This man cannot return to TV fast enough for me.

This is the message I give my daughter all of the time.

Michele Bachmann believes that the 911 and Benghazi attacks were due to God's "hand of judgement" while the rest of the GOP sees Benghazi as a fundraising opportunity.

Courtesy of Right Wing Watch:  

On Wednesday, Religious Right activists and members of Congress gathered together for a prayer event held in Statuary Hall at the US Capitol called "Washington: A Man of Prayer." 

Among the speakers was Rep. Michele Bachmann, who used the opportunity to promote the 9/11 prayer event being organized by Birther-king Joseph Farah, saying that "it is no secret that our nation may very well be experiencing the hand of judgment" and declaring that both the original 9/11 attack and the attack in Benghazi on 9/11 of last year were God's judgment.

Here is the text of what she said just in case you cannot believe your ears:

It’s no secret that our nation may very well be experiencing the hand of judgment. It’s no secret that we all are concerned that our nation may be in a time of decline. If that is in fact so, what is the answer? The answer is what we are doing here today: humbling ourselves before an almighty God, crying out to an almighty God, saying not of ourselves but you, would you save us oh God? We repent of our sins, we turn away from them, we seek you, we seek your ways. That’s something that we’re doing today, that we did on the National Day of Prayer, it’s something that we have chosen to do as well on another landmark day later this year on September 11. Our nation has seen judgment not once but twice on September 11. That’s why we’re going to have ‘9/11 Pray’ on that day. Is there anything better that we can do on that day rather than to humble ourselves and to pray to an almighty God?

Wow! That is an especially disturbing form of crazy!

Yes it is "no secret that our nation may very well be experiencing the hand of judgment" IF you are a crazy person that is! And as for humbling ourselves and praying to God to keep us safe on the anniversary of 911, I think a far more reasonable approach might be to heighten our awareness on those days and beef up our security at our consulates. Or is that Satan's way of keeping us safe?

Look Minnesota you might think you have free reign to tease us Alaskans about Sarah Palin, but no. not as long as you have THAT whack-a-doodle as a Representative you don't.

Well at least not ALL of the GOP is made up of crazy fundamentalists. No the rest of the GOP is made up of opportunistic assholes that see the four deaths at Benghazi as a great opportunity to do a little fundraising:

The National Republican Congressional Committee is the GOP body that helps elect Republicans to the House of Representatives. And the NRCC is now running an election fundraiser based on their Benghazi conspiracy theories.

 So there you have it folks. Your choice of Republicans these days seem to be mostly made up of the batshit crazy or the cynically conspiratorial.

Gotta love America.

Final words for today. Courtesy of Stephen Colbert.

For those who may have trouble seeing the text:

Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying "yes" begins things. Saying "yes" is how things grow. Saying "yes" leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say "yes."

I found this a few days ago and the thought the picture was beautiful and the words even more so.

It just goes to show that some of the wisest words uttered in the world today are said by those who often hide their wisdom behind the facade of the clown.