The certifiably crazy woman from Minnesota who sits on the right hand of God has signed a pledge sponsored by The Family Leader (a kissin' cousin of Focus on the Family) which contains a clause that essentially says black children were better off under slavery than they are now.
Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an AfricanAmerican baby born after the election of the USA‟s first African-American President.Because of the instantaneous uproar following this idiotic nonsense, other claims in the document to which Michele Bachmann has attached her signature have largely gone unnoticed. The vow also contains a list of practices - homosexuality, adultery, and group sex - which, according to these misguided ignoramuses, fail to improve marriage and public health.
One of those practices includes anal sex. Yep, you heard that right. Anal sex. Allegedly, one of the failures in the practice of anal sex is that it doesn't "lower the public health costs of Medicaid and Medicare." That's right, folks. Of course, one has to wonder why they should even care since they're trying to dismantle these programs anyway.
While the ability, or lack of it, of anal sex to improve marriage and public health, has not yet become a subject for much debate on the campaign trail, Michele Bachmann's willingness to raise the issue may olpen the door to a much more inclusive and provocative exchange of ideas than has been seen in US politics for a long time now.Can't wait for the next debate.
OOOOOOkaaaaaaaaaaay now. How to you suppose the rebubs will find out if a perpetrator of porn, anal sex, or just sex in general is breaking their commandment?? Maybe that's why they want that implanted thingy in all of us, it's really a camera and tape recorder so they can monitor our sex lives!!! LMAO!! SICKOS!!!
ReplyDeleteLet's look at Bachmann, Palin and Santorum as a test for the public and potential liability for the extreme right. Maybe their special blend of ignorance, righteousness and political ambition will finally bring home to most Americans — people who know their own anus from a hole in the ground — that Bachmann et al are fringe kooks who shouldn't be entrusted with power.
ReplyDeletePolls give reason for hope this will be the case. Most Americans appear to get it that taxes must be raised, and they don't want Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid damaged or destroyed. Most also see jobs, not budget slashing, as what the country needs most right now. If people are clear about those things, the kooks are undermining their leverage and appeal every time they spout their nonsense or sign another crackpot pledge.
This apparent public savvy gives me hope there will be a decisive rejection of fringe kooks by voters next year. There's no guarantee, but reason to hope.
Announcement: There's a flash mob happening right now at Bachmann's FB page. You have to Like it to leave a comment but then you can Dislike it.
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It's bad enough that everybody in Washington is talking about the deficit when the public is screaming for them to focus on jobs. Now the Christian Right wants Bachmann to change the subject to an anti-buggery crusade.
ReplyDeleteI guess Christine O'Donnell with her anti-masturbation platform was just ahead of her time.
@Sue: As I said, I can't wait to see the next debate - even though I know it would be a fat chance in hell that this will even be brought up.
ReplyDelete@SW: I saw a poll today that reported only 3 out of 10 Americans take the Bible literally, which means (in my mind at least) that 7 out of 10 people aren't going to swallow this nonsense. That plus what you say gives me some faint hope - something I haven't had much of lately.
@Infidel: LOL on both counts. Sometime I wonder if the Republicans aren't using MB as a front to keep people stirred up and distracted while they prep another candidate to come forth and "save the day."
Speaking of a flash in the pan, the Flash Mob thingy at her FB page is over.
Those fundamentalist Christians seem to have a prurient interest in sex and I do wonder about their obsessive harping on the sex lives of others. Freud would probably have something to say about that.
ReplyDeleteDarlene: LOL. I don't think it requires a Freud or any other shrink to see that these types of people have some serious psychological problems.
ReplyDeleteJust as a candidate who runs on, say, an anti-marijuana platform thereby makes it legitimate to ask him whether he himself has ever indulged in the Weed with Roots in Hell, so any candidate who signs on to this anti-buggery declaration may legitimately be asked whether they personally have ever sodomized anyone, or undergone sodomization. After all, if it's not a legitimate political issue, why sign on to a document which treats it as one? I think anyone who signed the thing could quickly be made to regret it, at the price of dragging the level and subject matter on our nation's political discourse to a level even lower than it had reached already.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure most Republicans could truthfully answer in the negative, though. Since they usually keep their heads jammed up that particular orifice, there wouldn't be room for anything else.
Wow. So Bachmann doesn't like anal? Who knew?
ReplyDelete(Somebody actually worked their way through the two pages of fine print in the footnotes? I couldn't manage that...)
So sorry, folks. Have been having connection problems all day. Anyway, where were we? Oh, it's about the invasion of the asses by the asses.
ReplyDeleteFunny that I didn't catch on to the "buggery" connection when writing this, especially since I think I'm one of the first who referred to them as Tea Buggers quite awhile back. Lol.
It has been reported that they have removed the clause on black families because of all the complaints. Of course the fact remains, that MB signed it with that idiotic clause anyway.
No, I can't imagine reading two pages of fine print in the footnotes or anywhere else for that matter.
I bet she didn't even read the pledge before signing it.
ReplyDeleteMethinks Mr. Batshit is a closet queen. Methinks as well that Michele is liable to have that effect on any man.
ReplyDeleteJerry - apparently you're right:
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Good Afternoon Leslie!
ReplyDeleteI am shocked that this candidate is actually getting the play she has, CNN a week or two ago was almost building her up, based on a new politipop title of sort called an "Evangelical Feminist" ... when I first seen the title and big deal they made out of it, I didnt know whether to laugh, cry, wind my watch or use the toilet! I also watched several interview's with her. I think she is sincere, but an awful choice for any position in Washington frankly. Beside's, how in Hell would she be able to be a good mom, or excercise them parenting values she has alwayz talked about, dont she have something like a couple dozen kid's mor so, with all them adoptee's and the other's she had herself? All of the GOP candidate's are really awful in my opinion, and I'm being truely bipartisan here when I say that. This is why something seem's fishy to me ... I mean ... who in Hell would support them campaign wise? If you were going to promote someone to go against Obama is what I'm saying ... would you spend million's on these folk's or find something giving you more bang for your buck? as far as at least someone who can show a sliver of actual idea's and competitiveness ... not unless their just banking that drove's of GOP voter's will vote for them anywayz even if they ddidnt know nothin or do nothin. I'll shut up Leslie, Thanx for the post. BTW I'm so upset over this cutting proposal to SSI, Medicare or whatever, too long a story, but it's a shaft Leslie, bank on it. And NO, it does not need to be cut, this is all a crock, and the really big spending of waste their not even talking about.
Here's a great piece called, "It’s the Anal Incontinence, Stupid! GOP Hopefuls Duck Economy, Tackle Sphincter Strength, Genital Warts, Pubic Lice"
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RC: You're right on all counts. You have to wonder about these folks.
And this has...WHAT to do with jobs?
ReplyDeleteThat's it. I'm relocating to Tralfamadore where things make more sense.
There's this scene from "The West Wing" where Josh Lyman is confronting a Republican Congressman who is anti-abortion and anti-gay rights. "You know it's funny how you people want to reduce the size of government so it's small enough to fit through a key hole."
ReplyDeleteThe truth is that as far as the Right is concerned in this country, it's all about their moral objectives and social causes. Strip the unions of collective bargaining, defund Planned Parenthood and restrict voter rights. Yep, that sure helps the economy, don't it?
Peter Fegan,
ReplyDeleteThe Right is not interested in helping the economy.
Ah, Peter, welcome. I was just thinking about linking to or stealing your entire post from Pragmatic Progs, with proper credit of course - and with your permission.
ReplyDeleteAs Jerry pointed out so succinctly, and as I'm sure most of us know (or should know), the GOP doesn't care anymore about helping the economy than they are in feeding the poor or creating jobs. As McConnell as stated on more than one occasion, their top priority is bringing down Obama and they don't care if they destroy the whole country doing it and possibly the entire global economy. They obviously don't care what the rest of the world thinks either.
If they truly cared about smaller government, they wouldn't be trying to legislate what we do in our own bedrooms.
But, as you say in your article, it ain't just the right that is sending us over the edge.