well, it’s that time again, we’ve had another week full of lying politicians and incoherent, ass kissing, windbag broadcasters, and it’s time to answer the question that needs to be answered …
just who took their act to the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst, the slimiest of the slimy? …
who was the king or queen of douchebaggery in the last seven days? …
a week that was full of some of the slimiest, slithering, scuzzball serpents the world of partisan politics, religion and big business has to offer …
and this week was as bad as every other lately, the norm these days it seems, with more than it’s fair share of douche bag dancing, mendacious manoeuvres, sleaze-ball slithering and out and out treasonous and treacherous tantrums, especially by the so-called “family values” gang over on the right, and their bat shit crazy, ideology and greed driven proponents …
in a week that saw the ever slimy cantor the ranter and mr. merlot himself, john of orange boehner, vote for the thirty first time to pretend to repeal “obamacare” instead of actually doing something for their constituents (where’s the fucking jobs, jobs, jobs johnny?); or south carolina teathug lindsey graham, everyone’s favorite hypocrite, bagger wannabe, explaining that romney’s offshore accounts in countries long considered tax havens is not an issue voters should be concerned with because “It’s really American to avoid paying taxes, legally” (makes me wish we had a “sycophant of the week award” to throw at him); or mittens who is again facing mounting criticism for refusing to releasing tax forms concerning his time at bain capital, a venture capital firm he co-founded, saying earlier this week, that he does not have any plans to release additional tax forms beyond those showing his earnings during 2011 … in an interview taped monday with radio iowa, Rmoney reiterated that his holdings were kept in a blind trust and that he had abided by all U.S. tax laws, and then jumped completely over the edge of belief and reality by stating that “i don’t manage them, i don’t even know where they are” (and yer’ platform is “i’m a great businessman and you should let me run the country because i’m such a great businessman?); then there is the new Rmoney ad running where he and his cabal o’ crooks ‘n’ grifters call president obama a “liar”, released on the very day that he gets caught lying about the timing of his departure from bain and it’s outsourcing to AND heavy investment in a chinese company that made it’s obscenely huge profits poaching american jobs (and these corpo-whores are calling obama the “out-sourcer in chief” ?!?); or mittens playing the race card at his naacp speech earlier in the week, just so he could get booed by the crowd and get a sound bite to play for the low information, bagger believin’, faux noise watchin’, redneck mother fuckers and red state evangelicals that he’s so desperately courting (seems like mitten’s latest slogan is “never leave a racist vote behind); or how about carlos gutierrez, a Rmoney senior adviser and honorary co-chair of his national hispanic steering committee (now, there’s a fake committee eh?), saying that questioning the gop presidential candidate’s reluctance to turn over his tax returns and come clean about his investments in foreign countries amounts to “ supporting socialism.” (man, talk about desperate guys, really??, this is the best you slimy pricks and treasonists can come up with?); then we had rep. david dreier (R-CA) saying that insurance companies should be allowed to discriminate against people with brain tumours during a house rules committee debate of the gop/tp’s bill repealing the affordable care act (for the thirty-first time!)(hard to believe that this a-hole didn’t win this week eh kids?); we even had that wannabe/never was or will be bobby jindal, the pretend guv’ner of louisiana refusing, along with several other red state governors, to institute “obamacare” in their state and standing by their “vow of poverty” for their citizens (even though by instituting it their states would pay LESS and get scads of cash from the feds to cover their citizens – 100 percent paid for by the feds for the first ten years) …
yup, quite a week indeedy folks …
oh, the hypocrisy and douche-baggery abounds to be sure …
and trust me, there were a whole bunch more just as worthy contenders, but i’m getting a little carpal here, so on with the show …
even with all the contenders for this week’s award, and the obviously enormous impact many of them would have on the citizenry of the “good ole’ us of a” should any of them be allowed to put their ideas into practice, there was still one guy who managed to out-douche the competition …
i know, hard to believe huh? … but true! …
and he’s a most deserving winner, if I do say so myself …
a tried and true master of douche-baggery, desperation. ignorance, bigotry, elitism and an all out, totally consuming lust for power and attention …
without a doubt, a true douche bag …
to the core …
taking good ole’ boy, redneck-mother-fucker bigotry, and delusional deviance to a whole new level …
so without further ado …
ladies and gentlemen …
the envelope please …
our latest winner …
of the sometimes coveted, always deserved …
golden d-bag award
and this weeks award goes to …
drum roll please …
that pillager, pirate, and plunderer of the palm state …
that ranting and railing racketeer, raider, ravager and robber baron reprobate from the regressive right …
a scallywag, scoundrel, shyster, sneak, swindler, and sycophant to the sinister and slimy superior set …
he’s just one more craven and cruel, cheating and conniving, conservative con-artist and cretin of the coming confederacy …
a true abettor, accomplice, aide and associate of the asinine …
that self serving, self loathing, superficial, self aggrandizing, seller of corporate driven slavery and servitude … an iron-handed, imperious imposer of institutionalized intolerance, insanity, inanity and insensitivity …
that supercilious, scornful, snobby and insincere shitbag shill of the super rich …
he’s lower than the ratings on a tori spelling movie …
greasier, and more condescending than romney at a naacp meeting …
he’s a man who can lie more than a palin with a microphone …
and a man who obviously cares much more about sucking at the tea party and corporate tits than he does about the health and well being of his own constituents …
that despicable, and disgustingly detestable darling and dean of the defiantly disreputable …
that cavalier and condescending, contemptuous cockhead of conservatism …
rick scott
for his starring role in this week’s most sickening and despicable display of self-serving sliminess, greed and immorality …
Rick Scott Shuts Down TB Hospital Amid "Worst Outbreak in 20 Years"
Despite a warning from the Centers for Disease Control, it’s the latest move by the Florida governor to gut public services.
reposted from an article by Adam Weinstein @ motherjones
UPDATE, Monday, 5:12 p.m. EST: The Miami Herald reports that Florida Gov. Rick Scott is traveling through the UK with an 85-member entourage, including lobbyists from the gambling, insurance, real estate, and private prison industries. He still hasn’t commented on the TB outbreak.
Welcome to the Sunshine State: Republican-run since 1998, tea party-controlled since 2010, and fast becoming one of the lowest-service states in the nation. Which helps explain how lawmakers shut down its only tuberculosis clinic last month, just as the worst outbreak of the infectious disease in America’s recent history flared up with a vengeance in Jacksonville, Miami, and who knows where else—an outbreak that state and local officials sat on until last month, according to an investigation published by the Palm Beach Post.
Tuberculosis—the lung-liquefying disease of "consumption"—is the world’s second-biggest infectious killer, but had been largely eradicated in America in the early 20th century, owing to improvements in health services. A few flare-ups, mostly of foreign origin and mostly affecting indigent populations, continued to occur sporadically in the United States, which was why Florida in 1950 opened the AG Holley State Hospital in Lantana, just west of Palm Beach. AG Holley’s website (which has since been taken down by the state) billed the facility as "the only public health hospital in Florida," a safe place where TB victims could be quarantined and cured, and one of the last such facilities in the US.
Last spring, however, the GOP-dominated Legislature voted to shutter the hospital as a cost-saving measure. The state’s governor, former health care executive Rick Scott, signed the bill in April and even pressed for AG Holley’s closure to be moved up six months; the facility was permanently shuttered on July 2.
But what was Scott thinking? According to the Palm Beach Post exposé, AG Holley’s closure came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had warned the governor and his state health office in a report that tuberculosis was making a big comeback in the state. That report apparently never made it from those state officials to legislators who had voted to close the TB hospital. According to the Post:
Had they seen the letter, decision makers would have learned that 3,000 people in the past two years may have had close contact with contagious people at Jacksonville’s homeless shelters, an outpatient mental health clinic and area jails. Yet only 253 people had been found and evaluated for TB infection, meaning Florida’s outbreak was, and is, far from contained.
The public was not to learn anything until early June, even though the same strain was appearing in other parts of the state, including Miami…Today, three months after it was sent to Tallahassee, the CDC report still has not been widely circulated.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people in Florida could now be carrying the TB strain, which so far has claimed 13 lives and been confirmed to have infected 99 people, including six children, according to the Post—the worst in America in 20 years. Its origins go back to a 2008 TB outbreak in a Jacksonville assisted-living facility that killed two people. To stop that strain, the CDC sent local health officials $275,000 to hire extra staff. But when the money ran out, the staff was cut, and containment of the disease was halted.
rick scott
golden d-bag award winner of the week
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