Tea Party Harty

[captainsblog]

Ah, the groundswell of True Patriot Americans that got voted in during the November "revolution."

Here's the latest from Planet Teabagger, referencing the other accepted meaning of the word "revolting," though:

Martin Harty, a 91-year-old first-term — and, we're pretty sure — last-term Republican state representative in New Hampshire, thinks the world is too overpopulated, and that we should solve this by killing off "the mentally ill, the retarded, people with physical disabilities and drug addictions — the defective people society would be better off without." Don't you just love it when adorable old men say crazy things!

Omand says Harty then stated, "I wish we had a Siberia so we could ship them all off to freeze to death and die and clean up the population."

Omand said Harty appeared to be serious. After Omand responded that his idea sounded like what Adolf Hitler did in World War II, Omand said Harty responded, "Hitler did something right, and I agree with (it)."

Harty's next bill: changing the state motto from "Live Free Or Die" to simply "Die!"

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Not to be outdone, an actual national Repuglicandidate for President got his own feet in zee doodoo over the weekend:

Every morning, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's press secretary sends to Barbour's staff and other allies a list of press clippings, along with a daily compendium of birthdays, historical notes, and jokes -- which have recently included humor on the topics of the disastrous Japan Tsunami, Janet Reno's gender, and the Cambodian genocide.

In Friday's email, for instance, press secretary Dan Turner emailed that on that day in 1968:

Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for his single, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay". (Not a big hit in Japan right now.)

In 1993: Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first female attorney general. (It took longer to confirm her gender than to confirm her law license.)

An earlier email included notes that

1982 - Jamaica issued a Bob Marley commemorative stamp. (Actually, it was a combination stamp and tiny rolling paper.)

1998 - Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed 1 million lives. ("Oops. My bad," hardly seems sincere.)

The off-color jokes, circulated inside and outside of Barbour's government office, underscore questions about whether the governor is ready for the intensity of scrutiny that will come with leaving the relatively forgiving world of Mississippi politics.

Turner, a former reporter and former spokesman for Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana, said Barbour doesn't see the email, but receives a printed copy of the clips.

You stay classy, GOP.

Comments

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Such wry, witty humor. So riposte. Just the sort of thing we'd expect from the man in charge of a national laughingstock.

[hooton.livejournal.com]

Holy shit.

I'm actually gobsmacked by both of these.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

And it's only getting worse.

Recall that we here are blessed with the one Republican congressman (out of 435) who had to resign in disgrace after a shirtless Craigslist pic of him surfaced (but before the other Mens 12 high heeled shoe dropped and it was revealed that he was trawling for transsexuals on other sites).

Our Guv has just called the special election to replace him. There are three apparent candidates: mainstream Republican, Democrat, and Loony.

Here are two just-today pieces on HIM:

Buffalo News on Crazy Jack: Deport the Latinos and bus the black people in from the 'hood to pick the crops (http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/chris-lee/special-election/article367437.ece)

and even worse (and extremely NSFW):

WNY Media: Crazy Jack paid staffer outed as male prostitute (http://wnymedia.net/buffalopundit/2011/03/jack-davis-campaign-staffer-by-day-male-escort-by-night/)

Next time an editor tells you a story idea isn't credible enough? Just show them these.

[floundah.livejournal.com]

Most of my family will be voting for people of this ilk. They can't understand why I refuse to. Seriously.

My hopes are so high for this country. /snark