Why Are Republicans So Racist?

What is it with today's Republicans and the right wing blow tards and their utter disdain for President Obama?  I don't get it one bit, except, of course, for the mass racism.  And that, my friends, saddens me.

I am up to my neck in anger over the constant drumbeat from this group of people that consistently try to portray this President as un-American and wanting to hand over this country to some boogie man representing a leftist, socialist, liberal leader of a foreign nation.  And equally stupid is their claim that Obama is in bed with the "terrorists," whatever that means.

You have to be extremely stupid to believe that a sitting president of the United States is actually working to decimate this country!  And yet, that is the propaganda that forms the basis of the Republican party's belief system.  It is the constant topic on Fox News.  Currently it is Obama's alleged plan to take all the guns away.  That is so stupid on so many levels it seriously makes me want to smash my television when I hear reporters go off on this subject.  As if!  What is wrong with these people?  Do they not know that the majority of Americans do not believe them?  The Republicans LOST AT THE LAST ELECTION and they need to get over it.  And NO, they did not take the House as the mantra goes on Fox News.  They simply kept the majority, but lost in their mumbo jumbo is the FACT that they lost numbers in the House, despite still maintaining the majority.  All of this crap about a left wing take over of the country would be a laughing matter if those Fox viewers weren't so overwhelmingly stupid as to believe what Fox is feeding them. 

And just who is leading this attack of the stupid?  Well, it can't very well be the stupid people that are following this line of thinking.  It has to be started at the top and then fed to the bottom.  It is astounding to me that those good ole white boys in power, both in government positions as well as corporate positions, are the leaders of this racist ideology.  These people are so full of hate for the man of color at the top that they are willing to fracture this country solely because they still harbor, and cling to, their outdated belief that people of color are physiologically inferior to their white asses.

The statistics that show the number of Republicans that believe Obama was not born in the United States is astonishing.  I did not know that stupidity was contagious.  Equally disappointing are the number of Republicans that continue to espouse the belief that Obama is Muslim. 

The left attacked Bush during is eight years, mostly on the grounds that he was stupid, and his stupidity led him to be governed by seriously bad guys, which led to the two unfunded wars in the Middle East, and the give away of our national treasury funds to corporate big wigs.  As bad as that was, the mantra never was that Bush was un-American.  He was bad for America.  But no one suggested that Bush was in bed with the terrorists or that he was trying to hand over the country to other oligarchs.

It is embarrassing that racism is so prevalent in the country that it comes out in full bore by the Republican party and their stronghold in outright lies about Obama.  Lies that are easily negated by the truth, but only to those that are not racist.  And these racists are so full of hate for people of color that they are willing to crash this country just so they could say "that n...r ruined this great country."

Rock on Obama.  I may not agree with all of your centrist ideas and actions, but you are the President of the United States, and I am a citizen of this country, and as such, I will support you as my President, color of your skin being irrelevant to the fact that you made it to the top office and are worthy of that job.

Hello, Anybody Out There? The Republican Vacuum

It has been rather amusing reading up on, and watching television reaction by, Republicans who appear to have been caught by surprise that Obama (and other Democrats) won in this election.  Why?  I think that an important factor is the alternate universe these people have been living in. 

I was watching CNN, Anderson Cooper's show, where he had David Frum and Mary Matalin on to discuss what they felt had happened to Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republicans seeking office, this election.  More specifically, Anderson parroted some of the meme floated by other Democrats in the media that, basically, the Republican electorate had been lied to by the Republican elite, ala Karl Rove and his heavily monied Super Pacs.  While Frum agreed with that analysis, it was rather interesting to watch Ms. Matalin completely discount that narrative. 

I think the people were lied to, and many of us on the left have been yelling at our television sets and grinding our teeth over the obvious lie infested, truth averse, Republican hierarchy's factless narrative.  It is rather pleasant to see the right wing nutjobs squirming in their attempts to spin this election any way other than a total loss for Republicans.

Dazed And Confused

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was so confident of victory against President Barack Obama that he spent $25,000 for victory fireworks, had already drawn up a list of White House appointments and took it easy on election day when his opponents were still working hard to get out the vote.

Political insiders tell Capitol Hill Blue that Romney didn’t think he could lose and was genuinely “shell shocked” when he lost the Presidential race in an electoral vote landslide to Obama.

“He was supremely confident and delayed conceding the race as long as possible because he just didn’t believe he would lose,” says one senior aide.  “It was overconfidence based on inaccurate assumptions and flawed data.”

In conversations with campaign insiders, a portrait of a clueless campaign emerges, driven by a candidate so sure of himself that he ignored all the obvious warning signs.

Romney told his advisers that he was sure minorities and young people would stay home and turn out for Obama as they had in 2008.  That turned out to be a politically fatal assumption.  Obama drew 90 percent of a large black vote and more than three quarters of Latinos.  Asian-Americans also turned out in droves for the incumbent President.

The GOP nominee’s campaign advisers convinced themselves that the polls showing a close race were flawed and that the “true electorate” would give give Romney at least 330 electoral votes.

“They were living in a fantasy land,” says one long-time GOP strategist who asked not to be identified.  “They remained in a fog generated by their candidate’s massive ego.”

When the numbers came in election night, Romney was stunned.  So was his running mate, who couldn’t even carry his home state of Wisconsin.

The wives of both the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates broke into tears.  Romney appeared dazed and it took a while for him to regain enough composure to deliver a long, rambling concession speech.

“Mitt is not accustomed to losing,” says one friend. “It was a bitter pill for him.”

A bitter pill, indeed.  I find it gratifying that I had no belief in the Republican spin going into this election.  My gut feeling was quite the opposite.  I had a sense that Obama was going to win, and win big.  I also believed that the Senate was going to gain Democrats, although I was pretty much resigned to the House remaining in Republican hands.

I am managing to watch Fox a few more minutes every day.  They are still on the Benghazi train, but let it never be said that Republican spinmeisters could let go of a flawed Democratic conspiracy theory.

We Have More To Fear From WHITE American Terrorists - Deal With It

Prosecutors say a murder case against four soldiers has revealed they formed an anarchist militia within the U.S. military with plans to overthrow the federal government.

One of the accused troops, Pfc. Michael Burnett, pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter and gang charges in the December slayings of former soldier Michael Roark and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York.

Burnett told a judge that Roark, who had just left the Army, knew of the militia group's plans and was killed because he was "a loose end."

Prosecutor Isabel Pauley says the group bought $87,000 worth of guns and bomb-making materials and plotted to take over Fort Stewart, bomb targets in nearby Savannah and Washington state, as well as assassinate the president.

The crazies are encouraging the unhinged. Yeah, we have nothing to fear from armed white Americans. NOT.

Vintage Paul Ryan - Smack Down On 71 Year Old For Speaking Truth To His Lies

This video has been making the rounds lately, and I believe it was about a year ago. Notice how disgustingly smug Paul Ryan is as he cracks a joke at the expense of the elderly gentleman.



This is a 71 year old man who has paid into Social Security and unemployment insurance all his working life (well, so he says ... but let's just assume it to be a fact or else he would not have taken the stand he did) and his complaint is about the "new age" politicians that keep wanting to cut/gut his Social Security and end unemployment as we know it. The constant drumbeat of the right wingers in re-labeling these services as "welfare" and "hand-outs" when they are, in fact, money taken out of working people's pay checks and put away for that rainy day, makes me sick to my stomach. And ironically, there are actually stupid people out there that believe this rhetoric ... until, of course, it comes to THEIR Social Security and unemployment benefits. In fact, it is even more ironic that many of our old farts in Congress actually get their Social Security and other government benefits (like health care), but continuously refuse to give up theirs while they say the rest of the American population MUST give up theirs. Bull shit.

And notice how the police or security guards treat the old man for just saying what he wants to say, and you can hear them yelling at him to "get on the ground." For god's sake, what is wrong with our country that a 71 year old man is not allowed to voice his opinion and has to be taken away in handcuffs, no less?

Emanuel To The Ricketts - Finance This!

I've never like Rahm Emanuel and I was ever so glad he became Chicago's problem and not America's anymore. But I did get a chuckle out of this tidbit:

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking President Obama to the president’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, according to an Emanuel aide.

Joe Ricketts’s children, which include Obama bundler Laura Ricketts, bought the Chicago Cubs in 2009 and have been in talks with the city about renovating the team’s 98-year-old stadium, Wrigley Field.

That appears to be on hold now.

“The Mayor was livid when he read that the Ricketts were going to launch a $10 million campaign against President Obama – with the type of racially motivated ads that are insulting to the president and the presidential campaign,” said the aide, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation. “He is also livid with their blatant hypocrisy.”

The aide also said Emanuel, who is Obama’s former chief of staff, has cut off communication with the family.

“The Ricketts have tried to contact the mayor, but he’s said that he does not want to talk with them today, tomorrow or anytime soon,” the aide said.

Could Talk Radio Be Seeing Their Lights Turned Off Soon?

Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing talkers, sent an email out to its affiliates early Friday listing 98 large corporations that have requested their ads appear only on “programs free of content that you know are deemed to be offensive or controversial (for example, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity).”

H/T to The Daily Beast.

Well, it is about time, if you ask me.

You know, I was having a "friendly" discussion with one of my bar mates the other day, and I was taken aback by the level of misunderstanding of current events this person had that I literally told him to stop watching Fox or listening to his radio talk shows for a week, and read only Crooks and Liars. He, in turn, gave me a 9 hour list of different talk shows that he wanted me to listen to, which included all of the above except Limbaugh. Since I work during the day, it was not possible to actually think about my work and think about the talk shows, so I ended up only listening in the morning and some in the evening. What I discovered was that about 50% of these shows are ads, pure and simple. Then there is a brief two to three minute news recap, followed by maybe a three minute segment on a "topic" and then back to the advertising. The little I did listen to (was right after Breitbart died) was filled with platitudes and heaped praise on "da bastard" raising him up to saint like idolatry. Suffice it to say, I could not take much of it, and I lamented the reality that those people who listen to this crap day in and day out, followed with Fox News programs, were sufficiently lulled into these false (ok, lies) stories, claims, and news items. It made me feel that there is really nothing a sane and intelligent person can do or say to someone that is insistent on getting their "information" from shows like these.

And, I was surprised that my friend had no clue of the Limbaugh/Oxycontin connection, or Mr. Limbaugh's penchant for little boys. Shit, I thought that was common knowledge!

Breitbart Dead At 43

I know one is not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but I only have this to say: Good riddance. And at 43, it looks like God had just about enough of his nastiness and it was, as they say, his time to GO.

UPDATE 3/2/12:

For those that have tried to assail me for speaking ill of Mr. Breitbart, I bring you the following:



And some famous quotes by Mr. Breitbart, even as to Ted Kennedy after he died (courtesy of Take My Country Back):

Two weeks following Ted Kennedy’s death:

“Rest in Chappaquiddick”

“he was a f@#$er. a big ass motherf@#$er. this aint a 24-hour zone, baby. he was a bad, bad dude. & if mary jo were your kin youd be dancin’.”

“Kennedy was a special pile of human excrement.”

On Shirley Sherrod’s “racism”:

“I think the video speaks for itself…The way she’s talking about white people…is conveying a present tense racism in my opinion”

Other random acts of “journalistic” eloquence:

“This Idea Of Taking Off Ethnic Profiling Or Profiling Of Any Way Is Taking Common Sense Out Of The Equation”

On Janeane Garofalo: “Hollywood’s Sympathy F***”

“If You Want To Talk About Looks And Appeal,” The View ”Was Crafted … To Make Sure That Men Won’t Watch”

Code Pink: “[I]t’s no longer fun to watch them and they’re not even good looking anymore. It used to be that they were like, kinda slutty lefties…they’re getting long in the tooth.”

“Go After The Teachers”

ACORN “Helped…Set Up An Underage Sex Slave Operation”

Newt Breaks Down In Boystown

I'm a little late on this, but I did find it funny! Newt's bus breaks down in "boystown" (West Hollywood, California)! As IF anyone was going to help them! Read the comments from the article, they are hilarious.

Planned Parenthood's Donations Up Since Susan G. Komen (think "pink") Organization's Decision To Defund PP

UPDATE: 2/7/12:

Karen Handel resigns from Komen for the Cure:

Karen Handel, the former GOP candidate for governor, just announced her resignation as a senior vice president for public policy of Susan G. Komen for the Cure – one week after the breast cancer charity reversed itself on a decision to sever financial ties with Planned Parenthood.

Read her letter of resignation here. The bitch is so full of herself, and you can tell. This story just keeps getting better and better. Not quite full blow red in the face yet, but enough pink to see it coming!

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UPDATE: 2/3/12

Did SGK just blink? (H/T to Crooks and Liars)

We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives.

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.

Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.

Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.

Well, according to that statement (and a post at AMERICAblog), SGK isn't really backing down, because the grants already approved for PP will still go through, despite their decision not to give any MORE grants. And the statement above does not change that. SGK is STILL reserving the right not to approve any future grants.

So, we have SGK first saying they will no longer fund PP because it is under "investigation." Then last night on their website, they claim it wasn't because they were under investigation, but because PP uses what is termed "pass through" grants, i.e., allegedly PP does not do direct mammograms, but "refers" them out (not sure if that is entirely true of the all of PP locations). And now, today, they change the story again and say that they have revised their internal rules so that any refusal based on any investigations will have to be a "criminal" and credible investigation.

Keep stepping in the doo doo. The smell is going to take a long time to go away, and those pink ribbons are not looking so hot right now.

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Unbelievable! All the press action today over the Susan G. Komen's organization's decision to defund Planned Parenthood!

First, in case you do not know what the SGK Organization is famous for, think "pink," as in breast cancer awareness PINK. Didn't we just have to go through a month of watching NFL players wear pink shoes, gloves and towels, etc. in support of SKG? And what about the "Race For The Cure" that SGK sponsor's annually? Guess you won't see too many liberals, dems and independents supporting SGK, wear pink ribbons, eat Yoplait yogurt, or sign up and/or donate to the Race.

And now that there are serious concerns as to whether the Race for the Cure and its founder are simply an arm of the anti-abortion wing of the Republican party, it's hard to imagine any Democrats or Independents wanting to be a part of that fundraiser any more - unless of course it's to protest it.

Let this be a case study in how to destroy an amazing brand in just 24 hours.

On the upside, Planned Parenthood received upwards of $400,000 today since the news of SGK's decision to defund breast cancer screenings.

This is all to say that perhaps the Planned Parenthood decision isn't all that big of a surprise, given the politics of people involved with Komen. The flap might end up benefiting Planned Parenthood in the end, however. The group has raised more than $400,000 since the news broke, a spokesman said Wednesday afternoon.

UPDATE:

It appears that a couple of SGK statewide affiliates are breaking ranks with the main SGK organization and will continue to support Planned Parenthood.

While the national Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation announced its organization will no longer partner with Planned Parenthood, the group’s local affiliate in Denver is breaking from the rest of the Komen organization. The Denver affiliate announced today that the national organization granted it an exception to continue funding Planned Parenthood.

[snip]

The Connecticut affiliate withdrew its support for the national Susan G. Komen organization, and the group wrote on its Facebook page that it enjoys a great partnership with Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. “We understand, and share, in the frustration around this situation,” the group wrote.

If You're Going To Drug Test, Test Everyone

A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday after one of his Democratic colleagues amended the measure to require drug testing for lawmakers.

Hee haw.

Want Viagra? Get A Rectal Exam First, Damn It!

The level of assault on women's reproductive rights is so substantial (see this piece on how a high level cancer organization Susan G. Komen known primarily for the Race for the Cure, the best-funded breast cancer organization and known internationally for the pink ribbon, and their choice to now defund Planned Parenthood's breast cancer screenings) I thought that it was funny in Virginia, with the ultra Republican bill making women hear fetal sounds, etc. before having an abortion, that state Sen. Janet Howell (D) has decided to "level the playing field."

On Monday Howell expressed her disdain for legislation requiring the ultrasound by proposing an amendment she described as a simple matter of fairness. Her amendment said that before being treated for erectile dysfunction, a man would have to undergo a digital rectal exam and a cardiac stress test.

“We should just have a little gender equity here,” Howell said.

High five, sista!!!! It's about time the men start having to take responsibility for their impregnation of women, voluntarily or not.

Even Castro Thinks Repugs Are Idiots!

AP:

"The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been."

Shit like this just comes naturally, know what I mean? Republican odor is detectable most anywhere !!!!

H/T AMERICAblog

Tennessee Firefighters Are Lowlifes ... Tommy Gavin Fans Rise Up

It's stuff like this that will continue to feed the fire of the Occupy/99% movement. I cannot think of anything more crass than fireman (regardless of whether they are on the payroll or volunteers) just standing around and watching a house burn down because someone didn't pay $75 bucks for a "fee" for the service of these firemen. SHAME ON YOU.

October 2010 firefighters refuse to assist video:



Current video of firefighters again watching a home burn down over $75 dollars.



Heartless bastards. This is the Republican answer. Austerity on the backs of the least likely to handle it. You can bet your bottom dollar that the 1% have their own controlled firefighters ... a profession one used to be proud of, now bought and paid for.

Wonder how that would have been portrayed on "Rescue Me." Would Tommy Gavin let a measly $75 stop him from saving a house from being burnt down? Yeah, we all know THAT answer .... NOT!

Stupid people.

Ok, I Do Have One Thing To Say About Chutzpah!

Shootspa. Dude, if you can't say it, don't use it!



Here's a funny piece about chutzpah.



Speaking of chutzpah, about 20 years ago, one of my lawyer friends and I did a legal brief using about as many Yiddish words as were recognized for writing in law. It started out based on a brief filed by opposing counsel likening a theory we had about the case to having "chutzpah." Now, my friend, being Israeli (hence knowing Hebrew and its slang counterpart Yiddish) plus me being Jewish by osmosis (don't ask!), we decided to write the brief, and it was hysterical ... except for the fact that the judge was black, and pretty much, not Jewish, so for all that work, it was lost on just about everyone else except us. I wish I could find it, but alas, it appears to have gone the way of floppy disks, as in "gone, but not forgotten."

My Murdoch Take

All I can say is "what goes around, comes around."

Amen, brother!

Oh, and is THIS just a "coinky dink?"

Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbusiness reporter who was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead.

[snip]

"The death is currently being treated as unexplained but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

Yeah, right!

Daily Kos: Three Down, Three More On The Horizon (Recalls)

Recall signatures are now submitted against 3 Wisconsin Republicans -- with local volunteers working to recall at least 3 more. Today, we put our powerful pro-recall ad on TV for another week, but our ability to keep it up until the end of this campaign rests entirely on people like you. Click here to see our powerful ad -- and chip in $3 to keep it on the air.

Just passing it on. This is what you get for going against what the people really want. You can use Faux News and their counterparts all you want, but real people are not buying this shit. Recall, baby!

Tea Party Nation President Believes Only Property Owners Have Right To Vote

If you had any doubts about this country's direction regarding "leadership," this should be a wake up call. Courtesy of Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips.

PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.

Uh, ok. These backwards thinking assholes want to repeal Amendments to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote, decided that black people were not only to be counted as whole people, but that they could vote, want to remove birthright citizenship, overturn Roe v. Wade, go back to whites only and blacks only accommodations, etc. But this is the piece of cake that takes it all ... only people who own property should vote, because, you know, they have a vested interest! What the fuck? Why not just come out and say the truth you asshole, that only people with MONEY should be allowed to vote, because, after all, MONEY is what controls this world, and therefore, we pitiful slaves should just be grateful that the MONEYED people (and corporations, because after all SCOTUS says they are people too, with rights, no less) let us eat their left over scraps, and god forbid, actually live in their world and "rent" a place to escape the elements. But, I'm sure Mr. Phillips would be more than happy to find us non-property owners a cave or a bridge to sleep in/under.

Like I warned ... be afwaid, be vewwwy afwaid.

Tim Profitt, No Pile Drive? Oh, My Back Hurts, LOL

So ..... what ..... is your story?

BK? Upside down mortgage? Fired and unemployed? Uninsured and afraid to go to a doctor lest you find out real problems?

There's not a whole lot I can contribute right now, in the political realm. I am still not going to vote (but if that changes, I will state such fact).

It's corporate money (the elite rich, do the research, it has been around for centuries and has always impacted life ... and the American revolution was a distancing of that way of life ...) that is dictating the path of America. Too bad, not enough real patriots are in there, fighting for what our constitution was all about.

Make sure your right to free speech is still guaranteed, despite those that think it's ok for a man to stomp a woman on the head just because she was attending a debate forum.

Politics aside, dudes, are you really for taking down a petite woman by a burly dude (who, ironically, blamed his foot stomp on the lady because he has back problems .. what, you were going to pile drive her if you didn't have a back problem???? dude????????)

Republicans' Long, Hot, Racist Summer By Kirsten Powers

Good read about the climate of hate that is the rage of the Republican party leading up to the November 2010 election.

Since Obama became president, the fact that he is black really ticked off many white southern men. But since spewing racial epitaphs at black people is somewhat politically incorrect, the right wing Republican nutjobs have latched onto this "Obama is a Muslim" meme with such vehemence that it is as if they have replaced the N-word with Muslim.

It's ok to be a religious bigot in today's America, just not a racial bigot, because obviously, we have a black man in the White House. The demonizing of Islam has increased since Obama took office. People who want to use slur words in the same sentence with Obama feel quite comfortable calling him a Muslim, and not in a nice way, and many even go further to claim that Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawai'i (although I am sure that a number the concur he was born in Hawai'i still think he was not born in the United States because they think Hawai'i is a "foreign" place!).

What the hell is wrong with these people, and why do they get so much air time? Why do we always cater to the bigots? What has bigotry ever provided that advanced mankind?

Bachmann Being, Well, Bachmann

“So I think clearly this is a very bad direction because when you join the economic policy of different nations, it is one short step to joining political unity and then you would have literally, a one world government,” said Bachmann. “I don’t want to cede United States authority to a transnational organization.”

Matt Yglesias notes that “the existence of a global economy in which events outside our borders impact us is not something Barack Obama dreamed up, and the idea that having world leaders gather for occasional meetings constitutes a ‘one world government’ is insane.”

But it’s not new for Bachmann to dream up nightmarish scenarios about the U.S. ceding its economic sovereignty. Around the time of the 2009 G-20 Summit, she peddled a false conspiracy theory that the world was moving toward a unified global currency. “This is not Michele Bachmann being a kook,” declared the Minnesota congresswoman. It was and is.

Drink pretty much starting to kick in ... ahhhh, wingnuttia, where we all can enjoy our own insanity!