Lobohan
December 7, 2012, 12:31am
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Well yeah, but for a Republican that’s what passes for sane nowadays.
I was talkin’ about them pushing birtherism or Obama being gay-married, or the UN trying to steal disabled kids from homeschoolers.
Lobohan:
Well yeah, but for a Republican that’s what passes for sane nowadays.
I was talkin’ about them pushing birtherism or Obama being gay-married, or the UN trying to steal disabled kids from homeschoolers.
Give it time…
Ok, it already took place
IMHO it was when one of the main go to guys for the Heritage on Climate Change denial came also as a birther and they (the Heritage) have **not **distanced from him.
The Heritage Foundation says this of Monckton. ”At the same time the scientific evidence is pointing away from catastrophic global warming scenarios, the European experience in addressing the issue has proven both costly and ineffective. Few have commented on these and other aspects of the global warming debate as presciently as Christopher Monckton.”
His Lordship, the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (glory be to his Beneficence) has long since careened over the Cliffs of Insanity, but we keep listening to no avail for the “splat.” It was proven that he had been falsely claiming to be a member of Parliament, but the climate change contrarians just kept lapping up his nonsense. He admitted that he had made false claims about the temperature evolution the IPCC had projected, but claimed he was right to do so, and Anthony Watts still kept publishing Monckton’s nonsense on his popular blog. John Abraham destroyed one of Monckton’s presentations, showing that His Lordship had misrepresented almost all his sources, but Monckton was still invited to testify before Congress as an expert witness on climate change. Monckton claims to have developed a Miracle Cure-All, but his admirers didn’t bat an eye. Just how far does this guy have to go before his ardent admirers start looking at their watches and pretending to have an urgent appointment to keep?
Well, we won’t have to wonder for long, because if there’s anything we can count on in this world, it’s the fact that Christopher Monckton will keep pushing the Crazy Envelope.
Not satisfied with his usual conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific nonsense, Monckton has graduated to become Hero of the Birthers. That’s right, he’s been touring the country with a fake Hawaiian birth certificate he had made, claiming that he has hired independent experts who have showed that Obama’s birth certificate is likely a forgery. He recently made the claim on Geraldo Rivera’s radio show, after which Geraldo said he thought Monckton was “smoking crack.”
What a “nice” bunch of people the Demented Demint is joining.
I suppose I could google this, but that would deny someone the opportunity to show off. How has the sources for the Heritage Foundation funding changed of late? Who’s picking up the tabs for their conservative welfare programs these days?
South Carolina . . . hmm . . .Senator Stephen Colbert!
detop
December 7, 2012, 3:40pm
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Can we dare dream ? Colbert/Franken in 2016
Hell, no! I want them on opposite sides! Best! Debates! Ever!
I don’t like the way this is called ‘retirement’. He’s not going home to putter around in the garden. He’s quitting. Plain and simple. Just like Sarah Palin did. Republicans should start asking their candidates if they intend to finish the job they’re asking to be given.
Except instead of an endless string of self-promotion he’s quitting to lead a think tank. And DeMint has actually done stuff to get his ideological goals accomplished because he has some of those. So it doesn’t seem that similar to me.
Which Colbert himself is already calling for:
http://gawker.com/5966512/icymi-stephen-colbert-asks-viewers-to-help-him-mount-campaign-to-replace-outgoing-south-carolina-sen-jim-demint
“I want you to take to the Twitters,” he told the loyal residents of Colbert Nation, “I want you to tweet at Nikki Haley why she should appoint me to the U.S. Senate with the hashtag #SenatorColbert .”
I wasn’t comparing what they did after quitting. But they both did quit, not retire.
I agree that resign is a more fitting word than retire here.
http://www.votetimscott.com/2010/03/31/tim-scott-receives-recognition-from-national-group-americans-for-prosperity-for-his-commitment-to-reduce-government/
Washington, DC—The free market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today applauded South Carolina U.S. House candidate Tim Scott (1st District) for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” Scott joins more than 425 bipartisan lawmakers and candidates on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”
Just another Tea Partier that got into congress with the fine help of fossil fuel money and now he is going to join Inhofe to continue to deny science and “coincidentaly” continue to vote for the benefit of the fossil fuel companies.
Did you expect Nikki Haley would appoint anything else? She could have made Stephen Colbert a Senator, but noooooo! :mad:
Of course, I guess it does count for something that Scott is the first black Senator from the South since the late 19th Century, etc., etc. . . .
Well, John Belushi being dead and all kind of put a damper on his consideration.
DMC
December 22, 2012, 2:36am
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I’m not even going to look this up, but I’m pretty sure it’s “Scaife and Friends” (Koch, Bradley, etc.), just like the rest of the well-funded mouthpieces.
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