I bumped into Ben Cohen’s article last night (10 Republicans Who Should Go Away), and couldn’t just pass on it without some comment. Note: The text in [ ] are mine. The rest are by Ben Cohen.

In summary here are the TEN:

1. William Kristol — has been wrong on just about everything, and what a spineless shrimp of a man he is.

[His stupid grin reminds me of a maid my mother employed when I was a kid -- I hated passionately. Still do.]

2. Sarah Palin — is the poster child of vacuous Republican imagery - hollow, loud and crass with no discernible talents other than an ability to attract stupid middle American house wives.

[The "Killa From Wasilla" has become an annoying “TV irritant,” a “Political Hillbilly,” horribly lacking in refinement and sophistication. Or, as a Russian member of parliament put it: "Sarah Palin is a 'Mrs. Nobody Know-it-All.' A housewife, chosen by mere chance." The "Drilla From Wasilla" — Is the biggest joke on America since Indiana’s Dan Quayle in 1988. Anyone supporting her is glorifying willful ignorance.]

3. Michelle Malkin — The Asian, female version of Bill O’Reilly, Malkin makes a living spouting hatred and idiocy to Fox News viewers.

[Malkin is not just a self-hating Asian, she is also a two-faced liar. Born Michelle Maglalang, this dark skinned Filipino-American loves the worst that white American civilization has to offer. Malkin is a darling of the right wing, a blogger and author who is eager to advocate invading other nations, and spewing hatred of immigrants in general and of Muslims in particular]

4. Dick Morris — A former Clinton political consultant turned Fox News ‘Analyst‘, Morris made his living selling political imagery to ailing politicians, using his skills in lying, cheating and distortion to their maximum capacity.

[Only Fox News would hire a toe-sucking pervert like Dick Morris as a Prime-Time Analyst. Birds of a feather flock together, anyway]

6. Mitt Romney — Romney clearly wants to run in 2012, but he had better start believing his own bullshit before he tries to sell it again.

[Mitt Romney -- The Mother of all Flipfloppers. A snarling alpha dog, who thought he would buy his way into the White House, in 2008, literally!]

7. Alan Greenspan — Former head of the Federal Reserve, ‘St Alan’ presided over the wholescale deregulation of the financial industry, and has his grubby paws all over the tragic state of the economy.

[Too Old -- Good Riddance!]

8. Bill O’Reilly — Bill O’Reilly isn’t a hack, or even a Republican. He is just an asshole.

[The "O'Reilly Fear Factor" is a favorite of THUG and RACIST Republicans. O'Reilly is a fear-Mongering “Gestapo” propagandist. The king of “Gutter Journalism.” I Loved it when Dave Letterman essentially told him in his face that he is a "Gas-Bag LIAR."]

Dave Letterman makes O’Reilly look like the Goat that he is

Then Phil Donahue Kicks O’Reilly’s Ass

….And Geraldo Rivera Almost SCALPS an Insane Xenophobic O’Reilly

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O’Reilly’s Audience

9. Sean Hannity — Hannity was sick to his stomach after Obama was elected, and may develop some serious ulcers over the next four years. However, luckily for him, he may get treatment for free if Obama institutes universal health care. The visible anguish Hannity now shows after the Democratic victory is a joy to watch.

[Sean Hannity is The Sickest Motherfucker on TV. Hannity graduated in 1980 from St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school, located in Uniondale, New York. Described as “an indifferent student,” Hannity dropped out of New York University and later decided to pursue a radio career. In 2005, Religious Bigot Jerry Falwell, the late chancellor of Liberty University awarded him an honorary degree. I am convinced that this goon suffers from Tertiary Syphilis.]

10. George Bush — The ‘Decider‘ will go down as the worst President in the history of the United States. Bush has presided over monumental fuck up after monumental fuck up, groping his way through the president with the finesse of a 800lb gorilla.

[This imbecile is a War Criminal who belongs in Guantanamo Prison. The evil bastard has perverted, distorted and tarnished America’s image beyond repair.]

Very nice article Ben!

Go read it in full here

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GILA BEND, Ariz. — Soon after Antonio Torres, a husky 19-year-old farmworker, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident last June, a Phoenix hospital began making plans for his repatriation to Mexico.

Mr. Torres was comatose and connected to a ventilator. He was also a legal immigrant whose family lives and works in the purple alfalfa fields of this southwestern town. But he was uninsured. So the hospital disregarded the strenuous objections of his grief-stricken parents and sent Mr. Torres on a four-hour journey over the California border into Mexicali.

For days, Mr. Torres languished in a busy emergency room there, but his parents, Jesús and Gloria Torres, were not about to give up on him. Although many uninsured immigrants have been repatriated by American hospitals, few have seen their journey take the U-turn that the Torreses engineered for their son. They found a hospital in California willing to treat him, loaded him into a donated ambulance and drove him back into the United States as a potentially deadly infection raged through his system.

By summer’s end, despite the grimmest of prognoses from the hospital in Phoenix, Mr. Torres had not only survived but thrived. Newly discharged from rehabilitation in California, he was haltingly walking, talking and, hoisting his cane to his shoulder like a rifle, performing a silent, comic, effortful imitation of a marching soldier.

“In Arizona, apparently, they see us as beasts of burden that can be dumped back over the border when we have outlived our usefulness,” the elder Mr. Torres, who is 47, said in Spanish. “But we outwitted them. We were not going to let our son die. And look at him now!” — [READ MORE]

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MILTON, Fla. — Three months after the local police inspected more than a dozen businesses searching for illegal immigrants using stolen Social Security numbers, this community in the Florida Panhandle has become more “law-abiding, emptier and whiter.”

Many of the Hispanic immigrants who came in 2004 to help rebuild after Hurricane Ivan have either fled or gone into hiding. Churches with services in Spanish are half-empty. Businesses are struggling to find workers. And for Hispanic citizens with roots here — the foremen and entrepreneurs who received visits from the police — the losses are especially profound.

“It was very hard because the community is very small, and to see people who came to eat here all the time then come and close the business,” said Geronimo Barragan, who owns two branches of La Hacienda, Mexican restaurants where the police arrested 10 employees. — [MORE]

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Editorial Reviews

“A no-holds-barred exegesis on the naked cynicism of conservatism in America.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Written with barbed wit and finely controlled anger, he skewers such juicy targets as libertarian strategist Grover Norquist and Michelle Malkin.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Glorious… Often brilliant… Frank’s gloom is leavened by an eye for the unexpected and the absurd.” —Los Angeles Times

“Well-researched and witty… Provides a powerful liberal antidote to the high-volume rantings of Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Fox News.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Frank’s gifts as a social observer are on display… His analysis of why there are so many libertarian think tanks in a country with so few libertarians is dead on. In Thomas Frank, the American left has found its own Juvenal.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Frank offers one damning anecdote after another. The Wrecking Crew explains how cynical conservatives have wrested control of the government by railing against its very existence, all while using federal perches to funnel billions into the pockets of lobbyists and the corporations they represent.” —Time

“Thomas Frank is back with another hunk of dynamite. The Wrecking Crew should monopolize political conversation this year. It’s the first book to effectively tie the ruin and corruption of conservative governance to the conservative “movement building” of the 1970s, and, before that, the business crusade against good government going back at least to the 1890s.” —Salon.com

“Tom Frank has hold of something real. The Wrecking Crew can be good, spirited fun. Frank captures a quality of exuberant bullying in those of his conservative subjects he knows well enough to identify individually, rather than categorically.”—The New Yorker

“Frank’s sentences inhale and unfurl with a wit and verve…” —The New York Observer

“Conservatives in office have made their share of blunders and mistakes, and Frank is at his finest in depicting some of the stunning instances of hypocrisy and idiocy in the period of Republican rule.” —The New York Post

“Smart, thoroughly researched, and written with wit and panache.” —The Wichita Eagle

“A welcome read. There is no doubt that Frank is helping to restore the journalistic and literary standards to political books. Elegant… The Wrecking Crew has the rhetorical power to illustrate the dire consequences of a government sold off piece by piece to the highest bidder. One finishes the book feeling as if one’s political vision has been brought into focus.” —The Courier-Journal

“A superb follow-up to What’s The Matter with Kansas?… Thorough reporting and incisive historical analysis. With genuine outrange and blasts of polemic, but Frank never allows The Wrecking Crew to become just another seething right- or left-wing political tract preaching to the choir.” —The Oregonian

“Frank brings invaluable insider perceptions, ardor, and precision to his lancing inquiry into the erosion of democracy and the enshrinement of the mighty dollar… An electrifying, well-researched analysis of ‘conservatism-as-profiteering.’ This staggering history of systematic greed with inject new energy into public discourse as a historical election looms.” —Booklist (starred review)

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From the author of the landmark bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate—and lucrative—conservative misrule

In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us.

Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, deregulating some industries, defunding others, but always turning public policy into a private-sector bidding war. Washington itself has been remade into a golden landscape of super-wealthy suburbs and gleaming lobbyist headquarters—the wages of government-by-entrepreneurship practiced so outrageously by figures such as Jack Abramoff.

It is no coincidence, Frank argues, that the same politicians who guffaw at the idea of effective government have installed a regime in which incompetence is the rule. Nor will the country easily shake off the consequences of deliberate misgovernment through the usual election remedies. Obsessed with achieving a lasting victory, conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state.

Stamped with Thomas Frank’s audacity, analytic brilliance, and wit, The Wrecking Crew is his most revelatory work yet—and his most important.

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A 25-year-old undocumented immigrant, Luis Ramirez, from Shenandoah, Pennsylvania suffered head injuries after he was viciously beaten July 12 by a pack of at least six teenagers. Ramirez was left in convulsions and foaming at the mouth. His attackers stomped him so hard that an imprint of the Jesus medallion he wore was embedded on his chest.

Authorities now allege that the thugs who beat Luis shouted racial and ethnic epithets. They’ve charged 16-year-old Brandon J. Piekarsky and 17-year-old Colin J. Walsh as adults with homicide and 18-year-old Derrick M. Donchak with aggravated assault. All three were charged with ethnic intimidation. Another juvenile, whom police haven’t named, was charged with assault, and police are continuing to investigate……..[MORE >>]

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