Let's Him And You Fight...

Nothing I enjoy more than watching a couple of right wing nasties tearing into one another, but this one is especially entertaining.  Rick "google him" Santorum claims John "I'm old and bitter" McCain doesn't understand "enhanced interrogation" techniques.  In other words, the guy who never served in the military is lecturing the guy who, like him or not, spent 5 1/2 year being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison camp -- on the workings of torture!

And I thought Trump and Gingrich had the corner on chutzpah! 

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/05/17/santorum_mccain_enhanced_interrogation

Just When You Think They Can't Go Lower...

Freakishly flat-affect and hopefully-in-a-year-recalled Gov. Scott Walker wants a constitutional ban against same sex couples having hospital visitation rights.  Maybe he's afraid they'll pull a Newt and use the hospital visit to push for a divorce.  Oh wait, same sex couples can't get married in this neaderthal's state either...

What's is wrong with these people?  What sucked the compassion out of their DNA and replaced it with endless cynical political calculation? 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/17/976764/-Walker-moves-to-ban-hospital-visitation-rights-for-same-sex-couples?via=blog_1

Keep 'Em Stupid, Ricky Santorum Edition

Loser ex-Senator Rick Santorum joins a host of other Republican nitwits calling for the end of public education.  Makes sense, I guess, since the system clearly didn't work for them... 

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_05/targeting_the_very_existence_o029452.php

Cheerleader Hell

A 16 year old cheerleader in Texas says she was raped by a local high school basketball star.  Basketball star pleads guilty to misdemeanor assault.  Cheerleader refuses to cheer for accused rapist/convicted assaulter during a basketball game.  School throws her off the cheerleading squad.  She sues, the conservative fifth district court affirms right of the school to kick her off AND deems the suit frivolous, which means the cheerleader gets to pay $45000 in legal fees.

Fortunately, the Supreme Court was there to hear her case.  I mean, oops.  They declined to hear it.  And so goes justice in Texas...

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_05/the_case_of_hs029434.php

So Much "Compassion", So Little Time

Couldn't get President Obama on the "not an American citizen" gambit, so let's go after his parents.  Is there a more hateful, publicity seeking freak on the fringe than Pamela Geller?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/05/pam-geller-obama-illegitimate-because-parents-had-sham-marriage/

Writer Neil Gaiman is asked to speak at a library and is paid a fee (which he donates to charity) for his efforts.  A Republican Congressman from Minnesota who doesn't like Gaiman is outraged, calls him names ("pencil-necked little weasel") and asserts he's a "thief."  Wow, I guess this douche really didn't enjoy "Sandman."

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/mn-gop-rep-targets-author-neil-gaiman

Hateful crew of Fox yakkers (angry because they've been relegated to the Fox business channel that no one watches) chuckle it up thinking about who they'd like to waterboard, with the potential victims ranging from President Obama to Rachel Maddow.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201105050023