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Wonder How His AssHoliness Pat Robertson will Spin this One?

Posted: August 22, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, open thread, Psychopaths in charge, religious extremists, Republican politics |25 Comments

Pat Robertson–that crazy old diviner of all things gawdly–has blamed both 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina on the GLBT community and abortion access in this country. He’s said it’s okay for a man to leave his sick wife and find another and he’s just said he doesn’t blame a man for not wanting to take on any woman’s ‘weird’ adopted kids.  It appears Hurricane Issac is bearing down on Tampa and the Party of Crazy’s National Convention.  Will Pat say it’s because they are nominating  Mormon?  Maybe, it’s because they want to distance themselves from Fetus Fetishist Akin? What has the Republican Party Convention done to piss off Pat’s Almighty Jeebus and his weather angels?  Perhaps it’s that they’re just downwind of the gawdless Disney Epcot Center and some might wander over to enjoy  an openly pro-gay establishment?

In Tampa this year, where some Republican delegates and officials are already gathered for pre-convention activities, the possibility of a hurricane was the subject of a good deal of worry and not a small amount of gallows humor.

Local news reports are filled with updates on the storm “bearing down on Florida just as Republican delegates come to town.”

And the city was hit by strong rain storms from Monday evening through Tuesday, a not uncommon summer occurrence but a reminder of how unpleasant the weather could make life for the 50,000 people expected for the convention next week.

The hurricane even came up even at a news conference marking the conclusion of work by the committee drafting the party’s platform, where the panel’s chairman, Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, was asked about RNC preparations in case a storm hits.

Having just emerged from hours seated at a dais in front of the 112-member committee in a darkened hotel ballroom, he looked briefly puzzled by the question. “If you want to talk to me about Miller-Bs or low pressure systems or derechos, I can talk to you about that,” he said, referring to storm systems that have hit Virginia in recent years. “This tropical storm, I’m not up to date on,” he said, as RNC staff shouted from the back of the room that the storm is under close watch.

Actually, ol Pat isn’t the only gadfly in the fruitcake to bring up Divine Retribution for weather.  What will Michelle Bachmann think?

By their own logic, Republicans and their conservative allies should be concerned that Isaac is a form of divine retribution. Last year, Rep. Michele Bachmann, then a Republican presidential candidate, said that the East Coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene — another “I” storm, but not an Old Testament one — were attempts by God “to get the attention of the politicians.” In remarks later termed a “joke,” she said: “It’s time for an act of God and we’re getting it.”

The influential conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck said last year that the Japanese earthquake and tsunami were God’s “message being sent” to that country. A year earlier, Christian broadcaster and former GOP presidential candidate Pat Robertson tied the Haitian earthquake to that country’s “pact to the devil.”

Previously, Robertson had argued that Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for abortion, while the Rev. John Hagee said the storm was God’s way of punishing homosexuality. The late Jerry Falwell thought that God allowed the Sept. 11 attacks as retribution for feminists and the ACLU.

Even if you don’t believe God uses meteorological phenomena to express His will, it’s difficult for mere mortals to explain what is happening to the GOP just now.

This one even has an old Testament Name or does it?

You can consider this an open thread as I ponder the potential irony of it all.

25 Comments on “Wonder How His AssHoliness Pat Robertson will Spin this One?”

  1. List of X's avatar List of X says:
    August 22, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    Whenever there is high humidity (e.g., Florida) and excessive amount of hot air (e.g., GOP convention), a hurricane or tornado is very likely.

  2. ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
    August 22, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    Dak, I was just thinking about how Pat Robertson was going to spin this in the event a hurricane strikes Tampa during the RNC. Yesterday he blamed the U.S. drought on “Ignoring god’s law”

    Robertson is a whackadoodle

    • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
      August 22, 2012 at 3:02 pm

      Doesn’t god have anything better to do than inflict droughts and hurricanes and Tornadoes and earthquakes and disease and plagues and terrorist attacks on humanity and all other creatures? And why would anyone even believe or worship such a vengeful sort of entity?

  3. peregrine's avatar peregrine says:
    August 22, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    Maybe Isaac is the means of the religious nutters’ Rapture. Holy shit! Pleeze take them a.w.ay!

  4. northwestrain's avatar northwestrain says:
    August 22, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    The title of this post is hilarious.

    My husband is on a business trip in the Caribbean in the path of a Tropical Storm. We were down there when Lenny hit. Even a tropical storm is nasty.

    Am I a bad person for hoping that the GOP are made very uncomfortable by a super storm??? Nope it is merely justifiable action by mother nature toward the vicarious rapist of the right.

  5. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    August 22, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    Maybe the campaign really didn’t like horse lady’s tax return performance?

    Limited Convention Coverage Will Leave Ann Romney Off Air

  6. peregrine's avatar peregrine says:
    August 22, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Any southerner knows that you’re a fool to schedule a convention in this SE U.S. hurricane alley, especially between August and September. Remember, especially, huricanes Katrina and Hugo??? Underscore STUPID!

    (Hugo did hit Charlotte as a tropical storm, but holding such strength and force this far inland is unusual.)

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      August 22, 2012 at 3:27 pm
    • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
      August 22, 2012 at 3:36 pm

      I love Tampa/St.Pete, but I’d never book a vacation, much less a convention there during hurricane season. Still, I know some of their politial stars have a penchant for nude ocean swims, so I guess a city on the Gulf of Mexico was a good option.

  7. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    August 22, 2012 at 4:06 pm

    Don’t worry, Dak. If the hurricane misses Tampa it will be because god personally rescued the Republicans. There’s no requirement for consistency among wingnuts.

  8. ecocatwoman's avatar ecocatwoman says:
    August 22, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    Sadly, it looks like Isaac is going to hit the Dominican Republic & Haiti first. Here’s a link to the 5 day track: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/204427.shtml?5day?large#contents

  9. northwestrain's avatar northwestrain says:
    August 22, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    …..
     Isaac is over Guadalupe (7:30 pm their time) — lighting visible from other islands. A few gusts felt on other islands. Many of the islands have shut down — which is SOP for the region.

  10. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    August 22, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    heheheheheheh …

  11. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    August 22, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    Borowitz Report:

    TAMPA (The Borowitz Report)—With the threat of Hurricane Isaac hitting Florida next week, the Republican National Committee took the extraordinary step today of moving their 2012 National Convention to the seventeenth century.

    While the decision to send the convention four centuries back in time raised eyebrows among some political observers, R.N.C. spokesperson Harland Dorrinson downplayed the unusual nature of the move.

    “After exploring a number of options, we decided that moving to the seventeenth century would cause the least disruption,” he said. “We’re not going to have to change a thing.”

    Mr. Dorrinson added that despite recent controversy involving the U.S. Senate candidate Representative Todd Akin (R., Miss.), there would be no modification of the Party’s official platform: “After we ban abortion in cases of rape and incest, we’re going to focus on America’s spiralling witch problem.”

    http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/08/republicans-move-convention-to-seventeenth-century.html#ixzz24K8ieZ00

  12. HT's avatar HT says:
    August 22, 2012 at 7:35 pm

    Is there no depth to which these charlatans will sink in order to line their own pocketbooks? If there were a god, then why does he allow charlatans, thieves and other assorted authoritarians such as autocrats, plutocrates and snake oil salesmen to use his or her name in order to make more money or grab more power in order to make more money for themselves? After all, if this god speaks personally to these meglomaniacs, then what does that tell one about their god? If I were a vengeful person, I would hope that this potential hurricane would give a lesson to the party at the RNC convention, however it would endanger ordinary, regular people who happen to live in the area, so I won’t wish that. although after what happened during Katrina and it’s aftermath of nothing doing – how does Florida vote?

  13. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    August 22, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    Dog almighty, these asshats are kind of dangerous!

    TPM: Sheriff Candidate OK With Deadly Force To Stop Abortions

    Frank Szabo wants the people of Hillsborough County, N.H., to know that if they elect him as sheriff this year, he will do whatever it takes to stop doctors from performing abortions — even if that means using deadly force.

    In an interview on Wednesday with local television station WMUR, Szabo said he believed sheriffs were granted special powers under the Constitution. That means, he said, he would be empowered to arrest or even use deadly force against doctors for providing legal abortions for women.
    […]
    When pressed about what he would do if a prosecutor declined to charge a doctor he arrested, he said the answer was simple.

    “If they choose not to do their duty and uphold the Constitution,” Szabo said, “they can be brought up on charges before what’s called a citizen’s grand jury, which is something that’s not that common in the United States. But again, it is something based in common law that’s within the purview of the county sheriff.”

    • RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
      August 22, 2012 at 7:39 pm

      “using deadly force” So he would kill someone because he is pro-life?????

      • NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
        August 23, 2012 at 12:55 am

        Jeebus loves me when I kill in his name, I guess.

        Haven’t these “Christians” ever heard of “love your brother as yourself,” and “do unto others as you would have done unto you,” and “you without sin, cast the first stone”? And “thou shalt not kill?”

        Christ, save me from your followers, as the bumper sticker says.

  14. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    August 22, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    Rush LImbaugh is blaming the hurricane on Obama … I kid you not. I can’t imagine Obama wants that nut fest cancelled. He’d like it on the air 24/7 is my guess.

    http://www.politicususa.com/rush-limbaugh-claims-hurricane-obama-conspiracy-cancel-gop-convention.html

    LIMBAUGH: So we got a hurricane coming. The National Hurricane Center, which is a government agency, is very hopeful that the hurricane gets near Tampa. The National Hurricane Center is Obama. It’s the National Weather Service, part of the commerce department. It’s Obama. The media, it’s all about the hurricane hitting next week, and they’re not talking about Biden, they’re talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing. Well, you know, we who live in south Florida become experts. We don’t need the National Hurricane Center, and we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us. Well, we need the center, we can look at their charts and graphs, we know what to do, we can read the stuff. I’ve been tracking the charted forecast track of the storm, and they’re moving it sometimes to the east. The latest, 11 o’clock, they moved it to the west as a cat 1 impact in Naples, Fort Myers area.

    This morning at five a.m., the impact was Miami. We’re still not talking about ’til next Tuesday, so it’s gonna be all over the ballpark between now and then. We don’t know where this thing is gonna hit. The models are moving it more and more out into the Gulf. I wouldn’t be surprised if this thing hits in Louisiana someplace when it’s all said and done. Just kidding. Nobody knows, but they’re desperately hoping, they’re so desperately hoping for Tampa. The media, you know, I can see Obama sending FEMA in in advance of the hurricane hitting Tampa so that the Republican convention is nothing but a bunch of tents in Tampa, a bunch of RVs and stuff. (laughing) Make it look like a disaster area before the hurricane even hits there.

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      August 22, 2012 at 9:08 pm

      I wonder how he can’t know that it can’t be a federal disaster in less his teabagger Republican Governor asks it to be so … such an expert!!!

  15. Michael B. Calyn's avatar Michael B. Calyn says:
    August 23, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    Reblogged this on Ye Olde Soapbox.

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