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Barack Obama and the Very Bad Day

J A. posted an article on - Jun 23, 2011, 1:55 pm
New economic reports were released today, and it looks like the President’s 2012 efforts continue to circle the drain as the prognosis remains negative on economic growth and unemployment. With his bid for a second term as President of the United States hanging in the balance, Barack Obama receive...
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Michele Bachmann: The New Sarah Palin?

J A. posted an article on - Jun 14, 2011, 10:42 am
After watching the Republican debates last night, PD still felt that it needed to learn a little more about Michele Bachmann before labeling her the new Sarah Palin. So today, we took to the Interwebs, since we’re not Minnesota residents, and decided to have a look-see at what her political histor...
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Mitt Romney: Next President of the United States?

J A. posted an article on - Jun 9, 2011, 4:16 pm
Suddenly, the Grand Ol’ Party is looking pretty good as the 2012 Presidential Election draws closer. The reason for the reversal? The establishment is starting to veer further away from the sideshow acts that have all thrown their hat into the ring, and they’ve started to embrace a viable challe...
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Sarah Palin in 2012: You've Gotta Be Kidding Me…

J A. posted an article on - May 31, 2011, 3:36 pm
If you came here for a Sarah Palin bash-fest, Political Disgust hates to disappoint you. While we could never see ourselves checking a ballot box in her favor–she’s far too divisive and not what the country needs at this time–we aren’t going to be stupid enough to call her stupid. Most of th...
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Why Liberals are Going the Way of Conservatives

J A. posted an article on - May 30, 2011, 3:31 pm
Yahoo, a much maligned by Political Disgust, news source actually had something worth reading today: an expose covering conservative author Ben Shapiro’s sting (of sorts) on liberal Hollywood executives admitting outright their bias and discrimination toward anyone, who disagrees with their politi...
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Illegal Immigration Part 127: Flogging a Dead Horse

J A. posted an article on - May 27, 2011, 7:25 pm
Political Disgust has complained so much about the issue of illegal immigration that we’re almost sick of hearing it. However, just when you think the time has come to let go of things, you’ve got that team of un-American bastards called the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union, ha!) complaining...
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Schwarzenegger-Shriver Scandal Makes Douches out of Yahoo! News

J A. posted an article on - May 18, 2011, 2:31 pm
Yahoo! News has unfortunately become one of the premier news sources in the world. While there efforts to manufacture news are damn annoying, it’s just too easy to scroll through their top 32 or so headlines in an attempt to catch up on what is going on in the world. Nevertheless, there comes a po...
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3 Reasons the GOP Won't Win in 2012, and 3 Reasons They Should

J A. posted an article on - May 17, 2011, 10:32 pm
The Grand Ol’ Party had their chance at ruling Congress and the Presidency, and let’s face it, they botched that one pretty big. Still, when the Dems got their crack at it, they fared no better, and so a disgusted voting populous spanked the Democrats at the poll during the mid-term elections. T...
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Oil Companies: Don't Tax Us, or Else

J A. posted an article on - May 12, 2011, 11:44 am
For the first quarter of 2o11, Exxon reported $10.7 billion in profits. You can bet that a great deal of that will be going in to the CEO’s pocket. At that rate, you are looking at a company that will produce more than $40 billion in profits for the year, all while the common joe is suffering from...
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3 Most Outrageous Failures of the Judicial Branch

J A. posted an article on - May 10, 2011, 3:10 pm
America, for all its ups and downs and idiots on Capitol Hill, is the greatest country on earth. We here at Political Disgust have to keep reminding ourselves of that, even as we rant and rave about the pieces of crap that make it far from the Utopia that it could be if the world was a perfect place...
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Murder and Justice: The Ideological Differences

J A. posted an article on - May 4, 2011, 6:00 pm
Rashard Mendenhall, Pittsburgh Steelers running back, made Political Disgust’s ass-hat of the week list yesterday, a new feature we’d like to start bringing you every week. He was right at the top, and it was rightfully deserved. We won’t retread his Twitter comments word for word, but we’ll...
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American Ass-Hats: The 3 Worst for Week Ending May 7

J A. posted an article on - May 3, 2011, 6:43 pm
It does not take long for some ass-hat to open his mouth about something just so he can grab a headline or two.  That, however, is not how we at Political Disgust operate. We may talk about your ass-hat commentary, but your name will not be featured in the headline. You will instead be referred to ...
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Political Disgust: For Once, Not Disgusted…

J A. posted an article on - May 2, 2011, 3:50 pm
May 1 marked a day that in PD’s opinion should go down as a national holiday. It is the day the we as Americans found out that that shitstain on the underwear of life Osama Bin Laden was permanently removed from the general population. As it turns out, we found him not in a cave, but in a Pakistan...
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4 Correspondents' Dinner Comments that Make Obama an Ass Clown

J A. posted an article on - May 1, 2011, 8:40 pm
A recent Correspondents’ dinner gave Washington politicians the chance to get together and crack jokes while the rest of the country is in the shitter. President Barack Obama was the main speaker, and his address had those in attendance in stitches. The rest of us having to live with his incompete...
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Immigration Reform: Why's This Even a Debate?

J A. posted an article on - Apr 28, 2011, 7:12 pm
Arizona, the state probably most affected by violent offenders from South of the Border takes steps toward enforcing the federal law only to meet with resistance from the President. California Democrats are up in arms because the Department of Homeland Security would dare screen people for the purpo...
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Obama and the Birther Conspiracy: Mystery Solved?

J A. posted an article on - Apr 27, 2011, 2:35 pm
Today the White House finally released that long form birth certificate that has been causing the President so much aggravation. Apparently, Barack Obama was born in the United States and is legally certified to be the Commander-in-Chief. While competence may be another story, his eligibility is now...
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4 Reasons People Are Too Scared for Real Estate

J A. posted an article on - Apr 20, 2011, 3:57 pm
We do a lot of bitching and moaning about the Democrats and Republicans at this site. There is no question that PD isn’t a big fan of the conventional politician. We wouldn’t be called Political Disgust if these individuals made us happy all the time, so don’t think we’re going to stop that ...
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Racial Bickering: When Will It Stop?

J A. posted an article on - Apr 19, 2011, 3:10 pm
Yesterday, Yahoo had a rather snarky, but interesting article on whether or not the white male has been the hardest hit by the Great Recession. They pointed out, with all their usual liberal vivacity, that white men basically need to keep their mouths shut and how it was just tough noogies for them ...
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Debt Ceiling: Why the Republicans Are Getting It Right

J A. posted an article on - Apr 11, 2011, 2:09 pm
As many of you know, there is a fight looming over the national debt ceiling. Essentially, Congress gets together and decides whether the time is right to raise the amount of debt that we can owe to our neighboring countries before spending is to stop altogether. Republicans do not want to raise it....
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Smoke and Mirrors: Government Shutdown Averted

J A. posted an article on - Apr 9, 2011, 12:38 pm
See the title. Was there ever any doubt? It looks like the worthless dungheaps on Capitol Hill have done just enough to save their jobs once again. PD would like to think that the American people have enough sense to see through the charade, but there are far too many idiots on Facebook declaring th...
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Government Shutdown Part II: Not Looking Good for the Military

J A. posted an article on - Apr 8, 2011, 2:37 pm
Incredibly, the so-called “budget deadline” is looming at midnight tonight. Before PD gets in to a big rant about what a bunch of bastards our Congress are made up of, let’s take a moment to hone in on this idea of a budget deadline, and the presumed handling of it. We made some allusion to th...
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Government Shutdown: What It Means for You

J A. posted an article on - Apr 7, 2011, 4:28 pm
Well, here we are again with yet another Democratic President and yet another government shutdown looming because the boys and girls on Capitol Hill want to take their balls–what little they have–and go home. What does that mean for you and me? Well, for starters, it means that you can forget ab...
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Social Security: Neither Social, Nor Secure

J A. posted an article on - Apr 5, 2011, 3:46 pm
Each year the government rapes business persons from all walks of life in the form of the social security tax. You people that work for someone have it easy. You only pay about 6 percent of the overall contribution. For 2011, we self-employed persons will have the honor of picking up the entire 13.3...
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Obama Announces Bid for Re-Election: Time's Running Out

J A. posted an article on - Apr 4, 2011, 3:05 pm
President Barack Obama announced that he plans on “winning the future” and forging ahead with his plans for a 2012 re-election. Big surprise there. What incumbent wouldn’t? To criticize him for doing so would be about as ignorant as his universal health care package that is going to have us al...
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Chris Brown: Proving Detractors Right Since 2009

J A. posted an article on - Mar 24, 2011, 8:15 pm
It doesn’t take much of a man to beat the hell out of a 21-year old girl. Chris Brown proved that when he punched, kicked, and choked, his then-sweetheart Robyn Rihanna Fenty prior to the 2009 Grammy Awards. The last two years he’s been trying to live with the stigma of his brutal assault on a d...
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Policing the World: Same Old Change as Before

J A. posted an article on - Mar 22, 2011, 4:19 am
The feeling toward what is going on in Libya brings about mixed feelings in me. Yes, Gaddafi is an idiot that needs to be torpedoed out of this world, but let’s pause for a moment and take a look at how this has worked out for us in the past. We get involved in the Vietnam War. We lose more than 5...
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Employee Free Choice Act or 100% Unionization Act

J A. posted an article on - Mar 19, 2011, 1:53 pm
Political Disgust recently attended a labor and employment seminar held at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) during which speaker Ben Shipley, a highly regarded labor and employment attorney, highlighted some of the lunacy surrounding the Employee Free Choice Act and some of the other ...
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Why the Country Is Softening on Gay Marriage

J A. posted an article on - Mar 11, 2011, 9:06 pm
Gay marriage has not had the most successful fight towards legitimacy in the eyes of the voting public, but recent indications are that the country is softening in its stance of the issue. While Maryland voters recently could not get the support they needed to override a Republican majority on the i...
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3 Recent Taxation Drawbacks, or Why Politicians Are the Dumbest People on Earth

J A. posted an article on - Mar 10, 2011, 5:15 pm
Those of you breathing a sigh of relief because of the tax law extension that was signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 17, 2010, that will allow you to hold on to your Bush Tax Cuts, don’t get carried away with joy. Congress and the President do not deserve a pat on the back for their efforts....
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Why GOP Is Right (and Stupid) on the Youth Vote

J A. posted an article on - Mar 9, 2011, 12:25 am
If ever there was a case of being right and yet being completely stupid at the same time, the GOP have found a way to do it. Recent comments from House Speaker William O’Brien described the youth vote as “foolish,” and cited their lack of life experience while accusing them of voting their fee...
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Why Hollywood Cooling on Obama Is Good for the President

J A. posted an article on - Mar 4, 2011, 3:53 pm
Robert Redford, Spike Lee, Hugh Hefner, Jane Lynch, Barbara Streisand, and now Matt Damon: what do they all have in common besides having a lot more money than the rest of us? They’re apparently unhappy with the job Barack Obama has been doing as President. Redford feels, while Obama has done muc...
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Clean Water Cuts: Didn't Really Need That Anyway

J A. posted an article on - Mar 3, 2011, 6:27 pm
http://askmissa.com/2010/04/06/aveda-institute-washington-dc-hosts-fundraisers-to-support-clean-water-initiatives/ Political Disgust knows this is going to come as quite a surprise to many of you out there, but President Obama has proposed approximately $1.3 billion in budget cuts to the Environmen...
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Muammer Gaddafi: What to Do, What to Do?

J A. posted an article on - Feb 25, 2011, 11:40 pm
Muammer Gaddafi is a name that has been absent from the public eye for quite some time. But now that he’s back, the little bastard is back with a vengeance, and that’s because of headlines like this one: “World powers struggle to find a way to stop Gaddafi.” The Libyan leader has always been...
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Gallup Shows Democrat States Cut in Half Over 2 Years: Why?

J A. posted an article on - Feb 21, 2011, 8:32 pm
In 2008 there were 30 pro-Democratic states, according to Gallup (which seems a little high if you ask us, but we’re gonna go with that theory anyway). A recent poll released Monday shows that number has gone down considerably to just 14–more proof that you can crow all day long about what an ac...
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Middle Class Is Shrinking: Who Is to Blame?

J A. posted an article on - Feb 17, 2011, 8:02 pm
CNN Money’s Annalyn Censky recently examined the decline of the middle class in a piece that ran on Yahoo Finance Wednesday. In the rather lengthy examination, which you can read here, economists attempted to explain why the middle class is shrinking at an alarming rate as the rich get richer. Pro...
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Obama Proposes $89 Billion Cuts in Education Spending

J A. posted an article on - Feb 14, 2011, 1:12 pm
When will we learn? Already people are bemoaning the Obama Administration’s decision to introduce $89 billion in spending cuts to higher education over the next several years. While this Political Disgust writer certainly hasn’t been a fan of Obama’s rhetoric with regard to “fixing education...
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Death Penalty for Priests in Sex Abuse Scandal

J A. posted an article on - Feb 11, 2011, 1:41 am
There are few things in this world that some of us here at Political Disgust enjoy more than the death penalty. Under the right circumstances, it rids the world of some pretty nasty scumbags. Mostly confined to murder—okay, these days it’s only confined to murder—we think it should probably ap...
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Going Green: How Much Is It Really Helping?

J A. posted an article on - Feb 9, 2011, 2:17 pm
Recently, Ken Clifton made the decision to turn his home into a solar panel marvel that has been slicing his electricity bill by about $60 per month for the last several. He expects that summer months will see that number move to $120 per month in savings. Clifton’s efforts have triggered a topic ...
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Hillary Clinton on Egypt: No Freedom and Opportunity, No Stability

J A. posted an article on - Feb 5, 2011, 5:52 pm
Not going to pretend to know all the intricacies, the ends and outs of what is going on in Egypt right now. However, it is a good time to address Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments regarding the turmoil. “If the events of these past few weeks prove anything, it is that the governments...
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President Barack "Hussein" Obama: Christian, Muslim, Who Cares?

J A. posted an article on - Feb 3, 2011, 4:46 am
According to USA Today, we are on the verge of finally learning what it is that President Barack Obama stands for from a religious perspective. All the crazy email people who insist that he is a Muslim—you know, the ones who puff out their chests and say “Hussein” in all-caps whenever they are...
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Tea Party: Why They're Not Viable and How They Can Be

J A. posted an article on - Jan 31, 2011, 3:00 am
One subject we have failed to cover adequately at Political Disgust is that of the Tea Party. We’re not going to resort to the “teabaggers” comments that many on the Left employ. We’re also not going to bash these folks like the Republican establishment does, although we get why they do. Any...
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If Only the State of the Union Were the Actual State of the Union

J A. posted an article on - Jan 27, 2011, 3:30 am
Congress showed a rare moment of extracting their heads from their asses, along with the President, for a night of civility that was surprisingly and exactly the tone the country needed at Monday night’s State of the Union address. During President Barack Obama’s speech, there were moments of la...
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Gun Control Debate and the Jared Loughner Connection

J A. posted an article on - Jan 24, 2011, 6:45 pm
Okay, before we get wrapped up in today’s piece, this Political Disgust writer finds it worth noting that if you think all Americans or whatever should be without guns, then you are an effing idiot. With that said, the issue of gun control has highlighted some concerns with existing gun control la...
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Keith Olbermann Out at MSNBC (Boo-Hoo)

J A. posted an article on - Jan 22, 2011, 10:52 pm
Keith Olbermann is gone from MSNBC. Cry me a friggin’ river. The bossy bitchy diva of the Left, a man every bit as stupid and divisive as the Bill O’Reilly’s and Rush Limbaugh’s–and yes, we compare him to those guys with pride–was apparently not enough of a staple to earn MSNBC’s confi...
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Social Security Changes on the Way: How Badly Are You Getting Screwed?

J A. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2011, 3:09 pm
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced a number of changes to the program moving forward, starting with this year, and Political Disgust would like to take a moment to go over these. Social security has been headed to disaster for a long time, and those of us who have somewhat of an ...
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Health Care Repeal in the Works: What Else Is New?

J A. posted an article on - Jan 19, 2011, 4:59 pm
Republicans in the House are ready to revisit health care, and it looks like they are actually poised for a vote to repeal the package that few in the country actually wanted. However, the vote could be a problematic one for the party on more than one level. The House is GOP-heavy and will most like...
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Sargent Shriver Dead at 95

J A. posted an article on - Jan 18, 2011, 11:32 pm
On January 18, 2011, America lost a true piece of history in the 95-year old Robert Sargent Shriver. Sargent Shriver as he was more commonly known became acquainted with Kennedy family patriarch Joseph Kennedy and married his daughter Eunice, whose brothers were John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and ...
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Palin in 2012: Pawlenty Voices His Support

J A. posted an article on - Jan 11, 2011, 10:31 pm
From the “what the hell is this guy thinking” department comes a recent statement from newly ousted Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty about Sarah Palin and her rumored run for the 2012 Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States. “If she wanted to compete for the presidency, I ...
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Republicans Up to No Good with Campaign Financing?

J A. posted an article on - Jan 11, 2011, 10:26 pm
Republicans have been accused of holding a campaign fundraiser under illegal circumstances. Complaints from Democrats (imagine that) and the Congressional watchdogs have surfaced, though the GOP isn’t confessing to any wrongdoing just yet. In fact, a spokesman said that the monies collected were u...
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Obama's Centrist Shift Sign of Things to Come?

J A. posted an article on - Jan 11, 2011, 10:21 pm
Have we learned anything from the last 10 years? That’s a recurring question that the American people have been asking themselves in the last few months. First, there was the matter of electing President George Bush to one term in office, under close scrutiny and some would say legislative help fr...
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