Welcome to your Thursday open thread. Is it just me or has this week been really slow? I think it must be because we have a holiday coming up and I’m looking forward to the time off.
The Republican party is a party of geniuses:
Appearing on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell today, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) attempted to justify the threatened Republican obstruction of the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. But in doing so, he wrongly called Russia the Soviet Union — not once, but twice…
While Barrasso may say this was a slip of the tongue and that he knows that the Soviet Union collapsed nearly twenty years ago in 1991, this is not the first time far-right senators have made this mistake when talking about START. Barrasso also tellingly concluded his remarks by asserting that he disagrees “with the component [of START] that weakens our own missile defense against all enemies, not just the Soviet Union.”
We’ve been listening for days about how important it is to sign the START treaty for relations with Russia. I really think that GOP policy is as simple as “if Obama’s for it, we’re against it.” I think he should start playing headgames with them.
For some reason, American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer has been saying a lot of dumb things lately. He’s already come out against the scourge of grizzly bears. Fischer is back – this time he’s criticizing the Medal Of Honor awardee.
Bryan Fischer, the “Director of Issues Analysis” for the conservative Christian group the American Family Association, was unhappy yesterday that President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to a soldier for saving lives. This, Fischer wrote on his blog, shows that the Medal of Honor has been “feminized” because “we now award it only for preventing casualties, not for inflicting them.”
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Fischer’s take? “So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?”
“We have feminized the Medal of Honor,” Fischer wrote. He also quoted General Patton: “Gen. George Patton once famously said, ‘The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.'” (Actually, Patton doesn’t say anything about the other guy: “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”)
It’s a two-fer! He insults both women and veterans at the same time. Fischer is really quite talented.