Meet the Tea Party's Military Wing

By GottaLaff

Back in October 2009, I posted a Special Comment by 42bkdodgr about Pat Buchanan and the Oath Keepers:

The organization is made up of ex-Army paratroopers and police officers who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. Stewart Rhodes, the organization founder, says the reason for the type of membership, is “my focus is on the guys with the guns”.

Mother Jones picks up where 42bkdodgr left off:

[A] small group of fellow soldiers at the Fort Drum Army base in upstate New York are angry about the recent direction of the federal government. In the belief that it is already starting to turn on its citizens, they are preparing for the day the feds will find some pretext to declare martial law. Their conspiracy-minded rhetoric mirrors that of a recently established group called Oath Keepers. [...] [T]he group encourages active duty soldiers to stay anonymous—they identify themselves as Oath Keepers and subscribe to the group's tenets. But Pray and his pals take the rhetoric a step further: They are actively stockpiling weapons, running drills, and outlining a plan of action for the day "the shit hits the fan"—the day they will be forced to go AWOL to their "fortified bunker," and if it becomes necessary, to turn their guns against fellow soldiers. "I'm willing to fight to the death," Pray tells reporter Justine Sharrock in her new profile of Oath Keepers and its founder.

They also have a lengthy piece here called "Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason"...

Glenn Beck loves them. Tea Partiers court them. Congressmen listen to them. Meet the fast-growing "patriot" group that's recruiting soldiers to resist the Obama administration.

And they provide a slide show of who is connected to this lovely group. Here are the thumbnails, and each has accompanying text that is quite revelatory:

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Disturbing, to say the least.

H/t: Gr8RDH

VIDEO- Dana Perino: No terrorist attack during Bush's term

By GottaLaff



Dana Perino:

"We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term..."

Of course we didn't, dear... it was just some random airplanes that destroyed thousands of lives, brought down a few buildings, terrified the world, created a "War on Terror", but certainly not a "terrorist attack" on Bush's watch... on 9/11... that he had been warned about.... and failed to stop.

That same not-attack gave a regime of thugs the excuse to execute a throbbing drumbeat of relentless fear mongering, near-dictatorship, rampant torture, a fraudulent invasion of a sovereign country who never attacked us... shall I go on?

Or was Dana saying that the attack was not terrorism? Was it something else? By someone else?

Maybe it was simply her adorable way of calling her former boss a liar:



H/t: Oliver Willis

Lou Dobbs to Bill O'Reilly: It's all Obama's fault that I got canned

By GottaLaff

First Barbie McLipSchmutz kvetches on Oprah, now LouLou pours his heart out to Bill-O (tonight). I guess it's cheaper than paying for professional help.

Bill-O portrayed LouLou as "recently emancipated". I think that more accurately describes Dobbs' audience.

So the big question is, will LouLou segue into politics?

"I'm not going to be coy about this....I'm thinking — my wife and I are thinking about a lot of opportunities. [...] What is immutable here is, I'm going to remain in the public arena."

Nah, that wasn't coy at all.

Instead, Dobbs hinted, it was the arrival of the Obama administration into power that changed the climate and made his brand of advocacy journalism no longer acceptable on the network. [...]

"I discern more of a difference between then, which was under the Bush administration whom I was criticizing, and now, when it is the Obama administration and an entirely different tone was taken," Dobbs responded.

"As soon as the new president came in, and you went after him, not only on illegal immigration, but economic issues...they don't like you anymore," O'Reilly said later.

Awww, nobodys wuvs widdle LouLou any more? Waaah! What's a wacist to do?

Grow up, Lou. Even a 10-year-old is more mature.

The Bush Years: Compare and contrast

By GottaLaff

Someone get me a Tums:

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001)
Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008)

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE
Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001)
Now: 9,015 (close of Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009)

BUSH FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 50% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 31% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CHENEY FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 49% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING
Then: 48% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

SATISFIED WITH THE NATION'S DIRECTION
Then: 45% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 26% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (1985=100)
Then: 115.7 (Conference Board, January 2001)
Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low (Conference Board, December 2008)

FAMILIES LIVING IN POVERTY
Then: 6.4 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 7.6 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent numbers available)

AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE
Then: 39.8 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 45.7 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent available)

U.S. BUDGET
Then: +236.2 billion (2000, Congressional Budget Office)
Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, Congressional Budget Office)

Someone was a little generous with the Chimpenfuhrer/Nation of Dick favorability numbers. As for the rest, forget the Tums. Someone get me a pitcher of margaritas.

Of course I'm sure you all realize that this is all Obama's fault.