Hot on the heels of my last post about how mind-numbingly infantile the GOP has become, I was greeted with these two articles in my Google Reader:

In the early 1950s, when lawmakers were adding “under God” to the Pledge and changing all American money to include the phrase “In God We Trust,” Congress created an official annual Prayer Day for the nation. Congress, under pressure from the religious right, changed the law in 1988 to set the National Day of Prayer as the first Thursday in May. Obama, like his predecessors, issued a proclamation (pdf) honoring the “holiday.”

Unlike George W. Bush, Obama didn’t open up the White House to the self-appointed National Day of Prayer Task Force, run by religious right activists, which has hosted exclusive events for the last eight years.

This has led a variety of conservatives to make a variety of demonstrably false claims.

Lie #1: Rush Limbaugh said Obama tried to “cancel” the National Day of Prayer.

That’s obviously not true; Obama issued a proclamation acknowledging the day. No effort was made to “cancel” anything.

Lie #2: Fox News’ online project, Fox Nation, said the president “won’t celebrate” the National Day of Prayer.

Again, the proclamation proves otherwise.

Lie #3: Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson said the president’s decision to participate in “private” prayer on “National Prayer Day” is evidence of Obama “giving in to the PC society that we live in.”

No one pressured Obama to keep the National Day of Prayer Task Force out of the White House; it was just the obvious thing to do. As for the knock on “private” prayer, I might recommend Gretchen Carlson read Matthew 6:6.

Lie #4: Fox News’ Steve Doocy said Reagan and George H. W. Bush held events similar to that of George W. Bush.

As hard as this is to believe, Doocy has it backwards. Reagan largely ignored the NDP for his first seven years in office.

Lie #5: Elisabeth Hasselbeck said on Fox News that the National Day of Prayer “has been a huge tradition” in the U.S.

That’s just nonsense, since most presidents, like most Americans, have largely ignored the “holiday.” Besides, Obama is keeping the “tradition” going by doing what his predecessors have done — he issued a proclamation.

Literally every attack Republicans have thrown at the Obama administration has been a dud. Some have been more embarrassing than others, but when “socialism” started polling well, it probably should have been a signal to the GOP to reevaluate their smear tactics.

Now, however, Republicans leaders are very excited about the new line of attack. Today, they’re rallying support for the “Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act.” This follows up on arguments from January, and the message hasn’t improved since.

The GOP argument is that the president, by closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, may move as many as 250 detainees to detention facilities in the U.S. Congressional Republicans want to make that next to impossible, arguing that Obama would put American lives at risk by bringing suspected terrorists onto American soil.

This is a very stupid argument.

There are multiple angles to this, but let’s cut to the chase: we already lock up some extraordinarily dangerous people in maximum-security facilities. Al Qaeda suspects may be scary, but they don’t have super powers. Obama isn’t going to just drop off bad guys on Main Street and ask them to play nice.

This is what the GOP has been reduced to!?

Crying about Obama not giving the far-right Dobson family carte blanche access to the White House to push their particular brand of hate and venom via the megaphone of the Presidency?

Screaming about moving alleged terrorists from Guantanamo to a Super-Max facility somewhere on U.S. soil??

I just don’t get it… It’s like watching a play that your kids put on where they all dress up like adults and hobble across the stage in mom and dad’s shoes saying stuff they think sounds Adult and Mature. Come to think of it, kids like this would actually be making a hell of a lot more sense than these unhinged rightwing freakjobs in Congress and the MSM right now.