WINGNUT DICTIONARY - Translation of the Day

Quote of the Day Part II:

“Rubio will win. The Establishment will be defeated. Conservatives will advance and with them freedom.” [em-mine]

~ Erick Erickson, proprietor RedState Blog reacting to news that the Rasmussen Polling Service reports that the Race for GOP Florida Senate primary is currently tied.

Context:

Within the Conservative Movement (members of which are sometimes referred to as Teabaggers or collectively as "The Wingnutariat"), it is believed that the GOP has not adhered to true party ideology. This is primarily because this ideology, Free Market Fundamentalism, is phony and has been designed to fool voters into believing there is a simple solution for every complex problem. The Teabaggers seek to implement true party ideology by overthrowing the Establishment Wing of the Party. Defeat of the GOP establishment candidate and the election of Rubio to the Florida Senate are seen as a steps toward this goal.

Translation (from Wingnutese into English):

The Freedom of Mankind, according to tenets of the Teabagger Movement, will come following the creation of cultural consciousness within the Wingnutariat. Once cultural consciousness has been obtained, the Wingnutariat will rise up in revolution against the Establishment and cast off the chains of oppression.

After the destruction of the Establishment, the Wingnutariat will take control of the party apparatus. With control of the GOP, a Wingnutopian cultural paradise will be created. And thus, the Freedom of Mankind can be achieved, Allah willing of course.

Teabaggery is on the MARCH!

An intra-party WAR is brewing Florida between the GOP old guard, represented by Charlie “Rhino in Name Only” Crist and the Teabagger Rump represented by some guy named Rubio.

The Future of the GOP is at stake we are told. One represents the way in which the GOP governs while in Power. The other represents what the GOP says it believes in when it has no responsibility to govern.

Quote of the Day:

So we're basically going to watch a politician without a core (witness the brazen flip-flop on stimulus and the appointment of a placeholder friend to the Senate seat) trash a politician who has the qualities to become a national star (young, dynamic, Latino, and conservative). Crist will have to stand in the way of the GOP future, yelling "Stop"!

~ Rich Lowry [em-mine]

The wingnutopian radicals are championing vile, perverse, debauched teabaggery as the GOP’s future. To each his own.

This should get interesting. I expect full-metal-wingnut on this Senate Race complete with gay baiting and immigrant bashing.

I don't know if Crist goes to church regularly, but my advice is to flank this Rubio character on the right and learn how to speak in tongues pronto. Just a suggestion.

Prayercast to be held to Protest Affordable Health Care for the Working Poor

Say it ain’t so.

A Group of Teabaggers, Family Values Types and Zany Congressmen like Jim DeMint and Michele Bachman are holding a prayer event via the internet tomorrow.

Specifically they will pray against:

"the threats to the God-given right to human life through government funding of abortions, our health from rationing, our family finances from higher taxes, and our general freedom posed by the government plan to take over healthcare."

This should be a real winner. Here is my suggestion: to improve the chances that the Lord will smite healthcare reform, they should quote the bible and read the free-market, Anti-Tax and Anti-healing of the sick verses.

But if the real bible doesn't quite cut it these days with enough free-market fun, they could always try the Conservapedia Bible Project. The Conservapedia Bible is the new and improved Bible without all the liberal bias! This project is probably way overdue since all the apostles and such all looked liked a bunch of sandal wearing hippies and used words like comrade and other commie type terminology.

Did Jesus preach about the double-taxation of dividends as a moral issue? Or was it just George Bush who led the mighty call against the immorality of the double taxation of dividends? I know that Bush was leader in this struggle, but I don't remember if there is anything in the Gospels about it.

Probably doesn’t matter to this crowd.

A Mad ACORN frenzy hits the Wingnut-O-Sphere (again) and the Perils of Wingnut Welfare

Last week, Judge Nina Gershon judge granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of a recently enacted provision of law that cuts funding to ACORN and its community outreach programs. A temporary freeze on enforcement of the Ant-ACORN law - The Horror!!!!

I found this passage in a piece at the ever charming National Review Online quite amusing.

Ed Whelan’s analysis of Judge Nina Gershon’s pernicious opinion in the ACORN funding case -- Gershon granted an injunction -- is right on the money (pun intended). Gershon’s opinion -- that not receiving discretionary federal funding fits the definition of “punishment” as a prohibited Bill of Attainder -- would be laughable if there were not such serious issues at stake. Of course, that probably does seem like punishment to someone who has never, ever had a job in the private sector and has spent her entire legal career working for the government or as a law professor.

~ The NRO [em-mine]

A Bill of Attainder is expressly prohibited by the Constitution. This is a prohibition against punishment by the legislative act instead of by judicial trial. Basically the Congress can’t pass a law which punishes George and Dick for implementing torture. Advice to Dick and George you may be safe here but avoid vacations in Spain. Especially you, Dick. However if you want to go Dick, I am sure we could pass the hat around to raise the cash for airfare.

Back to the passage, above. I haven’t read much about the decision. I have not even read Big Ed Whelan’s condemnation of the opinion, but the odds are fair to middling that there is a basis for concern. At this point, I really don’t care because a decision on the merits is to come later.

The amusing part is the outrage directed at the Judge for not having held a job in the private sector. Talk about pots and kettles!

No writer at a wingnut welfare operation such as the NRO or at the Think Tanks of the DC swamps should condemn another person’s way of earning a living as being outside of the free market.

Does anyone really think an operation like the unprofitable Washington Times competes freely in the marketplace when it is funded by a Korean Mega-Church Leader who has proclaimed himself to be the second coming of Christ? Not a chance. How about the Heartland Institute which turns tricks in the climate denial circuit while being in bed with Exxon --- would it fare well in the private sector? Doubtfully. These operations are funded through rightwing charity and corporate sponsorship and not by the contributions made to the free market.

I think kicking these wingnut welfare recipients off the dole would be the best thing in the world for them (and us).

Think about it.

They could get to know the dignity of hard work under the conditions of the free market. As it is, these wingnut welfare recipients are trapped in a cycle of dependency. They are rewarded when they are shrill and punished if inconveniently truthful. This is terribly debilitating for the human soul.

Someday we will end wingnut welfare as we know it and set these poor souls free to enjoy the magic of the marketplace. Someday, my Friend. Someday.

Footnote: Gershon’s previous brush with fame came in 2006, when she was the judge during the trial of a Pakistani-American would be terrorist, Shahawar Matin Siraj. Siraj was convicted of plotting to blow up a New York subway station and received 30 years in the big house for his part in the plot.

Looks like all is well that ends well --- a plot prevented, a terrorist off the street and locked, right? WRONG!!!!

The outrageous part of this tale (that nobody knows about, YET) is that Judge Gershon used the Good Ol’ American Legal System during the trial of Siraj. She didn’t use a tribunal or send him to Guantanamo. She presided over the trial right here in America.

Oddly unlike today, when the thought of trying a terrorist in an actual court sends many rightwingers shrieking in anguish, there was no rightwing outrage at time Siraj’s trial. Odd. Very odd.

Maybe it’s like the old timers often tell you. Back in the good ol’days, we were a braver people. Today, the notion of trials for the accused and application of the rule of AMERICAN law frightens some. Would they rather use International law or effete European law? Doubtfully.

It is an odd world.

Kicking Poor George When He’s Down….It Continues….

"Hey, last night I watched Oprah's White House Christmas special. President Obama told Oprah he deserves a 'solid B-plus' for his first year in office. That's a big improvement from our last president, who for the last eight years received a 'WTF.'"

~ Jimmy Fallon

I don't think WTF is and actual grade. And I don't think we are supposed to grade Poor George for another 49 years. At lease that is what I heard.

The Federal Government is not in-efficient enough?

Word on the Street has it that there is growing concern that Federal Employees are over compensated earning 100% more than their private sector counterparts, or so suggests Rep Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).

Chaffetz a rising star in the GOP anti-anti-anti-war wing, most recently made a name for himself for his advocacy Militant Quasi-Noninterventionism, i.e., turning Afghanistan into a shooting gallery and calling it peace so we can then, presumably, invade Iran.

Now Chaffetz is targeting Federal Employees, responsible for Homeland Security, FEMA, Border Security, The Defense Department, the FBI and the EPA.

These Bastards make too much money:

Defenders of excessive federal employee compensation argue that federal workers are older and have achieved higher levels of education than private-sector employees. To a certain extent this is true, but it does not justify federal employees making double in salaries and benefits compared to private sector.

When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity’s performance, then employee compensation is probably too low. However, if turnover rate is too low, then employee compensation is probably too high. Also, a low turnover rate means that fewer people from outside government are contributing with new ideas and perspectives based on experience in other workplaces.

Wage rates are up, by the way. I wonder what the explanation is.

Key reasons for the boom in six-figure salaries:

• Pay hikes. Then-president Bush recommended — and Congress approved — across-the-board raises of 3% in January 2008 and 3.9% in January 2009. President Obama has recommended 2% pay raises in January 2010, the smallest since 1975. Most federal workers also get longevity pay hikes — called steps — that average 1.5% per year.

•New pay system. Congress created a new National Security Pay Scale for the Defense Department to reward merit, in addition to the across-the-board increases. The merit raises, which started in January 2008, were larger than expected and rewarded high-ranking employees. In October, Congress voted to end the new pay scale by 2012.

• Paycaps eased. Many top civil servants are prohibited from making more than an agency's leader. But if Congress lifts the boss' salary, others get raises, too. When the Federal Aviation Administration chief's salary rose, nearly 1,700 employees' had their salaries lifted above $170,000, too.

That figures. It is all George Bush’s fault. Who woulda thunk it?

Seriously, I 'll defend the bureaucrats. Is it a bad thing that the Scientists at the EPA and Researchers at NASA Climate Center are making more money these days than the out of work ex-tobacco industry researchers? Some probably think so. Chaffetz is that you?

The trend of outsourcing lower wage, lower skill jobs while retaining scientists, accountants, and lawyers has something to do with this one would surely think.

But if you are concerned whether or not the government works, you probably aren’t interested in implementing any Chaffetz-inspired workplace experiments.

I think Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) may be crazy

Quotes for the Day:

Question:

“What causes, in your perspective, global warming?”

Congressman Barton (R-TX):

“Well, the short answer would be God…….. It is a, we are in a natural cycle and it appears that the Earth is in a slight cooling period for the next thirty to fifty years and the dominant cause of that are the oceans. The Atlantic and the Pacific are in a little cooling period….But the Co2 concentrations going up don’t seem to be doing what the IPCC model says it should...”

Barton is the former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. He doesn’t believe that that dramatic increase in carbon levels is one of the reasons that the earth is warming. In fact, he thinks it is cooling.

So carbon has nothing to do with it according to Rep. Barton. What about all the scientists and the peer reviewed scientific papers that indicate other wise?

Question (paraphrased):

…. The IPCC panel of about 2000 scientists and experts representing different governments from a variety of institutions from around the world, with a wide variety of perspectives as a group have not been persuaded by Anti-Global Warming advocates like yourself, why and how can you change their consensus on global warming now?

Congressman Barton (R-TX) (at 18:30):

“…….When you talk about thousands of scientist most of those are not original creator (sic) thinkers. They are implementers. They are facilitators. There are … only fifty to one hundred in the world that are in that are in the top tier and more and more it is appearing that they have engaged in either a conscious, uh, effort to withhold the truth from the world …. uh or maybe…. or maybe, maybe …. they’ve decided, uh, without realizing it that they have become so …ideology committed that they lost sight, lost track of the true scientific method… I don’t know, but its something that really does need to be investigated and I don’t make any apologies for trying to get that investigation started.”

Shorter Joe Barton:

• There is a cabal of 50 to 100 scientists who really understand climate change.
• This Cabal of Scientists is responsible for the global warming hoax.
• They have brainwashed other scientists and are trying to brainwash America (See 12:30)
• The hoax is being perpetrated due to religious or ideological belief.

Longer Joe Barton:

Texas re-institutes the Poll Tax…..

… err, I mean “Pole Tax.”

This is Pole Tax, as in a $5 tax on each customer who enters a strip joint that serves alcohol. Currently the Pole Tax faces an uncertain future pending an appeal in federal court.

I really should be writing about Poll Taxes on the off chance the Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) comes across this post and gets the bright idea to reinstate the “Poll Tax.”

I wonder what Judge Scalia thinks about “Pole Taxes.” You know Judge Thomas would definitely oppose such a Pole Tax as an outrage, in part because the founding Fathers never considered the subject when framing the constitution. He may have other reasons to oppose Pole Taxes as well.

Quote of the Day:

"This whole idea of global warming, I'm glad that's over. It's gone. It's done. We won. You lost. Get a life!"

~ Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) declaring VICTORY against global warming.

I guess this means the Earth is going to start cooling down, the polar ice caps re-form, the glaciers expand instead of retreat. This also must mean that animals and plants will stop migrating due to earlier springs.

But seriously, Do you know who Inhofe should blame for this hoax?

Farmers, that’s who. Those bastards are now growing crops in regions where it should be too cold to grow those crops....... just to trick us.

You know why farmers are growing crops further north than they should be?

They are in on the global warming conspiracy with the scientists and every single one of them wants to suck up to Al Gore, too. Bastards.

Case Closed.

Stooge or Collaborator?

This is a little climate-gate game where we try to figure out if a particular Wingnut is a Saudi/Russian Stooge, or a willing collaborator in Climate-Gate.Click on Links to uncover the dark conspiracy between rightwing bloggers and the new KGB that is responsible for the Climate Gate Non-Troversy.

A Stooge is merely someone who has been Duped or fooled and is repeating anti-global warming non-sense without malice.

A collaborator knows the Climate-Gate Non-Troversy is phony but parrots the non-sense anyway, perhaps due to an allegiance to a foreign power or perhaps due to a desire to create Wingnutopia on Earth.

The First Candidate:

In a society not yet as far gone as Nazi Germany, Climategate is what happens when scientists think nobody is looking, or at least that nobody is competent or willing to call them out. Given power, or the ability to influence those in power, the scientists have acted the way human beings have always acted around power.

~ Dan McLaughlin, RedStateBlog

I get it. The Scientists ain’t got no moral compass and will use their Science to Take Over the World!!!!!!

My vote is:

STOOGE

Clearly this winger is not clever enough to be on the Ruskies payroll to do their bidding.

Saudi Arabia Drawn Into Climate-Gate!

The Climate Conspiracy Gets Deeper. The Saudis may be in on it too:

In another development, Saudi Arabia's chief climate negotiator, Mohammad Al-Sabban said that the CRU e-mail issue will have a "huge impact" on next week's UN climate summit.

Mr Al-Sabban made clear that he expects it to derail the single biggest objective of the summit - to agree limitations on greenhouse gas emissions.

Uh-oh. Who could have seen this coming? First the wingnut bloggers, then the Russians and now the Saudis. This fits together all too smoothly. It is almost as if the Rightwing Blogosphere, the KGB and the Saudis are working together.

I wonder. I just wonder is there is something to this all…….. Maybe these characters are all working together. Let’s recap where we are so far on Climate-Gate:

First. Computer Hackers illegally obtain e-mail from actual scientists at the Climate Research Unit in England. The Russian Secret Service is the primary suspect, aka the new KGB.

Next. The Data was meticulously combed. Statements are gleaned, leaked to the media and then mercilessly twisted out of context by those with a political reason to do such.

Then. A meme is developed alleging that the secret e-mail proves that Global Warming is a Hoax at worst or scientifically unfounded, at this point in time, at best. The meme is unbelievable by reasonable thinking people. Why would anyone value the political opinions of hacks over decades of peer reviewed science? But this does not matter. See next step.

Next. The Meme is circulated and re-circulated by right-wing organizations and spoon fed to the rabble. Faux outrage ensues on the internet. Scientists Receive Death Threats, etc.

Eventually. The noise on the wingnut-O-sphere causes the main stream media pick up the story wondering WTF is going on. Responsible media outlets will report that climate change is simply a matter of science versus ignorance. While the lazy and/or irresponsible outlets will treat it as another “-Gate” style controversy that is just too difficult to completely understand.

Next. Actors such as Saudi Arabia, which wants us helplessly addicted to their product jumps in and announces that this is a reason to scuttle the UN current climate talks.

Finally. Meaningful progress and the Climate talks gets derailed.

Now it makes sense. This series of events cannot be a coincidence. This has to be a plot…..AGAINST AMERICA by foreign agitators and domestic dupes and accomplices!

The Russians are happy as they anticipate developing oil fields in the thawing north. The Saudis are happy because our addiction will continue unabated. And finally, the right-wing is happy because global warming is just the “left’s” way to implement world-wide socialism and prevent the creation of a Right Wing Utopian Paradise in America based on bullets, bayonets, banjos and bibles.

I say we fire up those Anti-Obama dissident camps that we have been hearing so much about and round up folks for enhanced questioning practices. One can never be too sure who the dupes are and who knowingly conspired with Putin and the Saudis.

First we should start with everyone on Wingnut Welfare. If a blogger or think-tank type is stuck in a hopeless cycle of wingnut welfare dependence, it goes without saying that they’d be more susceptible to selling out to the Saudis.

At any moment now I expect Ann Coulter shrieking for public executions for the irresponsible internet media types who committed TREASON by working with the new Russian KGB and the Saudis.

The Persecution of Sarah Palin Continues…… and this time it is from Christopher Hitchens who is Mean Spirited and just plain MEAN too….

Look what he says about Sarah:

At least Richard Nixon had the ill fortune to look like what he was: a haunted scoundrel and repressed psychopath. Whereas the usefulness of Sarah Palin to the right-wing party managers is that she combines a certain knowingness with a feigned innocence and a still-palpable blush of sex. But she should take care to read her Alexander Pope: That bloom will soon enough fade, and it will fade really quickly if she uses it to prostitute herself to the Nixonites on one day and then to cock-tease the rabble on the next.

And get this, Hitchens, who isn’t a red-blooded American and probably is an Elitist to boot, thinks Side Show Sarah’s Rabble Rousing is more demagogy than it is right wing populism. Her conduct denotes a character of the lowest moral order.

Them would be fighting words if Sarah and the Wasilla hillbillies knew what it meant.

If Hitchens don’t watch himself with his mean spirited persecution of Poor Sarah with his big words, he’ll end up just like Letterman.

Time for VDH to just get over with it and move to France already?

More Francophilia from VDH.

This time Victor Davis Hanson is aching for the war time leadership of a Frenchman, Georges Clemenceau, who in 1917 assumed the nickname of the “Tiger” as he urged a shattered French Nation not to fold just yet.

How things change. It seems that just not so long ago, VDH was enamored with the war time leadership of a jackass*, kitten, George Bush. That George was thoroughly incompetent, seems not to have mattered.

What does matter, is timing. Now that the occupant of the White House is a Democrat, it is now important to speak of fondly of Le Tigre and yearn for his strength. Was it Le Tigre, that was to be buried on his death upright and facing Germany? I think so. Thus reason has it, that if Clemenceau were here today, he’d sooooooo, be wanting to invade Iran or Pakistan, right?

That aside, I'd say the circle is complete and he’s done gone French on us for good, now. I’m just guessing it’ll only be a matter of time before he starts wearing fancy britches.

POST SCRIPT * Lions led by jackasses was a German depiction of French Leadership during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and not necessarily a cheap shot at poor George Bush.

As it would turn out, Tigers, Kittens, Jackasses and Arrogant Nationalists aside, WWI would shatter France as it emerged from the war far weaker in victory than Germany did in defeat.

Former Communist Utopians and Wingnutopians in League????

The Stolen Climate-Gate E-mail imbroglio propelled by rightwing agitators may have just turned more SINISTER.

For a couple of weeks now the wingnut-O-sphere has been abuzz with conspiratorial chatter and allegations so grand as to threaten the scientific consensus on Global Warming. The stolen Climate Research Unit e-mails prove that global warming is all a hoax it is alleged.

But the plot thickens as news leaks out that the Russian Secret Service may have been involved:

The news that a leaked set of emails appeared to show senior climate scientists had manipulated data was shocking enough. Now the story has become more remarkable still.

The computer hack, said a senior member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, was not an amateur job, but a highly sophisticated, politically motivated operation. And others went further. The guiding hand behind the leaks, the allegation went, was that of the Russian secret services.

The leaked emails, which claimed to provide evidence that the unit's head, Professor Phil Jones, colluded with colleagues to manipulate data and hide "unhelpful" research from critics of climate change science, were originally posted on a server in the Siberian city of Tomsk, at a firm called Tomcity, an internet security business.

The FSB security services, descendants of the KGB, are believed to invest significant resources in hackers, and the Tomsk office has a record of issuing statements congratulating local students on hacks aimed at anti-Russian voices, deeming them "an expression of their position as citizens, and one worthy of respect". The Kremlin has also been accused of running co-ordinated cyber attacks against websites in neighbouring countries such as Estonia, with which the Kremlin has frosty relations, although the allegations were never proved….

[…]

Much of Russia's vast oil and gas reserves lie in difficult-to-access areas of the far North. One school of thought is that Russia, unlike most countries, would have little to fear from global warming, because these deposits would suddenly become much easier and cheaper to access.

It is this, goes the theory, that underlies the Kremlin's ambivalent attitudes towards global warming; they remain lukewarm on the science underpinning climate change, knowing full well that if global warming does change the world's climate, billions of dollars of natural resources will become accessible. Another motivating factor could be that Russia simply does not want to spend the vast sums of money that would be required to modernise and "greenify" Russia's ageing factories.

This so-called scandal has taken an interesting turn. What was spun as a “Tipping Point” in the crusade to deny the existence of Global warming was really just some out of context statements in a series of e-mail between British researchers. One can always count on zaniness from wingnut bloggers, teabaggers, and Congress clowns like James Sensenbrenner (Teabagger-WI) and Jim Inhofe (Teabagger-OK). Sensenbrenner labeling scientists as fascists is all too predictable.

However, what if it is true the Commies were behind it all and an alliance between the allegedly former Communist Utopians and these Jacobin Wingnutopians has been formed? Hate too say it, but it looks that way.

Carrying water for the Russians and their new KGB is too low for even this cast of clowns. Talk about putting country first. Shame.

BREAKING NEWS….. GOP moves to increase DEATH Tax……..

Yesterday 174 Republicans in the House of Representative have voted in favor of raising the DEATH Tax!

These heartless bastards must favor an escalation in the dreaded DEATH tax in 2011. Under the Republican plan of attack, the DEATH tax would be raised to an astronomical 55% on estates above $1 million.

Thankfully for rich and not so-rich folks, House Democrats stepped in and blocked this GOP led escalation by limiting the tax to 45% on estates worth more than $3.5 million or $7 Million for married couples, thereby limiting its effects to just 1% of the population.

While this seems to be an odd development for the GOP on the surface, given their support of the mythical family farm that gets swallowed by the DEATH Tax every year. Looks like they have cut and run from the fight. Who is going to save this non-event from not happening now?

I bet this has something to do with DEATH panels.

Wingnut Field Day in Five, Four, Three, Two, O..........

Word on the Street has it that folks telephoning Dreaded Rhino in Name Only and Florida GOP Governor Charlie Crist are in for quite an unexpected ride:

In a message callers hear when they get put on hold after calling Gov. Charlie Crist, Crist transposes a couple of numbers and turns the phone number for Florida KidCare into the number you’d call for “hot, horny girls.”

Uh-oh. The Wingners on the Crist beat are gonna go ape over this. These guys hate Crist for welcoming Obama to Florida and embracing the stimulus.

Now that Crist is welcoming folks to meet ....... uh.... eligible ladies, you can imagine the coming freak out.

A Manifesto for Wingnutopia on Earth? Quotes for the Day.

One:

The other day, I was talking with a guy who said that conservatives have a lot of eggheaded books about philosophy and principles -- and that what they lack right now is a popular manifesto for the current moment. I furrowed my brow thoughtfully, unconvinced but not sure how to respond. A little later, it dawned on me. We do have the book: Liberty & Tyranny, by Mark Levin. [bold-mine]

~ John J. Miller via The National Review Online, the Leading Voice of the Modern Conservative Movement.

Two:

Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. . . . conservatism is the negation of ideology: it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order." [bold – mine]

~ Russell Kirk, a founder of The National Review and architect of the Conservative Movement

There you go. Mark Levin is the Conservative Wingnutopian Movement’s own version of Karl Marx.

The circle has come full. What started out as an alternative to Marx inspired political thought of yesteryear (according to some), now mimics Marx inspired dogma in its application.

You can see examples everyday as Wingnuts offer dogmatic solutions to yesterday’s problems as answers for the challenges of the 21^st century. Tax Cuts and Deregulation are the main culprits. Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) was just recently quoted as saying his approach for dealing with the economic collapse of 2008 would have been tax cuts and spending cuts. Economists agree that this would have lead to economic disaster.

No serious conservative could be in favor of wide scale collapse of the global financial system. What would happen to order, tradition and cultural norms in a time of worldwide upheaval?

You can’t really call them conservatives anymore. Right Wing Radicals or Wingnutopian Idealists is a better label.

Quote of the Day:

“These [stolen] e-mails betray the true thoughts and motives of many leading climate scientists. It shows a pattern that’s closer to scientific fascism than the scientific method.” [em-mine]

~ James Sensenbrenner (Teabagger-WI) pounding the anti-global warming conspiracy theory of the day that a secret cabal of scientists have manufactured the trend of dramatically rising temperatures on God's creation.

Speaking of fanatics and pots calling the kettle black. Scientific Fascism? Wow. Sensenbreener is a serious loon.

My question for Sesenbrenner: if 97% of the climate scientist think global warming is a serious problem and 3% do not. Why are the 97% labeled as fascists over the formerly out of work tobacco industry scientists who deny the existence of global warming?

Second question to Sensenbrenner: if you are going to label a group of people as "Fascist" shouldn't you cite some actual evidence of say, Fascism?

The Scientific academies in every advanced nation say global warming is a serious problem. If you say it is not, please provide some evidence or STFU.

That is all.

Poor Lindsey Grahamnesty and his Buddies Corky and Lamar Can’t Catch a Break

Remember the Objectively Pro-Rape Caucus of the GOP? Hint: no female republicans joined the club.

Can’t remember?

The objectively Pro-Rape Caucus is made up of 30 infamous male GOP senators who voted against allowing rape victims who are employees of Iraqi reconstruction contractors from seeking justice in American courts.

The Al Franken sponsored measure passed 68-30 with 30 Republican men objecting but all republican women (and some men) siding with the majority. It sounded like to stupid move at the time. Surely nobody is objectively pro-rape, are they?

At the time, I suspected something else was at play. And sure enough there was:

Beneath the personal story and the partisan recriminations is a long-simmering dispute between trial lawyers and the business lobby, with trial lawyers arguing that mandatory arbitration clauses stack the decks against employees, and business groups arguing that arbitration is the fairest, most expeditious and least expensive way to deal with complaints and that mandatory arbitration evens the playing field.

OK the infamous 30 men have an excuse. They were defending the defense contractors. But the problem is that the infamous 30 were favoring the interests of powerful large corporations over the interests of an American women who may have been drugged, held captive in a box and repeatedly raped in Iraq. Uh-oh.

Now this Caucus of Senators are having second thoughts about their vote.

Republican senators feel burned by Al Franken — and not by his old jokes.

The Republicans are steamed at Franken because partisans on the left are using a measure he sponsored to paint them as rapist sympathizers — and because Franken isn’t doing much to stop them.

[…]

some of his new Republican colleagues argue that the amendment is being grossly mischaracterized — and has spawned attacks like the satirical website RepublicansforRape.org — and now question whether Franken is doing a good job of separating his past from his current line of work.

“I don’t know what his motivation was for taking us on, but I would hope that we won’t see a lot of Daily Kos-inspired amendments in the future coming from him,” said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, No. 4 in the Senate Republican leadership.

Why does a sack of hammers come to mind when you run across John Thune's name?

Anyway word on the street is that nervous republican senators want Franken help them out and in the words of one source “make it clear that GOP senators don’t support assault or rape.” Among those concerned are Poor Lindsey Grahamnesty and his buddies Senator Bob “Corky” Corker and Senator Lamar who co-authored an Op-Ed explaining away their vote. (By the way both Lamar and Corky have identified by Red State Blog as possible Teabagging targets in the future. Could this vote be an attempt to earn favor with The Base?).

Says Grahamnesty:

“I think it would be helpful for Sen. Franken to come forward and say, ‘I’m not suggesting that anybody who votes for my amendment is indifferent to crimes against women or anybody else.’ What’s going on politically with the amendment Sen. Franken can’t control, but I think it would be helpful for him personally to just let the rest of us know that’s the views of others — not him.”

Apparently Grahamnesty wants Franken to vouch for his anti-rape credentials. OK maybe he will.

But why all the whining about how mean Franken is? He didn’t threaten to send the infamous 30 to Guantanamo if they didn’t vote a certain way. They parted ways with their female colleagues and voted with the defense contractors and against victims of crimes. And they can’t claim they were duped, because the GOP Women voted with Franken.

Poor Fellows, they’re the real victims here. They just can't catch a break. But at least none have been drugged, held captive in a box and repeatedly raped.

Deep Thoughts……

“From one acorn many nuts can grow.”

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) at a GOP super special “Joint Forum” on ACORN.

The “Joint Forum” included such GOP notables at Dan “melon head” Burton, Steve King (who keeps an acorn and copy of the constitution in his pocket at all times to remind him of the threat to our Republic posed by ACORN), Darrell Issa (who is firmly committed to oversight of the Executive branch but only during Democratic Administrations) and Judge Golmert. At least, I believe Golmert was a judge at one time. This does not mean he’s a bright guy, but generally speaking one would think idiots seldom make it to the bench. But one can never be absolutely sure, however……. All we can be sure of today is that he is a Nutter (get it).

The GOP’s fascination with ACORN is just plain bizarre. Yesterday’s event unveiled no new information of ACORN’s misdeeds. About the only interesting information was that Steve King carries around a plastic bucket filled with acorns. On the bright side, if there is a Nutter on your X-mas list, now you have an inexpensive gift idea for them. Give’m a bucket of acorns!

I know Neo-con ideology holds that helping the poor actually helps them stay poor and dependent. I know that some of these guys believe that if poverty is blisteringly brutal, the poor folks that can break the cycle of poverty will do so through hard work. I know that poor people voting is a problem for some within the GOP. But this obsession is clinical.

If ACORN is such a threat to the fabric of our democracy, why didn’t the Bush Administration lock all these ACORN people up when they had the chance? If ACORN was a criminal enterprise, as alleged yesterday by Good Government Issa, why didn’t the Bush Administration prosecute and jail them? The Bush Administration had no problem locking up others (the terrorists) that threaten the fabric of our democracy.

The only conclusion must be that Bush wimped out or perhaps ……….. he was a part of the ACORN conspiracy.

Quote of the Day:

“Ronald Reagan was the most conservative President in the last 100 years. Everyone knows this and it is stupid to suggest otherwise....many of these were not issues in the 1980s, like cap and trade, card check, stimulus bill, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obamacare. So these were not measures that Reagan took a stand on, but I have no doubt that he would be right on each one”

James Bopp, Jr., GOP Vice Chairman and author of the Republican Purity Test taking offense of the suggestion that Ronald Reagan may have flunked his Dogmatic Purity Test for Republican office seekers.

I thought this was just a bad idea when Chairman Bopp proposed the Purity Test. Now he's defending it. Guess I mis-over-estimated him. He must really be as dumb as a post.

Why do Disasters get the headlines?

Question: Why do Disasters get lots of media exposure?

Answer: Ratings. People will watch.

Sarah Palin is a walking taslking natural disaster. She is Jerry Springer on Steroids. She’s entertaining, that’s all.

Mrs Palin is politically cunning, as are many sports commentators at local television affiliates. She has never, to my knowledge, said anything interesting or intelligent regarding a policy issue. Indeed, she makes news most reliably by saying things that are ignorant, untruthful, or grammatically incomprehensible. Up to a point, one can allow that she might be playing dumb as a deliberate strategy, but ultimately Occam's Razor must slice. Last week on "Meet the Press", David Brooks called Mrs Palin "a joke". It is important for the press to remind ourselves periodically that it is possible for people to be powerful, famous, entertaining, and not very bright. We recently elected someone like that to two terms as president of the United States, and it was not a pleasant experience.

~ Democracy in America, The Economist.

A double slam of George W Bush and his Dan Quayle-light protégé, Sarah Palin.

As long as Sarah grubs the limelight, she’ll be in the news. The reason of course is not to report on any wisdom she may offer, but the opposite – to show that there is nothing of substance there. We can’t have another re-run of the Disaster that was the Bush Administration, can we?

I still think McCain would have been better served by choosing Tina Fey to be his running mate instead of side-show Sarah.

SECRET ---- FIRST DRAFT of the RNC 10-Point Platform for Candidates ---- SECRET

The Republican National Committee, headed by the Stellar Chairman Steele has recently created something of a stir with a 10 Point Party Loyalty test that GOP candidates for office would have to pass in order receive RNC financial support.

Undoubtedly this Loyalty Test is in part due to the disastrous failure of the RNC and crew to retain the Congressional Seat in NY-23 which went Democratic for the first time since the Great Rebellion and Secession Crisis.

To avoid a situation where a Teabagger insurrectionist would split the GOP vote and deliver an election to the Dem, the RNC got smart. It gots a fool proof plan to now. If candidates pass a loyalty test the teabaggers will be appeased and all will be well. Smooth.

So just what 10 points should all good republicans from the Teabagger Wing and the Establishment wing agree upon?

Here is what the first draft of the RNC’s resolution must’ve looked like. I’ve bolded the text that would have been edited out in favor of mealy mouth spin.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits during the next four years and lower taxes on those who pay the most;

(2) We support the health care system as is without reforms;

(3) We support Drill Baby Drill as America’s Energy Policy for the 21st Century;

(4) We support workers’ right to remain un-unionized;

(5) We support closing the southern border and mass deportation for illegal immigrants;

(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by ending civilian control of the Military;

(7) We support continuing the Bush Administration’s containment strategy of Iran and North Korea, particularly action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;

(8) We support a vigorous Defense against Gay-Marriage Act;

(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing government run Death Panels and government funding of infanticide; and

(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership so militias can be formed to repel enemies both foreign and domestic; and be it further

RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy position of the Republican National Committee in it’s sole discretion, either as identified by voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee.

Their polished version may sell better in so far as it does not mean anything. But this draft is much more clearly written and is of more value to the voters.

One observation, why no statement of support for doubling or tripling Gitmo, or for that matter, where is the statment against the terrorizers? Losing a step, I guess. How can you forget about the terrorists?

The Persecution of Sarah Palin......Continues

Quote of the Day:

"A lot of people are saying that it's too soon for Sarah Palin to write a memoir. They say she should wait until she had at least ten more years of inexperience.”

~ David Letterman

Magnetic Refrigerator Poetry ALERT

Quote of the Day:

I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the kind of a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I’m not saying that has to be me.

~ Sarah Palin talking about what she thinks so many U.S. Americans are looking for.

Sarah also states that she thinks she’s qualified to be President because what you feel is more important than what you know.

Wingnut Dictionary --- Word of the Day:

Cultural Marxism

Definition:

(1) Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms with an aim to subvert Western Civilization; (2) A conspiracy theory that holds that the mass media has infected Americans with the class consciousness of the proletariat. (3) To conspiracy theorists, Political Correctness is a form of Cultural Marxism.

Used in Everyday Conservation:

Gawddammit! It’s 2009 and America has been hijacked by a small group of obscure European Philosophers. These Cultural Marxists have turned hard working red blooded unsuspecting Americans into Marxists by using the mass media to promote Karl Marx’s 1840’s observations of 1830s factory workers in England. I don’t know quite exactly how these no account scoundrels turned hard-working-red-blooded Americans into Marxists without most folks realizing it, but Cultural Marxism is here in the Homeland!

Examples of Cultural Marxism:

(1) It is wrong to call a protestant fundamentalist a member of the “religious right.” Protestant fundamentalists should always be referred to as “Evangelicals” or “Value Voters.” (2) Newsweek Magazine has been politically incorrect by objectifying Sarah Palin by using a picture of her in her running oufit; and (3) it is ALWAYS politically incorrect and sexist to infer that Sarah Palin dresses like a slutty flight attendant.

(h/t): The American Conservative.

The Persecution of Sarah Palin…… Continues

[In her book, Sarah Palin] "says that she felt ambushed when Katie Couric asked her what newspapers she read. ... This coming from a woman who hunts wolves from a helicopter."

~ David Letterman

More Mean Spiritedness. Simply Outrageous.

Orrin Hatch Declares Jihad!

Uh-Oh.

Looks like Jihad has come to our shores as Republican Senator Orrin Hatch is calling for a holy war. Bush called for a crusade into the middle east and now Orrin is calling for Jihad at home. Coincidence or something in the DNA? I don’t know.

What I do know is that Orrin is not one of the sharper tools in the shed these days. He has been known to parrot the scribblings of right wing bloggers on occasion. These days it seems that Ol’ Orrin is just a step or two away from warning us about black helicopters.

At this rate, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Orrin is actually worried about finding himself in front of a (mythical) death panel before too long. Oh, well if the Death Panels don’t get him, maybe the Teabaggers will. They are after his Utah Senate colleague.

Who knows.

Enemy of the Day - Question of the Day

Question:

What do you get when you cross ACORN with Union folks on election day?

Answer:

Simple. Unicorn(s).

Definition:

A Unicorn is a Mythical Election Stealing Beast. Dark tales involving Unicorns are spun by GOP Party Elders to perpetuate a sense of victim hood within the Base elements of their Party after lost elections. This channels anger outward toward the Mythical Beast rather than inward toward the Party Elders and their Ideology.

So Unions and ACORN (Unicorns) stole the House seat in NY-23 from the Teabagger Movement.

At least this is the current speculation from Former Teabagger Candidate for Congress, Doug Hoffman. While Hoffman does not use the term Unicorn he does attribute his election defeat to the notorious ACORN and Unions. Surprisingly, the fact that local establishment Republicans turned on his quest to bring high teabaggery to Congress is not mentioned. It was the Unicorns and their dark magic that did him in.

Left unsaid in the sordid tale (as always) is just how the Unicorns were able to tamper with the vote. Not to worry however, the specific facts will be laid out for all to see, if and when Hoffman challenges the election.

What Has Criticism Sarah Palin has Revealed?

“The unfortunate and unattractive propensity of the American cultural elite to treat those who are not deemed part of the elect with condescension and contumely.”

Yuval Levin, Member of the Conserva-gencia

Thank goodness he ain’t talkin about me. I don’t know what the Sam Hill “contumely” even means and I ain’t ever been called elite.

Guess I get to keep kicking Sarah around then.

The Persecution of Sarah Palin....Continues

Quote of the Day II:

[Sarah Palin’s] “book is number one on Amazon.com right now. ... Stephen King actually has the number two book. Very scary new book called 'Sarah Palin Becomes President.'"

~ Jimmy Kimmel

This is totally unfair. I don't think Stephen King has written a horror story with that title yet.

This day in History – Quote of the Day

"Could you arrange to have my body hauled to the state line to be buried? I don't want to be found dead in Utah."

Union Songwriter, IWW member and Martyr Joe Hill prior to his execution in Utah on this day in 1915. Hill had been convicted using shaky evidence in the murder of a Utah shop keeper.

Thousands of people from around the world wrote to the Governor of Utah requesting that Hill receive a new and fair trial. Woodrow Wilson also urged this action from the Governor but took no action of his own. In the end, the IWW being no favorite of the local mining interests, Hill was executed by firing squad.

His last wish was honored. After cremation, Hill’s supporters reportedly mailed his ashes to supporters around the country and his ashes were scattered to the wind in all the States of the Union, except Utah.

My body? Ah, if I could choose,

I would to ashes it reduce,

And let the merry breezes blow

My dust to where some flowers grow.

Perhaps some fading flower then

Would come to life and bloom again.

This is my last and final will,

Good luck to all of you - Joe Hill.

Quote of the Day II

I just heard Sarah Palin referred to as "the Tanya Harding of authors" on MSNBC. But there will be no cutting that line of attack at the knees there.

~ K-Lo, The Corner.

I had not heard the Tonya Harding line before.

Picture Sarah hiring Mathew Continetti to whack Michele Bachman or Mike Huckabee at the knees with a tire iron. I don’t see it happening quite that way. Maybe provide hagiographic propaganda or hit pieces on rivals, I can see that. Tire irons? Hmm….there was that whole troopergate scandal she was involved in, so who knows.

On Sunday, David Brooks called Sarah a future Talk Show Host. This comparison seems more apropos. Side Show Sarah seems more in line for a Jerry Springer comparison.

Picture Sarah refereeing a family feud complete with unwed teenage daughters, drug dealing (almost)in-laws, witch doctors, non/abusive brothers in-law and more!

K-Lo should consider the Springer Show angle. However, Continetti as Sarah Palin’s own Jeff Gillooly is also a good angle. Thanks for the tip K-Lo.

That Sneaky Weasel, Willard “Mitt” Romney, is at it Again

Here’s what Mittens is up to now:

Republican activists looking for the latest on MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) on the internet could find themselves redirected to the home of one of Pawlenty's potential '12 rivals.

Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney's Free and Strong America PAC has purchased links in sponsored boxes on Google, meaning anyone who types in Pawlenty's name could instead find a link to Romney's site.

[…]

has also purchased ads that will appear during other searches, including those for ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R), ex-AR Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and more generic words like "Republican."

This requires an immediate response from Sarah, Huck and the other guy. If there is no response and Willard gets away with this, these three will be seen as weak-willed. You know who else is weak-willed? Terrorist Appeasers, that’s who. If there is one thing you don’t want to be labeled as it is as an Appeaser.

A show of strength is required. I suggest a coordinated Google Bomb of “Mitt Romney” in response. Or perhaps this “Mitt Romney” or this “Mitt Romney.”

Maybe the good folks at RedState Blog will join in and retaliate against Willard Romney’s sneaky shot at Sarah.

When You Got the Wolf By the Ears, Best Not Let Go

Quote of the Day:

"Capitalism isn't always rosy…. Down cycles have to be allowed in order for the inefficiencies to be worked out."

~ Tim Bridgewater, GOP/Teabagger Candidate for Utah Senate talking about his opposition to the Sarah Palin backed Bailout of 2008.

Apparently another Great Depression and worldwide economic collapse was preferable to government spending to prevent catastrophe. Priceless.

Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) voted in for the Economic Bailout in response to the Great Bush Bust of 2008. Now the guillotine is being readied for his head by the true believers of the teabagger wing of the party. They aim to PURGE him from the Party in the Utah GOP primary.

I guess the moral of the story is that if you preach phony free-market fundamentalism to the masses, some of them are actually going to become true believers in the bullshit. And when severe consequences arise after years of tax cuts, deregulation and globalization, the converted masses will inevitably cry heresy when the party elders embrace a solution which contradicts the preached dogma.

The GOP has spent a whole generation preaching free market fundamentalism. They’ve been riding the wolf. Once you let go (see Bob Bennett, Bailout), the wolf can turn on you. The true believers want their turn at the wheel to shape the world by application of party dogma, even if it means their choices (Neo-Hooverism) would lead to economic collapse, disaster and ruin (see Tim Bridgewater, above).

One would think preventing economic collapse would be a good thing. This would seem especially true for conservatives who are trying to conserve as much of the existing order as is possible. Who knew that it would be held against Poor Bob Bennett.

Let see how Teabagging in Utah unfolds over the next year. Time to sharpen the Guillotine?

The Mean Spirited Persecution of Sarah Palin err, Tina Fey has Gotten Way Out of Hand.

I’m not an Oprah watcher, but I think Ms. Winfrey did a pretty good job of undercutting Palin’s “serious” pretentions here. The Sarah cut-n-pasting a word salad of political talking points and half-remembered celebrity tropes, seasoned with pageant-queen nods and tics, was not a politician or a writer or even an entertaining racouneur—she was a silly, self-involved, aging Tina Fey impersonator. Pathetic, and scary.

~ Annie Laurie

I did not watch Oprah and Side Show Sarah, but what’s up with calling Sarah an “aging Tina Fey impersonator?”

Now that is just plain mean. Tina Fey would have made a far better VP choice for McCain. An apology is owed here.

Yeah I think they may well be that stupid, but if you don’t believe me read this post about Liberal Fascism

That Roosevelt and Hitler both made a fetish of catering to “the forgotten man” seems fairly mundane until one realizes that only half the proposition is “compassion.” The other half is stirring up “resentment against ‘fat cats,’ ‘international bankers’ and ‘economic royalists’” and eventually in Hitler’s case, the Jews. Even without the racial aspects (are heterosexual Christian white men the new Jews?) the crowd of heavies could easily be translated today as Wall-Street, bankers and “the rich,” who of course keep getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer. And let’s hope they do get richer, because if Obama has his way and they don’t, not only will the poor get poorer (which I don’t concede is happening anyway), but we will ALL get poorer.

Holy Hay-Suess.

If you want the definition of crazy, try reading RedState blog’s ongoing review of the Jonah Goldberg book Liberal Fascism.

The Stupid on Screen is so bad, it’ll make your eyes burn.

Take this blurb above reviewing chapter 4 and referencing “the forgotten man.” What Roosevelt is doing is a clever juxtaposition on William Graham Sumner’s gilded age essay, "The Forgotten Man," where Sumner argues that when political actors A and B decide that C should be taxed to help out D, the Downtrodden, C’s interests become overlooked and in the process C becomes “Forgotten Man.” Get it? This is quite a popular argument these days.

However, FDR turns the analogy on its head by arguing that by looking after C’$ interest during a depression:

"You have the wrong forgotten man! The forgotten man is the man waiting for the recovery that you are not delivering or that you are preventing."

For Roosevelt, D becomes the forgotten man and he hammers home the New Deal as a better deal for the country than free-market laissez-faire fundamentalism.

If you are into gilded age era political philosophy (Neo-con economic thinking is heavily influenced by Sumner’s advocacy of Social Darwinism and the concern for C), like our zany friends at RedState Blog, you may side with the free market fundamentalists and prefer Sumner’s “Forgotten Man” riff over Roosevelt’s clever twist. It was the Great Depression and people were starving, so you had to have your priorities. Roosevelt sided with the downtrodden.

But things get even worse after our Zany Wingnut Reviewer starts rambling about Hitler and then muses:

are heterosexual Christian white men the new Jews?

He can't be serious. Just how stupid are these guys at RedState?

Answer: tune in tomorrow for the next installment of deeps thoughts on Liberal Fascism.

Someday, cultural anthropologists are going to capture some of these characters and I bet it’ll make for some interesting dissertations.

Careers could be made studying The Great Wingnutus Americanus.

In Other News…….

It’s Wingnut Welfare Week at The Corner as some of our favorite zany characters are grubbing coins to Keep K-Lo and Crew in pixels.

After all who could have cooked up something as bizarre with “Liberal Fascism” without generous Wingnut welfare programs. Without Wingnut Welfare, these character would actually have to get real jobs.

Guillotine Watch……Continues

It is for Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT)

Bennett is prehaps the pettiest, vainest, and most out of touch of all Republican Senators. He, an appropriator, has never met an earmark he did not like. He is quicker than either Lindsey Graham or Olympia Snowe to cut deals with the Democrats that cut the throats of his Republican colleagues.

Bennett and several Democrats are floating a healthcare alternative that explicitly pays for abortions and is considered by the Heritage Foundation to be to the left of what the Democrats are considering right now.

In short, I have said for a while now that where the right can win, the GOP should go right. The right can win in Utah. And the way to do that is to purge Bob Bennett.

I guess he’s no wingnutty enough for the Wingnut Jacobins.

Quote of the Day II

“On Monday, Oprah Winfrey and Sarah Palin "will sit down and they're going to talk for an entire hour. And I was thinking, too bad John McCain didn't do that with her before he chose her as his running mate." ~ David Letterman

The persecution of Sarah Palin continues.

Quote of the Day:

"In her new book, Sarah Palin claims that before John McCain chose her as his running mate, his campaign spent $50,000 on a background check. Yeah. When he heard this, John McCain said, 'we should have spent $75,000.'" ~ Conan O'Brien

Yeah, I guess McCain is still kicking himself over this decision . That was no time to pinch pennies.

Poor Lindsey Grahamnesty Still Can’t Catch a Break

This time it’s the people of South Carolina, Birthplace of Secession, that are taking a whack at him.

Republicans in Charleston County censured their own U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, saying he puts bipartisanship before the party on issues like climate change.

"U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in the name of bipartisanship continues to weaken the Republican brand and tarnish the ideals of freedom, rule of law, and fiscal conservatism," according to a resolution passed Monday.

Graham has often reached across the aisle on various issues.

Graham crosses lines for change

When it comes to combating global warming, Sen. Lindsey Graham is right where he loves to be -- ahead of the curve, in the mix on a major issue, at the table for high-level, bipartisan talks behind closed doors.

Graham, an S.C. Republican, is working with Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to craft a climate change bill.

They face the dual challenge of overcoming widespread GOP opposition and withstanding relentless attacks by Big Oil and allied energy interests.

The resolution notes Graham supported the bank bailout and "has shown a condescending attitude toward his constituents" opposing his stance on amnesty for illegal aliens.

"There have been a lot of things over the years that people have been dissatisfied with the senator for doing but I think the cap-and-trade issue is the straw that broke the camel's back," said Lin Bennett, the county GOP chairwoman.

Lindsey, watch out for the Teabag crowd hanging out around The Battery singing odes to days of Yore. They may mean you no good.

But really, who could expect anything different after your support to open up South Carolina’s the borders to a deluge of the illegal immigrants, and now your non-denial of Global Warming.

Rejecting Party Orthodoxy has its price. You may soon be on the lam dodging the pitchfork bearing masses, just like the notorious Newt Gingrich.

Teabagging Ain’t for Everyone, I Guess.

If the teabag revolt in NY-23 is a sign of things to come in the burgeoning GOP civil war, we are in for quite a ride.

Quote of the Day:

"There is a great song called 'Coca Cola Cowboy' and I believe that's what we have here. She was a Republican as long as it enhanced her electability…. My guess is she made a deal with Chuck Schumer or the White House that will eventually show itself to us."

Fmr Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX), Teabag Activist while hanging out with his Pet Goat at his Texas ranch

Just what is it with Texas Republicans and pet goats? Anyway, is this Sour Grapes on Dick’s part? Maybe Scozzafava had her reasons for endorsing the Democrat.

Scozzafava and her husband, Ron McDougall, a local labor leader, retreated to their summer house at the end of a dirt road on Sylvia Lake. The place has no TV reception -- a good thing, she said, given all the attack ads against her funded by the Club for Growth, the anti-tax group backing Hoffman. Still, she wasn't entirely isolated. She heard through friends that Palin insinuated she had been "anointed" by a "political machine" because county chairs handpicked her as the nominee. Beck denounced her as "ACORN-supported" and an "Obama-Lite Republican." Former House majority leader Dick Armey's group FreedomWorks mobilized against her. She said she heard conservative robo-calls in the district describing her as a "child killer," a "lesbian lover" and a "homo."

"It was organized," she said.

You stab her in the back and expect her loyalty at the same time. Ah……smooth one Dick.

Looks like Scozzafava wasn’t into this whole teabagging thing like Dick Armey apparently is.

Poor Lindsey Grahamnesty gets hit from all Sides

"Now it gets tricky because the bill goes to the Senate, where Senator Lindsey Graham vowed it would be dead on arrival. That's what he said. In fact, right now, Graham is leading a Southern white coalition against the bill called the Graham Crackers." ~ Jay Leno

You have to love the irony.

The GOP is predominantly a Southern Party. Its purpose now, is to oppose affordable health care for the working poor which would disproportionately benefit folks in rural areas, such as are found in the South.

High Teabaggery in California?

A Teabagging Call to Arms has been issued. Is VICTORY within sight?

The [California] GOP Senate race was even more wide open, with 7 in 10 voters saying they knew too little to have an impression about [Carly] Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, or [Chuck] DeVore, a conservative assemblyman from Irvine.

In a head-to-head matchup, DeVore and Fiorina each won the support of 27% of Republican primary voters. But given the fresh nature of the race -- Fiorina announced her candidacy last week -- neither candidate is yet dominating in areas they have tried to stake out.

Fiorina has gone after women voters, but, like Whitman [a female candidate for Governor], was running better among men.

DeVore has hammered Fiorina as being a tool of party moderates, but she was doing about as well as he among his conservative targets.

So far Devore the Teabag Candidate, is tied in the polls with the establishment candidate, Fiorina. We’ll see how well crazy + conservative plays in California. With the wingnut-O-sphere on board, we can be guaranteed a zany mad capped ride full of capers from the usual suspects.

Call me crazy, but I don’t see anyway that High Teabaggery helps the GOP in California.