Republican Base

In Chris Matthew's Sideshow, you get your money's worth today! Enraptured by the merging of the two Tea Party/ Republican honeys,who are possibly as vapid as he, Sean Hannity of Fox felt moved to be the first to make THE big 2012 announcement for "Rah Rah Rock Star" Sarah Palin, and Lunatic fringe Michele Bachmann. Let the good times roll! If there are any truly conservative Republicans left, a fly on the wall could make good money, presuming his sensory equipment isn't too tender. Rounding out the day, Arlen Specter seems to have forgotten exactly who he was addressing at a recent speech at Penn State. The audience was well aware of their identity.

Who knows what Congressman Steve King, R - Iowa is thinking? If you've seen those heart breaking commercials featuring homeless pets from the Humane Society, it would seem that King is viewing them as a menu!

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Lawrence O'Donnell talks with David Corn of Mother Jones magazine about the sudden and startling departure of David Frum, formerly of the American Enterprise Institute. The scales have fallen from the eyes of Frum who criticized Republicans for what most of us can see. Frum stated that they'd only just discovered that they're working for the fringe element like Fox, Rush Limbaugh, and the Teabaggers, when the assumption was that the media was there to support them. Frum goes so far as to say Limbaugh wanted them to fail, the better to preserve his angry audience.  By seamlessly including the radical right and doing their bidding, Republicans have created their own Armageddon, a word used famously by House Minority Leader John Boehner of health care reform passage. Republicans are now forced to do the bidding of the crazy fringe groups and media, virtually eliminating any productive internal debate, and if I may say - looking very silly in the process. By and large these are people the Republican party has lacked interest in until they saw a chance to use the media and get votes. Rather than aspire to achievement they've found themselves wrapped around the axle with some very unpleasant people, taking directives from them and falling flat on their faces in the process.

Ugliness over the health care legislation, or maybe a black president is showing a seamy and dangerous underbelly which is sure to move the most weak minded to action. Mike Vanderboegh, former Alabama Constitutional Militia toady is proud to take responsibility for the very recent spate of bricks with threatening messages attached, thrown at Democratic party offices in the past four days and escalating.

But...but...He promised! Rush Limbaugh said that if healthcare legislation passed, he would pack his bags and move to Costa Rica. Now he's backpedaling as fast as his chubby legs can carry him. He says all of the many who are "inviting" him to leave did not understand what he said. The great bloviator hasn't uttered a true word on air yet, we can't be blamed for hoping this would be a first. Limbaugh is not without help, I know I'd help him move, and others obviously share my sentiment. www.ticketforrush.com is doing their best to help him. Most recently a travel agency called Joan’s Travel Partners has volunteered to pay for a one way ticket to Costa Rica. Said Joan LaPore, the travel agency owner, “As a service to the country my travel agency is more than willing to send Rush Limbaugh ONE WAY to Costa Rica or the country of his choice –as long as it is off American soil."

Sarah Palin brings her bounty of political experience as a half term quitter as Governor of Alaska, blundering token female V.P. candidate/ SNL skit inspiration for Tina Fey to bear in judging President Barack Obama's "lack of experience." Alas, "It's a bit over his head" according to the new voice of Fox News, and sometimes lunatic fringe Teabagger event speaker. Ed Schultz does a very brief point by point comparison of Sarah Palin's accomplishments to those of Barack Obama. Suitable for framing.

Canada is undoubtedly LOLROF'ing today, thanks to Sen. Jim Bunning R- Mars. Bunning as you may recall, blocked the extension on unemployment benefits, among other things, because he could. Today, he is halting the heavy duty nominations of the Assistant Treasury Secretary, Chief Agriculture Negotiator, and The Ambassador to World Trade Organization, over candy flavored cigarettes, not ours - Canada's, which happen to be banned, and I thought...none of our business.

"I don't want any other kids to go through the pain that our family has gone through." That is the message of Marcelas Owens, a fifth grader from Seattle, who is the latest target of abuse from the mouths of the right wing, including Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin, and Newsbusters who calls him a spokesman for the liberal lobby. Owens is making a plea for health care after losing his 27-year-old mother Tiffany, who died of pulmonary hypertension. She lost treatment when she lost her job, then her health care - a familiar scenario in this country. He's been called "a human kiddy shield for the Dems" by Malkin, "a sob story" and much more, which gets much worse by Limbaugh, and of course, Glenn Beck ties it to socialism, after attacking the child's grandmother. You be the judge. Marcelas doesn't look like a political shield, he looks like an eleven year old who lost his twenty seven year old mother, through no fault of their own.

Perhaps Obama should stop smoking, but it's not for the reasons you think! Bill Maher has the right idea, and it might be just what Obama needs to do. There are few people with less patience to suffer fools than those who've just quit smoking. Who knows...if he'd stopped cold turkey at the beginning of the health care reform debate, we might well have a world class nationalized system by now, much like Costa Rica where the Limbaugh is threatening to move!