- CBS is considering airing a commercial for gay dating site ManCrunch.com during the Super Bowl in response to the uproar over its decision to show an anti-choice commercial from Focus on the Family. Because those two things basically cancel each other out forever. (FOX News)
- Even Michele Bachmann—who is insane—will not go to next week’s teabagger “convention” scam. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- If you bought a Toyota from basically anywhere in the world, it is probably broken. (NYT)
- President Obama will announce $8 billion in federal funding for high-speed rail in order to keep Joe Biden occupied for the next three years. (LA Times)
- Your U.S. House of Lords Senate has graciously allowed the American government not to default on all of its debts. (WSJ)
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- Barack Obama is going to Copenhagen next month for the “Climate Change Olympics.” Like the real Olympics, conservatives will be super-excited about them when we lose. (WaPo)
- In Glenn Beck’s America, we just summarily execute detainees so we don’t even have to worry about where those pesky trials will be held. (Media Matters)
- Actual war has been declared between Majority Leader Harry Reid and ancient pundit David Broder. Maybe something can actually get done now, while everyone’s distracted. (TPMDC)
- Contrary to what Sarah Palin thinks, it helps to have an actual job while running for president. So, Lou Dobbs will run for Senate against Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the only Hispanic Senator. (AP)
- Sarah Palin has some suggestions for Canada’s healthcare system, which, much like America’s healthcare system, she knows nothing about. (The Canadian Press)
- Also too, Palin and certifiably crazy Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will highlight the teabaggers’ national convention, Baggerfest 2010. It is the wingnut respnse to ComicCon. (CNN)
GOP Presidential Primary Will Actually Be a Contest of Who Republicans Most Want to Sleep With
- Please, Republicans, do not vote for Tim Pawlenty in your 2012 primary, or we will have to listen to him talk about banging his hot wife for the entire campaign. (Des Moines Register)
- On a related note, Mike Huckabee’s strongest base of support comes from older white women, who are much more interested in sleeping with him than, say, Sarah Palin. (GOP 12)
- Oh, and Sarah Palin would like us all to talk about “death panels” again, probably because Rep. Michele Bachmann is close to stealing the title of “Chief Republican Crazy Lady” from her. (CNN Political Ticker)
- The fate of American healthcare reform now depends entirely on Harry Reid being a strong leader. So, um, there goes that, then. (TPMDC)
- Joe Lieberman thinks we don’t have enough facts to call Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist, but we do have enough to call what he did a “terrorist attack.” (The Hill)
Time to Put Congressional Birthers On Record
Republicans may have been able to dodge a guy with a video camera asking them whether they think Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen, but they’ll have to answer the eventually–on the floor of the House!
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Hawaiian statehood (August 21 of this year), Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) is introducing a resolution commemorating the historic achivement of the state of Hawaii, including being the President’s birthplace:
“In the language of the resolution, there is a statement that Hawaii is the birthplace of the 44th President of the United States,” Abercrombie spokesman Dave Helfert confirms.
That confronts House GOPers with a choice: They can vote for the measure, and endorse the idea that Obama was born in Hawaii, which could earn the wrath of birthers. Or they can vote against commemorating the 50th state’s joining of our blessed Union. Or GOPers can skip the vote, but that could look nutty.
“Far be it from us to try to stir things up,” Helfert said puckishly. “The president was born there, so what are you gonna do? Not mention it?”
It should be interesting to see what some Republicans will do when faced with the options of either publicly endorsing birther-ism or going home to face a very angry, wacko base.
By the way, for those of you who might think that birther chief Orly Taitz’s Facebook friendship with VA Attorney General candidate Ken Cuccinelli is just an unimportant internet thing, Taitz herself is using her friendships with Michael Steele and Republican elected officials to claim mainstream GOP support. And while many GOPers have said that they don’t “endorse” her views, none of them have specifically rejected the birthers’ claims.
Update: Just as this resolution was about to be passed by voice vote, Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) objected!
Michelle Bachmann Does Not Care for Your Census, or for Her Job
- Congrtulations, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), for officially being too wingnutty for wingnuts! GOP Congressmen do not like Bachmann’s brilliant plan to illegally boycott the 2010 Census, as well as encourage her constituents to illegally boycott the census, because of socialism and acorns, or something. And for bonus fun, the results of the upcoming census will likely determine whether or not Minnesota loses a seat in the House. Guess whose seat is most likely to be eliminated? (CNN/Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders, an actual socialist, has a plan for passing healthcare reform with a public option. Unfortunately, it involves Harry Reid not sucking. Good luck with that, Bernie! (Huffington Post)
- We know you cannot get enough of Mark Sanford, but apparently he has had enough of you! He was going to release his financial records to prove that he did not use state money to visit his mistress, but now he will not, because the only thing that really matters is that he has been getting laid way more often than you. (AP)
- Your Barack Obama is apparently something like eleven different kinds of criminal, in addition to having 25 Social Security numbers and no birth certificate. Somehow, only the birthers know this. (Kansas City Star)
The Modern GOP
Things your President of the United States Barack Obama did today, according to the Republican Party:
- Throw parties for dictators. (Michelle Malkin, conservative pundit)
- Use the constitutionally-mandated census to round up Americans and put them in internment camps, just like Japanese-Americans in World War II. (Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-MN)
- Threaten to kill old people for cash money. (Warner Todd Huston, RedState Contributor)
- Force Mark Sanford to leave the country and have an affair with an Argentian woman. (Rush Limbaugh, Supreme Leader)
And then they wonder why even other Republicans don’t like the Republican Party.
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