Wednesday Open Thread

Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. I’ve had a lot of trouble getting on today so this might be short.

Apparently Ann Coulter wannabe Laura Ingraham wrote an imaginary diary of Barack Obama and it contained a lot of offensive racial stereotypes. Stephen Colbert tore her apart.

Calling Ingraham a “banshee” is racism now. Yeah, I don’t get it either.

OK, I’ll admit that Sharron Angle so far wins the most crazy Republican candidate contest so far (the competition is fierce):

Nevada journalist Jon Ralston unearths an interview that Sharron Angle did with Christian radio that is perhaps her most eyebrow-raising contribution to the conversation yet. In it, she says that government expansion under Obama and Dems is an effort to make government into our “God.”

In case you’re tempted to dismiss this as a figure of speech, Angle makes it clear that she’s being literal, adding that our dependence on government is “idolatry” and that this is a “violation of the First Commandment.” Here’s the key bit:

“And these programs that you mentioned — that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward — are all entitlement programs built to make government our God. And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.”

Cue the Blues Brothers, she’s on a mission from God.