Most ironic headline

From ABC News:

Dobson to Attack Obama Tuesday for Distorting the Bible, Having a “Fruitcake” Interpretation of the Constitution.

The mind reels.

Losing their grip

Good As You provides another example of how the inappropriately named “‘Family’ Research Council” is batshit insane.

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He’s wrong and he’s losing and he knows it, but you have to give him credit for actually believing his own bullshit, and for having the guts to go out in public to debate instead of hiding behind press releases.

A frothy idiocy

As is typically the case when his lips move, former Senator Rick “man-on-dog” Santorum, R, Batshit Crazy, proves himself to be an ignorant, bigoted ass in a Pennsylvania opinion piece.

Jeremy gives him a good whooping. Read it in full.

Selective outrage

Glenn Greenwald writes brilliantly on the right wing’s selective manipulation of Catholicism for political purposes.  Read it in full.

Still tilting at windmills

Sometimes it’s ironic what things show up in my news filters on the same day.

On one hand, we see this:

And on the other hand, we see a report that some evangelicals are concerned by the politicization and hypocracy of their own movement:

Conservative Christian leaders who believe the word “evangelical” has lost its religious meaning plan to release a starkly self-critical document saying the movement has become too political and has diminished the Gospel through its approach to the culture wars.

The statement, called “An Evangelical Manifesto,” condemns Christians on the right and left for “using faith” to express political views without regard to the truth of the Bible, according to a draft of the document obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

“That way faith loses its independence, Christians become `useful idiots’ for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology,” according to the draft.

The declaration, scheduled to be released Wednesday in Washington, encourages Christians to be politically engaged and uphold teachings such as traditional marriage. But the drafters say evangelicals have often expressed “truth without love,” helping create a backlash against religion during a “generation of culture warring.”

“All too often we have attacked the evils and injustices of others,” they wrote, “while we have condoned our own sins.” They argue, “we must reform our own behavior.”

Useful idiots indeed.  Let’s hope they succeed in returning their focus to God instead of mammon.

Tit for tat

Interesting. At least the good Christian folk can breathe easy that he wasn’t asking the girl’s FATHER for sex.

K. Now I’m pissed.

Posted by Sean, from Hiding in the Backwaters

Chris Buttars, Utah State Senator from West Jordan, is an ass. I have to believe that even wingnuts who support him as a champion of moral causes privately think, “What an ass.” Generally I just try and ignore him. Otherwise, I’d be angry all the time, but this just tears it.

Buttars just lost his seat as the chairman of the Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee. It’s about damn time he was sanctioned. Of course, you don’t get sanctioned for being a homophobic and racist bigot. Sorry, I meant Champion of Moral Causes. However, you can get sanctioned for unethical behavior, which is only a matter of time when you’ve got an ego as big as Buttars’. Buttars wrote a letter to a judge, on Senate letterhead, scolding him for ruling against a personal friend (and large campaign contributor) of Buttars’ in a land dispute said friend is engaged in with Mapleton city. And here is what Buttars said in that letter that just burns my shorts.

“I had hoped that we had appointed a judge that would err on the side of individual rights, not a liberal activist judge who would champion government.” (Salt Lake Tribune, 2/26/08)

ARE YOU [expletive deleted] KIDDING ME???!!! This is the [expletive deleted] who introduced a bill to put the kabosh on a recently created domestic partner registry in Salt Lake City. Passed unanimously by the city council, it would allow local businesses to offer domestic partner benefits if they so desire (Salt Lake Tribune, 2/23/2008). What a hypocritical [expletive deleted]. He’s only a champion of individual rights if you’re rich, white, straight and a campaign contributor. Otherwise, the state (ie. Buttars) gets to decide what constitutes individual rights.

All you have to do is read the news from the last few weeks and any rational, thinking individual would be able to tell the man is clueless, probably a raging narcissist, and has no business in the Senate. He plans to seek re-election, because he knows his critics are unjustified. I think the odds he will get re-elected are actually pretty good, but if by some stroke of luck he should lose, you know it won’t be because he’s an [expletive deleted]. It will be because his critics sabotaged and slandered him.

Ed note:

Criticizing Buttars is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, but he really, really needs to go.

Michele Bachmann is a raving lunatic

 

Hat tip:  Dump Michele Bachmann

Worth the fuss?

Is this add worth the attention it’s receiving?  Yeah, the framing of the window is in the shape of a cross which shifts so as to be behind the candidate.

I guess it’s hard for me to get upset over this particular ad.  He’s a conservative Christian, it’s a Christmas greeting, and Christmas is at the core a religious holiday.  Big deal.  There are things to criticize given Huckabee’s long and detailed history, but this ad doesn’t seem to be one of them.

True colors

An amusing piece at Kos in which Miss Laura revels in the GOP indigestion over the current choices and the Christianists in the party.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of whack jobs.

A non apology

So, it seems Mike Huckabee apologized to Multiple Choice Mitt over his seeming anti-Mormon dig.

Republican Mike Huckabee Wednesday personally apologized to rival Mitt Romney for comments he made in an upcoming New York Times Magazine article that appear to disparage the Mormon faith.

 

 

The former Arkansas governor said he apologized to Romney after the GOP debate in Johnston, Iowa.

“I said, I would never try, ever to try to somehow pick out some point of your faith and make it an issue, and I wouldn’t,” Huckabee said.

Well, yeah that’s all good and fine. Huckabee got his wink wink nod nod to the fundamentalists who are predisposed to oppose Mitt in the first place, and now gets to play the high minded victim who was misquoted by the evil media.

Cry me a river.

Opposing for the right reasons

Interesting piece  on religion in politics at AlterNet by Shakespeare’s Sister, aka Melissa McEwan.

So it doesn’t really matter a fig to me whether Romney believes Jesus and Satan are brothers; I still know he’s a disingenuous, opportunistic, integrity-challenged dodo. That Huckabee is trying to make it an issue only confirms that he is a brainless, ethically-impaired gobshite, hiding behind his religion because he’s got nothing else to offer.

Their respective religious beliefs didn’t figure at all in those calculations.

Yet again, I’m reminded why she’s one of the good guys.

Job qualifications

Is believing in basic science a prerequisite for holding a job in science research?

Some fundies want to believe it isn’t.

Hat tip: No More Mister Nice Blog

Right Wingnut Blame America Firsters

Can you imagine the aneurysm this would cause on the right if Democrats did this?