Who Elected Me Issuer of TNGOP Talking Points?

Me on Monday:
On top of that, the governor says we need to run the state like a business.  Well, shoot, we’re already seeing upper management continuing to live their spiffy high-on-the-hog lives, with their party bunkers and their posh wining and dining while workers lose their jobs.
That looks to me exactly like running the state like a [...]

The Tension is Killing Me

The TNGOP hates Mexicans.  Then they love Mexicans.  Then they hate Mexicans again.  Now they love them again.
When, oh when, will the TNGOP just kiss Mexico already and get it over with?

What Kind of Person Steals from a Baby, Representative Lynn?

Today, I was standing around flirting with a wee baby when I heard about something so stupid and evil I thought “This must be a mistake. Surely, the man who is telling me about this has suffered a bump on the head right before I got here or is high on gasoline fumes from [...]

Every Once in a While, I Worry John McCain Might Just Win This Thing

And then I read Terry Frank:
North Carolina reminds Senator McCain that this November isn’t all about him.  And the nerve of McCain.  McCain has stabbed the GOP in the back more times than Jason has stabbed teens in Friday the 13th and now he wants to give all the orders?  Ain’t gonna’ happen.
You know, she [...]

Come Over to the Dark Side, Marsha

You’re so close to being a feminist bitch; all you have to do is embrace feminism!

A Couple of Quick Things While My Internet is Working

–Considering what a piss-poor job AT&T does of keeping the internet flowing to my house, I don’t think Comcast has to worry about losing me as a cable customer.  If I had TV as infrequently as I have my internet connection, I might pass out.
–Guess which Flying Spaghetti Monster got a shout out in Rolling [...]

Bill Hobbs Tells You the Truth About Himself

Bill Hobbs is anti-immigration.  Not anti-illegal-immigration.  Anti-immigration  In other words, now that he and the people he loves are in, bar the door after him.
Why does it matter? You ask.
Because this man is the head flack for the Tennessee GOP.
If you, yourself, are an immigrant or the child or grandchild of immigrants, keep that in [...]

Two is a Coincidence; Three is a Trend

Dear Bloggy Tennessee Republicans,
All I ask is for… I don’t know… a little self-awareness on your part.  If, for instance, you can’t tell the difference between Chattanooga and Memphis when looking at a map, maybe don’t make fun of others for their bad geography skills.  Or if you were busy raiding the list of concealed [...]

Hobbs Opposes Newspapers’ Right to Post His Junk Mail List

I’ve now stayed up as late as I can to see what the reaction of the local gun-nut community would be to Bill Hobbs’s latest piece of nonsense, but my connect is strangely silent on the matter.
Here’s the deal.  We have a kind of fuckerly paper here in town and they pretty regularly post information [...]

So, Republicans are Pro-Union, Anti-Poverty, and Anti-War, Now?

Bill Hobbs, who you may recall from such adventures as “Bill Hobbs Wants Muslims to Know He Hates them” and “Bill Hobbs Wants Everyone to Know that Obama is Similar to Muslims and We All Know Hobbs Hates Muslims” among others, now is trying to pass off Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Republican hero.
Kids, [...]

I Feel Like I Should Oppose the Opposition to Toll Roads on Principle

So, the conservatives of our fine state are up in arms because the governor wants to put in some toll roads and I’m really suspicious of anything the conservatives want that appears to make sense on the surface.
Are the opposing the toll roads because toll money is going to be used to provide healthcare for [...]

Why Didn’t I Think of this Sooner?! Why Didn’t Any of You Think of This?

Someone totally needs to send Campfield a crochet cooter so that he can practice monitoring it, so that, should the day come when the state Republicans get all their repressive woman-hating legislation passed, he’ll be ready.

BREAKING NEWS! Bill Hobbs Still Hates Muslims

Dang, head propagandist over at the TNGOP, Bill Hobbs, is the gift that keeps on giving. Every week, it seems, he manages to draw attention to how much he hates Muslims.  Well, and Barak Obama, who is, as you may know, secretly a black nationalist, funky Christian, terrorist-sympathizing, gay, homophobic, church-choir-member-murdering, shrill-wife-having, affair-having, secret Muslim, [...]

The Magic of Cooters

It’s hard work running around with a body part so amazing that merely by having one, I become so magical and powerful that I can make men do whatever I want (except maybe mine’s broken, because damn if I have anyone offering to scrub my tub and I really want someone else but me to [...]

See, Kids, It’s Wrong for You to Break the Law, but Not for Campfield

I know it’s confusing, but it makes perfect sense.  If you, just once in your life, did something wrong, like get brought into the country illegally by your parents or get brought here legally, but then your parents overstay their visas, you don’t get to go to college because you… I don’t know… didn’t do [...]

I Don’t Want to Say I Told You So, but…

Firing Hobbs would have been total bullshit because the problem runs much deeper.  Check out this story at the Scene about what a charmer that Robin Smith is.
Over at Pith, Jeff Woods compares her rhetoric to Bin Ladin, which is all well and good and true, but I think he’s missing the more important comparison.  [...]

Another Scandal Fixing to Rock the TNGOP!

Courtesy of Jeff Fecke, we learn that both Bill Hobbs and Robin Smith of the TNGOP are descended from…
…wait for it…
…
…yes, I know, you’ve already guessed, but let’s arrive together at the punchline.  It’ll be like sharing a snuck cigarette out behind the barn together.  It won’t be as awesome as we thought, but we’ll [...]

In Which I Yet Again Argue that Firing Hobbs is BS

Braisted is reporting that Hobbs is on his way out at the TNGOP and I have to say that it’s wrong for Hobbs to take the fall for this.
See, firing Hobbs makes it seem like the TNGOP was wandering along, innocent as can be, and they accidently tried to smear Obama as a covert Muslim, [...]

Shorter Campfield: Obama Was Asking For It

Y’all, I am neither a brilliant enough feminist theorist or awake enough to give this the attention it deserves, but I point it out in hopes that you can do something with it.
That charmer Stacey Campfield, who, I remind you, can’t even locate Memphis or Chattanooga on a map, says:
And the Photo, If he didn’t [...]

In Real Life, It’s a Country Full of Women Who Can Kick Your Ass

GoldenI (which, is clearly pronounced Gold-en-eye, but in my head, until recently, I’ve been pronouncing it Goldini, like Houdini, but… well… not) has a great post today on how weird it is that the pro-Israel conservatives* are so in love with Israel, when, if we tried some of the stuff they take as a matter [...]

More On Hobbs

This is the other thing I’ve been thinking about in terms of the whole Obama-Farrakhan thing and what the TNGOP flaks are up to in this press release.
And here is my question:
Do you think that the Beatles are responsible for what Charles Manson’s followers did?
By all accounts, Manson loved the Beatles, Beatles lyrics were left [...]

Breaking News about Hillary Clinton!!!!!!!!

I was reading along to Bill Hobbs, as I regularly do when I need a laugh, and he’s trying to defend himself from the accurate charges that he’s attempting to make hay out of the fact that Obama’s middle name is the same as Mohammad’s grandson’s first name (and the same as a certain dictator’s [...]

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Good News! The Economy is Reasonably Healthy.

U.S. Conference of Mayors:
Number of homes in foreclosure in Tennessee: almost 33,000 as of November 2007
Projected loss to the Gross Metropolitan Product of Nashville this year: $901.6 million
Memphis: $482 million
Knoxville: $311.9 million
Kingsport/Bristol: $109.9 million
Chattanooga: $166.3 million
Bill Hobbs:
The economy isn’t failing. Has it hit a rough patch? For certain. The subprime mortgage crisis, though it affects [...]

Seriously, Campfield Just Disqualified Himself from Public Service in the State of Tennessee

There are four cities in Tennessee that every resident of Tennessee should be able to locate on a map: Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga.  Tennessee is bordered on the south side by three states–Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, which everyone in Tennessee should also know.  Memphis, home of the DELTA BLUES, serves as the urban center [...]