Eating Their Own

The Club for Growth, which is starting to appear indisguishable from Focus on the Family, is busily cannibalizing the bloated corpse of the Republican Party. It's like their version of Ralph Nader, only effective.

The Hatred of Right Wing Political Commissars Towards John McCain...

...has now officially collapsed into a black hole and disappeared below the electoral event horizon. So the question now becomes, does this mean the commissars have lost their influence over the conservative lumpenproletariat, or does it mean they never had that much infuence to begin with and were little more than a political freak show?


Hat tip to Instaputz!

This Just In!

Right-wing, corporate media, Republic Party propaganda lapdogs are full of USDA Prime, Grade-A crap!
Film at eleven!

Most. Frightening. Thought. Evar.

Is the US Military taking its' marching orders from the Right Wing Blogosphere? Is there no portion of the Federal government that cannot be corrupted and politicized by the Bush Administration and its thuggery? Apparently not.

Wingnutosphere Seizes Moral High Ground...

...by attacking a 12 year old boy and his family. And, of course, as per usual, they are dead wrong.

UPDATE: Shockingly enough, Rush Limbaugh has joined in on dog-piling this boy who only recently emerged from a coma. It's a real profile in courage moment for the wingers. Plus, Rush managed to work in his slander against soldiers, too. What a guy!

UPDATE 2: First the car wreck, then the coma, now stalked by a rabid Michelle Malkin. Hasn't this kid suffered enough?

UPDATE 3: Apparently not; now they're going after his GRANDFATHER, too!

Conservative Blowholes Want You to Die

An assorted of the leading elements of the Right Wing Media Freak Parade are now openly praying for "another 9/11" in order to "wake America up." These people are beyond disgusting and beneath contempt. But, again, apparently there's no crypto-fascist pronouncement too outrageous or repulsive to be lovingly broadcast by your Liberal Media.

And the Crowd Goes Wild...

The Know-Nothing branch of the Right-Wing blogosphere demands Bush's impeachment for...that's right, not hating brown people enough.
Savor the irony.

The Pot Calling the Kettle White

David Yeagley ("Comanche" "Patriot") takes umbrage at my post, saying:

Another complaint based on the contortion that I blamed the students of VA Tech for being shot.

Let's take another look at his article, shall we?

There were no heroic acts in the VA Tech incident, contrary to liberal media reports. Hiding behind a desk, or jumping out a window is not a heroic act!

You. Make. The. Call.

Fake Indian Joins Slander of VT Victims

David Yeagley, the Right Wing's pet "Indian," who for years has fraudulently claimed to be Comanche, has predictably added his weaselly voice to the chorus of marginalized lunatics blaiming the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings for their own deaths. Normally, I would never waste band-width on this reprehensible toad, but I'm afraid some people might believe his wannabe shtick. Yeagley is not Comanche, he speaks for no one but himself, and he is beneath contempt.

Good on You!

John Podheretz takes Derbyshire to task for his vicious, contemptible, cowardly attacks on the victims of the Virgina Tech shootings. Good job, Podheretz! Now, where are the rest of the conservatives?

Let God Sort 'Em Out!

Orcinus has a typically thoughtful piece on how the recent imaginary Lincoln quote spewed on the House Floor by Cong. Don Young ties into his overall thesis on "eliminationist" rhetoric on the Right. And that pretty much fits in with my recent column on the ongoing degeneration of the Republic Party into an unholy combination of Peronism and the John Birch Society, only less charming.

It Shouldn't Surprise Me...

...given how some on the Right cheered bloodthirsty terrorists as "freedom fighters" and a psychotic child-molesting cult-leader as a martyr to the Second Amendment, to see these same people gush over a bucolic old fascist like Augusto Pinochet. It does make me wonder, though, if there is any exercise of executive power (by a Republican President) that would disturb these folks at all.

UPDATE: Apparently not.

UPDATE 2: Your Liberal Media Conspiracy in action.

Son of Right Wing Amnesia...

...that strange congenital condition whereby Conservatives' memories are selectively erased, seems to have struck Powerline! Fortunately, TPM Muckraker is here to help.

Whu--?

Left-Wingers and Right-Wingers find common ground in their mutually complete and utter inability to grasp the obvious in Charlie Rangel's proposal to reinstate the draft. Jesse Jackson, on the other hand, does get it. And while a military draft is really not a realistic or viable option, I do hold out hope for some form of mandatory national service to break the culture of self-absorption and greed that seems to have consumed the nation in the last 20-30 years.

Conservative Hypocrisy Watch

I could probably do an entire separate blog on this topic alone. In our latest installment, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, an odious little man previously known for fighting tooth-and-nail against anything even remotely resembling campaign finance reform, has now apparently learned how to stop worrying and love the filibuster. Same goes for James Inhofe, a right-wing troglodyte from Oklahoma, who now threatens to deploy the F-Bomb against any efforts to reduce global warming. Inhofe previously was known for trying to gut Indian sovereignty in order to prevent tribes from protecting the environment.

UPDATE: Senator John Warner of Virginia, whose thinking has actually left the Middle Ages, leapt the Renaissance and reached the Enlightenment, will challenge crackpot James Inhofe for the post of Ranking Member on the Environment and Public Works Committee. Good on him.

Let the Spin Begin

This election was a victory for moderates.

No, it wasn't!

Was too!!

Was not, was not, was not!!!

Both of you shut up!! The Republicans lost because they didn't pander enough to blasphemous religious zealots!

No, you shut up! Republicans lost because terrorists totally brainwashed the voters!

Sigh. I need a nap.

UPDATE: Republicans lost because they abandoned the Will of God (which, coincidentally, is also the Will of Dobson).

No way, dude!

Run for your lives! The Democrats are gonna impeach Bush!! Really!! I mean it!!!

It was the incompetency and corruption, stupid!

Oh, yeah; I definately need that nap now...

Conservative Hypocrisy Watch, Part IV

I'm not sure which is worse; a bloated, drug-addled loudmouth like Rush Limbaugh mocking the disabled, or all the mealy-mouthed Right-Wingers offering lame "yes, but..." justifications for such behavior. Republicans issuing calls for "civility" in politics is like Al Capone offering lessons on crime prevention. If there is any divine justice in the world, we will all get to enjoy the look on Rush's mush on November 7 when the GOP goes down in flames.

I Deny Your Reality and Substitute My Own

Glenn Greenwald on a phenomenon I've noticed since college: the ability of certain groups (primarily on the Right, but also some on the Left) to completely deny any fact that doesn't fit their preconceived reality or to assume the existence of any fact that does support it. For example, the apparently sincere belief in some Neo-Conservative circles that Iraq is really a success story, if only the perfidious liberal media would tell the "good news." Or the cottage industry of Clinton Conspiracy Theories that flourished in the 1990's, with all sorts of half-baked claims of drug-running and serial murder accepted as gospel despite the lack of any supporting evidence at all. Greenwald discuss the prevailing "conventional wisdom" (which is neither conventional, nor wise) that the "mainstream" is conservative and that Democrats are always out of it.

Conservative Hypocrisy Watch, Part III

Proving once again that irony is not only dead, but its dismembered corpse has been buried in the desert somewhere outside Las Vegas, the Right-Wing Blogosphere is SHOCKED! SHOCKED AND APPALLED! that someone would use the private sex lives of elected officials for political gain.

Down the Tubes, Part IV

Evidence continues to mount that the Republic Party is imploding all across the country, so much so that the GOP is switching to a desperate Siegfried Line-style defense strategy and even the perennially reality-challenged Right-Wing Blogosphere seems ready to don the sackcloth and ashes. At the same time, however, there are signs that the exodus of Religious Whites from the GOP is not as pronounced as first thought. Of course, this attitude of "personal responsibility" for sin is exactly the opposite of some Evangelicals' attitudes, where they refuse to vote for Democrats they like simply because of the "sin" associated with the very name "Democrat." How people, particularly self-proclaimed Christians, can continue to support a party of domestic abusers, racists and pedophiles is frankly beyond my ability to comprehend, particularly since you know-YOU KNOW-if any of these politicians had been Democrats, their names would be thundering from pulpits all across America as reasons to vote for "God's Own Party." It may well be there is some truth to the idea that "conservatives" are psychologically inclined to follow authoritarian leaders, with potentially disastrous consequences.