The Continuing Ventures of Right Wing Nuttery

by Gherald

Jon lampoons the latest teabaggery...

Conor Friedersdorf is in typically good form responding to critics.

Newt Gingrich's "American Solutions" ignorantly insults the world.

Sarah Palin twitters her climate insights:

Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature’s ways.MUST b good stewards of God’s earth,but arrogant&naive2say man overpwers nature

Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng

As Charles Johnson helpfully notes, "at least it’s believable that she actually wrote this stuff herself."

He also rounds up many truly despicable comments from a single thread on Sen. Nelson's support for health reform.

Matt Yglesias forwards on a historical anecdote:

One always hopes that things will change, but as Chris Wickham observes in his excellent book The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000, right-wing punditry has been hitting some themes for well over a millennium:

Salvian of Marseilles wrote a long hell-fire sermon called On the Governance of God in the 440s which ascribed Roman failures against the (obviously inferior) “barbarians” to their own sins: notably, unjust and excessive taxation, public entertainment, and sexual license.

Some things never change.

(Actually the Roman Empire's decline and fall from excessive government and taxation has been well documented by economic historian Bruce Bartlett et. al.. But public entertainment and sexual license? Same nonsensical shit it ever was--as in "OMG, Hollywood and The Gays are killing America!".)