Tea Party group puts out ad encouraging Donald Trump to fire Rod Rosenstein.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

Tea Party Patriots Action has released an ad that seems aimed at encouraging President Donald Trump to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. 

While Rosenstein might be a Republican appointed by former GOP President George W. Bush and kept on by Trump, that isn’t enough for the fundamentalist wing of the GOP. The fact that former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aren’t in handcuffs seems to be the nail in the coffin for his career. 

The ad alleges that instead of following the rule of law, Rosenstein is working for the so-called “deep state.”

Yep, getting rid of Rod Rosenstein will likely open a pathway to firing Robert Mueller, or at the very least taking away a significant amount of his investigative power. That could work.

However if this group was hoping that the Devin Nunes "secret memo" was going to provide ammunition for this, they were sorely mistaken.

You know the truly bizarre thing about all of this, aside from the fact that it is happening of course, is that everybody can see it happening right out in the open.

It is almost as if they think they are being clever in hiding their real motives or something.

It kind of reminds of when little kids play hide-and-go-seek, and only cover their eyes in the belief that if they can't see then nobody can see.

Newsweek's new cover.

Send some love to @Newsweek for its current cover:A conservative speaks about how the GOP abandoned its principles and went insane. pic.twitter.com/WOuvqIIVQU

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 22, 2017

From the article:

During the 2016 election, conservatives turned on the principles that had once animated them. Somehow a movement based on real ideas—such as economic freedom and limited government—had devolved into a tribe that valued neither principle nor truth; luminaries such as Edmund Burke and William F. Buckley Jr. had been replaced by media clowns such as Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos. Icons such as Ronald Reagan—with his optimism and geniality—had been supplanted by the dark, erratic narcissism of Donald Trump. Gradualism, expertise and prudence—the values that once were taken for granted among conservatives—were replaced by polls and ratings spikes, as the right allowed liberal overreach in the Obama era to blind them to the crackpots and bigots in their midst.

Some have argued that the election was a binary choice, that Hillary Clinton had to be defeated by any means. I share many of their concerns about Clinton, but the price was ruinous. The right’s electoral victory has not wiped away its sins. It has magnified them, and the problems that were exposed during the 2016 campaign haven’t disappeared. Success does not necessarily imply virtue or sanity. Kings can be both mad and bad, and the courtiers are usually loath to point out the obvious—just look at Caligula or Kim Jong Un.

Today, with Trump in office, the problems of the right are the problems of all Americans. And the worst part of it is that we—conservatives—did this to ourselves.

Yeah you did.

Unfortunately now they have also done it to the entire country.

Former Trump campaign chairman in Kentucky charged with felony human trafficking of a minor.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

A former judge now serving as a school board member in suburban Cincinnati has been charged with felony human trafficking of a minor, felony inducing a minor to engage in sex and a third count of giving alcohol to a minor. The indictment was obtained by River City News publisher Michael Monks, who described Nolan as an, “outspoken and controversial” political figure. 

Judge Tim Nolan of California, Kentucky represents District 5 on the Campbell County School Board. Yesterday afternoon he was lead into court wearing handcuffs as the “perp walk” was filmed by the local CBS station. 

News anchor Cammy Dierking of WKRC described Judge Nolan as an, “outspoken supporter of the local Tea Party.” 

The sex trafficking allegedly occurred in August 2016 — while Judge Nolan was serving as the chair of the Donald Trump campaign in Campbell County, KY. Trump beat Hillary Clinton 59% to 35% in the county while voters also elected Nolan.

Is it just me or does it seem to anybody else that just about everybody involved in the Trump campaign is being charged with a crime these days?

Gosh a family values, tea party enthusiast, Trump supporter, charged with trying to have sex with a minor. Who could have predicted it.

Well my hand's up, how about yours?

It looks like Donald Trump is now picking a fight with the Tea Party who overwhelmingly supported his campaign. More popcorn?

The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 30, 2017

Just to bring you up to speed the Freedom Caucus is the latest iteration of the Tea Party that Sarah Palin helped to popularize way back in 2009.

These are the hard right conservatives that Trump aggressively pursued during his campaign, and who turned out in large numbers to vote for him.

These folks have no intention of "getting on the team" and in fact would rather disassemble the team and start a new hard right version of their own.

Picking a fight with them will all but ensure that Trump never gets anything done.

During lengthy and informative New York Magazine interview President Obama connected the dots between Sarah Palin and the Trump campaign.

Palin "Just let me touch him." Lieberman: "Oh hell no."

Courtesy of New York Magazine:  

I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump, the emergence of the Freedom Caucus, the tea party, and the shift in the center of gravity for the Republican Party. Whether that changes, I think, will depend in part on the outcome of this election, but it’s also going to depend on the degree of self-reflection inside the Republican Party. There have been at least a couple of other times that I’ve said confidently that the fever is going to have to break, but it just seems to get worse.

As you all know I, and a lot of other political observers, have already made the argument that without Sarah Palin there would likely never have been a Doanld Trump campaign.

But here is the President, who arguably has far more insight into the inner workings of politics in this country than most of us, essentially pointing out that same connection.

What is more is that earlier in the interview he explains he first noticed the Sarah Palin effect on the Republican party. And it came right after Chicago had lost the bid to host the 2016 Olympics:

On the flight back, we already know that we haven’t got it, and when I land it turns out that there was big cheering by Rush Limbaugh and various Republican factions that America had lost the Olympic bid. It was really strange, but at that point, Limbaugh had been much clearer about wanting to see me fail and had, I think, communicated that very clearly to his listeners. Fox News’ coverage had already started to drift in that direction, and what you realized during the course of the first six, eight, ten months of the administration was that the attitudes, the moods that I think Sarah Palin had captured during the election increasingly were representative of the Republican activist base, its core. It might not have been representative of Republicans across the country, but it meant that John Boehner or Mitch McConnell had to worry about that mood inside their party that felt that, No, we shouldn’t cooperate with Obama, we shouldn’t cooperate with Democrats; that it represents compromise, weakness, and that the broader character of America is at stake, regardless of whatever policy arguments might be made. As a consequence, there were times that I would meet with Mitch McConnell and he would say to me very bluntly, “Look, I’m doing you a favor if I do any deal with you, so it should be entirely on my terms because it hurts me just being seen photographed with you.” 

Essentially Sarah Palin made it okay for the most rabid Right Wing to come out of the woodwork and make themselves heard, and to push a partisan agenda that despised compromise and punished any who did not pass their ideological purity tests.

This not only created huge obstacles for President Obama and his administration, but it made Congress almost completely ineffectual as well.

Essentially Washington D.C. ground to a complete halt, and arguably that was in part inspired by one batshit crazy half term governor from the wilds of Wasilla.

I have been making this point for years partially as a defense for why I kept writing about Palin and digging into her secretes, and now the President has essentially vindicated that work by reinforcing just how damaging she was to national politics in this country.

And I continue to make the case that if the media had done its job, and gone after Palin over her faux political creds, her fake pregnancy, and her many scandals since she left office, that we would never have ended up with a Donald Trump as the GOP candidate in 2016.

I have done everything that I could to get these stories out there, but too many mainstream media sources wanted to turn a blind eye, and now they are left slack jawed at the result.

P.S. By the way the rest of the article is very informative and I urge all of you to read it.

Bernie Sanders launches "Our Revolution." What's it called when the missile disintegrates on the launchpad?

We're launching Our Revolution tonight with 2600 events across the country! Find one near you and RSVP right now: https://t.co/sATmaCY8Bp

— Our Revolution (@OurRevolution) August 24, 2016

Courtesy of the Washington Times:

Wednesday marks the debut of Sen. Bernie Sanders‘ reinvention. The former presidential hopeful is launching “Our Revolution”, a new activist outreach to his many fans, in an online broadcast to 2,600 “watching parties” in every state — as far flung as Fort Yukon, Alaska; Gouldsboro, Maine; Brownsville, Texas; Naalehu, Hawaii, and Minot, North Dakota. The address begins at 9 p.m. ET. 

In addition, Mr. Sanders will publish a book titled “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.” The work is due on book shelves Nov. 15, primarily recapping his campaign trail experiences and underscoring his progressive ideas for America.

Oh so Sanders is helping to launch a grassroots organization for the Democrats just like that Tea Party "grass roots" organization for the Republicans.

One and he's writing a book too?

(Don't make comparisons to Sarah Palin, don't make comparisons to Sarah Palin, don't make comparisons to Sarah Palin!)

Oh that's nice.

However I understand there might be some problems already plaguing this fledgling campaign.

Courtesy of Politico:

The revolution is already tearing itself apart. 

Less than a week before its official launch on Wednesday, Bernie Sanders’ new political group is working its way through an internal war that led to the departure of digital director Kenneth Pennington and at least four others from a team of 15, and the return of presidential campaign manager Jeff Weaver as the group’s new president. 

“Kenneth chose to leave the organization. He’d worked on the campaign from the very beginning … he decided to do something else I guess,” Weaver said Monday evening, but “we’re very happy to be putting the A-team back together.”

And here's more from NBC News:

The dispute is both strategic and personal. The staffers who quit had clashed with Weaver on the campaign, calling him domineering and questioning his judgement, and they joined Our Revolution only on condition he would not be involved. 

They say they envisioned Our Revolution as a small-dollar-funded group that would use grassroots organizing to help elect progressive candidates, along the lines of Democracy for America, which grew out of the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign. 

Weaver has other ideas. He wanted to supplement the group's organizing and online fundraising efforts with independent expenditure TV advertising and larger checks from major donors. Internal critics say that contradicts the spirit of Sanders' movement, which was built around fighting big money in politics. 

The shakeup reflects a long-running rift in the Sanders campaign between its older leadership, like Weaver, and its younger staffers, who saw themselves as more ideologically committed to the revolution and thought the consultants at the top were using the campaign to line their pockets.

To be fair there have been plenty of very successful enterprises that started off a little shaky.

However I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief that this is happening to some bodunk, doomed to fail Tea Party ripoff, and not happening to a campaign that is actually on the glide path to taking up residence in the White House.

The Daily Beast accuses Bernie Sanders of pulling a "Sarah Palin" on Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Bernie Sanders is trying to Sarah Palin the head of the Democratic Party—throwing his support behind the DNC chairwoman’s primary opponent in the latest escalation of the intraparty fracas gripping the left. 

“Well, clearly, I favor her opponent,” Sanders told CNN on Sunday. “His views are much closer to mine than as to Wasserman Schultz’s.” He added that if elected president he would not support Debbie Wasserman Schultz to keep her post as chair.

Of course we have already covered this yesterday, but what has not been discussed is just how dedicated the Sanders' campaign is to defeating Schultz in the primary:

In a fundraising appeal asking his “sisters and brothers” to split a donation between Bernie’s presidential campaign and the congressional campaign of Tim Canova, Wasserman Schultz’s Democratic primary challenger. “Splitting a $2.70 contribution between Bernie 2016 and Tim Canova for Congress will help elect progressives up and down the ballot while sending an UNMISTAKABLE message about our political revolution’s commitment to electing candidates who share our values,” the fundraising email read.

To put this into perspective, this is a potential presidential nominee (Well not really but for the sake of argument.) requesting donations to assist in the defeat of a sitting Congresswoman from the party he wishes to represent in the general election.

That is stunning.

I mean regardless of how you feel about the DNC Chairwoman, and there are plenty of reasons to criticize her, trying to defeat her in a primary right before she hosts you at a national convention, for a party that you just recently joined, is more than a little....did I already use the word "stunning"....because that's what it is....stunning.

But we have seen something a little similar before haven't we?

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen party on party attacks this cycle.

After Speaker Paul Ryan blindsided presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and his campaign by declining to endorse him following the exit of Sen. Ted Cruz from the race, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin hit the airwaves and called for conservatives to rally around his primary opponent.

Now in my defense this is not a comparison that I would have necessarily come up with, but now that it has been made......well it does kind of fit. 

In fact the similarities between the Sanders' "movement" and the Tea Party, which caused so much strife and divisiveness within the Republican party, are becoming more and more defined.

Leave it to President Obama to be the voice of reason this campaign season.

Courtesy of The Hill:

President Obama on Thursday warned Democrats against adopting a “Tea Party mentality” that could lead to deep divisions within the party and harm its chances of winning national elections. 

Following the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump, Obama said infighting within the Republican Party is much worse than it is on the Democratic side. 

But he urged his party’s voters to be mindful of that danger in the midst of a heated primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. 

“The thing Democrats have to guard against is going in the direction that the Republicans are much further along on, and that is this sense 'we are just going to get our way, and if we don’t, then we’ll cannibalize our own, kick them out and try again,' ” he said at a town-hall meeting with law students in Chicago. 

In that scenario, Democrats could “stake out positions so extreme, they alienate the broad public,” Obama added. “I don’t see that being where the Democrats go, but it’s always something we have to pay attention to.” 

And there you have it that is EXACTLY what we are seeing taking place on the Democratic side of the fence right now. 

There are those who want to elect a President who aggressively pursues policies that have little chance of receiving support even from Democratic lawmakers, and who is unyielding in their principles to the point where compromise becomes impossible.

THAT is who the Teabaggers sent to Washington back in 2010, and that has a lot to do with the problems that we see today.

Having strong ideals is always good, but being ideologically entrenched is antithetical to getting anything of substance accomplished.

President Obama learned to navigate the choppy waters of DC politics the hard way, and now we need somebody who already knows what lies ahead and has a plan to move us forward from the amazing progress that he has already achieved.

Ted Koppel explains to Bill O'Reilly that he helped to make journalism "irrelevant."

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel said on Wednesday that his Fox News counterpart Bill O’Reilly has undermined journalists’ ability to interview Donald Trump. 

“I’ve interviewed him a number of times,” O’Reilly said of the Republican front-runner. “Not an easy interview. How would you do it?” 

“You and I have talked about this general subject many times over the years. It’s irrelevant how I would do it,” Koppel replied. “You know who made it irrelevant? You did. You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years — you took it from being objective and dull to subjective and entertaining. And in this current climate, it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him; Mr. Trump is gonna say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be.” 

The real estate mogul’s audience, Koppel added, was not even a television audience, but one better suited for Twitter. 

“They deal in messages of 140 characters or less, which keeps it nice and simple,” he explained.

Good for Ted Koppel to throw this is O'Reilly's face. 

Of course it clearly had no impact because O'Reilly just keeps right on asking hims questions as if he didn't just blame the destruction of the fourth estate on him and others at Fox News.

Actually Fox News is responsible for far more than the end of journalism in this country, they are also responsible for how deeply ideological the country is right now, the rise of the Tea Party, and of course the creation of Donald Trump.

Personally I think that Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and the talking heads at Fox News are guilty of sedition if not outright treason.

An d I don't really think that is an exaggeration.

Bill Clinton compares Bernie Sanders campaign to Tea Party. Ooh, that's a little low.

Courtesy of Real Clear Politics:

BILL CLINTON: It's not altogether mysterious that there are a lot of people that say, well, the Republican party rewarded the Tea Party. Just tell people what they want to hear, move them to the right, and we'll be rewarded, except they didn't get anything done. 

Then that's going on now in our party. If you don't deal with the fact that we are too politically polarized and we keep rewarding people who tell us things we know they can't do because it pushes our hot button, we can't go forward together.

You know I love me some bill Clinton.

And I am a Hillary supporter. More or less.

However it might be a good idea to think about muzzling the Big Dog. At least during the primaries.

I'm just not sure that he is helping.

Okay I lied, I KNOW he is not helping.

The Sarah Palin endorsed new Governor of Kentucky promises to do away with Obamacare. Problem is his constituents don't want that and the law won't let him do it.

Courtesy of the Daily News Bin:

The new republican governor of Kentucky was elected by tea party voters on the promise that he would kill off the Affordable Care Act in his state to whatever extent he legally could. But now that he’s won, reality has set in that large scores of Kentucky residents have only gained access to health care thanks to ObamaCare, meaning he would face an uprising among his state’s mainstream residents if he went through with his promise. Not surprisingly, the new governor has immediately caved and decided to keep ObamaCare after all, resorting to superficial changes so he can partially save face. And he may not even get away with that last part.

The problem is, as former Kentucky Governor Steve Bashear points out, is that Kentuckians kind of like Obamacare:  

“All of Kentucky looks forward to the day when our new governor transitions from strident partisan rhetoric and petty name-calling to the real and more difficult business of governing,” he wrote. “Mottos that make good bumper stickers rarely make good public policy. Medicaid expansion was and remains a smart policy move.” 

And it remains popular in the state. A poll released this month from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 72 percent of Kentuckians do not want to change the state’s Medicaid program. 

So in response to that Bevin has decided that rather than do away with Obamacare he is going to "transform" it.

Problem with that is that he is not allowed to "transform" anything.

Courtesy of Forbes:

On Wednesday, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin announced that he was planning to keep Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, but would seek federal waivers to “transform” the program. But Bevin’s plan is already hitting an a snag: he wants to use a Section 1332 waiver to “transform Medicaid.” The snag: Section 1332 doesn’t provide any authority for Medicaid reform.

Oops!

Sadly for Bevin's supporters that promise was one of the main reasons that he received the backing from the Tea Party and of course Sarah Palin.

And now he really can't do shit.

I guess that's what happens when you live inside the conservative bubble where facts and critical thinking are simply not allowed.

Sarah Palin hard at work trying to sound out the words in the book her ghostwriter typed up for her.

Courtesy of Palin's also mostly ghostwritten Facebook page:

 Having a "sweet" time recording the audio version of my new book "Sweet Freedom" - due out in just 20 days! 

Twenty days! Why that's just enough time for me to save up to buy....just about anything else.

The only thing that I imagine would be worse than reading through one of these horribly written, cut and past tomes of Palin's is to listen to her struggling to read through one in that grating voice of hers.

I can only imagine how many takes it requires for her to even make it through a paragraph.

"Well pardon me, but who told y'all to put in so many highfalutin words in the first place."

After being silent for almost a week, Palin has come back with a vengeance (A word that ALWAYS applies to Sarah Palin.), and there are posts featuring her new gig at Newsmax, a denial that the Tea party is dead, and of course an attack against the President.

And yet with all of that not one word about the impending birth of her new granddaughter. Hmm, how sad.

In the meantime Nancy French, her pseudo daughter, has been doing her thing over on the blog she grudgingly shares with Palin's real life daughter, with a new post that defends the now infamous South Carolina cop and of course blames the student.

Ahh the Palins! They never fail to reinforce just how right we were on any given issue.

Support for the tea Party hits an all time low. Well finally some good news.

Courtesy of Gallup:  

Americans' support for the Tea Party has dropped to its lowest level since the movement emerged on the national political scene prior to the 2010 midterm elections. Seventeen percent of Americans now consider themselves Tea Party supporters, and a record 54% say they are neither supporters nor opponents.

The Tea Party emerged in 2009 in opposition to the fledgling Obama administration, and many Americans took sides for or against the movement in the midterm elections the next year. Support peaked at 32% in November 2010, just after those elections, in which Tea Party supporters were widely credited with helping the Republican Party gain control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

As support gradually eroded over the next year, opponents of the Tea Party gained the upper hand and have led supporters in all 10 Gallup polls measuring views of the movement since the start of 2012. Since August 2012, support has failed to reach 25%, and it has fallen below 20% in each of the last two polls.

Well that's all good news of course, and it explains why it appears that the moderate Republicans are starting to get the upper hand in the choosing of a new Speaker of House to replace John Boehner.

(Yes I know Paul Ryan sucks, but hey at least it's not Louie Gohmert!)

However here's the part that still bothers me.

If there is still 17% support for the Teabaggers, and 54% who seem agnostic towards them, then that leaves only 29% of us who are openly against them.

That seems like a much too low of a number to me.

I will not be happy until more than two thirds of the American people recognize that the Tea Party is made up of a bunch of ignorant racists, who could not pass a test on US History with a gun held to their head. 

Department of Justice finds IRS did nothing criminal in denying tax exempt status to Tea Party groups.

Courtesy Washington Times:  

The IRS did mishandle tea party and conservative groups’ nonprofit applications, but their behavior didn’t break any laws, the Justice Department said in a letter to Congress Friday that cleared the tax agency and former senior executive Lois G. Lerner of any crimes. 

“Ineffective management is not a crime,” Assistant Attorney General Peter J. Kadzik said in a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee. “The Department of Justice’s exhaustive probe revealed no evidence that would support a criminal prosecution. What occurred is disquieting and may necessitate corrective action — but it does not warrant criminal prosecution.”

What? You mean even though former IRS Director Lois Lerner plead the fifth before Congress, and the Teabaggers are completely convinced that she targeted them for ideological reason, she is not going to serve any jail time?

Right Wing freak out in 3...2...1

P.S. Boy has this been a bad week for the conservatives or what?

Our President.

Found this on Reddit. Thought it was worth sharing.

And I know just who he is talking to.

You know the knock against Obama from the Right is that under his administration things have become infinitely more partisan.

However the truth is that the President bent over backwards to include the Republicans on every major policy that he attempted to implement during his first term and was blocked, manipulated, and hung out to dry over and over again.

The partisanship is not the fault of the President but rather the conservatives who decided even before he took the oath of office, to block everything he tried to do during his presidency.

And what we are seeing today is the President simply circumventing the Republicans and doing everything pretty much on his own.

And do you know what? It is STILL benefiting even those people who continue to argue that he was not born in this country, is a closet Socialist, and of course a secret Muslim.

And that is because he is actually a great President. Whether his critics want that to be true or not.

Ted Cruz loudly rebuked by fellow Republicans while trying to hijack Senate vote on government funding.

Courtesy of Politico:

Ted Cruz can’t even get a protest vote in the Senate anymore. 

On Monday night, Cruz’s colleagues ignored his attempt to disrupt Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s efforts to fund the government without attacking Planned Parenthood. In an unusual rebuke, even fellow Republicans denied him a “sufficient second” that would have allowed him a roll call vote. 

Then, his Republican colleagues loudly bellowed “no” when Cruz sought a voice vote, a second repudiation that showed how little support Cruz has: Just one other GOP senator — Utah’s Mike Lee — joined with Cruz as he was overruled by McConnell and his deputies. 

It was the second time that Cruz had been denied a procedural courtesy that’s routinely granted to senators in both parties. The first came after he called McConnell a liar this summer. 

Cruz was incredulous on Monday, calling it an “unprecedented procedural trick." 

“What does denying a second mean? Denying a recorded vote. Why is that important?” Cruz said. “When you are breaking the commitment you’ve made to the men and women who elected you, the most painful thing in the world is accountability.” 

Actually McConnell IS being accountable to all of the Americans who are NOT lunatics fooled by those doctored videos into believing the government should shut down rather than help fund an organization that provides crucial health care services to women. 

In fact recent polling shows that rather than slipping support for Planned Parenthood has in fact gone up. And this came as quite a surprise to Rep. Steve King: 

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was perplexed. Two long months had passed since the Center for Medical Progress started releasing undercover videos in which current and former Planned Parenthood employees described the grim economics of fetal tissue harvesting. Since then, a long congressional recess had come and gone and Republican-run states had redoubled their efforts to defund the family planning titan. Yet in the most recent poll from Reuters/Ipsos, 54 percent of voters still favored federal funding for Planned Parenthood. 

"Those numbers are news to me," said King. "I haven’t paid any attention to the polls. But am I surprised? Yes. That would explain some of the reasons why the leadership is not committing to defund."

Exactly. Just because there is a very vocal group, with an obvious political agenda, losing their minds over a few doctored videos does not mean that the American people are quite so easily manipulated.

Well it's about time they stood up for themselves.

You know I really hate to pick on these teabaggers all of the time but...uh...yeah, no I don't.

Glenn Beck calls Teabaggers liars and racists, and says he cannot understand the support for Donald Trump.

Courtesy of the Examiner: 

On Tuesday, radio talk show host Glenn Beck angered a number of people after he accused Tea Party supporters who like Donald Trump of being racists. He also questioned whether Trump supporters who align with the small-government movement are really "Tea Partiers." 

“If you were a Tea Party person, then you were lying," he said. "You were lying. It was about Barack Obama being black. It was about him being a Democrat, because this guy is offering you many of the same things, as shallow as the same way.” 

He also identified Fox News' Sean Hannity as a supporter of the Tea Party, but simply said he disagrees with the conservative talker. The comments were made during a discussion of Trump's Dallas rally, which attracted some 20,000 supporters. 

“Well, we can’t figure out, there’s a lot of people that we know, that we just cannot figure out," Beck said. "They say they were for the Tea Party, I mean, you know, I’ve had an open conversation with Sean Hannity. He is — he swears he’s a great guy, and everything else. I just disagree with him, on that. Sarah Palin is another one, who had him on the show, and just fell all over him, and just loves him. I don’t understand that.” 

Beck, however, wasn't finished. He seemed to echo statements made by Univision's Jorge Ramos, who has frequently compared Trump to South American dictators. 

“I cannot understand the Trump thing, and it scares the hell out of me,” Beck said. “If there’s anybody who would like the Greek columns, and the gold and the glitter, it’ll be Donald Trump.” Saying that Trump might have his name on a wall between the U.S. and Mexico is “what a dictator says. I mean, remember, it was Leningrad, and then it was Stalingrad. That’s what dictators do. That’s what dictators do. And we are — if it’s not him, it will be someone else, that steps into that role, if we don’t stop this right now.”

I cannot decide if Glen Beck has lost his mind here, or if he has suddenly been stricken with sanity.  (I'm leaning toward the latter.)

One thing is for sure and that is that there is simply NOT enough popcorn for this never ending GOP circus.

I also have to admit that I am not at all comfortable now that Glenn Beck and I see the Tea Party in much the same way.  I'm pretty sure that agreeing with Glenn Beck is one of the first signs of dementia.

John McCain calls Hillary Clinton a "rock star," slams the Tea party, and disses Fox News. Well good for him!

Courtesy of the Examiner: 

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., isn't making many friends among the conservative wing of the Republican Party these days. In an interview published Tuesday at the New Republic, he slammed the Tea Party, called Fox News "schizophrenic" on certain issues and called Hillary Clinton a "rock star." 

He also said that in a presidential matchup between Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul, he would have a tough time deciding who to support. 

"I think she did a fine job," he said of Clinton's performance as Secretary of State despite the scandal surrounding the Benghazi terror attack. 

"She’s a rock star. She has, maybe not glamour, but certainly the aura of someone widely regarded throughout the world. I do think it is interesting that the issues where John Kerry is engaging is where Hillary Clinton did not engage in, that those decisions were left to the White House and the National Security Council," he added. 

"When Hillary Clinton versus Rand Paul occurs in 2016, I guess you are going to have to decide who to vote for, huh?" the New Republic asked McCain. 

"It’s gonna be a tough choice," he said, laughing.

But ole Johnny didn't stop there:

The Arizona Republican also took a swipe at Fox News, calling it "schizophrenic." 

"I saw a guy on 'Hannity,' maybe 'Huckabee,' and the guy said, 'You know, the Chinese are coming across our border, and they are going to commit cyber attacks,'” he said. "Honest to God!"

As usual McCain resisted the urge to criticize his former running mate Sarah Palin. but he did express disdain for the movement she helped to create:

"Many in this group didn’t come to power to get things done. They came to power to keep things from getting done," he said.

What is not mentioned in this article, but is in the original New Republic article is this kind of passive aggressive remark about Palin:

She held her own and, some people said, won a debate with the vice president. 

So "some people said" she won that debate, but McCain himself seems unconvinced. 

Yeah that's going to leave a mark.

You know if this were ANY OTHER Republican Senator making these remarks Palin would be firing up her ghostwriter right now in preparation for a venom laden Facebook retort.

But because this is John McCain........

Vanity Fair sees that Sarah Palin is down, decides to give her a little kick. Update!

Courtesy of Vanity Fair:  

The most notable thing about the news of Sarah Palin sliding off the skillet at Fox News, her contributor’s contract expiring after a long dribble on life support, is how un-newsy it was—barely a pebble splash. Palin’s being let go from Fox News seemed as negligible as the CW canceling a series that viewers had forgotten was still on. There was a time not that long ago in our post 9/11 delirium when every sassy, spangly number Palin performed under the political big top kicked up sawdust and attracted yokel attention in the political media. Her appearances on Fox News were billed in advance as if she were about to lay down another smacking on the liberals and squishy conservatives who were still a-sceered of her grizzly-mama scorn, no matter how much they pretended otherwise behind their cocktail-party smirks. Palin had those millions of Facebook friends and Twitter followers, after all, a mighty army of admirers who could be mobilized at a moment’s notice to rise up in revolt and fire off a tweet or two before collapsing back on the sofa, not wanting to miss too much television. 

The numbers are still there for her on social media, but they might as well be empty eggs and spambots. She has the dubious honor of being just about the only Fox News alumnus who hasn’t announced as a candidate for the Republican nomination, the clown car reaching official overcapacity next week when Chris Christie crams himself into the race. Most tellingly, unlike in years past, there is no fan base or astroturf movement clamoring for Palin to jump into the fray as the Tea Party’s Furiosa—no one claiming that she is the only warrior queen capable of defeating Hillary Clinton in the dusty field of battle that will be converted into a FEMA internment camp, should Hillary prevail. (I take it these folks have not heard of a little slice of hell we like to call the Sea O'Pee.) How fickle our political culture. Palin seduced the party and its pundits—her camera wink during the 2008 vice-presidential debate had National Review editor Rich Lowry seeing “little starbursts”—and now she has been abandoned, a brittle relic of yesteryear. 

The irony is that Palin’s incoherence as a thinker and speaker—her ability to toss a word salad at the slightest prompting—has set the tone and tempo for the Republican contenders that have so far taken the field and are wandering around with their helmets on sideways. Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Rand Paul—their message discipline and mental rigor seems to be held together with old garter belts. Even a supposed pro such as Jeb Bush is betraying a lot of rust that’s accrued from years of not campaigning and enjoying his post-gubernatorial complacency.

The article then goes on to discuss Republican incoherence, Roger Ailes along with the future of Fox News, and their prediction that Palin will ultimately throw her support to Donald Trump as a "gesture of charlatan respect."

As if Palin really respects anyone that is not somehow furthering her career, or helping her to make money.

You know I have always liked Vanity Fair's tale on the Wasilla Wendigo.

They also boldly went where few reporters dare to tread back in 2009 and 2010. And who could forget Levi's contribution also in 2009?

Boy those were the days weren't they?

However these days there is so little meat on the bone I am sure many publications think that it almost a waste of time to send a reporter up here to dig up any dirt on Princess Dumbass of the North.

Of course I still have a few stories left to tell.

And hopefully I will get to tell them soon.

Hey, maybe Vanity Fair would like to hear them?

Update: Oh look here! Vanity Fair weighed in on Bristol's second not so immaculate conception.