Limbaugh misses lunch, starts swallowing own foot.

From the Boston Globe: Limbaugh: Healthcare bill will be named in Kennedy's memory

Continuing his criticism of President Obama, Limbaugh said Obama has "moved on to healthcare. This is highly visible, it's news-leading, gets a great focus, plus it has the great liberal lion, Teddy Kennedy, pushing it."

"Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare bill," Limbaugh said on his show.

I don't know if I have words for this. It leaves me sick to my stomache in a way I didn't know even Limbaugh could do.

Rush... did you just more or less imply you're hoping Teddy Kennedy dies soon? Because that's how it comes off.

Jesus.

A Reason for My Silence

My computer has started to have serious overheating problems. Until I can get a stopgap solution, my posting will be limited.

Republican love affair with Rush Limbaugh, part 279.

From DailyKos: Boss Limbaugh Strikes again

House Republican Minority Whip Eric Cantor tells the world that Limbaugh's ideas are “what I’m about” just five days after soundly rejecting Limbaugh on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Oh for Pete's freakin' sake. This is just getting sad now. Is there not a single conservative that has a pair of balls? Forget about our political disagreements, forget about all of that. I'm asking a serious question, are there no Republicans who actually own a pair of balls?

I mean other than Coulter.

Coultergeist Gets Owned

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After Ann Coulter stoops to insulting Keith Olbermann's education... he proceeds to school her in a way that only he can.

Dear Mrs. Coulter: I do believe that's what's commonly known as a "Bitch, PLEASE."

The rest is funny, but the verbal castration of Ann Coulter is quite possibly the best laugh I've had in a long time.

Rush Limbaugh: Republican leader

From Politico : Steele to Rush: I'm Sorry

Not long ago, Michael Steele tried to assert that he was the leader of the RNC (a role which is supposed to be his) over Rush Limbaugh, a ... man... quickly becoming the voice of the current Republican party. What we've learned in this short time since this story first broke is both sad and mind-blowingly funny.

Rush Limbaugh is in fact the leader of the Republican party. The evidence is strong as Steele begs for his dark master's forgiveness for his error of daring to question the will of Jabba the Rush.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.” “My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”

And Steele outright admits that Limbaugh's in control. The Republican party has completely abandoned the idea of a big tent, and instead opted for a circus tent.

Man Shoots "Immigrants" in Attempt to Start a "Revolution"

From WJHG-TV Florida: Early Morning Shooting Kills 2 Injures 3 in Miramar Beach

The man suspected of an early morning shooting rampage in south Walton County is sitting in jail tonight, refusing to talk to investigators.

That rampage left two people dead and three others critically wounded.
(...)
Neighbor Crystal Lynn says "he did come up to me one time and asked me if I was ready for the revolution to begin and if I had any immigrant in my house to get them out."

The victims were foreign nationals who appear to have been working in the U.S. legally.

Investigators say, at the time of the shooting, there were at least 14 other people in the one unit with the victims...all of Hispanic descent.

And where do you think he got this kind of idea, to start a "revolution" that involves killing "immigrants"? I'd wager it's from right-wing eliminationist rhetoric, the kind spewed nightly by people like Lou Dobbs.

Or maybe it was this?

Of course, since this guy isn't saying one damn thing to anyone, it's unclear whether these hate-spreaders are responsible, but given recent events and the escalating threats and paranoia of the far right, I'd wager good money that there's some kind of connection here.

This is why I encourage everyone to go read Dave Neiwert's "Eliminationism in America" series. We need to be able to identify this kind of hatred, and we need to be ready to stamp it out. We need to drop the pearl-clutching talk about the rights of those who encourage violence, and we need to start making these people responsible for what they start.

Blue Fielder Defends Jindal From Someone Even Worse

From Ta-Nehisi Coates: Ann Coulter Racist Jab At Bobby Jindal

Courtesy of Larison, here's Ann Coulter:

Wasn't Bobby great in "Slumdog Millionaire"?

(...)
I understand that many conservatives hate Coulter. I also think that there's nothing particularly conservative about that slur. But sometimes you see this shit, and when partnered with Michael Steele's crack, you have to believe that a significant portion of the GOP enjoys being the Party Of Macacca.

Go on, right-wingers. Spin this one away. Tell us how it's just a joke, and everyone needs to shut up and stop being humorless and thin-skinned. Tell us how us liberals are the real racists. Tell us how it's not an issue, how it's not racism, how it's not racist, soulless slimebag Coulter basically saying "all them dotheads look alike to me".

Do it, and I'll spit in your goddamn face.

I don't like Jindal at all because he's dishonest, a liar, a mendacious bastard, and untruthful, but I like you even less, Coultergeist. Why don't you just admit to being a performance artist out to make the conservatives look bad so I can get my blood pressure down to a reasonable level, hmm?

Yet More Sh*t-Talk About Jindal

From anti-choice misogynist idiot Ann Althouse's latest pearl-clutch over how DEM LIBZ IZ ALL RAYCIST HUR HUR, this comment:

Can't we simply accept that both Jindal and Obama are highly intelligent individuals, who should serve as an inspiration to young people of ALL races and ethnicities??

No.

Obama is an inspirational story.
Jindal is a cautionary tale.

Blue Fielder Talks Further Smack-Talk About Jindal

From Politico: Jindal aides clarify Katrina story

A spokeswoman for Bobby Jindal says the Louisiana governor didn't imply that an anecdote about battling bureaucrats during Katrina directly involved the governor or took place during the heat of a fight to release rescue boats.

Really now? So what part of this lie-fest doesn't imply the timing or Jindal's involvement?

During Katrina, I visited Sheriff Harry Lee, a Democrat and a good friend of mine. When I walked into his makeshift office I'd never seen him so angry. He was yelling into the phone: 'Well, I'm the Sheriff and if you don't like it you can come and arrest me!' I asked him: 'Sheriff, what's got you so mad?' He told me that he had put out a call for volunteers to come with their boats to rescue people who were trapped on their rooftops by the floodwaters. The boats were all lined up ready to go - when some bureaucrat showed up and told them they couldn't go out on the water unless they had proof of insurance and registration. I told him, 'Sheriff, that's ridiculous.' And before I knew it, he was yelling into the phone: 'Congressman Jindal is here, and he says you can come and arrest him too!' Harry just told the boaters to ignore the bureaucrats and start rescuing people.

So what part doesn't imply that Jindal was involved, or that it was at that moment? The "ready to go" part? The "Congressman Jindal is here" part? Yeah, he's a liar, and so are you. You two are perfect for each other.

Anyhow, I'm not the first to notice this, but Jindal's a guy who spins folksy-sounding outright lies to support his "all government but mine is bad and evil" idiocy. He grins, and he beams, and he acts like all he has to do is make it sound good and people will eat out of his hand.

Hey, GOP, you've been looking for the next Reagan? Well, there he is!

Bobby the Exorcist Admits He's a Liar; Everyone Else Yawns Because We Figured It Out Two Days Ago

From TPMMuckraker: Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False

(Thanks to Thomas of Blue Indiana for pointing this one out.)

Looks like the game is up.

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true.

Surprise, surprise. People had already dissected the story and found out it couldn't be true, considering that Jindal was in Baton Rouge, having recently evacuated, during the timeframe that he claimed he was in Nawlins pissing off DEM BUER-EE-O-CRATZ. Of course, this isn't going to stop the GOPpers - they're still going to claim it's really, really true, and that it proves the EBIL FEDROOL LEEBROOL GUMMINT is bad. (This overlooking that the federal help that he claims is the greatest evil ever was, at the time, headed by Republicans.)

I'm really wondering if any part of the story is true by this point. We know all he did was a flyover at first, that his story was an obvious lie, that he lied about it later in the Wall Street journal, and that he lied several other times during his speech.

Oklahoma declares its sovereignty.

From WorldNutDaily: Oklahoma House passes sovereignty bill

The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution 1003 Feb. 18 by a wide margin, 83 to 13, resolving, "That the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States."

Holy crap! But wait, what does this mean? Apparently not much, actually.

They did the same thing last year.

The result? Pretty much nothing. It's basically a feel good measure for the reddest of all red states, to tell the 'gov'mit to b'k off.' Even though they won't follow through with anything about this bill. It sounds scary, it gets some attention, it makes the libertards feel important in big elephant, and is really nothing but conservative mental masturbation.

A Simple Question About Bobby Jindal

He's admitted he's an anchor baby.

Therefore, we need to hound him to show us his birth certificate, and then make outrageous claims about how it's obviously fake and he's really not eligible to be President when he inevitably runs, and claim he's really a secret foreign terrist agent.

Would that be out of line?

(Hint: yes.)

Now It's Time for Another "Good Idea, Bad Idea"

From Jesus' General: Does Rep. Damschen's(sic) have a sick lust for melons

Rep. Damschen responded (see below) to my invitation to join the Billion Spermatazoan-American March on Washington, and he wasn't very nice about it. I'm thinking he must be using all this zygote-American protection stuff as cover for some wickedness he's performing against our spermatazoan-American brothers. Here's my response.

Yes, as it turns out, the toolbox wasn't too happy about JC's letter. How unhappy was he, though? This unhappy:

From: "Damschen, Charles D."
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 8:42 PM
Subject: RE: The Next Step

When you get a chance, study up on the facts of life concerning how neither egg nor sperm develop life by themselves - the sperm has to fertilize the egg to begin the first stage of life - conception. No life has ever fully developed without first completing this stage. The body develops for approximately 9 months before leaving the womb and then develops for 9 -13 years to puberty, then continues to develop further and reaches adulthood by about the age of 18 -21 years, perhaps later in your case. If you destroy the developing body at any of these stages, development ceases and it dies. Taking the life of this developing person at its most helpless, defenseless stage of development while inside or partially inside the womb is called abortion.

Now you've received more of an answer than deserved. Read it carefully several times until you grasp the understanding of how and when life begins and how and when it ends.

Chuck Damschen
ND House of Representatives
District 10

Good idea: Having no sense of humor when someone says something serious.
Bad idea: Having no sense of humor when JC writes something about you.

Honestly, he called you out and not only do you get all pissy about it, you actually get things wrong. Asexual reproduction. Mr. Damschen. Things do reproduce without conception. Furthermore, to top off this shit sundae, you act like a pissed-off troll who's about top storm out because nobody's falling for his bullshit. "More of an answer than you deserved"? How full of yourself are you?

We need more JCs in the world, and fewer of this guy.

Live-Blogging the Joint Session: The Response

Good Lord, at least it's over.

God, that fucker is creepy. Invoking 9/11 like Bush, lying, mentioning Hurricane Katrina as though the Repugs had any hand in making things better (which hasn't happened thanks to them), lying, pulling the "TEH LIBROOLS WANNA RAISE UR TAXES" shit, lying, actging like Rethugs did anything re: the stim other than stonewalling, lying...

And they think this guy will be anything other than a joke in 2012?!

Live-Blogging the Joint Session: The Response

From Pandagon's live feed: "The government has no business telling your doctor what to do...unless you're a woman."