Political Bloviation

I am neither shocked nor appalled by this:
Never mind Sarah Palin and the tricornered hats. The tea-party movement is dominated by conspiracist kooks.
via Tea Party Movement Is Full of Conspiracy Theories – Newsweek.com.
This was from a conservative author and Newsweek contributor. Tea Partiers have always seemed like a gathering of full metal jacket type wingnuts, [...]

Not only are majority of the members of the Texas legislature and the voters anti-gay bigots, they also appear to be dumber than a bag of hammers:
The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by voters, declares that “marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.” [...]

Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak – 9/7/2009 – The Loyal Opposition.

via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan.
Beck agrees that we need another 9/11 attack to “save” us from the evil socialist plot that is the Obama administration.

Sadly, No » It’s Got A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It.
Enjoy “God Hates the World” sang to the music of “We Are the World” by America’s sickest “church”. Sadly it’s not a parody, it’s normal fare for the Westboro Baptist Church.

via HOW FOX NEWS OPENED AMERICA – New York Post.
Favorite right wing warmonger Chuckie C, much like the man he’d most like to publicly fellate quoted above, drops this little nugget of truth: “What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.”
The sad days of “everyone is [...]

via Harold Meyerson – Revolutionary Rush – washingtonpost.com.
Ah, the delicious irony of it all:
According to a Rasmussen poll released last week, 37 percent of Americans under age 30 prefer capitalism, 33 percent prefer socialism and 30 percent are undecided. Among all Americans, 53 percent prefer capitalism, 20 percent prefer socialism and 27 percent are undecided…
…The [...]

Greg Laden’s Blog : Texas Official: Call it a “Creationism Degree”
A degree in Creation Science? Other than creation science totally being an oxymoron, how can you teach a science course if you can’t differentiate between the word theory in common usage vs. theory in scientific usage? Then there’s the nasty little fact that obviously [...]

Crooks and Liars » Rev. Fred Phelps loses 11 million in lawsuit—cries: “Hogwash!”
I wonder why CNN wanted to give this person airtime? All he did was make an ass out of himself and never even attempted to address any questions in an intelligible way.

Crooks and Liars » H&C: Halloween Is Teaching Your Kids To Be Liberal
Yes it seems a real possibility. If Trick or Treat during Halloween makes kids liberal then why did we suffer through a decade of GOP majority stupidity in congress and  two terms of the unique combination of incompetence, stubbornness and hubris that is [...]

The Westboro Baptist hate group Church gets a well deserved comeuppance.
Father Awarded Millions for Funeral Protest – New York Times

Yes, yes she did:
Crooks and Liars » Coulter just wants Jews to be “Perfected”
Inside every Jew there’s Christian just dying to get out? Most Jews I know might be kinda pissed off by the breath taking parochialism of that statement. It would be difficult to formulate something more offensive without resorting to tired stereotypes.
Jews respond.

It’s a dystopian nightmare terrible enough to send you screaming into the night:
Glenn Greenwald – Political Blogs and Opinions – Salon
After highlighting all the scary, fringe positions Edwards holds, O’Reilly summarized what the Far-Left America would look like once John Edwards got done with it:
[W]ould you support President John Edwards? Remember, [...]

Paul Krugman has a summary of the effort to slime a 12 year old and his family that dared to contradict the message of the right wing noise machine.
Sliming Graeme Frost – New York Times
All in all, the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in [...]

Jon Soltz: So I’m a “Phony Soldier,” Rush? – Politics on The Huffington Post