Trump's the rump of the GOP field

 Ah, Donald Trump consistently shows what a hypocritical dumb-ass he is (via Alternet):

The Donald's going to have a hard time doubling down on this one.  

Politico is reporting that Trump, while speaking at a Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa Saturday, told the crowd, "[Sen John McCain] was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." The two men had been engaged in a media war over the past few days. 

Trump's slight was reportedly met with a scattering of boos from the crowd. 

McCain was held captive in a North Vietnamese prison camp for five-and-a-half years, while Trump received four military deferments between 1964 to 1968.

"Ya big baby!"

I have no trouble that Trump avoided Viet Nam---I won the draft lottery myself, and avoided that awful and illegal conflict, but for someone who utilized his wealth and connections to stay out of the fight to then critcise someone who did wind up in the fray (many of whom had no choice in the matter because they weren't as fortunate as The Donald) is inexcusable. Trump never seems to have any trouble finding a lower pit to bark his bilious statements from. He is a worthless waste of the air he breathes, and that he is taken seriously says more about the quality of our corporate-loving media and the depths the GOP has sunk to that it does about his sorry ass.

Bush-whacked?

Never Forget . . . . .

Nuts, meet knee . . . .

Is it just me, or do all the GOP front runners in the run up to 2016 look like guys you'd want to knee in the nuts in High School?

. . . and I NEVER kneed anyone in the nuts then!

It's going to be a long year . . . . .

Quote for the Day (Old Style Republican Advice for New Style Republicans)

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

Biggest Asshole of the Week: Donald Trump

Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days - now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2014

If only we could keep this asshole out of the United States---but can we at least keep him out of the media?

Dinner, anyone?

(Via The Daily Funnies)

This is the biggest problem in America

If you are not pissed off, you're not paying attention, or you're rich . . . .
Another take on this fact by Nick Hanauer. Our policies are based on a lie . . .

Serious monsters

This analysis by Paul Krugman of the Republican options for cutting the deficit by cutting entitlements deserves posting in full (via the NYT):

In his interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mitch McConnell finally mentioned a few sort-of specifics about what spending cuts the GOP wants: raising the Medicare age, charging higher premiums to affluent Medicare recipients, and changing the price indexing of Social Security. But how much does all this amount to? 

I've already noted that the CBO has estimated the fiscal savings from raising the Medicare age at $113 billion over the next decade. A study of health care options (pdf) from a few years ago put the savings from expanded premiums at $20 billion (Option 91) - that number would be somewhat higher now, but still small. 

I haven't found a 10-year estimate of the Social Security indexing idea, but we can roll our own. The idea is to replace the CPI with a "chained" measure that typically rises about 0.3 percentage points less per year. Apply this to the CBO projections of Social Security spending under current policy and I get 10-year savings of $186 billion. 

So, if we take all of McConnell's ideas together, we get a bit more than $300 billion. Getting this would, by the way, impose substantial hardship - seniors would be forced into inferior private insurance, and there are good reasons to believe that the true inflation rate facing seniors is actually higher, not lower, than the CPI. Still, what we're looking at overall is a saving equal to only about one-fifth of what Obama is proposing to raise by higher taxes. 

And that's it; has anyone heard even a peep from the GOP about what else they'd like to cut? 

This is pathetic - and these people are definitely not serious.

There's not much to add to this, other than to say that making old and poor people suffer does not make you a serious person---it makes you a monster.