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Breitbartocalypse Is Nigh!

by Betty Cracker

Here’s Breitbart bellowing like a ruptured cow at the OWS protesters at CPAC: Jesus God, what a braying ninny. Does he think screeching inanities until his neck veins pulse alarmingly and being led away by security personnel is some sort of rhetorical triumph? What an asshole. [H/T: YAFB at Rumproast]

February 11, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 161 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Politics, Republican Stupidity

Up Close and Personal

by Betty Cracker

Over at Salon, Mark Oppenheimer has a longish, interesting piece on Maggie Gallagher, NRO hack, NOM founder and arguably the most prominent opponent of marriage equality in the US. I read it because the thing that has always puzzled me most about the gay marriage controversy is why those who oppose it are so convinced [...]

February 9, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 68 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Politics, Republican Stupidity

Ryan Plan Redux

by Betty Cracker

Brian Beutler at TPM wonders if the GOP plans to follow Paul Ryan down the kill-Medicare rabbit hole again in an election year and concludes that yes, they do: Why on earth would Republicans put the whole party back on the line? Particularly after a year of serial brinkmanship and overreach that has dragged their [...]

February 7, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 34 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Democratic Stupidity, Media, Politics, Republican Stupidity

Public Service Announcement & Open Thread

by Betty Cracker

This is Daisy, who rides INSIDE the vehicle at all times. Open thread.

February 6, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 61 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Dog Blogging, Domestic Affairs, Open Thread, Politics, Republican Stupidity

By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them

by Betty Cracker

The occupant of today’s ducking stool is a post by Erick Erickson that is entitled—I shit you not—“The Perversion of the Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ by the Sinner Barack H. Obama.” CottonMather CottonMatherson waxes theological for 1,500 words or so, returning to variations on the word “pervert” with such alarming frequency as to [...]

February 5, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 156 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Politics, Republican Stupidity

K-Thug the Lesser

by Betty Cracker

Wingnuts quickly settled on a meme in the wake of the Komen Kinda Kave: The Pink Peeps fell prey to leftist gangsterism! According to the squealing pusscakes on the right, an innocent, nonpartisan charity was mau-maued by hairy-legged, Birkenstock-shod lesbian bullies who demand government funds to forcibly dismember precious snowflake babies, probably for some satanic [...]

February 4, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 78 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Politics, Republican Stupidity, The Wingularity, Vagina Outrage, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It

Madam Justice ::THWACK::

by Betty Cracker

Tee-hee: My laptop is experiencing hot flashes and wheezing piteously, which means I’ll have to hitch up the wagon for a trip into town to see if I can find a Super Bowl sale this weekend. Any laptop recommendations? [H/T: Buzzfeed]

February 3, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 85 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Politics, Republican Stupidity

Poll-Axed

by Betty Cracker

Well played, Mr. Axelrod.

January 31, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 89 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Election 2012, Open Thread, Politics

A Whodunit in Florida

by Betty Cracker

U.S. Rep. Allen West of Florida rivals even Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Deadbeat Dad, in personal and political assholery. Having been booted out of the Army for a harsh interrogation incident in Iraq, West went on to win a House seat during the 2010 election. Since then, he has consistently hit every wingnut pleasure center, comparing [...]

January 29, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 125 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Teabagger Stupidity

Lies and the lying liars, etc.

by Betty Cracker

Sarah Palin took to Facebook last night to express shock that fellow Republicans are using dirty tricks on one another in the campaign: We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the [...]

January 28, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 93 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Politics, Republican Stupidity

TRESemmé Mucho

by Betty Cracker

Life as an iconic hairdo isn’t as glamorous as media depictions would have you believe. Take the sad case of the self-contained hair-pod that resides on the noggin of the third Mrs. Gingrich. If you only knew what those titanium tresses have had to endure. Crushing ennui brought on by endless rubber-chicken circuit events. Listening [...]

January 27, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 49 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Politics, Republican Stupidity

Useful Images

by Betty Cracker

Angry DougJ is definitely onto something with this “useful idiots” idea: One of the great victories of conservatism was framing every debate as the real, Tebow-fearing Murkins versus the dirty hippies who spit on soldiers. Is there anyway the left could try to do the same with banskters and bankster fanboys? A few months ago, [...]

January 26, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 109 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, General Stupidity, Media, Politics, Republican Stupidity

This should lock up the Matlock vote

by Betty Cracker

Snoozy has-been Fred Thompson was supposed to cut an endorsement vid for his pal Newt Gingrich. But as Fred did so often during his short-lived campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, he plopped down in his recliner with a glass of scotch and was soon swept away by the sandman. The Gingrich people called about [...]

January 25, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 30 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Politics, Republican Stupidity

Little fluffy clouds

by Sarah Proud and Tall

I’m trying to understand. I managed to put my back out somewhere in Portugal, then picked up a dread lurgy in Amsterdam, and have therefore spent the last week making my way home to Shady Pines, swathed in a haze of Tiger Balm, vaIium, codeine and champagne, while alternately lying on the floor of hotels [...]

January 25, 2012 · Sarah Proud and Tall · 34 Comments
Posted in: Fucked-up-edness, NANCY SMASH!, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Politics

Kristol Lite

by Betty Cracker

All English-language software should be equipped with a mechanism that prevents these particular words from being presented in this sequence: Users who stubbornly attempt to evade the safeguard should have their hard drive erased. Jesus. I get that the Republicans are in despair over their sucky presidential slate, as well they should be. But this [...]

January 24, 2012 · Betty Cracker · 38 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media, Open Thread, Politics, Republican Stupidity

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