Pulling to the Left

Not only was she incapable of forming a coherent sentence, her opinions on gays are informed by a known hate group.

Miss California's church says pedophilia is central to the gay lifestyle

Wonder if this guy was a member of one of Delphi's white power/survivalist militia forums like Pals or The Great American Teabagging Party:

A number of us have been saying for a while now that the Republicans' extremist, anti-American rhetoric was going to push someone to violence. And it almost just did. From WIRED:

Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, was arrested by FBI agents who identified him as the Twitter user CitizenQuasar. In a series of tweets beginning April 11, CitizenQuasar vowed to start a "war" against the government on the steps of the Oklahoma City Capitol building, the site of that city's version of the national "Tea Party" protests promoted by the conservative-leaning Fox News.

"START THE KILLING NOW! I am willing to be the FIRST DEATH!," read a tweet at 8:01 PM that day. "After I am killed on the Capitol Steps, like a REAL man, the rest of you will REMEMBER ME!!!," he added five minutes later. Then: "Send the cops around. I will cut their heads off the heads and throw the[m] on the State Capitol steps."

Hayden's MySpace page is a breathtaking gallery of right wing memes about the "New World Order," gun control as Nazi fascism, and Barack Obama's covert use of television hypnosis, among many others.

The right whiners are frantic over Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez. Apparently, this is some kind of "proof" that Obama is a Manchurian Candidate who is aiming to force all of us into gay marriages and give up our guns to baby-eating Muslim socialists. Oh, and as one of the signs seen at a "teabagging" event said, it's "the end of white America."

Here are some examples of a few other Manchurian Candidates shaking hands with the enemy, thereby proving that they hated America too.

 

A little schadenfruede... Democrats were notorious for years for the ability to shoot themselves in the foot. Now, it's the Publicans' turn.

The teabagging parties, er, hurt them much more than helped.

It's been two days now since angry conservatives hosted a series of tea parties across the country, and the fallout has some Republicans nervous.

While the anti-tax sentiment of the protests may have been sincere, the images pulled from the events have often been offensive, embarrassing, or politically problematic.

It is a development that has tripped up the GOP before. The rallies outside McCain-Palin events included some of the same bile that was seen at the tea parties: charges of fascism, terrorism and other malicious criticisms leveled at Barack Obama. And it did the Republican ticket little good in its efforts to bring moderate voters to the cause. More...

... when a Democrat is in the White House.

I'm kind of amused that the people who are calling for Obama to be "stopped" by any means necessary or America will "cease to exist" (Alan Keyes), who are saying that Obama's opponents should be "armed and dangerous" (Michelle Bachmann), who are calling Obama a fascist or a communist or a socialist (Fox News mouths), or who are chanting "Death to Obama!" (scattered teabagging protesters) are the same ones who, for 8 years, said that any criticism of George W. Bush was the same as "wanting the terrorists to win," "hating America," and tantamount to treason.

North Carolina Publican Senator Richard Burr sure sounds like he was encouraging a run on the banks. Either he's stupid, or he was deliberate.

And deliberate is not such a far-out accusation, when you consider that the Publicans have a vested interest in the economy of the United States completely collapsing so long as Barack Obama is president and the Democrats control Congress.

They absolutely cannot allow anything President Obama does on the economy to succeed, or it will destroy what's left of the Publican Party.

"Country first." Riiiiiight.

Sure sounds like it. Hey, that’s fine. Let’s take ALL the federal money spent on that state and give it to others that need it. Hell, this could save us an awful lot of money. I know California could sure use some.

It didn't take long for the teabagging movement [snicker] to bring out the REAL nuts. Now they're ranting about "brainwashing machines" and crowd members are shouting, "Burn the books!"

I'm not kidding.

"In the early 50s our country was infiltrated by the communist party," he says, calling the Obama administration the culmination of that infiltration. "They're doing everything they can to brainwash our public...This thing they're putting on our TVs," he says, presumably referring to digital cable converters, "it's a brainwash unit!"

As his speech winds down, he exhorts his listeners to get their kids "the hell out of college. They're brainwashing 'em!"

The anti-school message resonates with one woman.

"Burn the books!" she yells from off-camera. The surprised camera man asks if she's serious, and which books she'd burn. "The ones in college, the brainwashing books, like the evolution crap."

What happened today was, in my view, the proper response at this time. These pirates need to know that if they mess with American ships, our Navy carries big guns for a reason. Threaten American lives, and there will be a response.

That's not to say that these criminals won't learn from what transpired today. They'll up their efforts. But we'll up ours too.

However, there is a deeper issue. Somalia is a global tragedy. No functioning government since the 90s, mass starvation, and other nations taking advantage of the situation by stealing their food shipments and dumping nuclear waste off their shores.

That doesn't excuse the actions of the pirates, just as poverty here doesn't excuse the actions of homegrown criminals. But the deeper problems in Somalia need to be addressed if there's going to be a long term solution to the piracy problem in that region.

Jennifer Loven of AP has written a very good analysis of the Obama administration's response to the immediate situation that was resolved today:

Analysis: Obama scores win on pirate crisis: His administration passes its first critical national security test