Dems have a new web site about John Boehner and his incessant ties to corporate lobbyists. More from the Washington Post.
I'm a bit sick of O'DonnellGate already, but TPM is doing yeoman's work digging up all the crazy shit she said. My favorite so far is this:
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.
And all this from a Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.
There's a Burkean brouhaha raging: is O'Donnell a real Merkin who speaks too plainly for the ears of the elite or is she an idiot nutsoid? The truth is she's a nutsoid who was nurtured by the creme de la creme of serious, high-brow conservative institutions (the same one that birthed Conor Friedersdorf). If she hadn't talked so much about masturbation and "man pants" and man-mice hybrids, we'd be hearing about her prestigious intellectual pedigree.
Mouse with Fully-Functional Human Brain
Human with Fully-Functional Mouse Brain
Sanctity of opposite-marriage hero, serial adulterer, hooker patron, and diaper fetishist Sen. David Vitter has signed the Tea Party Patriots' morality pledge. I hereby pledge to: Support and defend the U.S. Constitution as originally intended by the Founders and as explained in the "Federalist Papers." Act in a fiscally responsible manner: Decrease the size and scope of government on all levels--localstate, and federal; Decrease spending on all levels--local, state and federal; Work toward a balanced budget. Support the free market by lower taxes and fees on businesses and individuals: support only those regulations that enhance competition. Conduct myself personally and professionally in a moral and socially appropriate manner.
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Mitch McConnell and the poor downtrodden rich
If you had to give a face to Republican's heartless to-hell-with-the-middle-class attitude, I can think of no better one than that of Mitch McConnell's disgusting mug. Here he is on the Senate floor defending tax cuts for the richest 2 percent.
"We can't let the people who've been hit the hardest by this recession, and who need to create the jobs that will get us out of it, foot the bill for the Democrats' two-year adventure in expanded government."
The tens of millions of unemployed and families who have lost their homes, health insurance and life savings over the last year will by glad to know that the wealthiest in the nation have been hit harder by the recession than they have. Someone should tell the 1 in 7 Americans who live in poverty to stop the bitching.
A McConnell spokesman came out the next day to spin explain what McConnell really meant. Whatever. The truth is that McConnell's statement expressed Republican concerns perfectly…concerns which have nothing to do with the poor or middle class of America and everything to do with sucking up to the rich and special interest groups who fill their campaign coffers with millions.
If you're not making $250 K or more, rest assured that the Republican party doesn't give a flying f*** about you or your measly concerns. Don't take my word for it. Just ask Mitch McConnell.
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Benedict XVI used the first papal state visit to Britain today to launch a blistering attack on "atheist extremism" and "aggressive secularism", and to rue the damage that "the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life" had done in the last century.
The leader of the Roman Catholic church concluded a speech, made before the Queen and assembled dignitaries at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, with the argument that the Nazi desire to eradicate God had led to the Holocaust and a plea for 21st-century Britain to respect its Christian foundations.
Oh, really? Let's go to the other side and see what evidence they have. Or another source.
Or, if you believe that a picture is equivalent to 1K words:
Blaming atheism for the atrocities of Germany before and during the Second World War is a wholesale re-writing of the historical record. It is a rewriting of history worthy of the "we have always been at war with Oceania" revisions contained in 1984. It is the sort of crap that one might expect to be spewed by the likes of Mel Gibson in a drunken rage, not by a man who is the so-called "Vicar of Christ".
The Queen is, no doubt a very courteous hostess. But after that screed by Pope
