JABbering Stooge

It’s The Clinton Chronicles all over again. How’s that Peak Wingnut theory working out for you, John?

• John Bolton gets a stiffy over the idea of Chicago going up in a radioactive mushroom cloud.

• Samuel Wurzelbacher (I refuse to call him “Joe the Plumber”) suggested that anti-war Congresscritters should be shot for treason — that is, when he got done slapping them.

• Some genius on Hannity’s message forum thought this was an appropriate topic of discussion (complete with poll!):

  

  As of this post, “Armed Rebellion” (31 votes — 40.79%) was leading “War for Secession” (27 votes — 35.53%) and “Military Coup” (18 votes — 23.68%).

• Accuracy In Media’s Cliff Kincaid joins the Birth Certificate Truther Movement.

• Sen. Jim DeMint calls for riots in the streets.

Only “libruls” are unhinged, indeed. This is serious stuff. Somebody’s going to get hurt if this doesn’t stop. NOW.

How’s that obstructionism working out for ya?

Source: Matt Yglesias (via Greg Sargent)

Yeah, I thought so. (Though I will admit that I was a little late to the party. I guess the President’s political kung fu is much stronger than mine.)

Epic Math Fail…

Michigan wingnuts blame Detroit’s woes on…wait for it…t3h gays! They even get their math spectacularly wrong!

Oh, dear Zombie Jesus! The stupid, it burns!

…comes from SpecOps soldiers who did things the right way and who have witnessed torture firsthand. (Take THAT, Lord of the Loofahs!)

Since I just about had my Thanksgiving ruined by seeing this Maggie Gallagher column in the Roswell Daily Record on Thursday, I thought it’d be a good idea to run it through the ol’ Fisk-o-matic 2000™.

CC has thrown out a challenge, and I shall rise to it.

Julie Morand. Suspected Terrorist. Al Qaeda.

And while we’re at it:

Richard Evans. Calgary. NAMBLA.

That is all.

Sounds like conservative tax policy to me…

I’ll give you a hint: it sure as hell wasn’t the unions.

Now, all you union-bashers (I’m looking at you, Boortz!), I’m going to ask you an honest question, and I want you to give me an honest response, if you can.

Here’s the question: Do you honestly believe that if the concept of unions had never existed that the auto industry wouldn’t have done self-destructive things like build hype for a car they never had any intention of releasing on the market, fighting any and all efforts to improve fleet fuel efficiency even at the expense of competitiveness, outsourcing all the manufacturing to countries with no minimum wage laws, raiding employee pension plans for executive bonuses, etc., etc., etc.? If not, then why do you keep laying the entirety of the blame at the feet of unions?

Sidebar: For more on this subject, check out this post by Jay Marvin, the morning drive host for Denver’s Air America affiliate. Think Progress also has more on why blaming unions for the auto industry’s woes is utterly ridiculous.

You know, when even IEEE is warning that electronic voting machines can be easily hacked, the notion that republican operatives working for manufacturers of said machines “hacking the vote” is suddenly no longer a “conspiracy theory.”

Shorter Dick Morris:

Hope for McCain: Polls Say He’s Closing the Gap

• If I cherry-pick the polling data to only include results I like, then I can make the case that McCain is not on his way to being the Walter Mondale of the GOP. Brilliant!

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