The level of insanity in the Republican party is just getting more mind-boggling every day:
These are sitting members of Congress, for fuck’s sake!
As John Cole opines:
The reason Republicans in DC are running from some guy on the street asking them whether or not Obama is an American citizen is because they have spent the last thirty years cultivating a base of insane crazy people, and while they may escape a reporter from FDL, they can’t escape the base.
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Republicans Cave Again: Student Loans Edition
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THE GRAPEVINE
These people cannot believe that they lost the election to a black man, so they have to make up a conspiracy theory to explain it. Their premise has been kick out of every court that they have brought it before but still they persist. And they still wonder why the Republican Party is shedding members left and right.
Salon has a great post today specifically stating what our Constitution actually does and does not say/permit. Very clear. Obama and McCain are/were fine. This other stuff is just manipulative whackiness, and journalistically shameful for CNN/Dobbs/etc to address it as anything but patently, constitutionally, false…educate the people with facts or ignore it. Will MSM next consider cruelly interviewing and presenting as fact/opinion the sad psychotic ramblings of some diagnosed mentally ill homeless person to try to up their tabloid ratings??? Cheers to the journalists who still have integrity and insist on reporting facts about both issues and the groups/people who spin such nonsense.