Republican Bamboozlement

Have you heard about this one? An ex-Bush appointee, Jim Towey -- one in charge of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under BushCo (!) -- writes an op-ed in the WSJ painting a booklet that provides some guidance on end-of-life planning and claims that it deliberately steers vets towards death. This would be, of course, wrong. The HuffPo has some great info on this, but the first thing you should know about Mr.Jim Towey and this current jihad of lies is this:

Make sure you watch this all the way through the credits -- nicely done! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVwrCzRUX0[/youtube] h/t Bob Cesca, who also notes that one of the organizing tenets of the C…

Rick Pearlstein wrote an amazing op-ed today, which shows how the wingnut crazy has been a persistent part of the political landscape throughout much of the 20th century. (I love the story about how the right thought of Truman and Roosevelt years as "20 years of treason". Especially since the current expectation by their descendants is that history will rehabilitate BushCo in the way it rehabilitated Truman.) Pearlstein makes this point:

This is an interesting Friday afternoon news item: Dick Armey -- lately infamous for his work promoting Freedomworks, the corporate-backed group astroturfing Town Halls this summer -- has quit his lobbyist job at DLA Piper,claiming to want to work full-time on the Freedomworks thing.

...and the usual repub thuggery, of course. But Chuck Grassley took to the floor to for a ritual WTF? moment, and Jon Stewart deconstructs the tale Grassley so ineptly tries…

"If you like the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government."

So I guess given the persistent ratcheting up up the paranoid, hateful and just plain fact-challenged rhetoric of the wingnuts this can't be a surprise -- one of the teabagging organizers is providing detailed directions on how to disrupt townhalls held by Democratic congresspeople this August

This is from frequently hilarious commenter Dickday over at TPMCafe (caps are his, but imagine Fred Thompson's voice reading this):

Whenever a Republican gets caught doing something wrong, he or she and their apologists are always ready with an excuse. Here's a handy-dandy guide to Republican excuse making.