It’s Not the Onion

ArchPundit February 3, 2011 No Comments

Because they’d never write stuff this bizzare:

Bill Ayers taught the Muslim Brotherhood how to protest

Players: Bill Ayers, Code Pink, President Obama, the Muslim Brotherhood
Advanced by: Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King on BigGovernment.com
Sample quote: “The question is begged: What have Obama’s allies Ayers, Dohrn and Code Pink taught the Muslim Brotherhood and other anti-Mubarak organizations in Egypt about using protests, riots and the modern social media to coordinate their actions to undermine the Mubarak regime?”

Because Bill Ayers is TEH AWESOME at social media.

Read the whole thing for even more batshit insanity. It’s hard to have a discussion or argument with people who are completely ignorant of Mid East history or politics and start screaming that the MOOSLIMS are taking over, but cannot distinguish between different conservative Muslims and radical Muslims.   Also, too, when they think that Islamists have lots in common with secular liberals in the United States.

Daily Dolt: Frank Gaffney

ArchPundit February 3, 2011 No Comments

I thought CPAC allowing the John Birch Society back into their conference that peak wingnut was pretty close to being realized, but Frank Gaffney has really upped the ante and claims that CPAC is infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood.  He’s quite effectively taken the far right and moved to their right by calling them fifth columnists.  It’s truly awesome.  But it gets better from Talking Points Memo:

The Muslim Brotherhood is often a target of right-wing pundits like anti-sharia crusader Frank Gaffney, who last month claimed the group had infiltrated CPAC. And as the single largest organized opposition group in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as a target for the right as the protests continue.

On Hannity last night, Gaffney argued that “the Obama Administration’s policies are being viewed through, and actually articulated and implemented through influence operations that the Muslim Brotherhood itself is running in our own country.”

“You cannot possibly get your strategy right, you cannot execute it effectively if you don’t know that the enemy is actually giving you advice on how to proceed,” he said.

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Gaffney was much more explicit to ThinkProgress yesterday, listing Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper, and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano as “questionable people who are sympathetic to the program of the stealth jihadists who have influence with the United States government.”

Fox News let’s this loon on TV and not to make fun of him.

Forcible Rape versus Not So Bad Rape

ArchPundit February 3, 2011 No Comments

Love that Lipinski:

The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, H.R. 3, will eliminate the need for numerous separate annual abortion-funding prohibitions (called riders) and ensure that no program or agency is exempt from the long-standing ban on taxpayer funding of abortion. The bill also codifies the conscience clause known as Hyde-Weldon. H.R. 3 maintains the status quo prohibition on taxpayer funding for abortion that has long been embodied in the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment allows for taxpayer funding of abortion in very limited cases, including if the pregnancy is the result of rape. The language of H.R. 3 was not intended to change existing law regarding taxpayer funding for abortion in cases of rape, nor is it expected that it would do so. Nonetheless, the legislative process will provide an opportunity to clarify this should such a need exist.

The choice was evil or incompetent and he comes down on the incompetent side.  It would be great if he got a District he could lose in, but it’s likely that Mike Madigan will protect his District.

Now Cutler Didn’t Look Upset Enought

ArchPundit February 3, 2011 No Comments

Seriously–not sure what that’s supposed to look like, the guy was hurt. He still had a bad first quarter, but he played tough given the nature of the injury after that.

6 Years of this Nonsense

ArchPundit February 3, 2011 No Comments

Sigh….

“The consensus behind the climate change bill collapsed and then further deteriorated with the personal and political collapse of Vice President [Al] Gore,” Kirk told Greenwire.

So Al Gore is fat and separated so this has some effect on the science how?  So glad the great state of Illinois has put this brain power in office for 6 years.

I’m sure we’ll hear what a policy wonk this guy is…

When Quinn is Effective

ArchPundit January 25, 2011 No Comments

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzvL4oFGdwQ[/youtube]

We’ve already been down the road of skipping pension payments and it’s how you get to where Illinois is.  Christie is unlikely to still be around when it gets to that point in New Jersey since he thought Disney World was more important than snow removal.  Ask Michael Bilandic about that.

Via Rich

Collateral Damage Last Night

ArchPundit January 25, 2011 No Comments

I was on Collateral Damage on KDHX last night discussing the last few weeks of Illinois politics including Rahm getting the boot from the ballot.  You can listen in here It’s a spiffy new web site so I’m not sure where the podcast feeds are, but the site is a great improvement other than that small issue.

Even better sign up on the site and become a fan of the show.

Update:  A-ha Found the podcasts

Mark Kirk Smug?

ArchPundit January 25, 2011 No Comments

It’s hard to decide whether to put this story in the category of things we already knew or DC navel gazing. Either way, it’s a waste of space.

According to Politico, Kirk has been rubbing his Senate colleagues the wrong way with smug behavior. Apparently, he’s too full of himself even for Ego Mountain, as the Senate is sometimes known.

In December, the Senate defeated a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, loaded with the earmarks Kirk campaigned against.

“As the most junior people, for those who don’t understand what just happened, did we just win?” Kirk asked, rhetorically. He knew the Republicans had just won, but wanted to rub it in. Kirk also got into a “heated discussion” with John McCain about their differences on repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Huh. $11 Million Dollars Down the Drain?

ArchPundit January 24, 2011 No Comments

Rahm still gets to appeal to the Supreme Court where I think he’ll still win, but this certainly raises the stakes and decreases his odds.

Worst possible outcome from this–Mayor Braun. Chico will still have time to pull this out if Rahm is tossed. Del Valle’s fundraising suck beyond any reasonable reason to back him at this point. I want to back him, but he’s got to raise money and he didn’t even raise enough to the be scrappy challenger.

About Right

ArchPundit January 19, 2011 No Comments

Life has intervened so I’ll be back tomorrow, but this appears to be the modern update of Eddie Murphy’s bit about how Jesse Jackson could become President:


Morbid Curiosity Leading Many Voters To Support Palin