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Birther Bill Sponsor Receives Financial Support From House GOP Leadership
The latest FEC filings show that Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), the author and main sponsor of the infamous "Birther Bill" in the House to require Presidential candidates to submit proof of citizenship, is receiving financial support from some prominent people -- namely, the House GOP leadership, in their regular donations to GOP incumbents.
Minority Leader John Boehner's PAC, the Freedom Project, donated $5,000 to Posey's campaign in June. Minority Whip Eric Cantor's ERICPAC gave $7,500.
On the one hand, there's nothing unusual about the leadership giving money to an incumbent. On the other hand, not every incumbent has refused to say for sure that President Obama is a U.S. citizen
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Seen on a really big billboard on the I-5 south out of LA last Sunday:
Where is the Birth Certificate?
So who do you suppose is paying for that?
July 21, 2009 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
did it say WND.com on it? Cause if it did its prolly wnd.com
July 21, 2009 7:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think so, but I was trying very hard not to play crash-em-cars with my neighbors on the road. Who's WND? I see their web site (thank you), but what bozos! Where's their money coming from?
July 21, 2009 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's get specific. This is not about impeachment, it wouldn't go anywhere legally, not even in a Republican Congress.
This is about giving wacko gun nuts justification for acting out sniper fantasies. And Boehner and Cantor are fueling that fire.
July 21, 2009 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's the same thing as the 'Special Olympics' manufactured insult, and the Ogling in Paris episode.
Garbage that the right knows is garbage, but throws out to their masses in chunks to just pick at the scab over and over and over and over, until one day, hopefully, people other than the extreme right forget what was reality in the first place.
It's all about repetition, and nailing that nail so far past the surface down into the wood, that there's nothing anybody can do to reverse it.
July 21, 2009 11:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
World net daily- a right wing, faaaaar right wing web site.
And they admitted several months ago that they had a verified copy of the BC.
What idiots.
July 21, 2009 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
This whole thing is just freakin absurd!
I propose a moniker for all of these wacko, nutjob conspiracy theories. Let's just call them the "Capricorn One" syndrome. You know, after that late 1970s movie about a staged landing on Mars. The ironic thing is, that movie was supposedly inspired by the rumors already going around that the lunar landings were a hoax. In turn, the movie itself helped feed into the general conspiracy atmosphere. Lets round-up our initial Capricorn One theories:
1. The whole Birther movement
2. The "hoax" of the Moon landings
3. Creationism/Intelligent design theories
Come on, there has to be other theories worthy of Capricorn One status!
July 21, 2009 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why the hand wringing? If they are giving money to about 10-15% of their base to keep howling in a hurricane that is a good thing. It shows they don't have priorities as to where their money would do the most good. They are throwing it down the rat hole! Even those that are doing this know it is bullsh!t. Let the inbreds scream, they are doing damage to themselves and they love it.
July 22, 2009 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink