You Think You Knew Crazy? Think Again. 10 Shockers from the Increasingly Unhinged Right Wing

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/you-think-you-knew-crazy-think-again-10-shockers-increasingly-unhinged-right




1. Michele Bachmann: 'Obama is part of Al Qaeda and end times are near.'

To the extent that she is capable of rational decision-making, Minn. Rep. Michele Bachmann decided this week might be a fitting time to remind the public that she is batshit crazy. During a radio interview, she spun out her theory that, A) President Obama is arming terrorists, generally, and Al Qaeda, specifically. And B) This is cause for rejoicing because it is a sign that the end times are near.


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2. Some of Antonin Scalia’s best friends are gay—and yeah, the devil exists.

As Bill Mahrer pointed out, people are certainly welcome to hold whatever crazy religious beliefs they choose. The trouble is when those people, like Bachmann, and say, a Supreme Court justice, are making decisions that impact the rest of us. In a different time, the high court’s glibbest right winger might have felt the need to be more circumspect about his religious beliefs, what with separation of church and state, and all. But Antonin Scalia let it all hang out in a recent interview with New York magazine’s Jennifer Senior, telling her, “I even believe in the devil.”

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3. Arizona lawmaker: 'Obama is like Hitler.'

And then this little-known wack-job state legislator from Arizona comes along and chimes in that Obama is like Adolf Hitler. She posted it on Facebook, while also calling for rogue sheriffs to arrest federal employees enforcing the government shutdown. Yeah, that’s right, the shutdown that House Republicans caused—the same one that the right-wing calls Obama’s shutdown because he won’t negotiate on that legislatively approved, Supreme Court-vetted affordable health-care law. Sounds Hitlerian to us, all right, trying to get more poor and sick people health care coverage. Hitler loved those poor sick people.

4. Ted Cruz lollapalooza.

Ted Cruz, it has become abundantly clear, is capable of spewing near record amounts of nonsense and demagoguery. The architect of the shutdown and inadvertent popularizer of Obamacare is still talking—this time at a right-wing echo chamber writ large, the Values Voters Summit.

[Stargazer09]

1. Excellent to read,

Disgusting to think about.

[B Calm]

2. What a crazy world we live in.

[pampango]

3. Great article, xchrom. More excerpts from it.

6. Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling: 'We don’t have to fund laws we didn’t pass.'

Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) ... retorted that "this House" didn't vote for the stimulus, and that "this House' didn't vote for Obamacare.” This is novel in the history of American democracy: the notion that Congress is not obligated to pay the bills for programs passed by a previous Congress. We don’t want to give them ideas—although the right-wing fringe already has this one, but according to this argument they could refuse to pay for Social Security as a pre-condition for "negotiations" since "this House" didn't vote for the Social Security Act.

7. Bryan Fischer: 'Good on Vladimir Putin for those anti-homosexual laws.'

Moving away from the lunatics in the House to the bullies in the pulpit, the fundamentalist American Family Association loudmouth Bryan Fischer expressed admiration for virulently homophobic Russian President Vladimir Putin for his country’s law criminalizing homosexual “propaganda,” because it is, they both agree “propaganda of pedophilia".

10. Fox’s Ben Carson: 'Women need to be re-educated so they don’t get all riled up about abortion.'

In another highlight from the Value Voters Summit, newly hired Fox News contributor Dr. Ben Carson said on Friday that the country may need to “re-educate the women” so that they stop having abortions.

OK, that sounds really creepy—not to mention reminiscent of Mao, Pol Pot, and a Margaret Atwood novel to us. Re-education camps. For women. So that they have babies.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. K&R

Certainly an entertaining read, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to marvel at the lunatic fringe. It's like a Sunday at the zoo.

I only wish there was a fence between us and this increasingly popular legion of political zombies, as their bite can be infectious to the ignorant when delivered with hate and prejudice.

[RC]

6. Don't forget the mote and a 12 foot high retaining wall surrounding the whole thing, too.

And maybe light up the mote at night with sunlight lamps.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. K&R