The war on women continues

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin assembly has voted to ban private insurance coverage for abortions, and mandate abstinence-only sex education classes. Oh, and it was passed in the middle of the night. Where’s Mike Huckabee to complain about legislation passed late at night?

Way to focus on jobs, Wisconsin!

MADISON — The Wisconsin Assembly passed bills limiting insurance coverage for abortions and requiring schools to teach abstinence during a late-night session that lasted until Wednesday morning as they pushed to tie up pending legislation.

The Legislature was poised to adjourn Thursday without passing its two highest priorities coming into the year: a mining bill to help create hundreds of jobs in northern Wisconsin and a measure pumping money into venture capital to help spur new business creation.

Instead, lawmakers spent the early morning hours Wednesday fighting over abortion rights and sex education. The Assembly also passed a bill creating the state's first wolf hunting season.

More bad news for conservatives

More bad news for conservatives and their message of doom and gloom: Jobless claims are back at four-year lows.

They’ll have to twist themselves in knots explaining why the economy is really getting worse, like Mitt Romney claims, or that any improvement can’t be credited to President Obama, like Allen West claims.

ODS makes you stupid

Republicans blame President Obama for the bad economy he inherited when he took office. Somehow, even though the financial crash happened before he was even elected, it was his fault.

So it stands to reason, now that the economy is improving, and so much so that even Republicans can't pretend it's not anymore, that they have to find a way to make sure Obama doesn't get credit for it.

Allen West has come up with an excuse: The economy's improving because business is excited about a Republican winning the White House in a few months.

Obama Derangement Syndrome. It makes people stupid.

Solving the GOP primary conundrum

I have a solution for sad Republicans wishing they could just get the primaries over with and get on with battling President Obama.

First of all, forget Newt. He’s done. And Ron Paul? Don’t make me giggle.

It’s between Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. And as the evangelical crazies apparently have taken over the GOP, here’s my solution:

Find a nice big field somewhere. Have Romney and Santorum build altars, and let them select their own sacrificial animals to put on them. Then let them pray to God as loudly as they can. Whichever altar God strikes with lightening, there’s your candidate. Totally God-approved.

If evangelical right wingers really believe their mythology, they should be clamoring for Romney and Santorum to do this. If it was good enough for Elijah, it should be good enough for evangelical teabaggers.

You’re welcome, Republicans.

“Game Change” a huge win for HBO

"Game Change" is excellent television -- regardless of politics. Great writing, great acting, great direction. There are many Emmys coming for this one.

It's also the most-watched original HBO movie in 8 years.

HBO's "Game Change," the controversial movie about John McCain and Sarah Palin's 2008 presidential campaign, drew 2.1 million viewers on Saturday—the largest audience for an original movie on the cable network in eight years. Counting repeats, the film, starring Julianne Moore as Palin and Ed Harris as McCain, drew a total of 3.6 million viewers for HBO. "Something the Lord Made," starring Alan Rickman and Mos Def, drew 2.6 million for HBO in May 2004.

And while I had a grudging respect for Steve Schmidt before, this movie confirms it. I’m especially enjoying Steve’s work on MSNBC these days – he provides a Republican viewpoint that’s refreshingly free of bullshit.

Socialism marches on

Wow, Barack Obama's socialism sure is trashing the American economy.

ALL national advertising on Limbaugh suspended

Lawrence O’Donnell in the open for tonight’s The Last Word just announced that ALL national advertising has been suspended on Rush Limbaugh’s show.

The “Obama is a secret Muslim” conspiracy

 

Conspiracy theories are so much fun. Apparently, there's been a super secret sinister decades-long conspiracy to sneak a super secret undercover Muslim commie socialist into the White House with the super secret undercover American-sounding name of Barack Hussein Obama. Yeah, makes perfect sense.

In the midst of tight GOP primaries in both states, Public Policy Polling (PPP) has released information showing that a majority of likely GOP primary voters in the Deep South do not see Obama as a Christian. PPP's Alabama survey of 600 likely GOP primary voters found that only 14 percent consider Obama a Christian, while 45 percent said he is a Muslim and 41 percent answered that they were not sure.

A similar picture surfaced in Mississippi. Of 656 likely GOP primary voters surveyed, 12 percent said Obama was a Christian, 52 percent classified him as a Muslim, and 36 percent fell in the "not sure" category.

Gingrich, conservatives giddy over high gas prices

Newt Gingrich and right wing pundits are promoting the conspiracy theory that President Obama wants gas prices to be high. You know, because he's like pure evil, or something.

Except for the fact that Newt Gingrich, other Republican candidates and the same right wing pundits are the ones who are GIDDY over high gas prices because they know that's the one thing that hurts Obama's re-election chances.

The bad news for Republicans is that demand for gas in the US is currently low and we have an over-supply, so depending on where crude prices go, prices at the pump are set to stabilize and may even begin to fall in the next few weeks.

Unless the Koch brothers and other oil speculators can work hard to keep prices high, that is. But I'm sure they wouldn't do that just because it's an election year, would they?

More Palin word salad

Good god Sarah Palin is a blithering idiot. She says that Obama wants to "go back" to the era of slavery. Hey, Sarah, if we went back to the era of slavery, Obama would probably be someone's slave. You are so stupid I'm amazed you're even able to breathe.