He really is nuts.
It doesn’t take a genius to see through the “more snow is proof of global warming” claim. We’ve been using the wrong kind of thermometer. To progressives, the agenda is more important than the truth. Americans are starting to see through the lies and question every claim made by the media and our government.
More here.
Meanwhile, it was the warmest January in over 30 years.
That Harry Reid really runs a tight ship, doesn’t he?
Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson joined a bipartisan effort on Wednesday to block the administration from trying the Sept. 11th suspects in civilian courts.
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced Monday evening that he will support a Republican-led filibuster over President Barack Obama’s nominee to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.
In trouble at home and looking even more silly after Scott Brown’s victory, Sen. Ben Nelson is now trying to claim that all along, he had planned to filibuster the health care bill before the final vote if the merged bill that came back from conference didn’t include the House’s more restrictive abortion language.
Forget Reid, where’s the White House? Where’s Nelson’s Senate colleagues? Where’s Rahmbo? Is everyone just scared of Nelson?
I can’t recall a Senate Republican who dared to screw with the Bush White House like this.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that he left a meeting at the White House with President Obama and congressional leaders earlier in the day “hopeful” that Republican leaders are willing to work on a bipartisan jobs bill.
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Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona predicted the chamber will eventually pass the measure, though he said “there is no way it can be acted on this week” because the plan is “not quite yet worked out.”
Kyl also said Democrats shouldn’t advertise the package as jobs legislation because it’s just “extending a bunch of tax policy and related items that we need to do.”
Ho-hum.
Obama Says Bipartisanship, But What He Wants Is GOP Surrender
That would be true if “surrender” meant the same thing as “cooperation” or even “a willingness to let the majority party govern.”
But in light of the unprecedented, historic Republican obstructionism, why isn’t the headline, “GOP Says Bipartisan, But What They Want is Obama’s Failure”?
I think the answer is pretty obvious if you look at Knoller’s other work — and this foot massage interview he gave Dick Cheney.
Dennis Prager is fuming mad about Frank Rich’s latest column, in which he called conservatives homophobic bigots. How unfair of Rich!
Prager asks indignantly,
Where is this mainstream conservative “explicit anti-gay animus?”
Funny he should ask, because the lead article today at Townhall, where Prager’s article and blog reside, is titled “Texas Gay&M” and begins:
Some time ago, I recommended Texas A&M University as a good place to get an education. Now that it has added a course in the English Department called “Gay and Lesbian Literature” I need to reconsider. Generally, when a school dedicates entire courses to homosexuality its days are numbered as a university to be taken seriously.
The article goes on to suggest an alternate course: ““Homosexuality and Other Bad Lifestyle Choices.”
No animus there!
And right below Prager’s piece today on Townhall is another titled, “Queer Theories and Theologies” by the same author, who writes of gays,
They do not seek to enjoy marriage. They seek to destroy marriage.
Can’t imagine where Frank Rich got the idea that Dennis and his wingnut buddies hate gays.
Maybe he reads Dennis Prager’s website. Or reads his articles. Or watches him on teevee.
In yesterday’s Swim, I linked to this story in the Dallas Morning News.
Tea Party associations aside, many of the challengers’ criticisms echo concerns of Paul’s past opponents: that he is too focused on his national ambitions; that his views are too extreme; that he doesn’t support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that he votes “no” on everything, including federal aid for his district after Hurricane Ike.
“The word I keep hearing is ‘ineffective,’ ” said Gay, a school business administrator. “This district is not really being represented as it could be.”
Yeah, Teabaggers need more effective leaders. Like the Quitter.
He opposes government programs that don't involve the repair of his residence.
After starbursting the Teabaggers, the Quitter came down to Texas where she appeared with the Secessionist at a book burning campaign rally on Sunday.
Both of their practically fact-free speeches could be reduced to two words: gubmint bad.
“How long will the folks in Washington keep spending money that they don’t have on solutions they haven’t thought through for problems they don’t really understand?” Perry said. “I suspect the answer is, they will continue to do that until every American is dependent on the federal government for every need.”
Tough talk for a man who depended on the federal government to fix his own house.
And here’s the Quitter, making shit up as usual.
“When Washington came calling with money for expensive programs that Texas couldn’t afford, he told them, ‘Thanks, but no thanks. We’re doing just fine without you,’ ” she said.
No — Perry didn’t say ‘Thanks, but no thanks.” Just like the Quitter did, when Washington was doling out stimulus checks, Perry took the money. And he used $12B in stimulus money to balance the state’s budget despite claiming, as the Quitter did, that Texas had a “surplus.”
And this little detail is just the cherry on top of this deliciously hypocritical wingnutty sundae.
Supporters lined up three hours before start time at the Cypress-Fairbanks school district’s $73 million Berry Center, a massive taxpayer-funded complex that includes a football stadium, auditorium, conference center and arena.
I doubt the crowd — or Ted Nugent — noticed the irony.
Well, it’s all over — and the Teabaggers didn’t disappoint.
“We do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country…People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House — name is Barack Hussein Obama.“
“The media, the politicians … all say, no, it’s all been settled. I say, if it’s been settled show us the birth certificate. Simple,” Farah’s said, as his remarks were cheered by the roughly 600 activists gathered in Nashville for the event.
As fallible men and women, it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again.” The country, she said, needs politicians unafraid “to go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness . . . to proclaim their alliance to our Creator.”
There was another who dressed in a leather veteran’s vest with medals festooned on it. He also wore a Vietnam Veteran hat.
“I just dressed this way to get attention,” the man said, halfway through a scotch at an “Irish pub” 200 feet from the ballroom where Palin will be speaking, down a casino-style carpeted hotel hallway. “I’m really a retired millionaire.” […] He talked in detail of the Mercedes he drove here; the Rolls Royce he bought in Florida that he won’t drive on rainy days like today, and that he’s a major donor to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “Just sold my last business for $3.3 million,” he said, laughing, seemingly taking great delight in his get up and the gag he was pulling.
Cultures are not the same. Some are better. Ours is best.
I will live, I will die for the people of America.
And here’s the kicker. Wait for it…
Organizers said anyone who had shown up “looking too crazy” would have been tossed out.
Clearly, they were grading “crazy” on a curve.
