Written by Wilma Howe-Bennett   

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DON’T go away, it’s time to play (drum roll) WEASELS OF THE WEEK!

WEASEL OF THE WEEK, #1: Darrell “I HATE ANYBODY THAT’S NOT LIKE ME AND WHO WANTS TO VOTE” Issa. This contemptible critter, a jerk of the first water, instructed his committee to vote to hold Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States, in criminal contempt of Congress in regards to his testimony before the House Oversight Committee about the so-called “Fast and Furious” gun tracking scandal. While I don’t know FOR SURE that this bunch of crap is racially motivated, I can’t overlook the possibility that it is. After all, Mr. Issa is white. Attorney General Holder is black. So, in a bizarre coincidence, is our President. Mr. Issa has publicly admitted there’s no evidence tying Holder or Mr. Obama directly to Fast and Furious – but gee, he’s still relentlessly pursuing Mr. Holder. H’mmmm

WEASEL OF THE WEEK, #2: John “WAH WAH” Boehner, for his spirited defense of Darrell Issa’s ramrodding of the VERY FIRST contempt vote involving a sitting Cabinet member, Attorney General Eric Holder. Once again, I don’t know FOR SURE that this is racially motivated, but GOSH, he could have stopped this nonsense if he’d really wanted to – and he didn’t.

{{As an aside here, I firmly believe that this crap is both racially motivated and also the contempt vote is retribution for Holder’s opposition to new voter ID laws that are seen as targeting minority voters in both former Confederate states and states that are now directly controlled by the ToiletPaperPatriots. Such asWisconsin, andMichigan.}}

WEASEL OF THE WEEK, #3: Eric “I WANNA BE THE BOSS! NOW!!!” Cantor, ReThugnican Majority leader. ‘Nuff said.

WEASEL OF THE WEEK, #4: Mitt “WEATHERVANE” Romney, for his lies about the Affordable Care Act being something that will cost the US more jobs. PLEASE, Willard. Read the CBO’s estimate of the savings that this act is going to bring to the table – and then SHUT UP. You’ve already made a fool out of yourself, and you know what Abe Lincoln said about fools.

WEASELS OF THE WEEK, PART I: The 17 Democratic Representatives that also voted with the ReThugs and the ToilePaperPatriots in support of the contempt charge. While I didn’t expect good sense out of the ReThugs, I DID expect that the Democrats would at least abstain rather than put themselves firmly on the side of a party-line vote that is one of the most contemptible things that I’ve seen lately.

WEASELS OF THE WEEK, PART II: All the ReThugs/RePubs/ToiletPartyPatriots who cheered wildly when they got the erroneous news that the Supreme Court had struck down the Affordable Care Act’s provision for an individual mandate. They all ALSO groaned and moaned when they heard the corrected version, that Chief Justice Roberts had cast the deciding vote IN FAVOUR of the individual mandate making the decision a 5 – 4 vote.

WEASELS OF THE WEEK, PART III: All the ReThug/RePub/ToiletPaperPatriots who got on national television and whined about SCOTUS finding the ACA to be constitutional. They didn’t like it, and most of them were actually stupid enough to be publicly insulted that the Chief Justice of SCOTUS went out of his way to find a way to make the individual mandate constitutional.

WEASEL OF THE MONTH: An oldie but a goodie, Sarah “I’M A PIT BULL! HEAR ME WHINE!” Palin. DEAR QUITTER: SHUT UP. NOW. On Monday, Half-Term Governor Palin mad a rather lengthy post on her Facebook page defending her statements that the Affordable Care Act would set up a 15-person panel that would cut Medicare costs, with potential deadly consequences – the “death panel” option. Hey, Sara? There ARE no “death panels”. Thank you, SCOTUS,” wrote Quitter Palin on her Facebook page, after the decision was announced. “This Obamacare ruling fires up the troops as America’s eyes are opened. Thank God.” Quitter Palin is making an entirely political calculation that the survival of the healthcare reform law will spell doom for Democrats in November. NOT going to happen, sweetie.

WEASEL OF THE YEAR, THE WINNER (AND STILL CHAMPION): George Zimmerman. A murderous, lying weasel who tried to hide the almost 200K that he garnered from his open Facebook appeal for money for his legal defense fund while claiming that he was indigent and couldn’t afford to pay for bail. He got caught. His bond was revoked, and now he’s trying to get another one. Don’t think that it’s going to happen, but we’ll see.

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