Tag Archives: Republican Crazy

When The Constitution Just Isn’t Enough

They are nuts.

New Hampshire Republicans are taking textual originalism to a whole new level: three lawmakers have proposed a bill that requires that all legislation find its origin not in the U.S. constitution, but an English document crafted in 1215.

When the legislature reconvenes this month, Republicans want their colleagues to justify many new bills with a direct quote from the 800-year-old Magna Carta.

Gotta love those good ol’ Medieval times!

New Hampshire lawmakers might have trouble applying passages like, “We shall straightway return the son of Llewelin and all the Welsh hostages,” or, “If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age.”

Ya think?  But what won’t surprise you is this: One of the bill’s sponsors admitted that he wasn’t terribly familiar with the actual text, and mainly saw the measure as an homage. Homage?  Republicans do like their false idols.

Where do they get these crazy ideas?  Are they seriously saying that an English document trumps our Constitution?  I’m telling you, the biggest threat to the United States is stupidity.

Virginia GOP Officially Becomes Autocratic

I always love hearing the Fatman and that other RWNJ on WDEL spout off about how Democrats and Liberals are nothing but a bunch of socialists and “fellow travelers.” Apparently they haven’t been paying attention to the Virginia Republican Party.

The Virginia GOP has declared that anyone who wants to vote in the Presidential primary must sign a loyalty oath. Yes, you read that correctly, you must swear allegiance to the GOP and cross your heart and hope to die that you will vote for whomever the GOP presidential nominee is.

In order to cast their ballots in the GOP nominating contest, Virginians will have to sign a form that says, “I, the undersigned, pledge that I intend to support the nominee of the Republican Party for president,” according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which first reported the move.

On Wednesday, the state Board of Elections approved the pledge form, as well as signs that will hang in polling places advising voters of the state party’s policy.

The pledge has no legal weight — voters are free to sign the form and then disregard it if they choose — but it is meant to discourage mischief-making by non-Republicans. Virginians do not register to vote by party, making it possible for Democrats and independents to show up and vote in the Republican contest.

Hmmm, no legal weight but they’re still going to make you sign a form. Sounds pretty communistic to me. I wonder what our resident troll, the NoVa ambulance chaser, has to say about this.

The Sheriff Stands for ‘Merica

In his never ending quest to show that he has the biggest penis in Southern Delaware, Sussex County Teabag Sheriff Jeff Christopher believes he’s sovereign over everything and everyone one in the county. So much so that he sent the following email out to numerous county employees, news people, and anyone else he decided he had to puff his chest out to.

First off, I doubt that the taxpayer-funded government email system was supposed to be used in this manner. Political messages should be sent from a personal email account, not a government account. If he had done this from a Federal government email, he’d be fired.

Second, the website the sheriff and his loyal subjects from up North direct people to is scary as all get out. “Wild Bill” (apparently he has no last name) has ties to the Sovereign Citizen movement, which the SPLC has deemed racist. Watch the video and then listen to it again and picture Christopher saying the same exact words.

It’s really too bad that we cannot make political candidates undergo a psychological examination before they run for office. If we did, this crazed clown with a gun might not be in office today, terrorizing the citizens of Sussex County with his belief that he is above the law. No wait, he believes he is the law, courts and the Delaware Code be damned.

So Much for Checks and Balances

Apparently Newt Gingrich doesn’t believe in our system of checks and balances.

Continuing his crusade against the courts, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich railed against judges “imposing secularism” on the country on this morning’s Face The Nation. Arguing that “activist judges” who make disagreeable decisions should be held accountable before Congress, he told Bob Schieffer that he would send a U.S. Marshal or Capitol Police officer to arrest judges if that’s what it took to reign them in, and then encourage impeachment:

SCHIEFFER: One of the things you say is that if you don’t like what a court has done, that Congress should subpoena the judge and bring him before Congress and hold a Congressional hearing… how would you enforce that? Would you send the Capitol Police down to arrest him?

GINGRICH: Sure. If you had to. Or you’d instruct the Justice Department to send a U.S. Marshal.

So would a judge who overturned Roe v Wade be considered an activist judge? What about a majority of the Supreme Court if they overturned Brown v Board of Education? Newt’s proposal sounds a lot like what the former President of Pakistan would do when he disagreed with judicial rulings. And remember, he took power in a military coup.

If you’re not scared of a Gingrich presidency, you should be.

Perry = Pander Bear

Rick Perry is scared that he’s going to be nothing more than an asterisk in the race for the Rethuglican-Confederate-Teabagger party nomination for President. So much so that he’s now pandering to the extreme right wing for votes in Iowa. He is running the following gay-baiting ad on TV out there:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgA[/youtube]

And the ad has now become the subject of much derision.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbrI3F7p6-o&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Not to be outdone, a rabbi in Michigan has done his own version of the ad:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-tjWoRPaI0&feature=share[/youtube]

It’s typical right-wing bullshit to use some sort of wedge issue to win elections. W did it in Ohio when he schemed with F*ckus on the Family to put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the election ballot. It brought out enough homophobes to the voting booth to win Ohio.

I do note that Perry is wearing the exact same jacket the Heath Ledger wore in Brokeback Mountain. Which brings me to this Perry campaign poster.

Hmmmm. Maybe he’s got a skeleton (or Jake Gyllenhaal) in his closet.

Witchhunts a’comin?

So when did Salem, MA circa 1660, become the Nation’s capital?

Reports are out that Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, and Rick Santorum have signed a pledge to form some type of commission to investigate the LGBT community if they are elected president.

This pledge was created by the National Organization For Marriage, and they have a history of extreme views against homosexuals and anyone who votes to extend marriage rights to them.

The pledge reads as follows.

I, [candidate name], pledge to the American people that if elected President, I will:

[…] establish a presidential commission on religious liberty to investigate and document reports of Americans who have been harassed or threatened for exercising key civil rights to organize, to speak, to donate or to vote for marriage and to propose new protections, if needed.

In other words, the extreme right wing is going to persecute homosexuals on a whole new level if they have power after the 2012 Election. Homosexuals and supporters of marriage equality will be intimidated, interrogated, and stripped of their right to speak freely. The religious right wing has been allowed to push their un-American and unconstitutional agenda for far too long. Americans must push back. If we continue to do nothing, we could all be persecuted by this fanatical group.

Joe McCarthy must be smiling up from Hell. Well, so much for the gay agenda. Just remember, the last time we mixed religion and politics, people were burned at the stake.

Brain Freeze(?)!

It seems that the older some congressmen get, especially from colder climes, the more ornery and arrogant they become. Case in point – Rep. Don Young (Teabag-AK), who’s been in Congress since 1973.

During a hearing on Friday, Young went head-to-head with a witness before the House Natural Resources Committee, which Young used to chair. He was one of the sponsors of the Bridge to Nowhere.

How exactly did Rep. Don Young and Douglas Brinkley get off on the wrong foot in the House Natural Resources Committee hearing Friday?

Was it when the Alaska Republican called the historian’s testimony “garbage?” Or was it when Brinkley talked back? From that point, it was on — a verbal smackdown that startled the most jaded staffers. [See the amazing C-SPAN video, below]

Backdrop: Brinkley, a Rice University professor, wants President Obama to grant the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge national monument status, which would block efforts to drill for oil and gas there. Young supports drilling.

You have to watch the video that’s linked in the WaPo article. I’d love to see more witnesses go up to The Hill and give these Rethugs a piece of their mind. My guess is Dr. Brinkley will not be called back to testify any time soon.

I Watched PolitiChicks So You Don’t Have To… But I Bet You Watch

This is a whole new level of stupid.  First, what sort of grown woman is comfortable calling herself a chick?  Second, if surrounding these women with books was supposed to add intellectual heft it was a huge fail.  There aren’t enough books in the world…

I did watch the entire video.  I couldn’t look away.  Victoria Jackson needs professional mental help.  I dare you to press play and not finish watching.  Just when you think there’s nothing more stupid to be said you’ll hear about the Islam-ifying of America and how in American cities a Muslim man can legally beat and behead his wife, how Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano have dead eyes, and how gay people are suing priests who refuse to marry them.  All of this is put forth with a large dose of victimology.  I also loved the way Victoria Jackson hijacks the scheduled topic away from the moderator within seconds.

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I don’t think the women of The View need to worry about PolitiChicks.

Women Ruined Work

Senator Rand Paul feels a lot of sympathy for Herman Cain. Cain is a victim!

Paul adds that fear of sexual harassment suits damages workplace relations.

“There are people now who hesitate to tell a joke to a woman in the workplace, any kind of joke, because it could be interpreted incorrectly,” he says. “I don’t. I’m very cautious.” 

Damn those women for expecting to be treated respectfully at work. Listening to jokes about how stupid and inferior they are is just part of the job! Why can’t they just put up with some unwanted sex talk? AMIRITE?

Just to summarize: The bad part of sexual harassment is the lawsuits, not the behavior. Sexual harassment is just women with no sense of humor.

Just in case you think I’m exaggerating – Cain’s campaign announced that he raised $400,000 on Monday after the allegations emerged.

If “Balls” Means Evil Then Yes

Nothing explains the conservative mania that gripped our nation in 2009-2010 more than this quote below:

Veterans of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s unsuccessful 2010 primary challenge to Perry recalled being stunned at the way attacks bounced off the governor in a strongly conservative state gripped by tea party fever. Multiple former Hutchison advisers recalled asking a focus group about the charge that Perry may have presided over the execution of an innocent man — Cameron Todd Willingham — and got this response from a primary voter: “It takes balls to execute an innocent man.”

Rick Perry is the latest GOP savior and it’s voters like the one above who will be picking the GOP nominee. Maybe the economy is so bad that people won’t care about Perry’s secessionist dabbling, his drive to execute an innocent man (remember he dissolved the arson investigation board that was about to exonerate Willingham) or his crazy preachers. It just looks like the only people who can win the GOP nomination can’t win a general election.

Is The Wingularity Nigh?

Erick Erickson gives a hint that the wingularity is nigh:

Then, because Harry Reid denied CCB a vote through a procedural motion, John Boehner produces a crackpot plan that rips the conservative movement apart at the seams and after taking two stabs at it, still can’t get to the promised $1.2 trillion in cuts he initially claimed it would have.

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But Boehner believes that it is strategically smarter to die on this hill and force it down Senate Dems throats rather than try to do that on a bill in which he has the support of all his members, all the movement, and 66 percent of the American people.

These people need to be put in a mental ward.


The Wingularity explained:

Wingularity, the- the point at which the insanity from the far right and those controlling the Republican Party [continues] to grow exponentially until it reaches an unsustainable weight and collapses upon itself. This is also known as the Purity Spiral, wherein the density of wingnut increases compared to mainstream conservatives to the point of pure wingnut. As the ratio rises, this creates a phenomenon wherein no logic or sanity can penetrate or escape. When rightwing argument has become completely inaccessible to the uninitiated, it has reached the Wingularity. Coined by commenters JM and Joe K.

We will find out today, a vote is planned in the House on the Boehner plan at 5:30 tonight. Personally I can’t wait to see what wingnut emerges from the wingularity as the most pure and perfect wingnut. I’m thinking Paul Broun – the guy who thinks we should lower the debt ceiling but there is a lot of competition.

Delusional

Yesterday Jason postulated that the GOP is run by idiot children. Make it delusional idiot children:

But after they failed to get 60 votes for their Cut, Cap, and Balance plan last week, a group of Senate Republicans is urging Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to bring it to the floor for debate, thus allowing it to pass with only 51 votes. The senators sent Reid a letter today, obtained by Slate’s Dave Weigel:

We urge Senate Majority Leader Reid to reconsider the tabled bill and let the Senate debate it fully, in full view of the American people — so that it may garner the four or five votes that it needs to pass — and to agree that it should pass without invoking the 60 vote cloture threshold in recognition of the urgency of the matter.

Republicans turned the Senate into something needing a supermajority and now they discover majority rule. HAHAHAHAHAHA it’s extra delusional because the CCB only received 47 votes in favor before. Right now the GOP is run by a coalition of the deluded, idiotic and dishonest. I hope Wall Street is happy with the Congress they bought because the rest of us are ready to strangle them.