Wonderful. Here’s hoping today’s recall primaries get rid of the fake Dems the GOP is running:
Category: Scary Crazy Wingnuts
Government-hating, self-reliant red staters
Barefoot and pregnant
No one ever believes this stuff is happening until it’s too late.
New Hampshire
The grapes of wrath
Cat’s out of the bag
Michele Bachmann’s husband Marcus was charging the taxpayers money for reparative therapy – otherwise known as “pray away the gay.” Read all about it here.
Michele Bachmann’s religious extremism
Thom Hartmann interviews Frank Schaffer, whose father founded the Moral Majority:
Bachmann
Quote of the day
Now that the Republicans can see how much leverage the debt ceiling gives them, they’re going to pull this stunt every time it gets near. The best-case scenario, with a big $2 trillion increase, would mean that we’re going to go through the exact same thing late in 2012; a more modest increase in the debt limit would set up a reprise of the current fiasco much sooner.
And that’s the invidious thing about low-probability events. Repeat the experiment often enough, and eventually they’ll happen. We’ll get a deal done this time. But one day, we won’t. And that day is not going to be a happy one.
The call
This is the movement of religious extremists with which Rick Perry has aligned himself. They believe their prayer rallies can call down the wrath of God and destroy the demons that have possessed that particular area. Oh, they also hate Catholics and Mormons (more demon possession) and the people they convert have to publicly burn the religious artifacts of their former faith. (This rally is in San Diego.) Pretty scary stuff: