New CNN analyst’s website accuses Obama administration of eugenics
New CNN hire Erick Erickson, who I’m assuming is part of the flagging network’s attempt to recover from having had Lou Dobbs on the payroll for so long by hiring someone even worse … is carrying a lot of baggage to the network, namely a history of racist, crazy commentary on (and off) his site, RedState.com, leading the charge for an ideological purge of the Republican Party and calling for the president of the United States to be “sent to a death panel.” That apparently doesn’t bother the brass at CNN, but they may want to start reading Erickson’s site, which just yesterday accused the Obama administration of practicing “eugenics,” while repeating the long-since disproved abortion falsehoods of Bart Stupak. From a diarist named Lori Ziganto comes a string of Murdoch/Wall Street Journal-backed conspiracy theorizing worthy of Glenn Beck: Read more
Morning clicks: healthcare ‘24′, Rubio’s unwanted attention
A new website brings back the wolf-sheep, demons not included
Happy St. Patrick’s Day er’rybody! Here’s what’s good this morning:
With the clock ticking down to the moment the House takes the plunge on a healthcare vote, Democrats in Washington have their White house talking points (which, typical of this White House, are mild mannered, lawyerly and not at all mean to Republicans) plus a new NBC News/WSJ poll that shows that just as many voters (about a third) would punish their member of Congress for voting against the bill as would punish their member of Congress for voting for it. And the poll found the public evenly split, 46%-45% on whether the current healthcare bill should or shouldn’t pass.
Meanwhile, for all the media chatter about Democrats facing a tsunami in November, Gallup finds Democrats hanging on to a slim lead among registered voters in the November horse race.
Dennis Kucinich is widely expected to launch his Big Cave on healthcare today, proving that a primary threat is a powerful thing, even more powerful than Dennis Kucinich’s lifelong ideological battle for single payer. Or maybe it was the ride on Air Force One?
Speaking of primaries, progressives/liberals are lining up behind Bart Stupak’s Democratic challenger, who Michael Moore (a Stupak constituent) endorsed on the air on “Countdown” Monday. Could Stupak jump parties and run as a Republican or Independent?
And the wingers are rolling out a new strategy to try and win over Americans to their point of view on healthcare (namely, if you can’t afford it, it sure sucks to be you…) and that strategy is: attack 11-year-old boys with dead mothers. Classy.
Speaking of wingers, why did CNN bother to put Lou Dobbs out to pasture, only to hire someone who’s even more racist and unhinged? I’m thinking Color of Change may have to switch cable targets.
Back to Florida, where Charlie Crist is questioning Marco Rubio’s “character,” and a new website is questioning Rubio’s everything else. MarcoRubioSucks.com was registered by a Miami filmmaker named Justin Routt, who seems to be coming from a conservative point of view. The site contains a rundown of Rubio’s embarrassing spending drama, plus this ALL CAPS warning to the party faithful:
YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF, IS THIS REALLY THE TYPE OF PERSON WE WANT IN OFFICE?
JUST BECAUSE RUBIO SAYS HE DOES NOT LIKE OBAMA, OR THE WAY THE COUNTRY IS HEADING, IS ANTI-ABORTION, HAS PRO-FAMILY VALUES, ETC., DOESN’T MEAN HE ISN’T A CORRUPT POLITICIAN.
THE EVIDENCE PROVES MARCO RUBIO IS CORRUPT.
IF YOU CARE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY AND THE DIRECTION IT IS HEADING, DO NOT ELECT MARCO RUBIO OR YOU WILL PUT A CORRUPT PERSON IN OFFICE WHO WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY DOWN-HILL.
There’s also a wolf dressed as a sheep on the site, but thankfully, it’s eyes are not glowing red.
Also on the web: what’s with all the suicides at Cornell?
Take THAT, reality! Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll
If CPAC is the future of the “conservative movement,” bring it on. The convention that supposedly defines right wingery, and which is supposedly going to remake the big spending, Middle East invading Republican Party into something much more “conservative” was a masterstroke of incoherence. Read more
Fringe: the right wing goes over the deep end
Maybe it’s Barack Obama. The very thought of him seems to have driven some Republicans mad. In Congress, their strategy is to simply throw everything they have up against whatever he’s doing and run the other way. In the right wing media, on Fox News and conservative talk radio, it’s no-holds-barred. Nothing is too crass, too low, to spew at the president of the United States. It’s enough to make the “Dubya is stupid” shtick from the previous eight years look like a compliment. And while the media is fixated on the tea party movement, which lets face it, has its issues (like random speakers letting fly with their fantasies about hanging members of Congress…) what should really be alarming people is the extent to which the “ordinary” right is becoming radical. Case in point: the return of the John Birch Society. Read more
RedState bans birthers, HotAir bans ‘Redstate bans birthers’
The wingnuts are lining up on either side of the birthers, the crazy cult who try to induce soldiers to duck out of service under President Obama and who file kooky lawsuits backed by Alan Keyes and a madwoman, and of course, being righties, “9/11 truthers” too. Joe the Plumber: he’s against them. RedState.com has banned them. But the folks at Hot Air, where I first read about the ban yesterday? Why, they’ve banned their own top of the fold “Redstate bans birthers” thread from the homepage. See here? Gone! Must have been push-back from the birthers within. (But they did label JTP’s anti-Palin apostasy “heartache.”
Who will be the next to excommunicate, or embrace, the birther cult?
So much for Illinois
Not much talk about slaying RINO Mark Kirk on RedState this morning. The relative moderate won in Illinois, handily, yesterday, as did Democratic front-runner Alexi Giannoulias. Kirk got 56.6% of the vote, while the next closest vote-getter didn’t crack 20%. Read more
Stuff to watch today
The polls are open in Illinois, where the tea partiers will attempt (and probably fail) to take down the Republican in the race, Paul Kirk, and replace him with someone who can’t win. Go tea parties! So far, the Tribune reports that turnout is low, which can’t be good news for the teabag set.
The RedStaters, meanwhile, are catching the vapors over a Rasmussen junk poll showing Marco Rubio taking a 12 point lead over Charlie Crist. “Let’s finish him off!!!!” they cry, before dropping the nefarious rumor that Crist got some quiet time with Joe Biden during Biden’s Miami swing through… (There’s an even worse poll out for Crist, which shows that the only race he can win handily at this point is re-election for governor, despite positive approval ratings from Republicans, Democrats and Independents. Wow.) The plot thickens…
The Obama administration is pushing its TARP for regular people, switching $30 billion out of help for the big banks, and into the hands of small banks who agree to lend to small businesses. The president speaks in New Hampshire today, and will reiterate that it’s jobs, jobs, jobs in 2010, and also tout the job creating power of small businesses. State by state fact sheets on the Obama budget are available here.
What does SarahPAC do again? Oh yeah — it buys Sarah Palin’s books, of course!
Andrew Breitbart is mad as hell … so why doesn’t he just hire a lawyer for his little felonious Woodward? Meanwhile, the top prosecutor has recused himself from the case, which involves, besides conservative wunderkind James O’Keefe, the son of an acting U.S. attorney. O’Keefe defended himself in a Sean Hannity exclusive interview last night, saying golly, he didn’t think he’d done anything wrong. Note to Rip Torn: that’s your out, pal…
Paul Volcker testifies before the Senate Banking Committee today. Will Chris Dodd be able to sit up straight without a spine?
Oscar nominations are out. Sandra Bullock up, Avatar way up.
And last but not least, it’s LOST premiere night! In other words, don’t try to call me after 8 p.m. Seriously, I won’t pick up. Read more
But does it cover Viagra?
In the latest stumble for Michael Steele’s Rizzle Nizzle (What up!?) Commizzle, the RedState jihadis are fuming over the discovery of abortion coverage in the official health package. Oh my!
A RedState blogger demands the RNC names name and fire people involved in designing (long before Steele assumed his post) its health care plan, and opting in to abortion coverage: Read more
Is our wingers learning? Teabagger war on GOP continues
The teabag movement has become a war on the GOP.
Not content to lose just one historically Republican House seat, the winger jihadis are continuing their fight for total irrelevancy for the GOP. Charlie Crist remains a target, having been dropped by the NRSC (To hear RedState tell it, specifically at their request.) But there are others on deck, too. Wingers are next looking to deep six the not-right-wing-enough Carly Fiorina, who has her sights set on Barbara Boxer’s seat in California (yeah. Good luck with that.) Having deemed Ms. Fiorina too modern a gal for conservatism, the jihadis are throwing their two-t0-three-ounce weight behind a more suitable candidate, and elected Republicans, who remain completely flummoxed by the ongoing palace coup, are tucking their tails between their legs and going along. From the New York Times, signs the wingnuts have learned the wrong lessons from New York 23:
Ms. Palin, who had endorsed Mr. Hoffman in the upstate New York race, indicated that she had not been dissuaded by his loss.
“To the tireless grass-roots patriots who worked so hard in that race and to future citizen-candidates like Doug,” she wrote on her Facebook page, “please remember Reagan’s words of encouragement after his defeat in 1976: the cause goes on.”
And Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, announced that he was endorsing Chuck DeVore, a conservative, in the California race for a Senate seat. Mr. DeVore is opposing Carly Fiorina, former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, who was encouraged by party leaders to seek the nomination.
Other conservatives, too, were not deterred by the New York defeat. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a conservative organization that strongly supported Mr. Hoffman, said that conservative activists intended to play a role in Republican primary and general elections next year and that it was just as important to keep unacceptable politicians out of Congress as to help others win.
Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, another conservative group that campaigned heavily on behalf of Mr. Hoffman, said the organization was now considering issuing endorsements in contested Senate and House Republican races in New Hampshire, Florida, Kentucky and California.
And while Count Chocola looks to extend Club for Growth’s 100 percent electoral losing streak, DeMint has taken to doing joint conference calls with Col. Von Erickson, where the two ask teabaggers to pray them up some conservative candidates. Seriously. I’m starting to wonder whether Rahm Emanuel is planning all of this behind the scenes…
Sorry, Charlie: John Cornyn declares the NRSC to be irrelevant
NRSC's Cornyn to Charlie: just pretend we're not even here...
Despite the fact that he turned out to be right about New York 23 — Dede Scozzafava was a solid local candidate, who might have won that race had the entire Republican establishment not turned on her, while Doug Hoffman was as much a carpetbagger as the RedStaters and Palins who tried to shoe-horn him into office — and despite the fact that the jihadis strategy of purging so-called RINOs in favor of unelectable wingnuts proved to be a spectacular failure (resulting in a Democratic pick-up of two more House seats) … John Cornyn has decided to fall on his knees before the teabaggers anyway, starting with walking … no, make that running … away from Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Read more
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