Political quote of the day

We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, (audience boos) and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain’t on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.

– Rep. Allen West (R-FL).  It does appear, however, that West will be wiped out by redistricting run by Florida republicans.

Political quote of the day

For many right-wingers, Obama was a foreign object, whose unexpected entrance into the body politic activated their immune systems — hence the ‘birther’ movement and other bizarre right-wing obsessions. Whether the right’s aversion to Obama constitutes classic racism is a Talmudic question; what is undeniable is that his race activated a horde of (literally) white cells, rushing to expel the invader. Like organisms, cults always delineate themselves by drawing sharp lines between Us and Them.

Gary Kamiya via The Quotation of the Day Mailing List.

Santorum: same sex marriage equals polygamy

Rick Stantorum, speaking to a group of New Hampshire college students today, equated same sex marriage with polygamy.

A real class act. Hopefully he will continue to do well in the republican primaries.

By the way, I suggest that if you are easily offended, you not do a Google search for “santorum” and then click the first link.

Political quote of the day (updated)

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source.

Rick Perry, GOP presidential candidate and expert in political geography.

Update: Mr. Perry also acknowledged today that he wasn’t familiar with Perry Lawrence v. Texas, decided by the US Supreme Court in 2003, overruling the state’s anti-sodomy statute, while Perry was Texas governor.

Q and A of the day

On Face the Nation today:

SCHIEFFER: One of the things you say is that if you don’t like what a court has done, that Congress should subpoena the judge and bring him before Congress and hold a congressional hearing … how would you enforce that? Would you send the Capitol Police down to arrest him?

GINGRICH: Sure. If you had to. Or you’d instruct the Justice Department to send a U.S. Marshal.

I am appalled by Gingrich’s reply. Not because it is out of character for him, but rather because I desperately wish him to win the GOP nomination, and this kind of remark doesn’t help.

Norwegian crisis (updated)

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Herman Cain simply will not go away. You can write this down for future reference.

And any purported invocation of Christmas that embarrassingly equates Christmas in America as somehow more important or true than Christmas anywhere is disgusting, for both America and Christianity. As far as I understand Christ, he did not tie his teachings to any political entity, nor did he dole out special treatment for political entities. How could Jesus be anything other than disgusted by Herman Cain?

It’s official: the most hated YouTube in history

Straight (you should pardon the expression) from Rick Perry’s terminally ill campaign headquarters, comes this new video. It has earned a serious distinction: it is the most “disliked” video on YouTube. Yesterday, it had 30,000 “dislikes.” Today, that is up to 268,000 dislikes.

Even more “disliked” than this.

Fortunately, the replies are appearing, including this one that I particularly enjoy:

Tweet of the day

Bachmann tells Waverly IA crowd that were she president, "we wouldn't have an American embassy in Iran." The US broke ties w Iran in 1980.
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James Novogrod

Pepper spray is A-OK

So if pepper spray is OK to use on peaceful protestors, why not fellow Wal-Mart shoppers?

This is so sad. But the constant barrage of advertisements calling for more shopping and deals that cannot be matched, coupled with the recession, is certainly an inducement for such behavior.

Meanwhile, an off-duty police officer pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers in North Carolina.

God, I love the commercial nature of America. Merry Christmas.