The Rushpubliscum War On the Disabled
on March 11, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Here’s yet another chapter of the Rushpubliscum “Jobs” agenda for America.
If you realize that the only “jobs” they give a damn about are their own, congratulations. But you might not be aware of just how damn mean these sons of bitches really are.
Mother Jones does, and they tell us all about The Rushpubliscum War On the Disabled.
I despise them; I make no secret of that, on this blog, or to their faces. But after reading this, I despise them more than ever before.
I didn’t think it was possible.
Food safety, family planning, cancer research, and low-income housing—now add the Special Olympics to the long list of organizations and federal programs targeted for major funding cuts by congressional Republicans.
The House GOP’s budget, which passed last month, takes a hatchet to programs for disabled kids and Special Olympics athletes. The proposed cuts could force the closure of at least one Special Olympics program, which is funded through the Department of Education. Dubbed Project UNIFY, the program serves more than 750,000 students in 43 states and draws from techniques used in Special Olympics training for activities in public schools.
The program includes sports teams that pair disabled athletes with nondisabled athletes; developmental activities for young children with disabilities; and anti-discrimination programs to combat bullying in schools. Special Olympics president and CEO Tim Shriver has said the program is at the forefront of a national movement to fight bias against the disabled and, in a recent interview on MSNBC, he denounced the GOP cuts: “It wasn’t a haircut—it was a guillotine job for the programs for health and education for children with special needs.”
The cuts would slash $8.1 million from the UNITY program. While the amount may seem nominal, it would deal a fatal blow to the nascent program, which began in 2008 under the Bush administration. “It would go away—there would be no alternative,” says Dr. Stephen Corbin, senior vice president for community impact at Special Olympics International, the nonprofit organization that runs the athletic event for the disabled.
Corbin emphasizes that the Special Olympics has provided critical life skills to participants through the school-based program. Though only 10 percent of young adults with intellectual disabilities are employed, 52 percent of Special Olympics athletes have jobs. “It gives them much greater potential to take care of themselves as young adults and become contributing members of community, rather than become dependents, so to speak,” Corbin says.
The Special Olympics has launched its own advocacy effort to defend the UNITY program and other efforts jeopardized by the cuts, bringing athletes from the Games to Capitol Hill this week. Blasting the House bill for “threat[ening] the life of critical Special Olympics programs,” the organization also launched a Congressional lobbying drive among disability advocates to ward off the cuts.
Along with its Department of Education money, funding the group receives from the Centers for Disease Control is also at risk. The CDC funding is directed at a program that provides more than a million free health screenings for disabled athletes, who often have trouble getting appropriate medical care. “A person with intellectual disabilities might have to go to 50 physicians,” says Corbin. “A lot of health professionals don’t want these patients in their waiting rooms, fearing that it would make other patients uncomfortable. Our population is one of the neediest populations around.”
In terms of the budget, this is less than peanuts. But it is far better to make these unfortunate people suffer, or DIE, than it is to ask a rich man for even one more dime.
THIS is the Rushpubliscum Party. THIS is their agenda. They are more than willing to shut the Government down in order to punish the unfortunate among us. That is the truth; there simply is no denying it.
If you vote Rushpubliscum, you are one selfish, stupid, sorry puke.
Sarah Palin, great advocate for kids like yours, where are you now that your voice could do some good?
Mama Grifter can’t answer you right now., She’s busy wearing stupid shoes and flashing ignorant old men some leg so they’ll pony up.
I have a request, one that you will probably reject. As you renounce it in your mind, you will probably also tell me to go to hell. As you tell me to go to hell, you will probably promise never to have dealings with me again and even then you will probably make the commitment silently, lest your verbalization be construed as a “dealing.” Even as you silently promise to exile me from your Jolly world, you will probably throw out a few cuss words that will make both of us smile at one another, knowing that you are really referring to me, and not to a motherf**** sack of sh**, since people generally do not bag the feces of those who commit incest. How can you be so cruel?
Nonetheless, if I do not make the request at all, it cannot possibly be answered. There is a small chance you will reward my good intentions with kindness and generosity. There is a chance you will do me the honor, though I have no right to ask and have done nothing to deserve it. And because of your kindness, I will feel compelled to show equal kindness to someone else, who will in turn be inspired to altruism. If you honor my request, the ripple effect could send shock waves of generosity through the known universe in ways we cannot even imagine; and it all starts here.
So, trembling, I must step up to the podium: you frequently refer to the “rebliscum” and other similar groups. I have found that the repbulicsum, sensitive as they are, take umbrage. Nothing wrong with that. No one ever said it is wrong to umber anyone we want to umber. Here is the problem: I have you on my blog list. You are not there, as you may have thought, as form of advertisement or solidarity, since we are both liberals. I use my blog roll as a dashboard. I have all sites there if and only if, I want a preview of everything the site publishes. So, I have blogs, news sites, etc, and I have previews turned on. That way when I am ready to read, I can see the most current things (which show on top). That others see it also is merely a collateral effect.
My site probably has about two thirds liberal viewers and one third conservative, and two moderates. Unlike a lot of sites that post and have mostly readerships of likeminded people, I sometimes seek out conservative sites and debate liberal principles there. The conservatives then visit my site as a result (and sometimes debates continue there). While I disagree with most conservative principles, not all, but about 90% of them, I do not want to send them the message that I think they are evil or scum. I do not. I think they are mistaken, just as they think I am. I think the liberal position is far better supported with both logic and facts than the conservative position. I think they are wrong, not evil. Obviously, some of them are both wrong and evil, assuming there is such a thing as evil, but that more defines humanity, not political philosophy.
If you could be so kind as to put the more umbrageous comments in the body of your article and not the title, it would be less offensive to conservative visitors. The conservative sites I visit regularly are not the John Houks, for example, but are the more moderate T. Paine’s, for example. They are still conservative, so still wrong in their beliefs, but they are not the Becks and Limbaughs, so I don’t want to give them impression that I see them this way (unless it is funny, in which case I will do it, but not consistently. I routinely tell them Rush got to them, but I just to that in jest and to be annoying, not out of sincerity).
Anyway, that said, “scum” in titles bothers me. I have no right to ask you to remove it, none at all. It is a charitable request from a fan of your site, not an entitlement. I hope no offense is taken.
The GOP proposed cutting $1 billion from the already knackered NIH.
Shocking. Emerging diseases, epidemics and treatments for existing diseases, require a well-funded NIH to carry out the often tedious work that takes places over many years in laboratories.
Remember how caught off-guard the word was in 2009 when the H1N1 appeared in Mexico in April and traveled to the USA and went global. The H1N1 didn’t being in China and move across the world as normal flu travels.
Imagine the shit we will be in if Ebola reemerges and leaps off the African continent and reaches Europe and/or the USA?
word s/b “world.
John, with all due respect, I disagree with the depiction of T.Pain as a “moderate,” as he only seems to know what Hannity told him on any given day. Secondly, I cannot allow myself to be concerned by the feelings of people who have done so much damage to my country, the future of my children, and the world in general. It isn’t, as I see it, my place to stop calling them Rushpubliscums-rather, it is their place to stop repeating everything Rush says and to stop ACTING like scum. My intent is to offend them, which is much milder than they have given me; I’ve been asked to kill myself, told that I should be “wiped off this Earth,” had my front yard campaign signs trashed, and literally dozens of phone calls from my fans before I jettisoned the phone number (and it will never again be available to the world in general.)
I understand that you and I approach things differently. You may not offend anyone with your pronouncements, and that’s fine. I can’t promise I never will again, especially a bunch as thin-skinned as the bullying Rushpubliscums.
Christopher, par for the course. The Rushpubliscums figure Jesus will take care of the truly worthy.
And John…. one more thing. If you go through these pages, you’ll find that I even kid-glove my enemies, unless they come spitting lies. Then I feel no need for any restraint
I have not read your next article, but I am giddy with anticipation. I have followed your site for a while and I summarily deny that you kid glove anyone.
As for our approaches, I suppose they are born of one fundamental difference of opinion. Being a republican does not make someone scum and believing republican ideals do not make them scum. As for T. Paine, he definitely does not get his opinion from any of the main opinion feeders. He is well-versed enough to lead the opinions, just as they do. If his learning is fact or fiction, it is still data construed a certain way and useful to maintain an opinion, and in reality, that is all any of us have. Our perceived ownership of truth is protective myth we embrace because we must.
I fundamentally disagree with almost everything Mr. Paine thinks. However, I am also 100% duped into believing that he represents the position he feels is right and that he is baffled at how I could be so messed up and foolish in my liberal views.
It took me a long time to learn that people can believe the exact opposite of everything I believe and yet possess equal intelligence. Once I learned it, I learned it well, though. Psychologists don’t blink. To them the phenomenon is obvious. Our opinions and our actions are the product of core beliefs and everything else is a symptom. None of us know why we think that we think, and that is the cosmic trick that keeps us at war with each other.
The underlying fundamentals that give us the axioms we work with, the roots on which we grow an opinion, are the answer: and we mistake the opinion as the thing. It is nothing more than the product of building blocks we ignore, like the driver of a car does not realize the fine adjustments he constantly makes and he perceives himself to be moving in a straight line down the street. He does not get the car from point A to point B by dutifully following the contours of the road. Instead he swerves constantly, first to this way and then that, and rarely moves straight; but he thinks he is moving straight instead of zigzagging. He knows where he is going and will tell you how he got there, but he is mistaken; because it is these core movements that take him to his destination. It is our core believes that build the details of our philosophies; but it is the details we see and dispute with others.
If I had Paine’s axioms and were deprived of mine, I would think very much like him. I would be just as virtuous and just as wrong.
Jolly,
I just realized something about your comment. Mr. Paine is not a moderate. He is a moderate conservative. Just about all of all of his beliefs are far to the right. However, he is moderate is his presentation of them.
That is what I intended to say.