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Biggest Doozies From the Right-Wing Wackosphere This Week

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Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:32 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Rush Limbaugh: The pope rips America, causing Obama to orgasm!

The man who has continually raised the ante on outrageousness brought his A-game this week, starting with comments about Pope Francis and President Obama. “The pope is ripping capitalism, ripping trickledown economics, ripping America. And Obama is having an orgasm,” Limbaugh spewed. “The pope has co-opted Obama.” ( http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2013/12/04/rush-limbaugh-the-po
pe-is-giving-president-obama-an-orgasm/)

Sarah Palin: Thomas Jefferson and I agree. Those meanie atheists are trying to abort Christ from Christmas.

Sarah Palin managed to combine those dreaded atheists with abortion, Christ-killing and the dastardly war on Christmas all in one fell swoop in a speech at Liberty University. She was, of course, promoting her new book Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, and the former not full-term Alaska governor is nothing if not good at self-promotion.

According to her, Jefferson and his buds wrote the constitution specifically for religious people. Nonreligious people, in other words, amoral people, are not capable of understanding the Constitution, and they are therefore not able to follow its precepts:

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If you lose that foundation, John Adams was implicitly warning us, then we will not follow our constitution, there will be no reason to follow our constitution because it is a moral and religious people who understand that there is something greater than self, we are to live selflessly, and we are to be held accountable by our creator, so that is what our constitution is based on.” http://wonkette.com/535894/sarah-palin-dumbsplains-to-lamestream-media
-that-a-plastic-jewish-family-is-the-reason-for-the-season]

Palin is convinced Jefferson would agree with her that “angry atheists armed with an attorney” had set their sights on destroying the religious themes in Christmas celebrations: “Why is it they get to claim some offense taken when they see a plastic Jewish family on somebody’s lawn—a nativity scene, that’s basically what it is, right?” ( http://wonkette.com/535894/sarah-palin-dumbsplains-to-lamestream-media
-that-a-plastic-jewish-family-is-the-reason-for-the-season)

Fox News: Sharia law is here and the proof is that Muslim girls are taking swim classes at the Y.

Fox continued its quest to stoke the fires of Islamaphobia when it targeted a seemingly harmless YMCA swim class in St. Paul Minnesota that offers hour-long swim practice once a week for Muslim Somali-American girls between the ages of 5 and 17. The YMCA (that’s “C” for Christian, hello) even makes considerations for the girls’ modesty and religious beliefs. On Fox & Friends, an outraged Heather Nauert said this is just one more piece of evidence that "Sharia law is now changing everything." ( http://www.swimmersdaily.com/2013/12/03/fox-news-ymca-swim-class-musli
m-girls-proves-sharia-law-changing-everything/)

South Carolina Sheriff: No flying flag at half mast for Mandela.

Another great American with a modicum of power and a desire to use it, Rick Clark, the sheriff of Pickens County, S.C., is taking a bold stand against... ummm... Obama’s tyranny? Sheriff Clark is refusing to lower the flag to half staff in honor of Mandela on December 9, 2013, as the president ordered.

Now, we know what you are thinking, but this has nothing to do with race, Clark swears. It has to do with Amurrica. "Nelson Mandela did great things for his country and was a brave man but he was not an AMERICAN!!!” Clark wrote on his Facebook page. “The flag should be lowered at our Embassy in S. Africa, but not here."

The order to fly the flag at half-staff to honor a person who wasn’t a U.S. citizen isn’t unprecedented. In 2005, President George W. Bush ordered flags lowered to half-staff in honor of Pope John Paul II. ( http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/08/us/sheriff-mandela-no-half-staff/)

Texas Republican Rep.: Minimum wage, schminimum wage.

"I think it's outlived its usefulness," said Rep. Joe Barton of Texas. "It may have been of some value back in the Great Depression. I would vote to repeal the minimum wage." ( http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=334869&p=1063382910)

There were nearly 2 million private sector workers funded by public dollars (from direct federal contracts as well as federal health care spending, loans through the Small Business Administration, infrastructure grants, and janitors cleaning federal buildings leased from private companies) making less than $12 an hour in 2012. The current minimum wage, in real terms right now, is below where it was when Harry Truman was in office. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation, it would now be above $10.

Nah, we don't need it, we should keep people poor, so we can subsidize their poverty with our taxes, Republicans like that!

House Chair of Science Committee Lamar Smith: Climate change, no way; aliens, sure.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), who chairs the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, has no use for climate change science, and less use for the efforts to regulate carbon emissions. Setting standards for polluting power plants is partisan politics, he recently argued, blasting the EPA for trying to do so, not science. And the petroleum industry favorite knows from science. He’s using one of the seven days left on the legislative calendar to talk about extraterrestrials in a hearing called, “Astrobiology: Search for Biosignatures in our Solar System and Beyond.” ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/house-panel-pond
ers-extraterrestrial-life/2013/12/04/4496c3f6-5d05-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html)

California GOP-er: It’s part of Middle Eastern culture to lie.

Rep. Duncan Hunter must have been a cultural anthropology major. He displayed his deep knowledge of Middle Eastern culture in an interview with CSPAN this week when he expressed his opposition to the recent treaty with Iran. They lie, he said, in essence. Not only do they lie, they revere lying. Here’s how he knows. He’s heard about how bargaining goes on over there. "In the Middle Eastern culture it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying," Hunter said.

In damage control mode later, his communications director clarified that Hunter was talking about Middle Eastern political leaders, not all the people, especially Iranians.

Furthermore, Hunter, who also thinks U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants should be deported and opposes gays in the military, recommends using a nuclear bomb on Iran if necessary.

"I don’t think it’s inevitable but I think if you have to hit Iran, you don’t put boots on the ground, you do it with tactical nuclear devices and you set them back a decade or two or three." ( http://www.pe.com/local-news/politics/politics-notebook-headlines/2013
1206-political-notebook-hunter-on-bombs-and-lying.ece)

Then you can go back to the bargaining table.

GOP Rep: "I wake up every day not thinking about social issues."

Perhaps Rigell should spend a little time waking up every day to focus on social issues such as poverty, crime, unemployment, income inequality, education, and finding ways to better the lives for all Americans. Focusing on economic issues while being a part of the least productive congress in history that has yet to offer any legislation on creating new jobs may be difficult to tackle is nothing to crow about. ( https://aattp.org/virginia-gop-rep-could-care-less-about-gays-and-wome
n-i-wake-up-every-day-not-thinking-about-the-social-issues/)

We've already covered the other two pieces of insanity spewed by the right this week:

Rick Santorum: Obamacare is like apartheid. And I am like Mandela.

O’Reilly: Oh, you mean that commie terrorist?

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