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You can’t make this shit up! Yes, you read the title of this post correctly. California state Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) hates the gays and has spent many years of his career lambasting them. Well, turns out ole Ashburn himself is gay, loves the gays, and was only going after the gays all these years because he was hoping nobody would suspect he was gay! See? It’s all making sense now…
(hat tip to Grant in Houston once again for sending me the link to this HIGH-sterical article!)
Funny…..maybe the teabaggers need a new litmus test for their candidates to find out if they are “the gay”, as Rachel would say?
The next act should certainly be predictable. Trots out wife and family, tearfully confesses blaming the whole episode on drug/alcohol addiction. Will spend 90 days in rehab, after which he will be warmly embraced by the right-wing nutzoids who cheer his distorted concept of reality.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Unless, of course, the offender happens to be a Democrat.
William, only Democrats self-punish themselves when they do something wrong. Republicans? They point and blame everyone else for their behavior! See?
Grant, Massa is going to die and I’m sure he wants to be out of office to have some peace and to hopefully use the time away from government to help his reputation (meaning: the less he’s in the spotlight the better it will be for him!). Sad that he’s dying.
Well, I’m going to take some time off from blogging this weekend because I am so behind right now! We (the Democrats in my area) are preparing for the upcoming Maine Democratic Convention and then the June Democratic primary. We are so fired up and ready to go (despite what the neocons say!)!!!!! It’s taking up a lot of my time up, though, so as the election year progresses, you will may find me on here a little less than usual. Anyway, have a great weekend everyone! I’m going to be doing some much needed painting that has been staring me in the face for months now. Can’t wait! (Jim, painting the walls is relaxing to me!)
The big news yesterday all over the MSM was not about Ashburn, but instead about DEMOCRAT Rep. Brad Massa who is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee as of today. Even Fox News only reports the committee is pursuing SOMETHING regarding Massa, saying, “it is far short of the committee establishing an ‘Investigative Subcommittee.’ When the committee does that, you know that there is some ‘meat’ to the allegations.”
http://congress.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/04/ethics-committee-statement-on-rep-eric-massa-d-ny/
So far there has only been the accusations of ONE staffer in a “he said, he said” situation. Massa, a first term congressman from one of upstate New York’s most conservative districts had already planned to retire after a third recurrence of cancer. He is a retired 20 year officer of the US Navy, having been educated at Annapolis. He is married and the father of a daughter and a college age son. Massa claims to have sometimes use vulgar language, a habit he picked up during his many years in the military.
Unlike Boner and Hastert who knew of Rep. Mark Foley’s problems many months before they came to light in the media, yesterday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) indicated that he told Massa’s staff that he would refer the issue to the Ethics Committee if they didn’t.
Massa was an outspoken critic of the Dick Cheney:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rep-eric-massa-smacks-down-dick-cheney-cha
He also was a fighter for the Public Option and sought to bring health insurance companies under anti-trust laws.
Rep. Massa gives the reasons for his resignation on his website:
http://massa.house.gov/
Tongues will wag whether he is guilty of any more than hurting somebody’s feelings, or even if there is no “there” there. He will be guilty in the minds of many who love scandal. I don’t know why anyone wants to run for political office. Still don’t understand why Barack Obama wanted to go in and clean up the Bush/Cheney catastrophic mess.
I’m jealous, I wish I were painting walls. Seriously…..
Traveling tomorrow to southern Michigan for a “baby shower”…..I don’t know why I need to go to a baby shower.
Jim, you have to go to a baby shower……because you’re a good man!
Well, I got half of my diningroom beneath the chair rail painted last night. The top half is a cranberry (I painted it this color when we moved into our home a couple years ago) and the bottom half is ‘true walnut’ or a dark brown. Love it! Warms up the diningroom so much!
Grant, thanks for the piece about the death penalty in Texas. Maybe it’s illegal only when blacks die at the hands of a white person? Hey could be!
Paterson,Rangel,Massa ,Spitzer,Blagojevich,Edwards. Do the democrat scandals ever end.
Did the Bush Regime’s war crimes ever end?
One thing we have to credit Democrats for…..they take responsibility and the Democrats of the House & Senate will investigate their own as well. They’re a far cry from the republicans who won’t acknowledge a damn thing and then will give them an award or some kind of positive recognition that is undeserved!
Some of the Democrats have been a huge disappointment, but you will never catch me voting for a republican because of it!
A Democratic judge in Houston backs off a ruling he made on Thursday, proclaiming the Texas Death Penalty unconstitutional.
Judge Kevin Fine clarified his ruling in an impromptu hearing Friday, saying he ruled the procedures surrounding the process in Texas are illegal.
During Friday’s hearing, prosecutors filed motions asking State District Judge Kevin Fine to reconsider his ruling and also to proceed with April’s death penalty trial of John Edward Green Jr. Fine maintained at the hearing that he believes innocent people have been executed.
Fine’s clarification came in the wake of a firestorm of criticism from District Attorney Pat Lykos, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and Gov. Rick Perry, all REPUBLICANS, protesting that Fine ignored well-settled law.
Fine had based his initial ruling on a study of 504 Harris County capital cases published by a researcher at the University of Denver, Dr. Scott Phillips.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6897968.html
Posting blocked…..
Bill Clinton. Blue dress. DNA
Blame everyone else? Nah just deny, deny, deny.
Waking up from our Texas Primary Election, many stunned Democrats in US District 22, Tom DeLay’s old district now Represented by Rep. Pete Olson (R-Sugar Land), have discovered they have nominated Kesha Rogers, a member of the Lyndon LaRouche cult who wants to impeach Barack Obama and doesn’t believe in Global Warming. In primary elections where turnout is low, with the most fired up tend to vote, often candidates have not been fully researched and sometimes a catchy name, a candidate’s race, sex, religious belief, etc., will determine a winner.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6899832.html
District 22 surrounds the Johnson Space Center and Rogers played upon Obama’s cutting NASA’s manned moon mission. It is also a middle class district, majority white, composed of many who work in the oil industries. It is also about 75% Republican even though Olson only won his election in 2008 with 53% of the vote, defeating Democratic incumbent, Nick Lampson who had replaced DeLay.
Makes you wonder Grant if Rogers is like Scott Brown….says a lot of things during the campaign and then does the opposite once elected? Hey could be!
Fairly typical conservaturd response Silly Sally. Can’t make a cogent and sane argument advocating your position? No problem! Just trot out Clinton’s blowjob, in the tried and failed reich-wing tradition of projectionism.
But then, I’ve observed that no bar is too low that a native of planet wingnuttia won’t try to slither underneath it.
I thought the republicans were all about looking forward and not backwards….you know….like the liberals! Yeah, yeah, for a year now we’ve heard, “Stop bringing up George Bush, liberals! He’s not our president anymore!”. Huh. Spit.