Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
The Budget. Conservatives LOVE Welfare (but hate the poor)
Two weeks ago, I finally created a Twitter account for the blog: @MugsysRapSheet. When you first create your account, you are given the opportunity to add people based upon your interests. As a self-described Conservative watchdog, I decided @KarlRove was among the people I should follow. The first “tweet” I received from “Turd Blossom” was: Did […]
February 17, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Healthcare, Money, myth busting, Politics, Rants
The Mind of a Conservative: a personal aside
I am pleased to announce that there are no more “Republicans” in the state of Texas. None. Nada. Zip… at least, not among the general public. The governor, Rick “Good Hair” Perry is a Teabagger that has become a national embarrassment every time he opens his mouth with talk of “succession”, and the Texas state Legislature […]
January 24, 2011
Posted in: Economy, General, Healthcare, myth busting, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity, Unconstitutional
President Obama seeks to secure his 2012 defeat.
President Obama announced to the White House Press Corp Tuesday morning that he is urging Democrats in Congress to cave in to the tyranny of the minority and agree to extend the Bush Tax Cuts for the Top 2% for two more years (ie: the year he leaves office) in exchange for a one-year extension […]
December 8, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Infrastructure, Money, Politics, Rants, Taxes
Conservatives just discovering concerns Democrats had for decades
Living in Texas (a purpleish red-state), I talk to a lot of Conservatives… be they friends or family… on a near daily basis. And while I know I’m on solid footing when it comes to my positions, the Conservatives in my life certainly do a great job of keeping me honest. Over Thanksgiving, one could […]
November 29, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, General, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity
VIDEO: Sen. Robert Byrd on Iraq invasion – Mar. 13, 2003
Senator Robert Byrd passed away this morning at the age of 92. Here is Sen. Byrd’s prescient speech warning against the invasion of Iraq on March 13, 2003… six days before the invasion (40 min): While I highly encourage you to watch the entire 40 minute speech, here are a few highlights: “The […]
June 28, 2010
Posted in: General, Politics, Rants, War
The Official “the LOST finale sucked” thread. Seriously.
I just finished watching the series finally of ABC’s “Lost”, and was seriously disappointed… disappointed to the point where I must break from the usual topic of politics to rant about it (and provide a place for all of you to share your own thoughts.) After watching every episode of the entire six-year series, the […]
May 24, 2010
Posted in: General, Rants, Seems Obvious to Me
The Party of NO claims mantle of bipartisanship
More often than you might think, I’ll start off writing the weeks blog entry, only to end up writing something else entirely. This is one of those weeks. This particular blog entry started off noting the eerie similarities between the dramatic rise in Right Wing extremism and the very people they claim to hate: Muslim […]
March 8, 2010
Posted in: General, Healthcare, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity, Terrorism
BSC Republicans: A Review of Election Night, Texas 2010.
SPECIAL EDITION It is election night and the Texas Primary returns are still coming in. If you didn’t think the Republican Party was Bat “$#!+” Crazy before, the primary results seem to all but confirm it. How else does one explain away such huge support for a manifestly insane governor and a series of embarrassing […]
March 3, 2010
Posted in: Election, Politics, Rants
Myth Busting: “In Search Of…” 1970’s “Global Cooling” hype.
While Washington D.C. and the surrounding area attempts to dig itself out from under “The Snow-pocolypse”, Global Warming deniers are back at it again, pointing to it and the unusually blizzardly (pardon the new word) Winter we’ve been having… mixed in with last Falls “leaked Climate-Gate emails” as PROOF that “Global Warming” is actually a […]
February 8, 2010
Posted in: Environment, Global Warming, myth busting, Politics, Rants
Argh! When even a Super-Majority isn’t enough.
Dear Gawd! Didn’t you think that when a fed-up country flipped control of BOTH houses of Congress in 2006 that we would FINALLY see a change in the disastrous Conservative policies of the past 26 years? And when voters, with their eyes slowly opening like 2-week old puppies, began to realize that Republicans were responsible […]
October 5, 2009
Posted in: Healthcare, Politics, Rants
Bi-Partisanship is Hurting Democrats
(Special bonus op/ed) After the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy last week, a parade of Republicans lined up to bemoan how his departure could spell the end of bi-partisanship in the Senate with regards to the healthcare bill. Because, as we all know, “bi-partisanship is a one-way street in Republicanland”. Kennedy is gone. Ipso-facto, these […]
August 29, 2009
Posted in: Healthcare, Politics, Rants, Seems Obvious to Me
Is this country literally too stupid to live? Will Public Option be defeated by those who need it most?
During Sunday’s political talkshows, the consensus appeared to be that “the Public Option is dead.” If so, I can guarantee you the healthcare lobbyists and special interests are dancing in their offices this morning, smelling victory in the air as a $173 million dollar effort to defeat healthcare reform pays off. Through a well-concerted effort of […]
August 17, 2009
Posted in: Healthcare, Politics, Rants
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