Republican Bamboozlement

Senate Finance Committee Approves Amendment Providing Millions for Abstinence Education So here we go again. Senator Orin Hatch proposed this amendment which would provide $50 million per year through 2014 solely for abstinence education programs. These are the same experimental programs that have been shown to be a failure and that President Obama cut from the budget because they do not work.

I saw this at dKos yesterday, but it also turned up in my email several times, today, so I thought I would post it here. Perhaps our local teabaggers will print this up and make a point of getting their cohorts to signup. Or perhaps tell us they endorse this letter in the comments!

Lifestyles of the White and Gullible, indeed...a word of advice -- put down all liquids before watching. The English-only guy is especially fun. But so is the lady on Social Security who wants the government out of her life.

David Neiwert is the author of The Eliminationists -- How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, a book I'm currently reading. If you've followed any of Neiwert's work at Orcinus or at Crooks and Liars, you know that his longtime project is reporting on the fringe right and increasingly he has been reporting on how the ideas and speech of these fringe groups gets mainstreamed.