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The 2008 Republican National Convention is in Minneapolis. Apparently Minneapolis has one of the highest bathroom cubicle to person ratios in the country.

Although we know the citizens of Minneapolis always make proper use of these facilities, it looks like once again the Republicans have other things in mind.

If you don’t believe me take a look at the new official logo of the 2008 GOP convention.

As Kos notes:

Wide stance? Check.

In Minneapolis? Check.

Prison stripe-wearing? Check.

Starry eyed? Check.

As for the elephant humping the “2008″…

And the “Still screwing the country in 2008″ theme sounds just about right to me.

According to Rudy Giuliani, if he becomes president he will work to legalize the immigration status of all undocumented workers currently in the country.

In response to a question by Richard Pope, 75, about the 12 million illegal immigrants already here, Giuliani said, “I would say come forward, get your … tamper-proof ID card, get photographed and fingerprinted, and we will check you out.”

He added, “If you want to work, pay your fair share and we’ll sign you up. People who don’t sign up we will find and throw out of the country.”

Giuliani also said those workers who came here illegally but who qualified for the ID card could eventually become eligible for citizenship.

“If they ever wanted to become citizens, I would say they would have to pay a fine so it’s not amnesty,” Giuliani said. “Also they have to get at the back of the line, not get ahead of anybody else.”

Wow! This sounds as a pretty reasonable first step, although I would love to see the fine print.

Too bad there are a few small problems: his position is pretty much unacceptable to the rest of his party, you can never tell how long he will take to flip-flop, and unfortunately the remaining 90% of his program stinks. Otherwise, I think he is the perfect candidate.

A number of Latino organizations and others in Arizona have united to set up a network of hotlines for people to report bigots engaged in racial profiling.

This is in response to the much criticized Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s hotline, launched last month, that encourages people to report information on undocumented immigrants.

As if you could tell who is undocumented and who is not by simply looking at their faces. Oh! wait…… You actually can….! The undocumented ones must be the “browns”……at least in the minds of the bigots.

“We need this hotline taken down,” said Rep. Steve Gallardo, a Phoenix Democrat. “This hotline is solely set up for racial profiling. . . . We need Sheriff Joe Arpaio to do his job in enforcing the laws without using race as the sole purpose of trying to determine if someone is here illegally.”

Agreed!

Thanks to Congress.

Here is Colbert’s perspective:

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What a staunch Republican defender of family values and morality looks like:

Republican Senator David Vitter (R-LA) was not only one of DC Madam’s best clients but it looks like he was also answering phone calls from Madam while House roll call votes were under way.

But even more bizarre is what was disclosed today regarding the games Vitter liked to play while frequenting hookers back home in New Orleans:

“When Republican Senator David Vitter rented prostitutes back home in New Orleans, there was “more than sex” – he liked the hookers to make him wear diapers.”

Which makes David “Family Values – Diaperman” Vitter’s campaign commercials even more disgusting.

See for yourselves.

CPAC 2007: The Unauthorized Documentary.

The Nation’s Max Blumenthal takes us on a revealing (and at times shocking) tour of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Featuring Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Grover Norquist, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo, and many more.

Don’t miss it.

A couple of days ago I wrote about the “Stay the Course” Republican Senators who refused to debate the unpopular war in Iraq and voted to send thousands more young American men and women to die in a futile war.

MoveOn has a new ad that exposes these GOP Senators for what they are: a bunch of cowards.

The ad slams the Senators hard saying:

“They’re willing to send tens of thousands more troops to face danger in Iraq, but they don’t have the courage to face a vote.”

Don’t miss the video.

For all of you amigos out there who voted for this pig’s candidate and other republicans, I have a little sample here of the scum that dwells inside their rotten minds.

By the way, this comes not from a left-wing blogger but from National Review Online’s The Corner

According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.”

The racist snob appears to have offended even those who think like him

There should be no need to explain why this is an obscene statement coming from a leader in the party that promotes the virtues of hard work, thrift, and sobriety, a party whose demi-god actually split fence rails as a young man, a party where “respectable Republican cloth coat” once actually meant something. But it does seem to be necessary to explain.

Respectable republican? What an oxymoron!

The astute and enterprising journalists of Politicones.com today broke a fascinating story claiming for the first time that Tequila is not made of cuervo.

“Our sources and detailed analysis clearly confirm to us that contrary to common beliefs, Tequila is made of agave and not cuervo”,

said the acclaimed Pulidozer Prize winning journalist Josefina Herniada.

In a letter sent to all Hispanic journalists who recently claimed to have first written about the real inner composition of Tequila, Miss Herniada says

Subject: Tequila-cuervos story
From: “ Josefina Herniada”
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2007 16:24:40 -0500
To: [Redacted]

Hi all,

If you are working on a story about Tequila and cuervos, please credit Politicones.com for breaking the story.

Below I am including stories I have written over the past year on the Tequila-cuervos rift. They may be of use to you and other cabrones at AAA.

Thanks,

Josefina Herniada

PS. And I will like to remind you that, in the future, anytime you celebrate with Tequila you are not supposed to say ¡Salud! anymore. From now on, the correct celebratory expression adopted by Politicones.com will be ¡Que chule mi Josi!.

So now you know!

I can’t wait to learn what else our friends in Politicones.com will discover in a Margarita.

¡Que chule mi Josi!