This article points out the obvious: if the Russians screwed us over as bad as the Republicans have, there would be blood in the streets all day, every day.

If the Russians had come here and done this — if they had come and stolen our resources, if they come and enslaved our children into inescapable soul-numbing jobs, if they had left us with environmental degradation and a wrecked economy and destroyed education system and a crumbling infrastructure and a sieve-like healthcare regime — if the Russians had come and done any or all of this, we would’ve risen up in anger and hostility and patriotism and nationalism, and we’d have loaded up our weapons and killed every last one of them.

Wow, a Republican finally grows a spine…or at least rented one. Lindsay Graham, John McCain’s enabler, has decided he can probably get re-elected by denouncing Glenn Beckkk and the crazies who follow him. This is only relevant news to me because after Sanford, DeMint, and Wilson, this actually makes Graham to most sane Republican in South Carolina. Which is kind of like saying Sarah Palin is the most gifted female governor Alaska ever elected, but give the guy minor kudos for stepping up.

What’s funny is that many blogs are laughing this off as he obviously never mentioned Lush Rimjob, whose failing numbers are tied directly to Beckkk’s rise.

Over in print, David Brooks is condemning Rimjob, Beckkk and InHannity for forcing their hate as the mainstream view in GOP politics. To him, it isn’t that they actually have power, it’s just that everyone lets them have their way out of fear or perception. Wait, isn’t that actually the definition of power? You know, the whole “people letting you have your way” thing?

In any case, Brooks is mostly correct, even though he comes this close to blaming the “liberal media” for building up these idiots. You know, because the trio aren’t in ANY way related to hate wing radio or FAUXNews.

Remember: this asshole represents my state. As odious as this story originally sounded, it just gets worse.

Ensign AND his enabler Coburn should resign if they truly believe in the “family values” shit they peddle.

Yet another reason to love Reddit:

This nation was led by a ruler who enforced the laws on threat of death. This ruler demanded that each person pay a 20% income tax annually. 10% was devoted to the poor and immigrants (this nation had virtually no immigration restrictions) and the other 10% went to government workers and infrastructure.

The richest members of society had restraints placed on their ability to generate wealth – an extra portion of their potential profits (above an established cap) was devoted for the poor and immigrants (on top of the 10%).

Labor laws were also strict. Weekends were enforced. Anyone caught working (or forcing others to work) on the day off was severely punished. And every seven years, workers and owners would take an extended vacation, living off of state reserves and private savings.

Most shockingly, the land and wealth of the nation was nationalized once each generation (about 50 years)- debts were forgiven, land and resources were redistributed, and each family restarted with a share of the wealth regardless of how successful or unsuccessful they or their forefathers had been.

So where was this socialist hellhole and who was it’s tyrannical leader?

The nation was called Israel and the leader was named Yahweh. You can read all about it in Deuteronomy.

Christians should read their Bibles more often.

Reposted in it’s entirety because Elvis deserves full credit for this post without any editorializing by me.

By BCAB Chief Insane Wingnut Watcher Elvis Dingeldein.

Just a brief note to remind you all that if, Teh Only True Honky God™ Forbid, Something Awful Happens to the President of the United States, it absolutely will not be due to Republican efforts to dehumanize him as something crapped out of Satan’s pustule-ridden Hades Hole and stitched together from Hitler Bits and wolf offal. Nooo, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Fucking Wingnutville) just wants to remind you that the democratically-elected President of the United States is simply “an enemy of humanity.” That’s all! No harm there, right?

Oh no, you heard that right! A sitting Congressman of the United States House of Representatives (“The House That Hope Forgot”) wants you to know that the president is an enemy of the whole of humanity. Not just to White Honky Taxpaying Taxpayers; not just to Old Peoples with their troublesome longevities; not just to Straight American Married Peoples terrified of Sudden Inexplicable Gayness Syndrome; not just to Decent Muslim-Fearing Christians with actual birth certificates not printed on Kenyan treebark! No, President Obama is the enemy of all humanity.

Nothing inflammatory or rabble-rousing about that.

This is exactly what I needed to read this morning.

I have noticed a lot of Bush apologists writing articles trying to explain away all the bad their idiot king did. You know, like half-heartedly signing onto the Iraq Surge makes up for starting the war in the first place. Even though, it was only one of a few things to help matters. And oh! we’re still at war there.

Also the bit about the stimulus plan and how that makes up for all the deregulation and purposeful non-regulating that helped caused the financial crash.

“Gee, I’m sorry I knocked up your daughter and ran away from my responsibilities as a father, but if I sent you a check for $50 would that cover the damages?” Yeah, it’s stupid bad like that.

So, I needed this kind of read.

(T)hat’s kinda weird given the former adoration directed toward the Caligula Kid. Isn’t that kind of intellectually dishonest? Can it be that the right in America is actually disingenuous? I mean, everyone knows they are destructive, selfish, hypocritical, racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, imperialistic, nasty, brutish and short. But who would have thought they were dishonest too?

I love it when Bob points out Republican stupidity. Also, that they would waste no time in trying to impeach the president if they had a chance.

(T)hroughout the Bush years — no matter how accurate the left’s “fringe” attacks might’ve been — liberals were marginalized and laughed off by the establishment press, ignored by certain leaders in our own party and attacked as unpatriotic by the Republicans. Sean Hannity, Tom DeLay and Bill O’Reilly, who are all busily ripping the current president an array of new holes, actively accused the left of undermining the troops because we were criticizing the commander-in-chief during wartime. Ah yes. They abandoned that one faster than Newt Gingrich abandons sick wives, didn’t they?

Even more to the point is this nugget of counterfactual argument:

I don’t know when Nazis suddenly began to embrace biracial, liberal children of African immigrants, but if I missed this development then bravo Nazis! You’re doing better than South Carolina!

Mr. Obama is a Chicago guy, and he doesn’t wilt if some gin-crazed cracker from South Carolina calls him a liar, so don’t trouble your pretty head about civility.

The Fifth Columnists have pissed out Garrison Keillor and he’s calling them out for being the nitwits they are.

The American people, by and large, don’t admire wackos. A few wacko congressmen can’t do much harm, but you wouldn’t want them on the County Board. You want sober people who can add and subtract. And you don’t want one to marry your sister. The angry guy in a lather about Mr. Obama to the exclusion of rational thought will have to go to the weenie roast alone and nobody is going to dance with him except out of pure pity and I’m not sure he’s going to enjoy that.

I do miss Jack Cafferty. It may be the thing I miss most by avoiding CNN. Here he is on Tom Delay’s dancing gig: