Randi Rhodes: Racists, Idiots & Martial Law

One thing all Tea Party-connected racists seem to have in common nowadays is that, even when they’re caught red-handed oozing bigotry, you shouldn’t call them ‘racists’. Such is the case with Marilyn Davenport, a Tea-stained GOP official with the Orange County, CA Republican Party, who emailed her conservative pals an Obama/monkey photoshop pic (left) with the headline ‘Now you know why no birth certificate’.

As Michigan begins implementing its new ‘financial martial law’ law, word is Wisconsin is now planning one of their own…

Hour Two Guest: Rick Unger of Forbes.com on his latest article: Gov. Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law In Wisconsin

Today is the deadline for filing your taxes this year. A lot of us put it off paying our taxes until the last minute. And then there are all those millionaires and billionaires who have managed to put it off pretty much permanently. Maybe you hire an accountant to save you all you can save on your taxes. The super rich not only hire accountants, they hire themselves Congressmen and Senators. Hey, the best way to take full advantage of tax laws is to have them written to your specifications. 45 percent of US households will pay no income tax this year. Some of them won’t make enough to be taxed, and some of them will make so much that they’ll be able to avoid taxes. The bottom line on taxes is that you have to make an awful lot if you want to pay very little.

Not that the rich don’t have their own problems—like the embarrassment that Donald Trump must cause them. Now Trump says that as president, he would not have acted to protect civilians in Libya until they agreed to write us a big check. Does Donald Trump understand that the oppressed people of the country aren’t the ones with all the oil money? That’s part of the whole “oppressed” thing. Trump says we should have told the Libyan people “We want $5 billion right now and we’ll go in.” Let me explain how it works, Donald—the vast majority of the Libyan people have no wealth, no resources, and no power. In other words, it’s exactly the way it is in the United States. I guess Donald thinks that you shouldn’t do the right thing unless you get paid. In fact, to Donald, whether or not you get paid determines what is or isn’t the right thing.

Then Donald trumped himself by declaring that “In the old days when you have a war and you win, that nation is yours.” I don’t think it’s worked that way for a while, Donald… or Germany and Japan would be the 51^st and 52^nd states. That’s not how we do things. We won World War II and we didn’t make Germany part of the United States. Heck we won the Civil War and it doesn’t seem like we even made the South part of the U.S. “In the old days when you have a war and you win, that nation is yours.” I’m just glad Donald stopped there, and didn’t go off on a diatribe about taking their horses and raping their women. Hey, if everybody played Donald’s way, then technically the United States would belong to the Viet Cong.

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Conservative hate-monger/race-baiter Andrew Breitbart took a moment out of his Sarah Palin introduction in Madison, WI over the weekend to tell union supporters to “Go to Hell!”