Cromwell Burns in Hell

Newly anointed wingnut princess and Delaware’s Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell canceled her scheduled appearances on the Sunday morning political talk shows.  Apparently, she didn’t feel up to explaining away a long history of idiotic statements (she wouldn’t lie any under any circumstance–even to protect Jews hiding from Nazis during World War II, that censorship policies of Middle Eastern theocratic dictatorships “refreshing” because of the absence of smut, her dabbling in witchcraft, her equating masturbation with adultry, her claim that America was developing mice with fully functional human brains, etc).  So, just like Rand Paul did after his primary victory and immediately inserting his foot in his mouth, she went into hiding from the media.

Another deeply disturbed, sexually-repressed Republican.

Instead, viewers were “treated” on Fox News Sunday to the constitutional “expertise” of Alaska Republican Senate nominee and teabagger wingnut extrodinare Joe Miller.  Miller — who not only is a teabagger, but also a carpet-bagger from Kansas — has already been exposed as a massive hypocrite  (blasting federal dependency and spending, while receiving $14,000 in federal subsidies for his Fairbanks area farm).  Today’s appearance once again also exposed him as a typical teabagging know-nothing.  This bearded, empty flannel shirt claimed that both Social Security and Unemployment Compensation were unconstitutional.  For a guy who has served as both a lawyer and a judge, his ignorance of the law and constitution is astounding, almost Palin-like.  Someone should inform this buffoon of a series of Supreme Court cases in 1937 (Helvering vs. Davis, Stewart Machine Company vs. Davis, and Carmichael vs. Southern Coal and Coke/Gulf States Paper) AFFIRMING  the constitutionality of both Social Security and Unemployment Compensation.  Of course, Joe has ranted before about so many things being unconstitutional — Medicare, health care reform etc. — that apparently the only things that this wingnut think are constitutional is military spending and tax cuts for millionaires.

In the 1990s, Lamar Alexander wore the same red and black flannel shirt to play "The Outside." It's a new decade, with new empty heads and new empty shirts, embracing the same old empty symbolism.

O’Donnell and Miller are two-peas-in-a-pod.  They are both so extreme, uniformed, and clueless, that they have fractured the Republican party in both Delaware and Alaska.  Mike Castle, the victim of vicious slurs from O’Donnell and her supporters, has refused to endorse her. According to an exit poll, forty-four percent of Castle’s primary supporters plan to vote for O’Donnell’s Democratic opponent, Chris Coons.  What seemed to be a certain Republican pickup in November with Castle now appears to be a safe Democratic seat. In Alaska, incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (narrowly defeated by Miller in the primary) has announced a write-in campaign.  With a split in the Republican vote, Democratic nominee Scott McAdams is now given a chance to win what was expected to be a solid Republican seat.

With teabaggers like Paul, Angle, Buck, Miller and O’Donnell, seats that we Democrats expected to lose in November now seem winable.

Thanks, teabaggers!

As I sat eating Friday at a local Indian restaurant, I was beset by a nasty taste in my mouth, a sick feeling in my stomach, and a desire to take a huge dump.  But it wasn’t the food…it was my disgust at a front page L.A. Times article on right-wing thug and liar Andrew Brietbart.  Some of you might ask who this sleazeball is.  Well, let me enlighten you.  Breitbart is a wingnut blogger who posted the highly-edited videotape of Shirley Sherrod that misrepresented her as a racist, the result beingher being forced out of her position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  Breitbart has been largely unrepentant in this matter, which shouldn’t be much of a surprise given his track record.  This knuckle-dragger also was involved in the smearing  of ACORN, alleging that the group was assisting people in setting up houses of prostitution and involved in vote-fraud.  Investigations of the group (which was established in the 1970s to advance the interests of low income people) found no basis to the outrageous charges.  Regardless, the Congress — under pressure from the always easily mislead and crazed wingnut masses — defunded the group, and now ACORN is shutting down operations. And for a decade, Breitbart worked for the Drudge Report, a long-time, popular right-wing smear website.

Breitbart appearing on Glenn Beck's Idiotfest.

Like so many other media entities, the L.A. Times is desperate to avoid allegations of “liberal bias.”  Thus, the editorial pages are filled with ridiculous rants by the likes of Jonah Goldberg, and we get big, wet, sloppy kiss profiles of loathsome characters like Breitbart.   Even though it was clearly designed to be a puff piece, some revealing facts about this liar emerged.  Like so many other conservatives, he grew up in a pampered environment, attending of a couple of L.A.’s most exclusive, private schools.   He also spent a number of years at the Drudge Report working without a paycheck, apparently being subsidized during this period by his father-in-law, the insufferable 1960s/70s “comedian” Orson Bean  (sounds like a real “man of the people” type, right?).   This little nugget was also delicious.  While boozing it up at Santa Monica’s swanky Shutters Hotel, this thug became incensed by a group of protesters nearby, and angrily flipped them off.  Breitbart assumed that they were anti-war protesters, but instead were protesting policies of the Ugandan government.  Apparently the idea of people peacefully engaged in their constitutional right to promote an idea like peace is outrageous to this thug, and deserves a vulgar hand gesture. 

How pathetic, but also how typical of the boorish behavior of those on the right, nowa days.