Erick Erickson Continues his Call to Teabag the Traitor Bennett

Over at RedState Blog, head wingnut welfare recipient, Erick Erickson, is continuing his efforts to administer a dose of vile Teabaggery to Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT). Bennett if you don't recall has been called out as an internal enemy of the Movement by Erickson. Matter of fact, he is enemy Numero Uno.

This time the source of outrage is Bennett’s sponsorship of the “Healthy Americans Act” first introduced in the Senate in 2007. According to Erickson, this Act represents:

“a trillion-dollar government takeover of healthcare that rivals ObamaCare for being a massive big government proposal. It would increase job-killing taxes, impose an individual mandate, increase health care costs, and would give Washington the authority to regulate every health care plan in the country.”

Sounds bad. But is gets worse, we are informed:

“The legislation, S. 391, is considered by pro-life groups and even the Heritage Foundation to be as bad or worse than the Democrats’ proposal.”

That should do it for anyone planning a trillion dollar takeover of the Healthcare such as Bennett undoubtedly is. Bet this plan would even install a “Health Czar,” too, when passed - maybe even Bennett himself! Czar Bennett, imagine that. Czar means King in Russian, by the way. Nope, Czars suck big time and their ain’t no need of no Czars in America.

Speaking of sucking big time, let’s take a look at other senators who jumped aboard this supposed Socialized Medicine Bandwagon:

• The Communist Lamar Alexander (R-TN),
• Pro-Abortion on Demand Bob Corker (R-TN).
• Known Socialists such as Norm Coleman (R-MN), and Chuck Grassley (R-IO).
• Open Border Activist Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
• Anti-Free Market Radicals like Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Gordon Smith (R-OR)
• Some Guy named Mike Crapo (R-ID); and
• The Neo-Confederate Trent Lott (R-MS)

Sounds like all these traitors to the cause should be primaried (the ones who are still around that is) by Tea Party Patriots. Some folks have always had doubts about Old Lamar (Pictured Right). Turns out there may have been a reason he wears that Red Shirt of his.

It must have been commie code (vote for me - I am a Red like you)!

Come on T'Baggers it is time to act like you got a pair and go after this bad, bad, bad, lot of job killing, mandate mandating, big government radicals.

Call'em out RedState Blog.

Passage of the Day - Tax Cuts as Welfare?

Once upon a time there was a clear distinction between spending and taxes. Spending flowed from the government to the people; taxes flowed from the people to the government. But then one day someone invented the refundable tax credit. It was called a tax cut but did much more than just lower one's tax liability. If one had no tax liability, one could still get a "tax cut" in the form of a check from the government, which looked very suspiciously like spending.

The invention of the refundable tax credit allowed Republicans to spend just like Democrats while fooling their own followers into thinking that that they were only cutting taxes for the oppressed taxpayer. In fact, there were often cutting taxes for people who paid no taxes at all by sending them government checks that were labeled "tax refund," which made it okay, rather than "welfare," which had to be opposed. It was all very Orwellian.

~ Bruce Bartlett - decoding a tenet of the Free-Market Fundamentalist Ideology practiced by today’s Banana Republicans.

No wonder he was excommunicated from the GOP. One should always praise the wonder working ways of tax cuts not label them as "welfare." Good Lord, this is Heresy, pure and simple.

Quote of the Day - The Status Quo

Quote of the Day

Democrats and Republicans met Thursday to discuss health insurance reform "for a little more than six hours, which, coincidentally, happens to be exactly the average wait time at the emergency room if you were to go in with something bleeding."

~ Jimmy Kimmel

This is also known as the current GOP plan for the under insured.

The Campaign for a Third Bush Administration Begins?

A cautious sound out for 2012 for John Ellis Bush, aka “Jeb,” starting at the NRO.

Apparently “Jeb” was the designated heir to ascend to the Presidency in 2000 but a defeat in 1994 Florida Governors race push his coronation back several terms. Instead we got George Junior's reign of error, a lost decade and unbridled incompetence and greed.

If I had a Brother in Jail and Another Brother in Georgia, I’d have to Bust the One Outta Georgia first

This unexpected continuing series goes on. Who woulda thunk that elected officials from Georgia would be of as low a quality as they appear to be. Other episodes are here, here, here, here, here, and here.

This time the embarrassment comes from opposition Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act (HR 4626) - To reign in Health Insurance Monopolies and end the Anti-trust exemption enjoyed by these Cartels. The bill passed by a vote of 406-19 receiving near unanimous bi-partisan support.

Included in ranks of the Ingnoble Nineteen Congressmen who sided against applying the law equally to both the People and the Insurers, are a majority of the Georgia’s Republican House Delegation. It has become doctrine that whenever a law passes with around a 400 vote margin in the House of Representatives, any disgruntled dissenters will include folks from Georgia. Worthy of mention this time are Tom Price (R-GA), Linder (R-GA), Paul Broun (R-GA), and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA).

Westie, if you recall, is the guy that wants the Government to promote the 10 Commandments to you because he can only remember 3 of them. And Lord only knows why Broun has not been apprehended and sent to a FEMA Internment Camp for re-education. Check that. I do know why Broun has not been sent to a FEMA camp yet – THEY DON’T EXIST. What embarrassments.

Anyway, here is why almost all Congressmen supported the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act:

This bill is designed to restore competition and transparency to the health insurance market – by repealing the blanket antitrust exemption afforded to health insurance companies by the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945. Under this legislation, health insurers will no longer be shielded from legal accountability for price fixing, dividing up territories among themselves, sabotaging their competitors in order to gain monopoly power, and other such anti-competitive practices.

Over the last several years, the health insurance industry has become increasingly concentrated–giving consumers fewer and fewer meaningful choices in shopping for health insurance. According to a recent study by the AMA, there have been more than 400 mergers among health insurers in the past 14 years and as this map shows, many areas of our country are dominated by just one or two private insurers today.

This bill is also necessary because, over the years, health insurers have been able to use this antitrust exemption to block court actions regarding anti-competitive behavior. In Ocean State Physicians Health Plan, Inc. v Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, the First Circuit Court – citing the McCarran-Ferguson antitrust exemption – overturned a jury verdict against the dominant health insurer for using its monopoly power to put financial pressure on area employers to refuse to do business with a competing HMO.

There is also evidence that removing this antitrust exemption will result in lower prices and other benefits for consumers. Time and time again, increased competition results in lower prices, increased choice, and greater innovation.

What is not to like? It is not uncommon to see prices going up 15-20% a year at the same time benefits are being cut. So why should this industry have immunity from price fixing charges?

I know why those involved in price fixing and stamping out competition would oppose this measure, but why would this offend Georgia Republicans as well? I doubt that price fixing acceptable behavior in Georgia and these Congressmen are just trying to reflect the view of their constituents.

Puzzling behavior. They sure do grow some whacky Wingnuttus-Americanus down there.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

Is Sarah Palin the 2012 Version of Jesse Jackson in 1988?

Sarah Palin would probably blanch at the comparison, given their widely divergent world views, but these days her political profile looks quite similar to the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s just over two decades ago.

Simply put, the two emerged as political and media celebrities backed by exceptionally strong support within the most ideological wing of their respective political parties. But both also carry substantial political baggage with the much larger numbers of American voters who decide November elections.

That profile made the idea that Mr. Jackson had a serious chance to win the presidency unrealistic. Ms. Palin’s poll ratings are actually lower than Mr. Jackson’s were then. And doubts about her ability to broaden her support past the true-believers, as numerous as they may be, raise the same questions about her chances in 2012.

This WSJ headline is sure to drive hard core nutters further off the deep end.

From Teddy Roosevelt to Fascism – No Seriously it’s part of Wingnut Mythology

Quote of the Day II:

But the continuity between Teddy Roosevelt's governing philosophy (particularly post-1908), Progressivism, and the broader totalitarian moment has, I think, only recently entered the conservative consciousness in a big way. That's thanks in no small part to a neat little book on the subject.

~ Daniel Foster – NRO

This quote is in reference to a book titled Liberal Fascism which alleges that Fascism is a phenomenon of the political left and since many progressives were on the "Left" way back then, they are to blame for Fascism. Further while nobody really understood this link about liberalism and Fascism until recently, now it is part of Conservative Class Consciousness.

Hence TR, the heroic Trust Busting Progressive, and his record should be re-examined in light of his responsibility (partial according to wingnut mythology) for the rise of Der Fuhrer. Furthermore his presidency shouldn't be celebrated nearly as much Harding’s or Coolidge’s. These two were simply awesome.

Not.Making.This.Shit.Up. This meme has a foothold in Wingnut Mythology.

There must be a Wingnut Shortage at the National Review Online. They have someone named Daniel Foster bringing the funk. It was Foster who was bad mouthing the Admirals and Generals recommendations to secure America yesterday. Now it is TR who is subject of such nonsense.

Cultural Marxism Infecting the NRO

Quote of the Day:

As a final aside, Fareed [Zakaria] calls Daniel Pipes a neoconservative. While Pipes is certainly a hawk, he is a realist hawk, much like Dick Cheney or John Bolton. The flippant use of neoconservative might be something the Huffington Post engages in, but its misuse should embarrass both Fareed and the Washington Post.

~ Michael Rubin - NRO

In a post defending the Neoconservative line on Iran, a Cornerite takes offense at the term Neoconservative.

What.......“Neo-conservative" is now a SLUR?

This didn’t seem right because I seem to recall that Irving Kristol, an intellectual father of the school of thought known as neo-conservatism, embraced the term “Neo-conservative.” So I turned to the internets to verify whether or not there is such a term as Neo-conservative and if so, would Daniel Pipes be fairly labeled as a “neo-conservative.”

And sure enough, according to Conservapedia.org, Daniel Pipes is indeed a Neo-conservative.

Irving Kristol and Leo Strauss were the major founders of the movement.

Some prominent spokesmen include Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Perle, Robert Kagan, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Schwartz, Elliott Abrams, Ben Wattenberg and Carl Gershman.

It seems at the NRO, it has been determined by some that the term "Neoconservative is now Politically Incorrect. This does not in fact make the term "Neo-conservative disappear however. What we have at the NRO is a case of “Cultural Marxism,” i.e., Political Correctness run amok.

Case Closed: Daniel Pipes is properly labeled as a “Neoconservative.”

We Need Better Wingnuts – The One We Got Don’t Work Anymore

Here is some Typical Wingnuttery From the NRO. It is a Non-denial Denial of Climate change alleging that though AWG theory may have some validity, it should be ignored due to the dark conspiracies of the Zealots.

But the moral of controversies like "Climate-Gate" and "Glacier-Gate," and indeed of the counter-narrative of blogs like Planet Gore, is that that science has been muddied by a warming bias -- be it conscious or unconscious, ideologically motivated or not -- that takes the form of slipshod methodology, supression and obfuscation, and that thoroughly complicates the disastrous picture painted by climate-change zealots. And when the policy issuing from this science calls for a global top-down reordering of economies on a scale that would make Marx blush, and potentially put a ten-zero dent in global GDP, this bias has to be uncovered and undone wherever it is found. Cocktail-napkin plausibility ain't gonna cut it. [em-mine] Daniel Foster - NRO

Who are these Zealots? Perhaps he is referring to the Center for Naval Analysis, a Pentagon Funded Think Tank, which conducted an assessment of the security challenges posed by Climate Change.

So let’s take a look at this Disastrous Picture painted by Climate-change Zealots:

Military installations. Coastal military facilities are threatened by rising sea levels and more frequent major, damaging weather events such as hurricanes and tornadoes.

Although Mr. Fingar declined to give details apart from the number of installations in peril, a Pentagon official told The Washington Times that the Pentagon has commissioned a network of scientists to create a model for predicting the impact of storm surges and sea-level rises on military facilities on the Gulf Coast, in the Mid-Atlantic region and in Southern California.

The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), the Pentagon's environmental science and research program, is leading the effort. Its findings are expected to help the Defense Department better manage about 30 million acres of land under its care, said the Pentagon official, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

Environmental refugees. Developing countries -- already saddled with poverty, unresolved conflicts and poor governance -- are at risk of more instability caused by people fleeing drought and catastrophic storms.

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Lawrence Farrell predicted increased migration to more developed countries.

"Migrants from Africa will flow to Europe, while the U.S. will see migrants from Mexico, Central and South America," he said.

Terrorism. Shifts in ecological systems are most likely in places that are already breeding grounds for extremism. In many African states, climate-related stresses are "a main contributor to instability," Mr. Fingar told Congress this summer. "We judge that sub-Saharan Africa will continue to be the most vulnerable to climate change because of multiple environmental, economic, political and social stresses."

Humanitarian intervention. As extreme weather events pummel more population centers, the Pentagon will increasingly be asked to provide humanitarian support. "More and more, climate change will require mass mobilizations of the military to cope with humanitarian disasters," said Joshua Busby, assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

For the Pentagon, that means increases in large-scale logistics operations such as airlift, sealift and delivery of food, water and medical supplies. The Defense Department "has to ask if our forces are adequate enough to respond to several more Katrinas," said retired U.S. Army Gen. Paul Kern.

Pandemics. As certain regions become warmer, researchers say, the range of mosquitoes and other disease- carrying insects will expand. "Pandemic diseases not only prompt humanitarian catastrophes, they can directly threaten deployed U.S. troops," said Sherri Goodman, general counsel for CNA.

Arctic competition. Perhaps the most dramatic climate-related geopolitical issues involve a melting of the Arctic ice cap. Scott Borgerson, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former lieutenant commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, reported in the journal Foreign Affairs this year that the area covered by sea ice shrank by more than 1 million square miles during summer 2007, reducing the size of the Arctic ice cap to half of what it was in 1958.

Nations bordering the Arctic, including Canada and Russia, are staking claim to the region's oil and fishing resources, while commercial ships are seeking new Arctic routes that could shift the dynamics of global trade.

"This is not just a foreign policy issue," said Gen. Farrell. "It is a national security issue."

Sounds like the Zealots are retired Admirals and Generals who have spent a career safeguarding the Homeland and defending civil liberties like…... freedom of speech. Now these same fellows who have had our backs for all these years are getting bad mouthed from mean spirited right wingers (at the NRO) who seem not to care a lick about National Security, Freedom and Preserving the American Way of Life if it means compromising an inch against their righteous ideological fervor. Goddamned douche-bags, all of them!

I’ve said this before. We need better Wingnuts. The ones we got are seriously defective.

According to the NRO and the GOP, we are supposed to be led by this unholy bunch to believe that there is some elaborate conspiracy being perpetrated in all the Peer Reviewed Climate Research aided and abetted by the Media (of course), the Scientists, and the US Military resulting in X-Gate and Y-Gate and other phony-Gate. This group of folks in the conspiracy is so large that surely, the NRO or Foxnews could bribe one of the Scientists to rat out his buddies for say a gig on Foxnews. It is hard to believe that all the Scientists all over the world are coordinating their research to prove the merit behind AGW theory - because that is what they'd have to do to pull this one off.

You see, this is what Wingnut Welfare does to folks. It creates a cycle of dependence where the VICTIM (in this case the rightwing blogger) is rewarded only by spinning increasingly elaborate webs of intrigue, conspiracy and reality challenged myths to justify a pre-determined meme of helplessness, of victim hood and of a world spinning out from the control of honest red-blooded Real Americans.

It’s a terrible deal for all involved.

Someday we’ll end wingnut welfare as we know it. Unfortunately that day is not yet here.

Debunking Banana Republicanism

One of the central tenets of the Modern GOP, besides its faith-based belief in wonder working ways of tax cuts, is the need to inject FEAR into the polity. They want you to be fearful. If you are afraid, you can be manipulated more readily. Saddam Hussein really could not attack the US in 45 minutes with Yellowcake Uranium delivered by remote controlled balsa wood planes. The Somali Pirates were never going to sail up the Mississippi River and sack Memphis. Ahmadinejad is not the next Hitler about to take over the world. There is not a secret plan to station a UN Guard at every home. Of course if you listen to Rush Limbaugh you may disagree with these four examples, but the fact of the matter is that today’s GOP wants you afraid.

What else do they want to scare you about? Terrorist Trials. Believe it or not, now that there is a Democrat in the White House, you should be afraid of the American Judicial system. But this is bullshit of course.

[video]

"In eight years the military commissions have put three people on trial. Two of them served relatively short sentences and are free. One guy is in jail. Meanwhile, the federal courts -- our Article III, regular legal court system -- has put dozens of terrorists in jail and they're fully capable of doing it. So the suggestion that somehow a military commission is the way to go isn't borne out by the history of the military commissions. I think a lot of people think 'just give them to the military and the military will hammer them.' Well, guess what, officers in the military are obliged to follow the Constitution."

The Judicial system is perfectly capable of administering of conducting trials for suspected terrorists. As a matter of fact, during the Bush Administration, it was doing so. When you think about it, the GOP line now of bad mouthing the courts is really unseemly. It is almost as if they want to undermine the public’s confidence in this American Institution.

One thing is certain: they want you to be afraid.

Riding the Wolf - When You Got' em by the Ears, Best Hold On

Riding the Wolf, continued series

The growing deficits passed on from the Bush years make both tax increases and spending cuts mandatory in order to put the nation’s fiscal house in order.

Quote of the Day:

Tea Partiers now play the role of Red Army commissars who sat at machine guns behind their own troops to shoot down any soldier who retreated or ran. Republicans who sign on to tax hikes cannot go home again.

~ Pat Buchanan

Riding the Wolf Baby. The Wingnuttariat has drunk the kool-aide.

The GOP has spent a generation indoctrinating people in a phony free-market Fundamentalism that holds that all tax increases are a blasphemy against god and country. After full indoctrination, Republican politicians are being held hostage by the rubes they conned. Any politician that seeks to do the responsible thing will likely get eaten by the Wolf.

Don’t expect any help from John McCain, he has already tucked tail and run. So much for Country First!

Others have a different take: they think the Wolf will turn on the Wealthy, instead. Today, top marginal tax rates on Rich Folks are about 35% though few actually pay that rate. I seem to remember that the top tax rate has been as high as 90% in days of yore. Maybe.

On this day in History

Today is the birthday of George Washington, the first President of the United States who was born February 22, 1732. A then General Washington, it was remarked by King George III, was “the greatest man in the world" for returning to civilian life after the Revolution.

This day in 2006 also marks the last time current Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked a question during oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court. Undoubtedly, this silence from high up on the bench indicates that Judge Thomas must be one of the sharpest tacks in the box, with no need to ask questions and such on some of the most perplexing questions of the day.

Quotes for the Decade:

One:

“A Commander in Chief leads the military built by those who came before him.”

~ Dick Cheney, August 20, 2000.

Two:

“We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing-by and strengthening our intelligence officers.”

~ Mitt Romney Feb 18, 2010 apparently bad mouthing the Army built by Dick Cheney from 2001-2009.

That Willard “Mitt” Romney sure is a weasely bastard.

Teabagging Group Freedom Works out to Bag Bennett (R-UT)

Rumors of teabagging Utah Senator Robert Bennett have been bandied about some of the darker corners of the wingnut-O-sphere for some time now. However, today’s announcement from the Grand Master of the Order of Teabaggery himself, Dick Armey, seals the deal.

It’s another warning from conservatives to the GOP.

FreedomWorks, the conservative group led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, today endorsed Mike Lee, the Republican challenger taking on Sen. Bob Bennett (R., Utah).

The confrontation with a veteran Republican senator, who is considered quite conservative by many of his colleagues, marks an escalation in the battle that right-leaning activists are waging against many candidates backed by the GOP establishment.

Not surprising. We saw a foreshadowing of this via RedState Blog during the height of its Hoffmania Euphoria last fall, during the (NY-23) special election. Erickson actually called for a purge of Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT) from the party:

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. [em-mine]

You know your movement has gone off the tracks when the Fringe calls for the purge of someone with a rating of 84 out of 100 from the American Conservative Union.

What is the term I recall here….. Ah yes, Right-Wing Rouseauism with Leninist overtones. What a lovely bunch of folks.

Vichy Republicanism Takes Hold at Powerline Blog

Listen to this blasphemy about Sarah Palin from a supposedly loyal team player:

For me, Palin's problem as a candidate for national office in 2008 was that she had not been sufficiently tested. Her problem as a candidate for national office in 2012 is that she has been tested and failed. She failed, that is, to complete her one term as governor of Alaska. It's not clear why, but the failure seems to have been due to some combination of insufficient commitment to the job she had sought and inability to deal with attacks that likely pale in comparison to those she would face as president.

This is nothing more than outrageous, vicious and treacherous Vichy Republicanism!

The definition of Vichy Republican is, of course, any republican who believes that Sarah Palin is unqualified to be President or that her most redeeming contribution to the 2008 Presidential Campaign was that, by comparison, she made George Bush look like a great statesman.

Vichy Republicans, as everybody knows, are insufficiently loyal to the Glorious Cause of Movement Conservatism (sometimes known as the struggle to create Wingnutopia on Earth). Such Republicans are to be shunned from whatever passes as polite society amongst those folk.

Is RedState Blog still keeping its Enemies List going? If so, there is a new addition for the list.

I believe the Enemies List is called “Operation Leper” which is said to target those deemed insufficiently loyal to Side Show Sarah.

Who would have thunk that such disloyalty could have taken root at Powerline Blog? This is truly a shocking development. Lepers?

THREATDOWN ALERT - Time to Be Afraid Again?

Here is a question.

Will a recent Military Coup in Niger + Yellow Cake Uranium + Neoconservative Hacks + Ahmadinejad = Super Scary Foxnews spin cycles?

Wouldn’t be surprising.

The Corner Pimps an election strategy for 2010?

With some Economic numbers looking to trend in a positive direction some Republicans are concerned:

Republican candidates and conservative media commentators must prepare the American people for this phony boom with terrible long-term consequences. The news story here is: the revival of the economy by central bank money-printing and enormous government deficits to be paid for by our children. Also, triumphalism about the weak economy should stop. Otherwise, Republican and conservative triumphalists will be sandbagged and look foolish in a mere six months, maybe sooner.

Since the economy and jobs are the central issues now, the focus must be on the Obama deficits, the Obama tax hikes on the middle class, and the Obama economic policy which makes government employees richer and the American working people poorer.

~ Reprinted by the Wingnutty Rich Lowry

Passed on for what it is worth. I still remember this same website proclaim that the slogan “Drill Baby, Drill” and use “Tire gauges” as a campaign prop would turn the 2008 election in favor of the GOP.

The 2010 election is a long ways away. Who knows what will happen between now and then. At this point during the Bush Administration, the Enron disaster was starting to be a drag on GOP hopes for the 2002 midterms. However this gloom was replaced with fear as the ticking time bomb that was supposed to be Iraq was rolled out just in time to swing the electorate decisively resulting to the GOP. Of course this get Iraq before it gets us strategy yielded short term gain and a longer term drag on the GOP and the nation.

Events happen. And regardless of events I am sure we’ll hear plenty of fear mongering about the terrorists and gays and taxes and ACORN and something else that I don’t even know about but should be afraid of.

BTW – these NRO type a-holes really hate bureaucrats, don’t they? I, myself, am kind of partial to clean air, clean drinking water, safe skies, a healthy environment for children to grow up in, a safe place to work, scientific research and the Internet so I bear no grudges.

UPDATE: Wingnut Blogger Erick Erickson to Stab Teabaggers in the Back, Too?

First it was Sarah Palin who put party interest over public interest by abandoning the Teabag Movement in it time of trial by supporting Juan McShamensty John McCain over the noble teabagger J.D. Hayworth** in the Arizona GOP senate primary. Side Show Sarah even went one step further and told her teabag faithful that they should return to their homes, lay down their arms and become good Republicans again. Talk about betrayal.

If this was not bad enough, after months relentlessly pumping the teabaggers up, RedState Blog’s own Wingnut Welfare Magnet, Erick Erickson has announced that he too may be compelled to abandon the teabag movement. As Erickson puts it, if Hayworth does not renounce a vital tenet of the Teabagging Movement, Erickson will also support McCain. Taking it one step further, Erickson also announced a ban on discussion of crucial tenets of Tea Party Ideology on his blog.

Just as these “forgotten Americans” have found their voice they are told to shut up and follow orders. These T’baggers have struggled too hard to just to quit now. If they are at all serious at achieving what ever it is they want to achieve (keeping the government out of Medicare for instance) they must soldier on and unite behind the valiant Hayworth.**

**EDITORIAL NOTE: The characterization of J.D. Hayworth as “noble” or “valiant” is puffery and in no way represents the views of this blog.

Actually, Hayworth is a douche-bag who, as the internets have it, was voted dumbest member of congress as well as one of the most corrupt. The fact that JD has a chance against the doddering McCain is symptomatic of what happens when you ride the wolf of right wing populism. The moment you let go, the wolf turns to eat you.

UPDATE - Erickson has now officially renounced his heretical ways. He plans on standing behind J.D. Hayworth.

The State of the Confederacy is .... Strong

Screenshot from 2010 State of the Confederacy Speech

Upon taking office from the Capital in Richmond, CSA President Governor Robert McDonnell enacts a roll back of Civil Rights.

This time the target is gay folks.

If I had a Brother in Jail and another Brother in Georgia, I’d have to Bust the One Outta Georgia first

This unexpected continuing series goes on. Who woulda thunk that elected officials from Georgia would be of as low a quality as they appear to be. Other episodes are here, here, here, here and here.

This time the embarrassment comes from opposition to HR 730 - To strengthen efforts in the Department of Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to permit attribution of the source of nuclear material, and for other purposes.

This bill would set up the needed forensics capability to fingerprint nuclear weapons. This is an anti-nuclear proliferation measure aimed at preventing TERRORISTS from acquiring NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Should a terrorist group acquire a weapon from Iran or North Korea and detonate it. The isotope characteristics of the weapon would be “fingerprinted” allowing it to be traced back to the State that created it. Ostensibly, this puts Iran, North Korea and others on notice that if one of their bombs gets into the hands of Terrorist, their countries will be blamed and face in kind retribution. Sounds like a serious deterrent that would motivate countries to keep even tighter security around their nukes. As I recollect, this type of deterrent was effective during the Cold War against the Commies.

Out of the 7 Republican Congressmen from Georgia only 1 voted in favor of the Bill to fingerprint nukes. The bill initially passed the House by a vote of 402 to 16. Surprisingly, Representative Tom Price (R-GA) was the least nutty of his fellow Republicans from Georgia on this issue given his recent vote to deny funding to the Troops fighting overseas. He voted in favor of the Bill.

The good news is that after the Senate passed the measure unanimously, the President signed this bill into law.

I can see why the terrorists, the North Koreans and the Mad Mullahs of Iran would object to fingerprinting nukes, but why would all these Georgians also object?

It is hard to figure out this variant of wingnuttus-americanus that they grow down there.