April 2009

That’s Cincinnati’s beloved Willy Cunningham offering his opinion of President Obama:

What we have here is this little boy who grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, at the age of 6 to 10, rejected by his own father, rejected by his own mother, rejected by his stepfather, raised by his grandparents"

He has always been such a classy person. NOT! Cincinnati will be a much better place when he is finally off the air.

(h/t Cesca)

Condi rice decided to pull out a tricky Dick line when talking about torture:

So if the President is above the law, then will Bill Clinton get his law license back?

What if President Obama decides to lock up all members of the previous administratoin without a trial? I guess that would be legal also.

Maybe President Obama should declare the Republican Party a terrorist organization and lock up everyone who identifies as a Republican. That would be legal under Condi’s thinking.

The fact is the President is not above the law, and for people like Condi. who was only five heart beats away from the oval office,  to sit out there and make such egregious claims is an insult to our nation and what our founding fathers fought for. 

The dipshit of Minnesota is back in the news. Here’s the one and only Michele Bachmann:

BACHMANN: I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under Democrat President Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it is an interesting coincidence.

But as Think Progress points out, that outbreak in the 70’s happened in February of 1976, when Republican Gerald Ford was President.

Bachmann is trying to turn this possible pandemic into a political game with totally wrong facts. That’s what happens when she tries to play with the big kids.

I been reading through a lot of reactions to Arlen Specter’s party switch yesterday, and one quote stuck out at me:

The Republican Party was founded as a party of individual rights and individual initiative. It led the fight to end slavery, give women the right to vote, expand national parks and break up corporate monopolies. Today the party is more movement-oriented: pro-life, pro-gun, pro-tax cut and anti-U.N., with recent pandering in Texas and Alaska to irrational secessionist anger. Arlen Specter didn't fit.

(emphasis added)

That’s from former congressman Jim Leach (R-IA). Leach made headlines last year when he endorsed Barack Obama for President – a rather strong endorsement considering Leach’s foreign policy expertise. This statement goes beyond that cross over we saw last year.

The right is already trying to spin comments like this as hogwash, but Leach is a moderate Republican and echoing what many moderate Republicans are saying. The party has been taken over by the extreme right wing, and that isn’t going to end up good for the Republicans.