Five Before Chaos

From the Department of Not Surprising:

Pat Buchanan, everyone’s favorite MSNBC pundit, wondered in his syndicated column this week why Democratic presidents don’t nominate white Christians to the Supreme Court anymore.

“If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats,” Buchanan wrote. “Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?”

Hmm, atheists comprise anywhere from 10 to 14 percent of the population. Perhaps Herr Pat would feel better if one of us were nominated?

As FBC’s own pet wingnut, Chanman, recently said in the comments, in regards to the teabaggers spitting on black congressmen:

Bottom line, either provide proof of these racial epithets, or stow it.

Ok, how’s this? Congressman Spit On By Tea Party Protester (VIDEO)

He may be angry, but he’s thoroughly predictable, too, so the response will either be a) the sound of crickets chirping, b) but libs do it too! (in which I will wait for a video which will never surface), or c) Congressman Cleaver faked the whole thing, just acting like he was wiping spit from his face. Because, in Chanman’s world, a) it’s only bad when liberals do it, and b) conservatives are never to be held accountable for anything, regardless of how atrocious (because, of course, liberals do it too).

What’s really funny tragic is how people like him will jump up and scream “Show me the proof!” or “Where’s the birth certificate?”, yet didn’t seem so concerned about “proof” when it comes to things like WMD’s (which Chanman will point out how many Dems voted for the Iraq war, as though I somehow supported that and as though they were the ones cherry-picking evidence and lying to the UN and such) or the super-ridiculous notion of anything the Sky Fairy wants. Compartmentalize much?

The Rude Pundit has a reminder about “what we’re up against”.

It’s really funny how VT Commons’ editor and former smart guy Rob WIlliams keeps digging himself and his organization deeper in the whole, by simply refusing to fess up to the racist ties within the Vermont secession movement. The best he seems to be able to come up with is his whiny little “I guess this’ll give some of those lefty bloggers something to write about.”, because, you know, we just fear the success of his movement so damn much (considering the host of unsavory characters he associates with, perhaps there is something to fear, but being a straight, white male I’m probably okay). Odum at GMD did an excellent takedown of Williams’ latest today, worth a read.

And of course, Williams today is still playing the patron saint of victimhood, and he’s obviously confusing GMD with FBC (you know, three letters and such):

At least Heidi’s article will give the GMD blogging crowd something to talk about for the next few days other than the upcoming presidential “election” and “Grindhouse” movies”.

Yeah, cuz we never talk about those elections, do we? Sure, let’s talk about it. So he doesn’t like grindhouse films. I get that. Prehaps this classic film, based on the book “The Klansman” is more to his liking:

At least us GMDer’s will have something fun to discuss at the Blogger BBQ on the 28th besides the Prezelection.

It’s funny how nobody wants to just come out and say there’s a lot of racist hicks there. This idea that “working class whites” won’t vote for Obama doesn’t jibe with the facts on the ground. Thank Godless for Jon Stewart. You gotta see this:

I’ve thought about this quite a bit. As much as I don’t like either of them, from a schadenfreude perspective, what two better candidates to get the far right’s chastity belts in a wad than a woman and a black man? The only thing that would possibly be better is a black woman candidate. Regardless, we have both the racists and the misogynists covered here. Their worst nightmares are soon to be reality. We can’t really underestimate how big of a deal this is. Mark Morford does some good gloating with “The Woman vs. the Black Guy”:

Because truly, while a record number of women currently serve in Congress, Washington is still very much an inbred old-boy’s network, so deeply entrenched in ancient male power structures and so drunk on stagnant machismo and so poisoned by the Christian right’s woman-in-her-place mentality, it will require a couple more decades and a few hundred more dead southern congressmen before the innate sexism finally fades to a tolerable scar.

So far, no one on the right really seems to know the best way to play the race card against Obama. Not that they won’t try. Will they go after the drug thing? Paint him as a friend to scary hip-hop thug rappers? Resort to saying ‘Obama’ and ‘Osama’ in the same sentence so as to confuse the same red state knuckle-draggers who still believe Saddam orchestrated 9/11? Hard to tell. But rest assured, they’ll find a way.

Or, you know, maybe they won’t. After all, the right has its own heaping bucket of problems right now, not the least of which is the weakest and craziest and least palatable field of GOP contenders in 50 years. There’s the chipper creationist nutball who loves him some Chuck Norris, the stupefied Mormon mannequin who simply cannot believe the world is so icky and complicated, the doddering Iraq-loving war vet who seems to be getting more unstable by the minute, and the cross-dressing former New York mayor who has “9/11″ tattooed on his ego in fake blood. And oh yes, a zany old anti-choice libertarian who somehow keeps raising piles of cash and sending fascinating postcards from the edge of political reason. Cool!

Cool, indeed!

crossposted at Green Mountain Daily

Besides languishing in obscurity? Not a heck of a lot. But apparently, Second Vermont Republic’s Thomas “Obviously a Good Confederate” Naylor isn’t getting his “neo-con” fix enough from his recent appearances on hate talk radio. He has two events planned next week, that exemplifies the strategy that did them in last year…play nice with the lefties as though nothing’s wrong, while sucking up to neo-Confederates simultaneously. More below the jump.

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I tell ya’, I have to laugh over the GOP infighting with the whole immigration fiasco. Of course, brain-dead ideas like building a wall and such are to be expected, but what’s really awesome is that it’s pitting two Repub core constituenceies againt each other, the racists and the corporatists. The racist wing doesn’t want too many brown people here. Whether they admit it or not, it’s quite obvious in the way they talk. And the corporatists need that cheap labor.. can’t expect white people to go out and pick their own goddamn lettuce, right? Judging from talks I have overheard (sadly, sometimes with family members) I think the racist contingent is HUUUUUUGE, although much of it is also that latent/not-in-your-face suburban style of racism. And so Bush really has his tiny balls in a vice over this one.

John McCain and Mitt Romney, two men who will never be president, are going at each other over it. Only 35% of self-described conservatives approve of Bush’s plan. Phone solicitations (GOP) are tanking, in part because if it.

Surprisingly, I don’t have enough info about this whole issue to give you my own ranting about it (yeah, I know, rare). Maybe living in lily-white VT has had a blinding effect on me, I don’t know. That’s not to say I don’t care or that there could be some serious problems out there, I really don’t know. It’s not one of my “pet” issues as it is for some. But I also know that this is one of those red-meat type issues for getting the racists in a frenzy, and it’s a good hunch if they vote at all they usually vote Republican, so part of me can’t help but wonder how much of this “crisis” is manufactured strictly for that purpose.

Anyways, for your listening enjoyment, “Immigration Man” from Crosby & Nash (no Stills). The song’s from ’74 or ’75 I believe (I wore out the record when I was listening to this stuff in high school), but someone put a timely video to it last year. Politics aside, it’s a great song. Enjoy.