We will not forget.

The guns are there to shoot the virus, right?

We just want to ask a few easy questions, Mr. Trump....

Mencken's prophecy, slightly modified, but still on point

That'll show'em!

Update: a discussion on what the Oregon idiots are about.

Har har har....

Go ahead and try it, buster.

Jeb Bush on 2016 run: ‘I don’t think there is any Bush baggage at all’

update:



Update 3/11 from Talking Points Memo, a very insightful piece on the difficulties of the Republican party:

I mean, George Bush as “strong leader?” Really? I was there. I watched it happen. The guy was a potted plant who they imagined into faux greatness by sheer force of Noonanian gibberish and the D.C. establishment’s will to believe it. 

To my mind, that moral and intellectual bankruptcy has been obvious since at least 2005. The failure of the Social Security privatization push, the Schiavo debacle, the disintegration of Iraq into murderous chaos, and the hailing of a financial industry edging ever closer to outright criminality as the Miracle of Markets Creating Wealth and Prosperity for All. 

All of these disasters—political, social and economic—were the consequence of Bush Administration’sapplication of the Reagan realignment policy paradigm to social and economic circumstances that no longer remotely resemble those existing in 1980. Privatization, tax cutting, the embrace of politicized Christian fundamentalist as policy, militaristic interventionism, and deregulation—of course the Bush Administration’s zealous application of those policy principles led to serial disasters for the GOP and the nation. All of the problems—real or perceived—that these policies were implemented to fix had long since been as “fixed” as it was possible for those principles to fix them. And yet they were compelled to keep acting like top marginal rates were at 90%, the Evil Empire had to be rolled back and business was groaning under the weight of oppressive regulation and mired in strangling red tape because the constituencies that were the pillars of the party’s electoral constituencies.

Update: Rotating 360 on immigration.

Update:  What writing his 'book' about immigration actually means.

Lovely

Starting an international incident before he starts a run for the White House.

There are some people

Who will believe anything because it's in print. Is it my imagination or are there a whole lot more of them nowadays?

Trump exposed

h/t to Karin Ahmed and Jeffraham Prestonian for the idea.

One way to deal with the Westboro haters...

And prevent them from ruining a soldier's funeral.

The Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theory Generator

It all makes sense now!!

The start of a new meme...

Explained here. The meme generator.

My contribution:

Why are we giving the insane

Acknowledgement by the press?

Why?

Oh dear...

Distributor Cap of NY has Fun with Rand and Sarah. You will never be the same....

Stupid is as stupid does.

And this is a lot of stupid.

Oklahoma Is At It Again: State Legislature Passes Bill Stripping Abortion Coverage From Health Insurance.

And Arizona keeps digging deeper:

Arizona Governor signs law banning ethnic studies programs in public schools

And Tennessee is allowing guns in bars. What could possibly go wrong?

Louie Gohmert does his part for Texas:

[Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)] was first to respond: "An absolute breakdown in morality," he said. "And when you lose morality, you get economic chaos. And when you have economic chaos, historically, people have always been willing to give up liberty. And that's what we're seeing."

Even California's Issa tried to get on the stupid before running away:

Rep. Issa Wants To Strip Provision Promoting Gender Parity In Academic Science And Technology

(He walked it back later.)

Keeping their eye on the important stuff

Oil disaster? Two wars? Bad economy?

Iowa lawmaker presses the state to discriminate against LGBT families at campgrounds.

Want to guess which party he belongs to?

What could possibly go wrong?

Virginia gun lobby pushes for right to drink alcohol while carrying a gun in public.

Just a reminder that the barrel needs scraping...

Kos gets hate mail.

Truer words have never been bespeaked!

Remember the creationism/ intelligent design debacle: the Kitmiller v. Dover Area School Board court case? Just finished Charles Pierce's Idiot America and he mentioned the utterly quote of a local pastor, Ray Mummert:

We've been attacked,"Mummert said,"by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture."

Exactly. Duly noted.

The intelligence just shines forth,

Doesn't it? Makes me so proud to be a Merkin!



h/t to Ali in comments... who has a rather iconic pic on her blog....

Update: Watertiger has more!