It is time for another in a series of awards for stupid comments made by our friends on the right.
As everyone knows by now, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) cheated on his wife, betrayed his family, and left the state incommunicado for five days to fly off to Argentina to carry on his affair with an Argentinean reporter.
Last week, Rush Limbaugh blamed Sanford’s indiscretions on President Obama.
“This is almost like, ‘I don’t give a damn, the country’s going to Hell in a handbasket, I just want out of here,’” Limbaugh said. “[Sanford] had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn’t want any part of it; he lost the battle. He said, ‘What the hell. I mean, the federal government’s taking over — what the hell, I want to enjoy life.’”
Now, Sanford’s affair has been going on for quite some time. Obama’s powers are great but I didn’t know he could reverse causality. I bet Obama is responsible for Rush’s drug addiction as well.
I think I liked conservatives better when they were claiming everyone is responsible for their own behavior.
Not to be outdone by Rush, Michele Bachman (R-Minn) enhanced her reputation as chief nutjob by claiming that she would refuse to cooperate with the 2010 census because:
“If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that’s how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.” […] “I’m not saying that that’s what the administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps.”
Ali Frick fact-checks Bachmann’s claims here:
Most importantly, the questions that Bachmann is so concerned about — questions she suggests might somehow lead to internment — are not new questions (not to mention they frequently overlap with information given to the IRS every year). Census questions on race have been asked since 1790; home language since 1890; rent since 1880; and income since 1940. The Census has asked what kind of heating fuel heats Americans’ homes since 1940
Does Bachmann know it is illegal to refuse to participate in the census?
Actually, I think it would be a good thing if right wingers don’t participate in the census. Democrats could pick up lots of house seats.
And wouldn’t most conservatives have supported Japanese interment during WW II?
I think I liked conservatives better when they were law-abiding, authoritarian prigs instead of paranoid, criminally-insane anarchists.
Palin/Bachman 2012 will make every woman proud.
