What does the GOP have to offer but hate?

Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, was on the Ed Show, filling in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC. In the video, he explains why the GOP is the 'party of hate, and the GOP, the Grand Old Party, is on a path to become the Small Little Party.

What does the GOP have to sell to get the numbers to the polls to win elections? It can't sell its economic program to aid the rich at the expense of the Middle Class? There aren't enough rich people to get the numbers that they need. They can't sell their scheme to do away with social security? Their scheme to reduced aid to education? They can't come out and tell Mr. and Mrs. America that the GOP wants to eliminate the entire social safety net, which you might need some day? So what's left for the GOP to sell?

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Rupert MurdochI just watched a web video put out by The Young Turks web video channel. The commentator discusses the recent horrific stabbing of a taxi cab driver in New York City by an assailant, for the sole reason that the cabbie is a Muslim, and the assailant hates Muslims. The commentator discusses the ugly anti-Muslim demagogy that is currently polluting the American air waves, and he singles out the prime source of this hateful garbage, Fox News, and he asks the question: Is Fox News Inciting Violence?

My answer to his question is: that crowd at Fox News definitely is inciting violence.

Fox is an irresponsible organization.

Fox News is to news as professional wrestling is to sports.

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Rick ScottRich Tea Party Dude Sixty Million Dollar Primary Win

It's "Great Scott!" -- in a lot of GOP circles, not that many establishment GOPers believe Rick Scott, the rich Tea Party dude, who upset their pick, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, to win the GOP gubernatorial primary, Tuesday, is great, on the contrary, most believe him to be an embarrassment and the 'scott' expletive is a substitute for another expletive beginning with a "s".

Rick Scott spent close to $60 million to take down the establishment guy by trashing him. Many believe Scott has taken down the GOP chances of holding on to the governor's chair.

The Miami Herald reports, "For powerful Tallahassee insiders accustomed to winning, Rick Scott represents their worst fears."

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A whopping $104 Million And Still Behind

Like she's bidding on it, the former eBay big barracuda, the former chief executive, the former boss lady-in-charge, the Republican deep pocket mama, Meg big dollar Whitman, has spent $104 million on her own personal huge fortune to buy the California gubernatorial chair, and she hasn't bagged the prize. She has outspent her Democratic opponent, former governor and the current state Attorney General Jerry Brown, 86 to 1, -- like winning the race is all about the money, baby.

Ms. Whitman has blanketed the California media with negative ads. She has hired high priced consultants -- because she can.

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Former long-time senator, the Wyoming Republican, Alan Simpson's comment, likening Social Security to 'a milk cow with 310 million tits,' reflects the Republican attitude to this vital American program, which makes it possible for million of the elderly to keep a roof over their heads and food on their table. Republicans have opposed Social Security since day 1.

Mr. Simpson co-chairs the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which is supposed to come up with suggestions on how to stabilize the Social Security program. He has answered the criticism of his use of "barnyard" humor, with an apology.

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What Are They Smoking In Arizona?

Ben Quayle, the truth challenged guy, former lite porn writer, the son of one of the most lightweights among veeps ever, won his Republican primary for a House seat in Arizona. In a crowded field, reports the Associated Press, Quayle won by five percentage points. Quayle had the money, the name recognition and the drama.

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As if we didn't know, the GOP is getting ready to blame the black guy.

The Huffington Post, which keeps an eye and an ear out for these things, reports that the GOP is looking for a scapegoat. If the Republicians don't do as well as they expect in the mid-term elections, the long knives are going to come out and some poor goat is going to be last week's news.

The Huffington Post -- "A number of GOP operatives are gearing up to blame RNC Chair Michael Steele, if the Republicans under-perform in this year's midterms. The RNC's recent anemic fundraising report is only aggravating the GOP's thirst for Steele blood."

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Sen. Richard DurbanThis past weekend, U. S. Senator Richard Durban (Dem-Ill.) said that those who are opposed to the mosque, which is planned to be built two blocks from the site of New York's ground zero, "are trying to divide the country with fear and hate."

Right on, Senator.

Mr. Durban said last Sunday, "The mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, has given his assent to this center and I support his decision, The politicians like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin who try to divide America with fear and hate over this issue betray the diversity which makes our nation great and the Constitution which they profess to honor."

Amen, Senator.

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The haters at the Republican Party must have done a poll that showed the yahoos just don't like anybody who doesn't look and sound like themselves, and at the top of the hate list this month are American Muslims.

Huffington Post has an item about a particularly sneaky GOP operative at the RNC (Republican National Committee) who thinks it is a riot to tie the President to the group that is currently leading the yahoos' hate list.

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MurdochJust got an email from Media Matters concerning the $1 million donation the News Corp, parent company of Fox News, donated to the Republican Governors Association, "to help defeat Democrats this November."

Media Matters reports that while the news of the donation was covered "extensively," by national media outlets, it was barely mentioned on Fox. Media Matters says, "Fox devoted 37 seconds of air time to the story." Media Matters figures -- because, the "Fox viewers have been left in the dark, as to the (Fox) network's direct involvement in the political races this fall," it needs to take action to remedy this. So the folks at Media Matters' solution is to put a commercial (see the video) about the Fox donation on Fox, by buying a national ad, at the cost of $35k, to air next week during The O'Reilly Factor.

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