The Crash of the Crazies

How very disappointing for the Cruz crowd. Turns out the Tea Baggers' billionaire owners weren't in the least interested in seeing the world economy wrecked. You see, they own that too.

My friend Paul Loop instantly got the point, it, as usual: "Debt default is part of the surrender to the higher power of authoritarian rule. The Tea Party Christian jihadists have a sick romance going with destruction and resurrection. They see the salvation of their souls and the economy within the same apocalyptic frame."

And the old fools who voted Republican learned from sages like George Will that Republicans failing to raise the debt ceiling would be no problem at all. The government could pay the interest on the national debt merely by stopping Social Security checks, he helpfully explained.  The seniors may learn that it's harder to take the knife out of your back than it was for you to put it there.

The Rev. Pat Robertson says that Haitian earthquakes are caused by pacts with the devil and that mighty hurricanes can be diverted by his prayer magic. But even he and Rush Limbaugh, the porcine pontiff of Republican  fascism, turned on the GOP today. The Tea Baggers went too crazy even for the crazy peddlers.

The Four Elephants of the Apocalypse

The Republican clown show continues, but now they're desperately trying to ignore the fact that they’ve set the circus tent on fire.

The Day Democracy Self-Destructed

The oddest thing of all about the economic disaster that will follow a default on the national debt is that it will have been completely voluntary. No crisis or emergency or massive deregulated financial fraud will have precipitated it. This suicidal outcome will have been freely chosen by a political party whose members either hope to pull power from the wreckage caused by chaos, or are simply stupid enough to chainsaw the very branch on which they sit, laughing like hyenas and demanding "respect" while they do it.

Fox News Has Two Faces, And Both of Them Lie

By Dan Hagen

During the October 2013 Republican Party-engineered government shutdown, Fox News reported that President Obama had personally funded a “Muslim cultural museum.” But I have to contradict Media Matters here. Fox News didn’t “fall for” the story, confusing an obvious, labeled satire with actual news. They were just bald-faced lying in a smear campaign, as per usual.

The lying fascist “news channel” has been working overtime during their longed-for shutdown, and has developed a split personality doing so. Fox News was a cheerleader for the shutdown that it then deplored and blamed on Obama half the time, while still cheering for it the other half of the time.

The oh-so-very complicated news crawl of Fox News: “The government shutdown engineered the GOP is a great thing, really only a ‘slimdown,’ hooray, except whatever parts of it you don’t like, which are terrible and Obama’s fault. He's black, you know. Black, black, black.”

Sound Familiar?

The right wingers work overtime to put guns in the hands of toddlers, lunatics and criminals, but of course want to make sure art is outlawed. Fascism on parade.

When the Right Attacks...

They forgot Superman (for not saying "the American way" enough) and Wonder Woman (the harlot dared to change her costume).

Fox News Engineers, Cheers, Jeers Shutdown

Fox News was a cheerleader for the government shutdown that it's nowdeploring and blaming on Obama half the time, and still cheering for the otherhalf of the time. It is to laugh.

The oh-so-very complicated news crawl of Fox News: “The government shutdown engineered the GOP is a great thing, really only a ‘slimdown,’ hooray, except whatever parts of it you don’t like, which are terrible and Obama’s fault. He's black, you know. Black, black, black."