Ho Sit Down

It would behoove someone close to Michele Bachmann to tell her that the next time she wants to try to imply that someone it a liar, it had better not be a Civil Rights Icon like John Lewis who is more of a patriot than she could ever hope to be or a minister like Emmanual Cleaver, a minister, who is more of a Christian than could ever dream of being.

Dumbass

Yeah, I said it!

Hannity Caught Red Handed

See THIS is why FoxNews should never, ever be considered a news source.

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I can almost promise you that Sean Hannity won't issue a correction either. Thank God we have Jon Stewart to expose these idiots because the Villagers are too busy kissing their ass and sucking up to Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes to notice evidently.

Apologize!

I think Congressman Steve Israel hits all the right notes with this youtube ad.



Seriousy, its time Democrats in Congress stop sitting on their asses and start standing up to these unhinged assholes!

You see, I don't have to play nice ;)

Michele Bachmann's Perfect Record

The DNC wasn't playing about calling folks out. I expected that a video calling out Michele Bachmann might be a little too long for a youtube clip but I think they did a good job of pulling it off.

The Picture Gets Clearer....And Uglier

Rachel Maddow carried the new and breaking details tonight about the circumstances of the Census worker's death in Kentucky that is believed to be a result of foul play. Its getting harder not to just come out and say that he was targeted because of his work with the Census.

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Related?

I know its way too early to say anything definitive, but you will excuse me if I allow for the fact that this...

Census Worker Found Dead In Kentucky

...might have something to do with this:



Just sayin

Bachmann's Son Signs Up To Be Brainwashed

Remember how Michele Bachmann railed against Americorps and said they would create re-education camps for kids? Well her son just signed on.


BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I can't wait to hear that she has disowned him.

This Is Getting Old

Does anybody take either of these two idiots seriously any more?



Dumbass is too nice a term for them.

Bachmann At It Again

This sitting Congresswoman is more fringe than a wingnut radio shock jock.




Just FYI:

The only problem is that the last U.S. outbreak of swine flu did not begin under Carter. Rather, it began in February of 1976, when Republican Gerald Ford was president.

Project Much?

I am sure we all know who it is that's stark raving mad, Michele Bachmann And the hint is it aint Secretary Napolitano!



Congresswoman Bachmann talks about people being searched at the airport for being a veteran, being pro life, or being a gun owner then questions another persons sanity. Total lack of self awareness.

I told you so

Remember when a while back when I told you that Michele Bachmann and Glenn Beck flogging the "one world currency" meme was a dog whistle for the religious right implying that President Obama was the anti-Christ? Well here is confirmation.

Bachmann's "Psycho Talk"

Good on Congressman Keith Ellison for calling Michele Bachmann out. I wish more Democrats would denounce that nutcase.

Quick Hitters

There is a report out that Rahm Emanuel is getting tough with the leaders of Israel with respect to a peace deal. If true this is a very encouraging sign that it will actually get done this time. Money quote.

"Any treatment of the Iranian nuclear problem will be contingent upon progress in the negotiations and an Israeli withdrawal from West Bank territory,"

Breaking news is that President Obama's DOJ has decided to release the OLC torture memos. Thats GREAT news.

Undermining the conservative hysteria over the new DHS report that cautions law enforcement about right wing extremists and their efforts to recruit war veterans is the fact that it was based on a 2008 FBI report entitled

"White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel since 9/11,"

Bennie Thompson, a Democrat trying to join in on the conservative hyseria over the DHS report should be mindful of his past statements about right wing extremism.

“DHS must reassess the threat posed by right-wing domestic terrorists and revise its long term planning to address this risk,” the report warns. It adds that “the risk posed by right-wing extremists” should prompt DHS to “give higher priority to this threat.”

Congressman Peter King went on Morning Joe to decry the DHS report and say that in contrast he says they never put out any advisories on Muslims because their would be a public outcry (don't know what planet he's living on) so my question is will he denounce his colleague fellow Representative Michele Bachmann's false and libelous comments aimed at Congressman Keith Ellison that were made purely based on the fact that he is a Muslim.

Surprise Surprise, the New York Times is reporting that not only has the NSA been overstepping it's bounds with respect to wiretapping U.S. Citizens,they also targeted an unnamed U.S. Congressman


Spencer Ackerman and Greg Sargent are trying to figure out which Congressman it was.



Glenzilla PWNS Congressional Dems who backed FISA last year including then Senator now President Obama. I found it insightful that many of the leading Democrats said flat out that they were voting for it on a political basis so that the Republicans wouldn't have a talking point to use against them in the elections last year. It goes to show how powerful the Democrats find the Republicans' messaging and how that fact can imperil honest debate over policy that might be harmful to the country.


On the other hand the Republicans don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to any faux outrage associated with the the revelations about FISA at all.



Texas Governer Rick Perry says secession is on the table. I say have at it hoss.


Sheppard Smith is the only person even remotely worth watching on FoxNews.


Bill O'Reilly lacky "producer" Jesse Watters is a punk ass bitch who can dish it out but can't take it.


And finally Cenk Uygur talks about Hulk Hogan quoting Chris Rock when it comes to OJ Simpson. "Im not saying he shoulda did it, but I understand!"



I hope that brings everyone up to speed. Ill be back later.

The GOP Is Just Making Shit Up

And they wonder why they keep losing...

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Stay Classy Michele Bachmann

Still more fearmongering from Michele Bachmann and allusions to Nazi facism this weekend on a radio show when talking abou the bipartisan approval of the expansion of Americorps.

It’s under the guise of — quote — volunteerism. But it’s not volunteers at all. It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government. …

I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.

Steve Benen fisks this dreck

Now, I feel kind of awkward fact-checking obvious madness, but I suppose it's worth noting two quick points. First, there's nothing in the legislation requiring public service. It's about expanding service opportunities for those who choose to pursue them.

Second, support for the expanded community service programs was bipartisan. The bill passed the Senate with 79 votes, and passed the House with 321 275 votes. Bachmann apparently believes some of her own conservative Republican colleagues backed an initiative to mandate public service and force young people into re-education camps that only exist in her twisted imagination.

Stepping back, though, this reminds me of a great post Kevin Drum had over the weekend in which he pondered why, exactly, so many on the far-right are feeling besieged and panicky.

"Who, exactly, is their enemy these days?" Kevin asked. "I'm not sure they know themselves. But maybe that makes it worse.... Like a horror movie where you're surrounded on all sides by something you can never quite make out, I guess it seems to them like there's something horrible going on, but it's something so insidious that they're only allowed to catch occasional foggy glimpses of it."

Right. And to take this one step further, I think this also helps explain why truly batty conservatives like Bachmann and Glenn Beck fabricate dire threats that don't exist in our reality. They're struggling to deal with legitimate progressive policy ideas, so they're stuck manufacturing make-believe policy ideas that suit their worldview. Obama wants to adopt a global currency! He wants young people in government-sponsored re-education camps! He wants to take medical decisions away from doctors and give them to bureaucrats! He's going to impose a tax on every time we flip a light switch!

These ideas are clearly delusional, but for those who need to see a political apocalypse, they apparently don't have a choice. Debating real ideas on the merits is proving too difficult, so they're creating their own reality and hoping their supporters play along

Now the overriding question is WHEN WILL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA CALL THIS BULLSHIT OUT? Some journalists evidently think its not their job to do so or that they would be irresponsible to link events to right wing rhetoric. And in the next breath they wonder why they are working in a dying industry.

Go figure.

I Wonder Where He Got That Idea From...

Today brings news of another tragic shooting, this time in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where a gunman has shot and killed 3 police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance. But check out what at least was his percieved motivation.

From the AP

PITTSBURGH – A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said. Friends said he feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.

Three officers were killed, said a police official at the scene who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard would only say that at least five officers were wounded, but wouldn't give any other details.

Police planned to release more details at a mid-afternoon news conference Saturday.

The man who fired at the officers was arrested after a several-hour standoff. One witness reported hearing hundreds of shots.

The shootings occurred just two weeks after four police officers were fatally shot March 21 in Oakland, Calif., in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001.

Police did not immediately release the gunman's identity, but his friends at the scene described him as a young man who thought the Obama administration would ban guns.

One friend, Edward Perkovic, said the gunman feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon." Another longtime friend, Aaron Vire, said he feared that President Obama was going to take away his rights, though he said he "wasn't violently against Obama."

Now maybe this guy was just crazy or paranoid or depressed, but what is it that would make him believe that President Obama was coming to take his guns to the point where it would motivate him to this kind of violence? Well most of us who have spent anytime on progressive and liberal blogs have a clue as to who is responsible for provoking this kind of dangerous behavior through their fear mongering and smears. But coincidentally there is an op ed by Charles Blow in the New York Times this morning that damn near foreshadowed this incident.

But, it’s not all just harmless talk. For some, their disaffection has hardened into something more dark and dangerous. They’re talking about a revolution.

Some simply lace their unscrupulous screeds with loaded language about the fall of the Republic. We have to “rise up” and “take back our country.” Others have been much more explicit.
For example, Chuck Norris, the preeminent black belt and prospective Red Shirt, wrote earlier this month on the conservative blog WorldNetDaily: “How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history need to record a second American Revolution?”

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, imagining herself as some sort of Delacroixian Liberty from the Land of the Lakes, urged her fellow Minnesotans to be “armed and dangerous,” ready to bust caps over cap-and-trade, I presume.

And between his tears, Glenn Beck, the self-professed “rodeo clown,” keeps warning of an impending insurrection by saying that he believes that we are heading for “depression” and “revolution” and then gaming out that revolution on his show last month. “Think the unthinkable” he said. Indeed.

All this talk of revolution is revolting, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.

As the comedian Bill Maher pointed out, strong language can poison weak minds, as it did in the case of Timothy McVeigh. (We sometimes forget that not all dangerous men are trained by Al Qaeda.)

At the same time, the unrelenting meme being pushed by the right that Obama will mount an assault on the Second Amendment has helped fuel the panic buying of firearms. According to the F.B.I., there have been 1.2 million more requests for background checks of potential gun buyers from November to February than there were in the same four months last year. That’s 5.5 million requests altogether over that period; more than the number of people living in Bachmann’s Minnesota.

Coincidence? Maybe. Just posturing? Hopefully. But it all gives me a really bad feeling.

I swear you would almost think Blow wrote his article AFTER the shootout this morning. Yet he didn't and that should tell you something. Yes we have first amendment rights to free speech in this country but what these irresponsible assholes are doing on the right wing fringe of this country is especially harmful and dangerous and if they are not called on the carpet for their bullshit you can expect more of these kinds of deadly interactions to occur between their weakminded followers and innocent bystanders. The shit has gone too far and its high times someone said so. I appreciate the fact that Mr. Blow took up the call today but there should be a lot more where that came from by the Villagers and our elected officials. Including the colleagues of Michele Bachmann.

Thank You David Shuster!!!

FINALLY someone calls Michele Bachmann out for her treasonous and dangerous words. Secret Service, pay attention!

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Its Time To Show Michele Bachmann To Her Padded Cell

Seriously, this chick has totally gone off the deep end. If some idiot ends up doing harm to their fellow man because of something she said we need to call for her expulsion from Congress and possible criminal prosecution. Free speech is one thing, yelling fire in a crowded theater quite another.

A New Dog Whistle You Might Have Missed

Last night during President Obama's press conference Major Garrett in a question chocked full of loaded language asked President Obama about whether or not he would reject China's call for a new global currency standard.




Now you might recall that Michele Bachmann also brought this subject up yesterday in the hearing with Timothy Geitner and Ben Bernake (among other inane topics).




Now most people probably saw both questions and just thought they were related to economic crisis. But if you stop for a second you have to wonder why this question came up both in a hearing on Capitol Hill AND in a Presidential press conference when there might be 3 people in the world total who actually thinks the Chinese call for a world currency chance of gaining any traction. Well what you may not know is that this is a dog whistle for the religious right.

I am a Christian and I grew up in the church. But I obviously don't consider myself a part of the religious right or in a political sense an evangelical Christian. But I happened to read one of the "Left Behind" books, which is HUGE in religious right circles, years ago and I was hooked and read every single book in the series. Now for the uninitiated the Left Behind books are basically a fictional account of how the "end times" would be but in a sort of real life settings with fully developed characters and story lines that are full of action, despair, sorrow and just about every single human emotion you can come up with. Now here is where the dog whistle part comes in, you see many people believe that in the book of Revelations of the Bible that the end times are described as being a time where the Anti Christ rises to lead the world. And during his reign he initiates both a One World Religion and a One World Currency. Now thanks to Rachel Maddow's show a few weeks back a meme was exposed that not a lot of people had heard of. And that was that there were people on the religious right who were comparing then Senator Barack Obama to the character "Nicholae Carpathia" who in the Left Behind books is the Anti Christ.

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And of course if you go on any number of wingnut websites even to this day you will see people still making references to President Obama being the Anti Christ. So you see in their world, just China making this call for a world currency can be interpreted as another sign both that President Obama is the Anti Christ and that we are living in the end times. That is also why many times you will see the FauxNooz crowd making wild accusations about the UN someday running the world. Because surprise surprise that is another one of the plot lines in Left Behind.

To put it simply I would suggest that if you want to know whats simmering below the surface in religious right circles it will behoove you to either read the Left behind books or (because I know thats pretty tedious) just do some online research on the books. You will be glad you did.

Is Michele Bachmann A Terrorist?

Cenk Uygur makes a good case that she is in light of her recent comments about armed revolution.