clear how far you intend to ride the wave of bullshit; the hope among the “business wing” of the Republicans seems to be that teabaggers’ “victory” in bringing government to a standstill over the budget will get the exorcist head spinning and spewing out of their system. LOL. These guys – your base – have endless reserves of rage. Even so, we’d like to think that some kind of token concession — how about repealing the tax on tanning beds and booze? — might be enough face-saving to get a debt ceiling deal.
The alternate world you choose to inhabit is a laughing stock. Your party is convinced they’re a growing majority and won the last election. In fact the only reason they aren’t bigger is because “people don’t really know what their goals are” (hint, we do, they’re terrible). They’re convinced Bamz stole both elections—and failing that, Van Jones started the Occupy movement to save the 2012 elections. Oh—and they are still yapping about ACORN (yes, really).
Ok, offer: we scrap Obamacare as soon as every elected Republican in this country steps down and agrees to never run for office again. Consider it your legacy of saving the country from Obamacare or better yet the world from Republican party. If you care so much this is the least you would do. We can’t think of a nicer guy to fall on his sword for the sake of not imploding the economy.
Best wishes for a happy holiday season,
– Kara Elyse Vallow, American Patriot
Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Steve Schmidt, chief strategist for the McCain campaign, Bloomington, Minn., Aug. 31, 2008.
It’s not like Sarah Palin didn’t try to warn us, ringing those bells and firing those shots and argle bargling those tweets just like Paul Revere did back in the 1400s. She said .” But we wouldn’t listen. We kept on thinking that underneath this vixen’s mini skirt and word saladism had to be an erudite stateswoman.
Steve Schmidt, former McCain campaign manager, and American journalism’s most fearless armchair-warrior, Weekly Standard editor, Fox News commentator and former New York Times fail dragon Bill Kristol, are the perpetrators of the contemptuous tactic that endangered this country. These two losers chose Sarah Palin – a manifestly unqualified and incompetent politician unable to string together a series of coherent sentences – as the potential presidential successor to a psychologically and physically damaged, 72-year-old cancer survivor. back on Aug. 29, 2008.
from npr.org
The online content director for PopularScience.com announced Tuesday that the website will no longer accept comments on new articles, saying a small but vocal minority of “shrill, boorish specimens of the lower Internet phyla” were ruining it for everyone else.
We’re all familiar with that deep, dark rabbit hole of Internet comment boards. A negative or critical comment sparks a firestorm of debate until the discussion erodes into a cavalcade of insults and personal attacks. Once you finally snap back to reality, you realize you’ve often strayed so far from the original story that it’s often difficult to find your way back.
This distracting nature of online comments is part of the reason Popular Science, the venerable 141-year-old science and technology publication, declared that it would be shutting its comment boards down.