- Oklahoma teabaggers and Republican legislators are considering creating an armed state militia to fight federal laws, with guns. Oh, and in totally unrelated news, next Monday is the 15th anniversary of the bombing of Oklahoma City’s federal building. (AP)
- America’s Grifter™ Sarah Palin has earned $12 million since quitting her job as Governor of Alaska last July. But she is so principled that she’ll obviously give up all that cold hard cash to run for public office again. Right? (ABC News)
- A retired Catholic bishop has an exciting new explanation for the Church’s growing child-raping scandal: the God-killing Jews—who, he says, totally deserved that whole Holocaust thing—did it! (Corriere della Sera via Open Salon)
- Rush Limbaugh blamed unions for last week’s disaster at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Like many of Massey Energy’s mines, Upper Big Branch is a non-union mine. (Think Progress)
- New Yorkers love their Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, maybe because to our knowledge he has not fucked prostitutes or harassed domestic abuse victims. (CNN)
- Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) apparently spent his time in Congress sexually harassing everyone all the time, even when he was at a dead soldier’s funeral. (WaPo)
- Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has a solution for all of America’s problems. It is massive tax cuts, like all of the GOP’s other solutions for anything. (The Plum Line)
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Wankers of the Day
How to Become a Right-Wing Icon
He’s spent only 431 days in Congress, has never seen any of his bills pass out of subcommittee and was best known for voting against major pieces of legislation because they weren’t liberal enough for him — at least until he was accused of sexually harassing a male staffer.
Meet Eric Massa, conservative media hero.
The New York Democrat’s weekend radio rant against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has his star rising on the right even as he resigns from Congress under an ethical cloud.
Rush Limbaugh vowed to make a “national story” out of Massa’s claims that Democrats orchestrated his downfall because he voted no on health care reform — adding that Massa is “going to have so much support from people.”
Matt Drudge led his site for much of the day Monday with all-caps links to POLITICO’s coverage of Massa’s statements: “RAHM ‘WOULD SELL HIS OWN MOTHER,’ ‘SON OF THE DEVIL’S SPAWN.’”
And Glenn Beck took to Twitter to announce that he’d have Massa on his show for “the full hour” Tuesday because “all Americans need to hear him.”
And remember, these are the “family values” guys.
- I hope Rush Limbaugh appreciates the life-saving “socialized medicine” he received from unionized hospital employees in Hawaii. (SEIU)
- Former Mo. State Sen. Jeff Smith begins his year and a day as prisoner number 36607-044 at a federal prison in Manchester, Ky. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Florida GOP Chair Jim Greer has resigned for failing to be an insane teabagger like the rest of his party. (St. Petersburg Times)
- In response to the Christmas underpants bomber, Canada will install full-body scanners at eleven major airports as part of a new global effort to create the world’s biggest porn collection improve airport security. (CTV)
- Politico, DC’s most popular chronicle of politicians’ marital affairs, has no problem with reprinting Dick Cheney’s nonsensical ramblings about President Obama verbatim and with very little commentary. (The Plum Line)
Quote of the Day
If we’re going to ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he’s in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts, we’re going to also [laughter] have to believe that the guy was just like Obama, and didn’t hear Rev. Wright’s words when he was in his church.
– GOP leader Rush Limbaugh, reacting to reports that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was spotted in a Virginia mosque with possible ties to al-Qaeda by comparing him to the President of the United States.
Wanker of the Day
Deathers
Daily Kos’ Jed Lewison defines the conspiracy:
Deather, defined
Main entry: deather
Function: noun
Etymology: From birther, a related conspiracy theory which holds that President Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen. Inspired by the teabaggers of April 15, 2009.
Date: Mid-2009
Definition: One who believes or spreads the false conspiracy theory that the health care reform legislation before Congress would create “death panels” or force seniors and sick people into euthanasia.
Examples: Sarah Palin is a deather. Glenn Beck is a deather. Rush Limbaugh is a deather.
Free Speech Only Applies to Right-Wingers (Because They Put Those Yellow Ribbon Magnets on Their Cars)
- Teabaggers are now threatening violence against the SEIU and other pro-healthcare reform groups for daring to show up at town halls. Let freedom ring! (The Plum Line)
- Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) is introducing legislation to give tax credits to pay for pet care. Healthcare for humans? Not so much. (Michigan Messenger)
- A GOP town hall turns ugly when Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) dares take the name of Glenn Beck in vain. It was only a matter of time before Republicans got a little taste of their own medicine. (Think Progress)
- Bill O’Reilly secretly wants to make out with Barack Obama, but it’s okay because the real wingnuts have all switched over to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh already. (Mediaite via Wonkette)
Barack Obama is Optimus Prime
- How sad, nobody wants your Watergate Hotel, where Richard Nixon famously was a crook. The hotel sold at auction for $25 million to the only bidder. (Washington Business Journal/WaPo)
- Before you vote for Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) for Senate, consider the fact that Mark Kirk is a Decepticon. So Rush Limbaugh is Megatron, then? (TPMDC)
- Lou Dobbs does not like illegal immigrants, and Lou Dobbs does not like Barack Obama. This has led Lou Dobbs to wonder if Barack Obama is an undocumented immigrant. So now I’m confused, was Barack Obama born in Indonesia, Kenya, or Mexico? (Political Wire)
- Formerly hospitalized Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) returned to the Senate today just to stick it to that Obama guy. Um, hooray? (Roll Call)
- Mark Sanford is tired of everyone asking about all the sexy things he did to his soulmate, who is not his wife, when they should be focused on more important things like, I dunno, his unusually high taxpayer-funded travel expenses, maybe? (CNN Political Ticker/WYFF)
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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