Personally, I think anyone that picks up political advise from a drug and sex addict and uses it in place of actual reporting is an idiot. Enough of an idiot that they don’t deserve to have a viablee opinion on much of anything.

That said, if you are still defending Limbaugh, you are siding with the enemy. I don’t care if you think I am talking about women, decency, civilization, America, or just plain humanity, now is the time to denounce this clown, lest you finally get lumped in with him.

No class, no intelligence, no clue.

Side with him now and all the free passes you have received to date are null and void.

Today is the day Andrew Breitbart finds out how hot Hell is and Lush Rimjob may have gone too far by asking for sex tapes of 12 year old girls in return for paying for their contraception. Who knows? He’ll likely get away with it but you gotta hope.

Meanwhile, other conservatives are lining up to be scumbags. In Virginia, a church has kicked out the Girl Scouts from meeting in their church to protest the parent organization’s support of Planned Parenthood, which, you would think, would be something you want an organization training young women to at least be aware of.

The same folks who, in Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah (and who knows where else) sit quietly by and let FLDS members impregnate their 14 year old “wives” have a problem with an organization that provides cheap access to health care to women.

Next door, in Maryland, a priest walked out of a funeral he was presiding over rather than give communion to the deceased’s gay daughter.

Don’t even catch me hearing anyone talking about their pious “love the sinner, hate the sin” BS. Even if you believe being gay is a sin, for the sake of argument let’s put it aside just this instance, walking out of a funeral sure the hell isn’t that.

And Santorum wants to vomit because we have separation of church and state. It isn’t enough gay couples can’t get married in most of this nation. Now we apparently don’t want to bury their parents properly.

I still have fewer and fewer arguments for wanting to attempt going back into a church any time soon.

As for conservatives adhering to a strict Constitutional interpretation, he’s an example worth paying attention to. Some clown in Alaska is filing a case saying Barack Obama is ineligible to be President because, well, he’s a mulatto.

Now remember, these folks don’t recognize any amendments, so women can’t vote, African-Americans were never freed from slavery (incidentally, Obama wouldn’t have fallen into this category as his father came from Kenya and not a South Carolina plantation, but whatever), and, oh yeah, this stance would nullify their Second Amendment. Their interpretation and the genuine article as most sane folks understand it.

Oh, and the South is, sadly, still the South.

Lush Rimjob is beyond odious.

Thing is, he always has been. Guy is a drug-addled sex fiend and a hypocrite in oh, so many ways.

Yet people listen to him. Religiously. This most recent incident should damn the whole lot of them. No, really.

If you read his statements attacking Ms. Fluke, his recommendation – and this isn’t much of a stretch at all – is that if you get birth control in the 6th grade and have sex, he wants to see a sex tape of that put up on YouTube or something.

No, seriously, go back to that link or to anywhere else you can find his comments. He didn’t clarify it. He didn’t set conditions.

The guy wants sex tapes for the contraceptives he supposedly is paying for, and apparently there’s no age limit, as if that would make it any better. That is odious, even for one of his ilk.

I thought we were done with those sob stories about rich people having to do without their mega-mansions and $30k prep schools.

Apparently someone still thinks we should pity people whose reduced bonus checks are still more than most families make all year.

Not gonna happen.

Reich has the proper attitude here. Instead of laughing at the insanity of the GOP – and, oh yes, it IS funny in a way – we should be very concerned both about what these folks plan to do when elected (and some of them will) as well as what their status as viable candidates says about this nation as a whole.

Rick Santorum is an idiot. A dangerous idiot that plays to the worst of America.

Virginia’s governor backed off a bit from willfully violating women whose stance on abortion he disagrees with, but I’m not one to give a medal to an idiot who accidentally does the right thing once in awhile.

So, he and his ilk still deserve scorn for even this small list.

And, really, what woman purposely supports and votes for these measures? I mean, every group has a history of people working against their own people just to survive. This, however, I just don’t get.

I really didn’t care one way or another about the Eastwood ad during the Super Bowl.

One, I didn’t watch the game. Two, they’ve done better ads.

Thing is though, Eastwood is avowedly conservative, so the GOP going full bonkers about what they – and only they – say is a pro-Obama ad is ridiculous. Not to mention insulting.

They say *they* are the patriots. Yet they don’t pay for the nation through taxes and our elected officials have done everything they could to ensure they never had to serve and possibly pay in blood. Jay Bookman discussed this recently and I am sick of the folks trying to trample on people’s rights get away with saying they are defending democracy.

Patriotism is for everyone, comes in many forms, and – this is key – has more to do with sacrificing for the good of all instead of taking whatever you can get from the body politic.

What I have learned this week – or at least have had reinforced aren’t on this list.

What I know is this: progressives can ignore a LOT of things in the hopes of keeping folks allied and working on the same goal. The Komen folks are sue-happy monsters who are led by some pretty staunch conservatives and can’t run their operation lean enough to be seen as a “good” charitable organization by nearly any measure.

But they were working on curing breast cancer, bringing awareness, and building a community. Which, of course, they have spent this week taking a steaming dump on.

And this leads to my other observation. When awoken to betrayal, progressives can teach religious zealots a thing or two about righteous indignation. By studiously ignoring some truly bad business practices, they woke up wondering how Komen got to be such horrible people. Well, they already WERE horrible people, they’d just been given a pass for too long.

And thus, when never getting their hand slapped the first dozen plus times for sneaking into the cookie jar, they, and everyone who wasn’t paying attention, were shocked at the reaction when they overreached the first time.

The lesson? Pay attention to the actions of people even when they are saying nice things to you. Eddie Haskell was probably stealing the Cleavers’ blind when they weren’t looking. You *knew* he was a snake. Why did they let him into the house in the first place?

The big update today is that the Stingy Goon Komen for the Crass people are “giving in” to their plan to defund Planned Parenthood. First, they haven’t. They have decided they’ll still open their mail when they ask for money. Which is like me telling the Klan/GOP I won’t immediately burn their mail on receipt. In short, it means nothing.

Second, an outfit with huge admin costs who went all in for the Galtists/Talibangelicals just wants to sweep their hatred under the rug. Those a-holes have got another thing coming if they think any pink item ends up in our shopping carts. Screw them.

Third, this is another of those damned non-apologies. Stop pretending they are.

Fourth, they swear they won’t give money to outfits under criminal investigation. So how did Penn State get $70-odd million dollars? Hmmm.

Anyway, here is some earlier reporting, starting off with this critique of the politics of the decision.

MaddowBlog reporting from the beginning, yesterday, and this morning.

Here is that deleted retweet you may have heard of from Komen’s VP of Bigotry Karen Handel.

Last but not least is this Joan Walsh article on the practice or GOP religious bullying and bigotry across the board.