I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
And they say Dems have potty mouths. Is it me, or are these Republicans fond of homoerotic babble? Shove it down your throat...now it's about grabbing your adversary's "boys." House Energy Committee ranking member Joe Barton (R-TX) apparently has a hard-on for Henry Waxman (D-CA), who released the text of HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which heads for committee markup on Monday. Barton's mind was below the belt as he explained why Waxman doesn't have the votes to pass the legislation. (Think Progress):
"He has got a chance to get the votes. If you are familiar with Texas Hold 'em poker, he doesn't have the nuts. It is not a done deal. Nor do I. . . We will see which has the other by the nuts next week."
Talk about mixed messages. Just yesterday I blogged about the drop of a new video promoting the GOP's latest effort to rebrand its tired-*ss self, The National Council for a New America, which relied heavily on the imagery of the Reagan "Morning in America" commercials, and even included shots of the Reagan (I included them in the graphic at right), and even Ike!
So with its mostly male, pale, old, retread band of GOP brothers of the NCNA on the road to solicit ideas from "the people," Jeb Bush actually undercuts the mission video by telling the party to move on. Even worse, (and from my POV, hilariously), admits that the Republican party has no strategy, and has no idea how to resurrect itself other than to copy the Dems.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it's time for the Republican Party to give up its "nostalgia" for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election.
"You can't beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that," Mr. Bush sai
..."So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican] messaging. I mean, it's great, but it doesn't draw people toward your cause," Mr. Bush said.
"From the conservative side, it's time for us to listen first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about the past because, you know, things do ebb and flow."
Man, Jeb, it's pretty clear that if you stray from the current sorry messaging that your party leader Rush Limbaugh will erupt -- and you will have to apologize. Your peers don't know how to listen.
The problem that party faces is that they can't let go of their hero ghosts from the past. Who can blame them? People would be rolling on the floor if they included more contemporary presidents as models for the future of the GOP -- Nixon, Bush I or heaven help them, Bush II.
Aside from the former Dear Leader, most of the voters they are trying to reach see Nixon and Poppy as fossil figures from history books as well. I don't see how the GOP can extract themselves from its conundrum when it is addicted to lies and fear and smear as a "strategy."
Gee, what happened to that Permanent Republican Majority that Karl Rove was working on? The answer? It's down the crapper, even according to their own numbers.
Republicans are widely viewed by the public as less competent than Democrats to handle issue ranging from health care to education and energy, according to internal polling presented to top GOP officials in Congress...
The survey found the public holds greater confidence in Democrats than in Republicans in handling most of the issues that are involved in Obama's legislative agenda...Democrats were favored by a margin of 61 percent to 29 percent on education; 59 percent to 30 percent on health care and 59 percent to 31 percent on energy...Democats were also viewed with more confidence in handling taxes, long a Republican strong suit. The only issue among nine in the survey where the two parties were rated as even was in the war on terror.
The survey found Obama's job approval at 62 percent.
It's becoming an article of faith, no pun intended, that the GOP (as presently represented by the most loathsome faces of the party) finds itself hip deep in elephant poo. Even Republican-leaning pundits and "strategists" are lamenting on how far the party has fallen, in such a relatively short period of time. What they can't seem to wrap their heads around is how to get their leadership heading back in the right direction.
But you know what the GOP's answer to those bad numbers is? Form a re-branding initiative -- the National Council for a New America -- and populate it with a "National Panel of Experts," you know, folks who have all the fresh ideas to bring the party back to national supremacy. Check who's on the list below the fold.
Talk about mixed messages. 
