Birther Barf & Obama Derangement Syndrome

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Goldie Taylor exposing the racism at the core of Trumper Birtherism on the Rachel Maddow Show* [* Excuse the fracking fracking commercial.  I don’t have to wonder how Rachel feels about being sponsored by Exxon.] As should be apparent to anyone with half a brain, the whole Birther …

RAND PAUL: UNPLUGGED & UNHINGED

Why do I get the feeling that this guy is juggling hatchets inside his head?

Gozer Gingrich v. The Kenyan Anticolonialist

Ghostbuster’s Gozer the Traveller taking the form of the dreaded Gangrene Gingrich Not much time for writing today, so forgive this extensive cut and paste job, which pretty much covers the arguments surrounding 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich‘s latest lurch to the right to capture what’s left of the party’s base, aka the Teabaggers. HuffPo’s Sam Stein has the headline …

OBAMA SHRUGGED

When you have made evil the means of survival,
do not expect men to remain good.
Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for
the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral.
Do not expect them to produce, when
production is punished and looting rewarded.
Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world?’ •You are.**

False Equivalency

Tweety during his silver tongued false equivalency rant On his Hardball show  yesterday, Chris Matthews did a segment called The Hate Machine about the dog whistle relationship between right wing extremists and their “conservative” enablers in the media. Though he didn’t mention the inciters by name, I will– O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, and Beck being just the most prominent hate …

Republicans Eating Their Own (Updates 1, 2, 3)

Circular firing squads has generally been a behavior attributed to Democrats, but as the McCain campaign implodes, the Rethugs are giving them a run for their money… Update 1: Chris Buckley Is Down Wit Da Obama Man Buckley’s Son Leaves National Review October 14, 2008, 2:16 pm By Patricia Cohen Christopher Buckley, the author and son of the late conservative …

Dem Leaders Pee On Constitution & Say It’s Raining

Rep. Steny Hoyer demonstrates his insight into 4th Amendment Put aside for the moment that Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman, Jay Rockefeller, et al, were “read into” Bush’s illegal wiretapping tapping program and are thus complicit in breaking the FISA law. And therefore have every reason to grant immunity to the telecoms and the Bushies, regardless of what damage it does …