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
What do tea parties and evangelicals have in common?
Tea parties and evangelicals parting ways?
A Politico story points to the growing divide between right wing evangelicals and the tea party movement, which lately has been up-staging the faithful as the darling of the GOP. Clearly, the two are strange bedfellows: evangelicals reluctantly got into politics in a big way in 2000, wooed by Karl Rove’s tactical promise that a born-again president would implement the two simple things the Christian right craves: outlawing abortion and preventing the spread of gay marriage. Over the course of eight years, they got exactly nothing: a temporary speed bump on stem cell research, a ban on distributing condoms in Africa … some incremental stuff on the rarest of abortion procedures. But on the whole, what evangelicals got from eight years of Bush, and six years of total Republican control of the federal government, plus a majority of governorships in the previous decade, was a red hot bowl of nothing.
Fast forward to 2010, and evangelicals have been pushed aside by a new GOP favorite: the tea party movement. Read more
TurboTax abandons Beck
Just two days after their campaign starts, TurboTax becomes the 120th advertiser to exit the Glenn Beck show. In the UK, he’s running with no ads at all, which is almost as shocking as the fact that Glenn Beck’s show is running in the U.K. … So who’s still with him? Hint: think “gold” and “Jesus,” which in a strict, Biblical sense, is not a great combination…
Glenn, Rush: meet your new best friend, Eric Massa
Eric Massa: the right rallies 'round, even as all his dirty laundry is tumbling "out of the closet..."
It seems like just yesterday (actually it was just yesterday,) that a guy called Robert Schlessinger wrote (for U.S. News and World Report):
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh Unwise to Embrace Nutty Eric Massa
By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Is it possible that ex-Rep. Eric Massa is some sort of Democratic sleeper agent? Perhaps a clever test devised by Democratic leaders to tease out the worst cases of Obama-obsessed lunacy on the right? One can almost imagine the chortling in Democratic meetings: They hate Obama so much they’ll believe anything if it casts him in a bad light. I’ll bet they’d even embrace a patently nutty, single-payer-healthcare-touting, ethically tainted, backbencher if he was nasty to Rahm.
What a difference a day makes. Politico, your witness …
The House ethics committee has received allegations that former Rep. Eric Massa groped at least three male staffers and conducted himself improperly with interns as well as full-time aides, a source familiar with the matter tells POLITICO.
One incident allegedly occurred when Massa traveled to San Francisco with an aide for a fundraising trip, a second source said.
… The former congressman, who claims he was pressured to resign because he planned to vote against a health care overhaul bill, has several television appearances lined up for Tuesday afternoon and evening.
…to include the full hour on Glenn Beck. And he’s new-found BFF’s with Rush and Drudge (as well as the new poster boy for the Village People song “In the Navy,” (but don’t ask, don’t tell!) Oh, how to put this in a way that doesn’t seem too cruel or too partisan … Read more
Morning clicks: Massa’s new right wing boyfriends, unqualified Liz defended
Matt Drudge gets all hot and bothered over Eric Massa and Rahm in the shower.
Burning questions for today: will newly minted right wing darling and homoeroticist extraordinaire Eric Massa flirt with Glenn Beck on Fox tonight? … Will he wind up sharing a shower with Rush Limbaugh at some time in the near future? Can a full-on affair with Matt Drudge be far off??? And what does it say about the right that they only fall in love with Democrats who act like Larry Craig?
Meanwhile, a flashback: Eric Massa attacks Rush, embraces Spitzer … Read more
The Catholic church has a veto over healthcare reform?
Rep. Bart Stupak: working for the voters of Michigan, or for the Catholic church?
A story in Politico paints a disturbing picture of the power a group of Catholic bishops, acting through their man on the Hill, anti-abortion zealot Bart Stupak, are wielding in the battle over healthcare reform: Read more
Day one of the Bunning hostage crisis
The HuffPo surveys the damage so far:
Two thousand federal transportation workers were furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.
Federal reimbursements to states for highway programs will also be halted, the Transportation Department said in a statement late Sunday. The reimbursements amount to about $190 million a day, according to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
The furloughs and freeze on payments were the result of a decision last week by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning to block passage of legislation that would have extended federal highway and transit programs, the department said. Those programs expired at midnight Sunday.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid prepares to bring in the legislative swat team to take the job killer down.
UPDATE: Bunning’s filibuster also clobbering doctors and seniors, reports TPM, Bunning’s selfish action has:
… now triggered a 21% cut in Medicare fees to doctors effective immediately. The AMA said the cut off risks a “meltdown” for seniors.
Joined at the hip: Jim DeMint and Marco Rubio
Apparently, if you like Jim DeMint, of “Obama’s Waterloo” fame, you’ll love Marco Rubio. St. Petersblog shows off the many ways Rubio and DeMint have become joined at the hip, even launching a new “conservative comeback” website and apparently, a fundraising thingamajig called “Friends of DeMint Rubio.” Kind of reminds me of the way old man John McCain latched onto Sarah Palin, in hopes of making himself seem fresh and relevant. Hm … Could DeMint, who’s up for re-election in November and is dragging Marco around South Carolina like a shiny bauble to attract crowds and help him get back in the Senate, see Riubio as his ticket to national leadership of a newer, more conservative, more Dixietastic GOP? DeMint has made it clear he intends to remake the Republican Party in his own image, by going outside the party structure if he has to to find “new Republicans” with whom he can work. Could he even be hoping to challenge fellow Suhthenor Mitch McConnell to be the top Republican in the Senate? (More on that here.) Watch and wonder …
Bring on the “caucus of the crazy!”
At Christian forum, Rubio triple-doubles down on right wing nuttery, vows to send women back to 1972
Marco Rubio: have extreme right wing talking points, will travel
So let me get this straight … if elected Florida’s next Senator, Marco Rubio will push to overturn Roe v. Wade, skipping past the namby-pamby “changing hearts” or preventing unwanted pregnancy crap and cutting to un-Jesus-like chase of throwing women (to include rape and incest victims,) and their doctors in prison. Glad we cleared that up. Read more
Rubio races even futher right; hits Crist on Schiavo case
From the Orlando Sentinel’s Mike Thomas with a hat tip to ThinkProgress:
Marco Rubio’s campaign has put out a new release, whacking Charlie Crist for not being tough on social issues like abortion.
The release includes this mention of the Terri Schiavo case, ” Crist also received criticism on the Terri Schiavo debate about where he really stood on a Congressional bill that would have let Terri’s parents take their lawsuit to save her life to federal courts.”
In other words, Marco seems to favor government intervention in this case. Read more
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