A Bad Penny...

Sharron Angle is trying to peddle a book she "wrote."  She also insinuates Senator Reid's campaign engaged in cheating in last year's election:

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This moron really doesn't believe in democracy.

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In some good news for Nevada Republicans, Sharron Angle says she will not run for the House seat vacated by Dean Heller, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate when John Ensign bailed.
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In more shit, "sources" say John Edwards "could" be indicted in a few days.

Or not.
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A school librarian goes through the LAUSD meat grinder of "due process hearings" and ends up chopped to pieces.

Teachers have NO rights at all in this country, but school districts, seeking to save even more money, want to get rid of these kangaroo hearings altogether.

The Decline and Fall of the United States of America

Or, a bad penny always returns: Disgraced politician Sharron Angle has announced her candidacy for the United States congressional seat now being vacated by incumbent Dean Heller, who is running for John Ensign's Senate seat.

I am sure the Washoe County Republican Party will panic and put in somebody who isn't a laughingstock. It is critical they do, for this seat has NEVER gone Democratic since it was created thirty years ago.

You can watch her video at the link.

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Sharron Angle continues to go on the campaign trail, probably all for nothing.
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Never incur the wrath of an administrator, especially one as inept as Philly's Arlene Ackerman, or you will be told off in front of hundreds of people:

When the young teacher attending a panel discussion about men of color and education stood up to tell Superintendent Arlene Ackerman that the School District's constant bureaucratic requirements impeded her ability to teach, she hardly expected what happened next.

Ackerman blew up at her and, in essence, told her to quit.

"What we need are teachers who don't make excuses," said Ackerman. "I don't want to hear about bureaucracy. We have always had bureaucracies. We are looking for people who say 'I can teach a rock to read.' If it is not the right place for you then you should find another place to go."

The audience of about 400 people was stunned.

Get Ready for the Possibility

of a Sharron Angle presidential run.

She didn't rule out the possibility when asked when she was in Iowa attending some movie.

By the way, she didn't "nearly" beat Senator Reid; he won by something like five percentage points.

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Don't blame me, says Sharron.

It might be irrelevant to debate whether or not her stupid rhetoric created the situation in which people might resort to committing crimes as what happened last Saturday in Tucson, but when one thinks about the whole thing, the right probably IS responsible for a Jared Loughner in that they went out of their way to cut funding for the mentally ill.
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Sarah Palin should probably consult a dictionary or an encyclopedia before spouting off stupid statements. Or else hire a speechwriter who knows something about history:

Vigorous and spirited public debates during elections are among our most cherished traditions. And after the election, we shake hands and get back to work, and often both sides find common ground back in D.C. and elsewhere. If you don’t like a person’s vision for the country, you’re free to debate that vision. If you don’t like their ideas, you’re free to propose better ideas. But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.

It's not hard to find out what "blood libel" really is. A Google search would also help. Needless to say, more than a few in the Jewish community are not happy with her "liberal" use of a very specific term.

Video of her making a (bigger) fool of herself:



Could a widely read rightwing blogger actually be the "source" of the misuse of the "blood libel" phrase?

Conservative blogger Glenn Reynolds first used the term this week in the context of the Giffords shooting.

"So as the usual talking heads begin their 'have you no decency?' routine aimed at talk radio and Republican politicians, perhaps we should turn the question around. Where is the decency in blood libel?" he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "The Arizona tragedy and the politics of blood libel."

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Who says corrupt politicians are like everybody else?

Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay today was sentenced to three years in prison for his conviction on a charge of conspiracy to commit political money laundering. He also was sentenced to five years in prison on a money laundering conviction, but the judge probated that to 10 years of community supervision.

DeLay was taken into custody by Travis County deputies, but will be released on $10,000 bail pending appeal.

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Fortunately, Sharron Angle isn't interested in the Nevada state senate seat being vacated by longtime incumbent Bill Raggio.

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The only thing that would have been more "shocking" than Sharron Angle's loss against Senator Harry Reid is if she would have won.
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Ben Bernanke is put on the defensive regarding fed policy.
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It seems yet another Obama crony is in trouble, this one over an alleged kickback scheme.

The Chicago school of politics went national with the inauguration of Barack Obama.
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Ralph Nader uses his creativity--or maybe not--by imagining our previous squatter in the White House writing a letter to Barry.
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Unbelievable if you're old enough, but it has been fifty years since JFK was elected president over Richard Nixon. It's also unbelievable that lofty ideas Kennedy espoused were buried and forgotten almost as soon as he died.

JFK might as well have been living on another planet. We are now so far from any kind of sense of justice, equality, and decency we might just as well be living in the medieval times of feudalism.
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Sign of the Times

Nevadans have a momentous decision to make by Tuesday night in the United States Senate race: Will voters re-elect an unpopular but greatly experienced politician who, as this article notes, looks like an undertaker in a funeral parlor rather than a politician who sometimes undertakes unpopular programs, or will voters continue the recent Nevada tradition of electing laughingstocks and continue being sources of material for standup comics?

If the option of "none of the above" actually held weight, it would win in a landslide.

Big Time Politics

Sharron Angle can rest assured she has made the big time when the New York Times of all things runs an editorial about her and the "politics of fear."

Because of his high profile, Harry Reid is a lightning rod in the state and is widely disliked. That is understandable. However, what is being proposed as an alternative is truly scary. Whether voters are that stupid to throw out somebody who has served the state many years and is the most powerful person in Washington outside of Obama in favor of a race-baiting idiot who makes Chic Hecht look like Einstein is the pressing and depressing question.

Nevadans have fucked up before with Hecht, Gibbons, and Ensign, to name just a few examples of wingnuttery gone apeshit. Are they willing to continue this shameful tradition with the election of Angle? If they are, this country has indeed hit rock-bottom.

The Times:

Ms. Angle said last week that every state should have a sheriff like Mr. Arpaio, and he returned the compliment, in his own particular, chilling way. “You guys have got a desert here,” he told the cheering, foot-stomping crowd. “Why don’t you put up some tents?” The laughter of his audience of about 2,000 people, most wearing free Angle T-shirts or buttons, practically shook the walls of Stoney’s Rockin’ Country nightclub, where hand-held signs proclaimed Mr. Reid, the Senate majority leader, a traitor, a socialist and garbage.

Mr. Reid’s campaign had once looked forward to running against Ms. Angle, figuring that her extreme positions would quickly marginalize her in the minds of voters. But he somehow failed to recognize just how attractive those positions would be in a state with the nation’s highest unemployment rate and highest rates of foreclosure and bankruptcy. And he was lifeless in last week’s debate instead of making the forceful, animated challenge to Ms. Angle’s radicalism that might have motivated his supporters.

Nevada has had a long tradition of libertarian idiocy, which Sharron Angle is peddling and pandering. It infected the GOP in all kinds of ways. When I moved there 26 years ago, it was like being on another planet, and I came from--and returned to--a part of Oregon which is largely red. Over the years this right-wing idiocy was increasingly marginalized as more people from other states migrated to the Silver State. Despite Nevada going into the gutter economically and despite many people having left the state, including yours truly, political attitudes aren't as stupid as they were when Reagan was president (and almost deified there).

This commenter has it right and knows what he is talking about:

Nevada has been a libertarian anti-tax structure state for many years. The majority of the country changed with this past Presidential election, the most pivotal change since 1980. Education is now a must.
Regional transportation infrastructure is now a must. Healthcare reform became a must. Financial regulations for Wall Street and mortgage lending became a must. It wasn't socialism, Senator Reid or the Obama Administration which built all those vacant homes in Southern Nevada during 20 years of supply side frenzy. It was all the customers-partners of gaming who too the appreciation and flips to the tables, where the gaming gated communities gladly took it. When the bubble busted in September 2007 and the party ended, all the money fled, with losses protected by the words LLC in other places. The big losers were Clark County residents with homes still remaining 40-60 percent underwater 2004-2007 prices. Ironically, the gated community now needs Senator Reid's seniority in Washington to bring home the bacon for economic and energy diversity. In a strange twist of fate, not assigning the proper amount of funding for two decades into quality of life and education has left the gated communities surrounded by retired people who do not want to pay any taxes and many of those who work lacking the education to make an educated choice for Senator. They are simply mad and looking to assign blame to an elected official. Meanwhile, the energy sector of the US economy fears cap and trade legislation, and through Karl Rove is funding candidates such as Angle to purchase the kind of opposition they are buying to block legislation that reaches too far. Republicans want power back, and oppostion to cap and trade is their issue. Uninformated or undereducated Nevadans thinkg they are voting Angle for jobs, in fact they are voting Angle for no new job diversity.

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I still expect Harry Reid to eke out a victory, even if it ends up being a few hundred votes.

Senator Harry Reid

told Ed Schultz the truth about challenger Sharron Angle, but will Nevada voters wake the hell up and realize they are about to turn the state into a further laughingstock should they elect her?

Another Prominent Person in the GOP,

this time former GOP chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, has endorsed Senator Harry Reid for re-election rather than that kook Angle.

At least Newt likes her.

If she wins, I guess Nevadans don't give a shit about looking stupid.

Speaking of Reid and Nevada, Vice President Biden was in Reno stumping for the senator.

If I were still living in the state, I would have attended the rally.

All Asians and Latinos Look Alike and They Look

like each other, according to Sharron Angle:



Nevadans are batshit insane to vote her in. I can't believe the whole thing is even possible.

Reid-Angle Debate for Those Lucky Enough to Miss It

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Link to the YouTube channel nice enough to put this excrement on the internet:

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Sharron Angle Reallly Isn't a Racist

no matter what ads people have seen or what the media reports.  Her campaign's maligned "immigration" ad doesn't target Hispancs, she insists.

Does Harry Reid Deserve Nevadans?

We will find out November 2 if voters in the Silver State are stupid enough to elect a bona fide idiot to the United States Senate and thus lose a lot of power in the process.

As the editorial notes, Reid is the most powerful person in Congress, or at least the top figurehead in the legislative body.  Angle is nothing but a laughingstock.

If she actually gets elected, nobody will be laughing, except people like the Koch brothers who hold the average person in contempt.

Reid-Angle Debate

In case you are bored, here is the "debate" of the year, whereby the moron Angle doesn't even bother to answer the questions:

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Nevadans deserve what they get if they put this moron in there.

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With "Democrats" like this administration who seem to be hellbent on propping up the banksters no matter what, it's little wonder the party in general is vulnerable in next month's elections.

While senior Congressional Democrats join the calls for a national moratorium on foreclosures, the White House once again is arguing against punishing the industry, just as it did in 2009 amid the outcry over the unbreakable habit of paying large bonuses.

“Irresponsible banks need to be held accountable, but if we have not found a problem with a bank’s process we do not believe that we should impose a moratorium where that can hurt the market and hurt individual buyers,” said Shaun Donovan, secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

This is nothing but putting off the inevitable.

It's certainly gratifying to note the administration wants to cover for the greatest swindle in world history:

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Sharron Angle decides to rewrite her positions on a variety of issues long after she has been exposed as a dipshit extremist. Not to mention she is completely untrustworthy.
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Obituaries: Champion racehorse Pleasant Tap, 23, was euthanized October 8 because of laminitis.
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The dog that wouldn't die:

"I'm Sharron Angle, and I Approve This Message."

Sharron Angle strikes (out) again, and this ad is low--even for her:




If Nevadans vote her in, they get exactly what they deserve.

The Hits Keep Coming at Sharron Angle,

and this one really hurts.  Raggio is Mr. Republican in Nevada, a classic "conservative," and he has bailed on Angle:

Raggio, Nevada’s longest serving state senator, said he could put past differences between him and Angle behind him but her record in the Legislature as an assemblywoman from Reno and some of her opinions tilted his support toward Reid.


“What is difficult to overlook is her record of being totally ineffective as a four-term assemblywomen, her inability or unwillingness to work with others, even within her own party, and her extreme positions on issues such as Medicare, social security, education, veterans affairs and many others,” Raggio said.