Teabaggers do some crazy things, and lately the collection of insanity has been sufficient to cause a worldwide shortage of tin foil. Lets start with Keith Olbermann’s take on Sharon “Obtuse” Angle and and Rand “I’m only a racist on days that end in Y” Paul.
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More on Angle later. If Paul even lies about being board certified, can we believe him about anything?"
Next, Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes discuss Angle’s rehabilitation, demonstrating how the GOP tries to mischaracterize their true positions.
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No matter how hard they try, they can’t remove the stripe from this pole cat.
No collection of Teabuggery would be complete without a contribution from Michelle “Batshit” Bachmann.
…In an interview Friday with Fox Business’ David Asman — who asked in a recent blog post, “Is the president funding terrorism?” [Faux Noise delinked] — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed that the aid “rewarded” Hamas, and that it showed Obama was siding with Iran and Hamas over Israel:
BACHMANN: I also don’t think it was a a good signal for the president to give $400 million in aid to Gaza. He had a choice to make last week. The president had a choice between standing with Benjamin Netanyahu, or standing with Ahmadinejad and Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization. This should not have been a difficult choice, but the President chose to stand with Hamas and then they were rewarded this week with $400 million in aid. Gee, you don’t think that will embolden them to take future aggressive actions against Israel, do you? […]
ASMAN: Are you going to start up some sort of congressional investigation to look into this, because it would literally be against the law to contribute money to an organization that funnels money to terrorists. […]
BACHMANN: And again, I’m against sending this $400 million to Hamas. I think it’s a very foolish thing to do to reward them for these aggressive actions that were taken last week.
Watch it:
Just about every part of Bachmann’s argument, from the facts to the conclusions, is wrong. First of all, the $400 million Obama promised goes to Gaza and the West Bank, and the majority of it will almost certainly go to the larger West Bank. Secondly, none of the money will go to Hamas. The funds will instead be distributed through NGOs and the U.N., as has been U.S. policy in Gaza for some time.
Moreover, Bachmann’s claim that the aid package means Obama “chose” Hamas over Israel is complete nonsense. Beyond that fact that Obama has repeatedly stressed his support for Israel, U.S. aid to Israel easily dwarfs that to the Palestinian territories, and aid to Israel has actually increased under Obama. This fiscal year, the administration budgeted $2.7 billion for Israel, while it plans to give $2.85 billion in FY 2011… [emphasis original]
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If anything, Obama has refused to commit while most of the world is condemning Israel’s illegal blockade.
For last, I’m saving an example of Teabuggery that borders on treason, suggesting the violent overthrow of the US government.
Add another to the growing collection of strange and disturbing political ads coming out of Alabama these days.
Rick Barber, a candidate in the Republican primary for the state’s second district, has released a one-minute ad in which he implies he supports impeaching President Barack Obama, then goes on a protracted criticism of the IRS, concluding with an actor dressed as George Washington declaring, "Gather your armies."
The ad begins with the Tea Party-backed Barber implying support for Obama’s impeachment. "And I would impeach him," Barber says in the ad’s opening line as he sits at a table with actors dressed as Washington, Sam Adams and Ben Franklin…
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Here’s the ad itself.
It’s as offensive as it is infantile.
I don’t understand why the GOP do not repudiate such people as Democrats did Alan Greene. But the Republicans have embraced them, their only reaction, attempts to cosmetically disguise their extreme positions. This we must not allow. We need to keep presenting them for what they are. A weakness of the left is that we tend to tell the truth and figure we’ve dealt with it. The GOP, on the other hand, repeats their lies, no matter how outrageous, over and over again, until people start believing it because they hear the lies from them so much more often than they hear the truth from us. If they have been successful through repeating lies, cannot we be more so by repeating the truth?
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why hasn’t paul suggested repealing the Americans with Disabilities Act?
doesn’t the ADA impose mean old government rules, and regulations on freedom loving business owners?
Actually, SD, he has.
Paul has called for repealing the ADA – at the same time he called for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act.
Once upon a time there were some half-way intelligent and decent Republicans – surely no worse than the Dixiecrats. I guess they’ve all died off. What is left is nothing more than a group of moronic thugs. I think the “official” Republican party is making a grave error in supporting the Tea Buggers by winking at them or tacitly approving their extremism.
We may be watching a political party in its final death throws. Polls are showing that there is less and less approval of the TP. They may win an election here and there but in the end I think they will be rejected. I just don’t think the majority of Americans are this ignorant and this racist.
There have always been periods in our history when extremist groups have reared their ugly heads but they’ve never succeeded. Let’s hope this will be the case now.
Leslie, they may make some small short term gains, but over the long haul, I think they are digging their own political graves.
Agreed! I continue to stay in the party to vote against the teabaggers in the primary but there has been a vast exodus of real intellectual conservatism, and the remaining intellectuals on the right seem to have signed up, supporting the fringe using a “ends justify the means” logic…
How illogical they are. When we adopt evil tactics to fight evil, we become the evil ones.
I love the “obtuse” nickname!
Also, regarding Rand Paul, he didn’t lie about being certified… he simply didn’t disclose which board certified him – the one he created with his wife!
And for that crazy ad for Barber – I couldn’t believe my eyes. It seemed like some sort of Saturday Night Live skit or something. I thought your comment regarding Greene was interesting. It is true that Republicans don’t seem to condemn the unsavory characters in their party. Maybe they think any news is good news, and being the minority party, they could use any coverage they get (and keeping crazies like this idiot on board just does more to confirm suspicions of the base that there is some sort of liberal bias in the media).
“Teabaggers do some crazy things, and lately the collection of insanity has been sufficient to cause a worldwide shortage of tin foil.” GOOD ONE!
Thanks Candace. Thou shalt steal.
Feel free to steal it, Kevin. It’s a TC original.
Kevin, no state in the nation recognizes certification by any organization not themselves certified by the AMA. Calling himself ‘board ceritfied’ was intentionally decptive, which makes it a lie to me. 🙂
That’s an interesting theory. Mine is that they are so desperate for power, they have lost the last shreds of integrity theo once posessed.
I think in Rand Paul’s mind, he believes he wasn’t being deceptive, thinking what he did was justified – kind of like idiotographer James O’Keefe thinking it is okay to break the law because he thinks he is doing the right thing…
Personally, I think his reasoning behind his whole certification company is crap and it boils down to that “them against us” philosophy of the right. The them in this instance being the older doctors and the establishment…
Funny that Rand Paul was upset that the older certifications didn’t have to be renewed. If you think about it, he essentially wanted previous contracts to be renegotiated or terminated instead of being grandfathered – it kind of violates the principles behind the contract clause in the Constitution…
OK, if I understand you correctly, you’re saying that, since they believe they are right, that whatever they do becomes right by definition, right?
TC – you should not put that much crazy into one post – it’ll cause our lib/prog heads to stroke out and die. You can see that the Repub party has already been trying to “normalize” these candidates – good luck all of their campaign ads are already out there. The Dems should have no trouble making mincemeat of them. Hell, a mentally disabled person could make mince meat out of them.
Sharon – wow, what a loon. They will all stay on Fox and get softball questions and try to normalize their answers. Roll the tape of her saying the batshit crazy stuff.
Ron Paul – Board Certified by a Board he created? Wow. What kind of continuing education requirements does this ‘board’ have? What other types of requirements does this ‘board’ require? These are all legitimate questions – again, DOA against any Dem.
And finally, Barber, ‘gather your armies’ – are you fucking serious? Impeach Obama on WHAT grounds for Christ’s sake? Take a look at the previous admin and see who should be in jail or at the Hague before you start throwing stones at the Dems, why don’t ya?
Again, too much lunacy in one post. You need to stretch these things out or I’m going to have a stroke.
Lisa, having strokes is against PP policy. The maximum reaction allowed is a conniption fit.
“If anything, Obama has refused to commit while most of the world is condemning Israel’s illegal blockade.”
Then Obama is to be commended for not siding with the antisemites who oppose Israel’s right to defend itself.
The blockade would be over in an instant if the Palestinian government renounced its stated goal of exterminating the Jews, and if it stopped firing missiles into Israel toward that goal.
You didn’t really answer me. Boo. 🙁
DM, in recent years, Palestinian rockets have killed 12 Israelis. Israeli bombs, land mines, artillery shells, rifles, etc., have killed several thousand Palestinians. Both Palestinian governments have stated they will renounce that goal if Israel will stop building settlements in territory Israel had agreed is Palestinian in the Helsinki Accords.
Hi Tom, You’re okay?
Hi Monique. Just swamped. 🙂
The Republicans are desperate to seize control of the Congress this year and the White House in 2010. They have neither the character nor the courage to take on the Baggers. While from time to time they pay lip service to their pretend outrage at some Tea Bagger antic or other I believe it is all for show. They will stop at nothing to regain power.
Mike, that says it all.
There are so many of these idiots around the US of A today, that I swear you could post nothing but wingnuttery all day and still not catch it all.
That’s why there is more than one blog. 😉
TC
In my opinion they have stepped over the line of treason. This isn’t like just disagreeing with someone, these people are freaking nuts. I’d like to see some accountability of their words before people die.
Tim, it’s too late. People already have died.
you missed steve king – about the looniest of the nutjobs — now he says obama favors black people
i dont think these lunatics are going away — remember they laughed at Hitler
DC, if I were to include all the Teabuggery there is, I would overload the Internet.
I agree with DCap, these people are symptomatic of a sick society that sees a world totally out of their control and changing more everyday and cannot handle it. They are not going away and I truly believe it is only a matter of time before the situation goes from bad to worse.
Beach, the key is to inform people sufficiently that the GOP either recovers its sanity (highly doubtful) or goes the way of the Whig Party. Without GOP money astro-turfing them, Teabaggers will slink back under their sheets and hoods.