It's hard to resist shooting fish in a barrel.

SELF-EXTINCTION

Today's GOP is a genetically and or psychologically deviant mélange of morally and ethically damaged mutants, miscreants and kamikaze loyalists who are crashing and burning all things Republican. They are the figurative buzzards and hyenas fighting over the last scraps of a carcass riddled with maggots and festering clumps of putrefied viscera. They are the opportunistic parasites whose very existence is and always has been dependent on sucking blood from the engorged bellies of alpha predators. The prevalence of fear, paranoia, and irrational hatred in today’s GOP represents the antemortem gasps of a doomed species struggling to survive in evaporating pools of their own toxic waste as they mercilessly slice and dice one another in futile attempts to be a big fish in an increasingly smaller and smaller pond.

$3,128 increase per year. On average.

If she's going to make up numbers, maybe she should at least make up reasonable ones.

Isn't the real issue here how uninformed and irresponsible the corporate media is for allowing these lies to be perpatuated willy nilly? The real condemnation should be reserved for the paper that printed the lie and any others that serve as carriers of the lie since it is well known and well documented that this stuff is just not true.

The problem here is that while the GOP has been whittled down to a primary core of extremists, the corporate media continue to interact with them as if they are a reasonable opposition party. So whenever Boehner or McConnell makes some insane pronouncement, the Times and the Post behave as if it was just business as usual and that this is how the Democrats would respond were the positions reversed. Filibuster everything? Isn't that how it's always been? Hold up every single administration appointment? Well, didn't the Democrats object to Bork and Thomas? The danger of a marginalized and extremist Republican minority is that the media doesn't treat them as extremist, and their lunatic ideas get entered into the mainstream conversation as if they merited actual consideration.

I was thrilled with Vermont yesterday (gay marriage), and Iowa before that. I am hoping CA can get it together, as I don't believe the will of the voters should supersede civil rights. I read it appears very likely (Nate Silver) that the GOP will lose this wedge issue sooner than later, or risk losing votes. Yea for that one.

Good old, Bachman! She's NEVER going to let correct information get in her way. I'll bet she talks about the $70 per hour auto worker, too.

SNL needs to be looking for someone to portray her on the show.

I'd have said parody her, but that ship has already left port, headed for Outer Batsh*ttia.

Good ole Talking Point Michelle...Thanks to Josh and crew for keeping the Recess Edition of Crazy Watch up to date.