Batshit Bachmann Breaks The Goofy Meter Again

GOP Presidential Hopeful Beats Lame Euphemism "Job Creators" to Death, Hangs "Socialist" Tag on Wall Street Stooge

As per usual, the Washington Times bends over backwards to give right-wing nutcakes all the space they need to bloviate until the cows come home. Here's GOP freak-show exhibit Michele Bachmann spewing onto the Times' op-ed pages:

I have often been criticized for saying that I could turn around the U.S. economy in just a few short months. That is not blind optimism talking, but rather the realization that the biggest impediment to true economic recovery has been the signal President Obama’s policies have been sending to the key audience for recovery, the job creators. Should I be fortunate enough to be elected by the American people to serve as president of the United States, I will have an ambitious agenda in the first 100 days that will send a signal to our country’s job creators and to the world that the days of socialist policies are over, that our free market is once again open for business and that we will once again lead the world as the true exceptional nation.

Maa-aan, you could play a drinking game with this column. Eyes not burning yet? Well, all-righty, then... >more

Palin: Not Too Late to Enter GOP Goat Rodeo

The Associated Press reports:

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin says it's not too late for someone to jump into the Republican presidential race.

Asked by Fox Business Network's "Follow the Money" about the likelihood that she'd become a candidate, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said it's not too late for "folks" to jump in. Said Palin: "Who knows what will happen in the future."

The full interview is scheduled for broadcast Monday night... >more

Virginia Teabaggers Take Issue With Allen's Endorsement Claims

Senator Macaca steps in it

Wesley P. Hester reports in the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

While surfing the Web last week, Kerry Scott was surprised to learn that she had endorsed U.S. Senate candidate George Allen.

After receiving a quizzical email from a friend, Scott found her name attached to a release from Allen's campaign titled: "Virginia Tea Party Patriots Endorse George Allen for U.S. Senate." The list includes more than 100 individuals from across the state, and in most cases, their respective organizations.

But while Scott is indeed affiliated with the movement, heading the Alexandria Tea Party, she never lent her support to Allen, a former Virginia governor seeking to reclaim the Senate seat he lost to Jim Webb in 2006.

"I don't know where that list was generated or who put it together," she said, noting that she immediately called Allen's campaign and had her name removed from the list on Allen's website.

In fact, Scott was already spoken for - by one of Allen's rivals for the GOP nomination. For months, Scott has been on an endorsement list for Jamie Radtke, a Chesterfield County tea party activist.

"I really, really want a fresh face in D.C., and I really want a citizen legislator who's going to say no to all the spending and growth of government," Scott said.

She noted that Allen's release also had the name of her tea party organization wrong... >more

Batso Bachmann: "Absurd" to volunteer for waterboarding to prove it's not torture

GOP Presidential hopeful defends practice, breaks Goofy Meter again

Eric Kleefeld reports at Talking Points Memo:
In an extensive interview with the Des Moines Register’s editorial board, Michele Bachmann defended the practice of waterboarding. But would she herself ever get waterboarded, so that she could more knowledgeably speak about it? Don’t be absurd.

During her defense of the practice, Bachmann disagreed with the questioner’s premise that waterboarding is torture: “It was called an enhanced interrogation technique that was used to bring about information.” She did concede, though, that it is “uncomfortable.”

“If I had knowledge that we could use something like a waterboarding to be able to save the American people, would I use that?” Bachmann asked rhetorically. “Yes I would, because waterboarding does not kill anyone. Is it uncomfortable? Yet, it’s uncomfortable, but I am more concerned that we would prevent aircraft from going into the Twin Towers, taking them down, and taking out 3,000 innocent American lives, than I am about the comfort level of a terrorist, and what that means for them..." >more

Rick Perry Doesn't Know If Obama's Birth Certificate Is Real

Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any More St00pid: Corndog Deep-Throating Texas Guv Infected With Trumpitis


Kim Geiger reports in the L.A. Times:

After dining last month with Donald Trump, Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't sure that President Obama's birth certificate is real.

The GOP presidential candidate was asked by Parade magazine whether he believed that Obama was born in the United States.

"I have no reason to think otherwise," he said.

Pressed for a "definitive" answer, Perry continued: "Well, I don't have a definitive answer, because he's never seen my birth certificate."

"But you've seen his," the interviewer replied.

"I don’t know. Have I?" Perry said. ...>more

Texas Hotel Tosses Out Tea Party Conference Featuring Pam Gellar After Threatened Protests

Does that tacky little pendant of hers say... "Love"?

Daryle Lamont Jenkins reports at One People's Project:

Pam Geller has two degrees of seperation from Jared Taylor. She works for neo-con bigot David Horowitz, who has also published writings by Taylor and others that are also found in Taylor's publication American Renaissance. So she should not be surprised that she is being treated like Jared Taylor. It seems the locals of Sugarland, TX are none too pleased about a teabagger outfit bringing her to town. And they were making noise about Hyatt Place hosting it. Responding to their complaints, as they have with American Renaissance, they shut their doors to the event. The teabaggers moved the event to another location, but it is a good sign that people are making this kind of noise about these particular characters a lot more now. Hey, she and her crowd might take a cue from Jared Taylor & Co. and start holding their events in public facilities where they say they cannot be denied use. That's why the National Policy Insitiute held their conference at the Reagan Building in DC on Sept. 10, and why Taylor is using government-owned facility that is about a 45 minute drive from Nashville, TN on March 16-18, 2012. A little flaw in that by the way: A facility that's open to the public means it is open to the public they don't like which means events like this can be pretty damned interesting to the creative activist. In other words, if folks are being proactive against people like this be they Geller, Taylor, NPI or whatever, they are going to be pretty effective in that, no matter what those clowns do... >more

Tea Party Nation goes off meds, calls for small businesses to stop hiring to undermine Obama

Not that we here at the TW give a rat's ass what happens to Obama, but, still...

...check out this epic Tourette's outburst at Tea Party Nation. They really do want small businesses to go "on strike" -- to stop hiring workers just to bring down the Obama Administration... as if Obama isn't already doing a bang-up job of bringing down himself:

Resolved that: The Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Senate, in alliance with a global Progressive socialist movement, have participated in what appears to be a globalist socialist agenda of redistribution of wealth, and the waging of class warfare against our constitutional republic's heritage of individual rights, free market capitalism, and indeed our Constitution itself, with the ultimate goal of collapsing the U.S. economy and globalizing us into socialism.

Resolved that: President Obama has seized what amount to dictatorial powers to bypass our Congress, and that because the Congress is controlled by a Progressive socialist Senate that will not impeach one of their kind, they have allowed this and yielded what are rightfully congressional powers to this new dictator...

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