7 Deranged Comments from America's Far-Right This Week—Ted Cruz's Achy Breaky Heart Edition

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1.Ted Cruz’s ‘heart weeps’ because of marriage equality gains.

Our favorite nut-job senator from Texas was holding forth again this week, and our ears were hurting. Texas Senator Ted Cruz explained to Family Research Council president Tony Perkins how his proposed State Marriage Defense Act would, “make it more difficult for married same-sex couples to receive legal recognition.”

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2. WSJ’s James Taranto says intoxicated young women are equally to blame for their own rapes.

James Taranto graced readers with another glimpse into his “war on men” theory in a column Monday, which promised “a balanced look at college sex offenses.” Taranto is very concerned that young men are mostly being blamed when they have sex without a young woman’s consent, in other words, rape, them. He thinks that when both parties are drinking, the young women who are assaulted are equally to blame. “If both parties are intoxicated during sex, they are both technically guilty of sexually assaulting each other," he argues.

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3. Tom Perkins: Wealthy Americans should get more votes.

Visionary one percenter, Tom Perkins, who sees Nazis when he sees Progressives, and increasing taxes on the rich as a totalitarian takeover of democracy, piped up again this week. This deep thinking venture capitalist suggested that only taxpayers should have the right to vote at all, and wealthy Americans who pay more taxes should get more votes, especially guys like himself.

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4. Clarence Thomas: Funny, race never even came up in the 60s.

It’s always comforting when a lifetime member of the highest court in the land says something that leaves your jaw hanging agape.

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1. Idiots all of them and their moronic follows nt

[ananda]

2. My achybreaky mind...

Whooo

[Scuba]

3. If Limbaugh wants to know what "under assualt" really means, he should ask Matthew Sheppard.

[sufrommich]

4. I just don't understand why there are still

people who are not embarrassed to be a republican. zse

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5. did clarence thomas graduate eighth grade?

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6. funny question

I believe he did, and from a segregated school, no less. It would appear he does not remember his own childhood, and is inventing some sort of fairy tale to fill in the void.

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7. he's brain dead.