UPDATE 03/18/10 10:25 AM EDT: Jim Hoft, leading wingnut fuckwad, decides to ignore the facts to smear Obama (again):

Obama Says “Louisiana Purchase” in Obamacare Will Cover Earthquake in Hawaii… Um… What Earthquake in Hawaii?

In 1868 there was a major earthquake in Hawaii that killed 77 people. In 1975 an earthquake in Hawaii killed 2 people.

Despite Jimbo’s best efforts to shove history down the ol’ memory hole, reality comes along and smacks Jimbo upside his empty little head:

In fact, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit Hawaii on October 15, 2006. On October 16, 2006, Bush stated:

The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Hawaii and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by an earthquake that occurred on October 15, 2006, and related aftershocks.

Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis in the counties of Hawaii, Honolulu, Kauai, and Maui and the City of Honolulu for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance.

Whoops. Nice try, Jimbo. By all means, keep those lies coming. Lying is the only talent you have.

UPDATE 09/29/09 1:05 PM EDT: Figures. Jim Hoft is lying again:

Figures. ACORN Was Behind Franken’s Stolen Senate Seat

Nope. There have been no credible allegations of any vote fraud in the Coleman-Franken race. Not one.

Jim Hoft proves, once again, that he is the biggest Goddamn Fucking Liar™ on the Internet.

UPDATE 01/30/09 8:30 AM EST: It’s been a while since we looked in on that paragon of mendacity, Jimmycrap Hoft. Here’s his latest bullshit:

...[T]he massive trillion dollar spending bill passed by democrats even gives cash to illegal aliens.

As usual, Jimmycrap is lying:

[I]n fact the measure indicates that Social Security numbers are needed to claim tax credits of $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple. It also expressly disqualifies nonresident aliens.

Jim Hoft does not know how to tell the truth. He has never learned the value of honesty.

UPDATE 11/27/08 8:53 PM EST: Ah, good — Jim Hoft is at it again:

Obama Tells Disappointed Supporters: “I Am the Change.”

Now go read the McClatchy article that Jim Hoft links to. Read it carefully.

What’s missing?

That’s right… what’s missing is any mention of Obama saying “I Am the Change”.

Oh, and there’s also no mention of any “disappointed supporters”.

I am truly thankful on this Thanksgiving that Jim Hoft has chosen, yet again, to lie to his readers. It is always a great pleasure to point out his intellectual bankruptcy and ingrained, instinctive dishonesty.

UPDATE 11/27/08 9:28 PM EST: And, to no one’s surprise, Raven decides to follow Jimmycrap’s example and toss in a lie about the same story.

UPDATE 10/26/08 3:31 PM EDT: In addition to Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft runs a second blog called Founding Bloggers. He often runs the same posts on both blogs. And, of course, he is just as dishonest at Founding Bloggers.

In his recent post about the discredited report that Michelle Obama ordered lobster from room service at the Waldorf-Astoria, he refused to explain to his readers that the New York Post had reported that their source had lied.

And when I took him to task for this, he did what comes naturally to lying maggots: he altered the contents of my comments, effectively committing an act of online forgery. Here’s a mirror of the original comment I posted, and here’s Jim Hoft’s forgery. The rest of the comments in that thread that appear under my handle are also forgeries.

Lying comes as naturally to Jim Hoft as does breathing. He simply does not know how to be honest.

UPDATE 10/11/08 7:43 AM EDT: Jim Hoft is lying about the Troopergate report into Sarah Palin’s misconduct:

The Alaska panel reported that Palin abused power by firing insubordinate employee.
The conclusion:

The investigator, Stephen Branchflower, found that Monegan’s refusal to fire Wooten “was not the sole reason” but was “likely a contributing factor” to his firing.

In other words—there was no violation.

Hoft is careful not to post a link to the report itself. He’s afraid that his faithful flock of sheeple might read it. Page 8 states:

For reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides

“The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”

Emphasis mine.

Is Jim Hoft ever going to stop lying? Apparently not.

UPDATE 09/07/08 9:02 AM EDT: In his never-ending quest to top his past lies, Jim Hoft is off on another Adventure in Mendacity:

In the latest smear to discredit Governor Palin, the liberal media claims that the popular governor did not sell the governor’s jet on Ebay.

But what does the CBS News story that Jimmycrap links to actually say?

In a video tribute to Sarah Palin at the Republican convention, the voice-over boasted that she had “auctioned the governor’s jet on eBay.” Yesterday, John McCain stretched the story a little further.

“You know what I enjoyed the most?” McCain asked. “She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay—made a profit.”

That’s not what happened.

[I]n fact, the jet did not sell on eBay. It was sold to a businessman from Valdez named Larry Reynolds, who paid $2.1 million for the jet, shy of the original $2.7 million purchase price, according to contemporaneous news reports, including a story in the New York Times. Dan Spencer, the director of administrative services for Alaska’s Public Safety Department, said that the Republican speaker of the Alaska House, John L. Harris, brokered the deal. Reynolds made campaign contributions to both Palin and Harris in 2006 and 2007.

What happened? It appears that, as promised during her bid for governor in 2006, Palin did try to sell the plane on eBay but that doing so was not as easy as it might have sounded. After putting it up to auction, there was one serious bid, in December 2006, and it fell through.

It is clear that, in fact, the plane did not sell on eBay. The media is correct in reporting this.

It is also clear that McCain lied about the plane having sold on eBay.

Will Jim Hoft return to the real world and tell his readers that?

Of course not.

UPDATE 08/08/08 11:32 AM EDT: So guess who’s lying (still)?

Yup… Jim Hoft, aka “Gateway Pundit”!

FANTASY: Barack Obama has received more campaign contributions from oil companies than has John McCain.

So guess who’s really getting more from Big Oil?

...”Pockets” Obama!

FACT: John McCain has to date received three times more money from the oil industry than has Barack Obama.

Jim Hoft cites a report from the site Open Secrets. He deliberately omits the following facts from that report:

McCain leads the money race with nearly every other top giver in the oil and gas industry, though — Koch Industries, Valero, Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, the list goes on… McCain also has a big edge with Hess Corp. — $91,000 to Obama’s $8,000 — which has gotten some attention. And, overall, McCain’s campaign has gotten three times more money from the industry than Obama’s has—$1.3 million compared to about $394,000.

ThinkProgress notes that…

The report shows that, since McCain’s reversal in favor of offshore oil drilling, oil industry contributions to his campaign have skyrocketed — creating the perception that he is outsourcing his energy policies to the oil companies…

Jim Hoft, and far-right bloggers of his sort, may wish to consider that their propensity for distortions of fact and outright mendacity is unlikely to advance their cause.

UPDATE 07/22/08 7:13 AM EDT: In recent weeks, Jim Hoft has made repeated claims that Iraq has achieved 15 of 18 Congressional benchmarks set for it. To no one’s astonishment, it turns out that he is lying yet again.

The May 2008 report that the Administration submitted to Congress does not state that fifteen benchmarks have been met. Instead, it claims that progress on those fifteen benchmarks is “satisfactory”. Not one of the benchmarks is listed as “met”, “achieved”, or “completed”.

A recent GAO report gives a far more accurate picture of the status of Iraq. Among its many findings:

• “Iraq has spent only 24 percent of the funds it budgeted for reconstruction.”
• “The United States has not achieved its goal of defeating al Qaeda in Iraq and ensuring that no terrorist safe haven exists in Iraq.”
• “The number of Iraqi security force units deemed capable of performing operations without coalition assistance has remained at about 10 percent.”
• “The government has not yet established the commission needed to reinstate former Ba’athists in the government. In addition, the government has not enacted legislation that will provide a legal framework for managing its oil resources, distributing oil revenues, or disarming militias.”
• “The dangerous and volatile security conditions continue to hinder the movement and reconstruction efforts of international civilian personnel throughout Iraq.”
• ”[al Daeda in Iraq] remains highly lethal and maintains a significant presence in parts of the Tigris River Valley, Ninewa province, and other areas of Iraq. According to an MNF-I report, AQI is now predominately based in northern Iraq, especially in Mosul, where frequent high-profile attacks continue.”
• “The number of trained Iraqi security forces may overstate the number of troops present for duty. According to DOD, the number of trained troops includes personnel who are deceased or absent without leave.”
• “Although the de-Ba’athification law was enacted in February 2008, implementation of the law has stalled, delaying the possible reinstatement of an estimated 30,000 former government employees.”
• “Key legislation has not passed, including the provincial elections law, hydrocarbon laws, and disarmament and demobilization.”
• “Since September 2007, the constitutional review process has made little progress.”

Unwarranted claims that “Iraq has met 15 of 18 benchmarks” are misleading and deceptive. Honest debate about the Iraq war can occur only where all participants stick to the facts. Jim Hoft neither wants an honest debate, nor would he know how to be a part of an honest debate if he stumbled upon one.

Here’s a list of the posts (as of this writing) in which Jim Hoft has propagated this lie:

• Gotcha!... Democrats Ask For It & Get It Good on Iraq
• Ruh-Roh… Iraq Reaches 15 of 18 Benchmarks …Update: Dems say they would have brought “Solid Progress” by retreating!!
• It Took One Week- But Barack Obama Flips On Surge
• Joe Biden Attacks John McCain — Hilarity Ensues
• HAH!!... OBAMA SCRUBS “CIVIL WAR” FROM IRAQ WEBPAGE!!
• Oops!... Obama Forgets To Scrub His ‘Surge Is Failing’ Document
• Hah! Obama Demands That “We Must Surrender in Iraq” & “We Must Succeed In Iraq” In Same Paragraph
• Vets For Freedom Releases 2nd Ad: “Some in Washington”
• Stop the Press!... AP Admits Iraq War Basically Over
• “Day By Day” Reports on GP & Obama’s Scrubbing Techniques
• More Good News… Diwaniya Province Is Turned Over to Iraqi Forces
• McCain Uses Barack Obama to Slam Barack Obama On Iraq
• New York Times Refuses to Publish McCain Editorial!

UPDATE 07/20/08 4:03 PM EDT: Jim Hoft lies the way other men breathe.

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change.

Ummm, no. This claim originated with a post at the extreme right-wing blog ‘Daily Tech’. The posting touted the work of Lord Monckton of Brenchley, a well-known and well-debunked climate change denialist. His argument in the article in question has been quite expertly demolished by Tim Lambert at Deltoid. Monckton has been caught out lying about his non-existent membership in the British House of Lords.

It should also be noted that the newsletter in which Monckton’s paper appeared is not peer-reviewed, is not an official publication of the American Physical Society, and does not speak for that organization. The APS position on climate change remains unchanged, and the APS has published a statement regarding the newsletter article:

APS Position Remains Unchanged

The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007:

“Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth’s climate.”

An article at odds with this statement recently appeared in an online newsletter of the APS Forum on Physics and Society, one of 39 units of APS. The header of this newsletter carries the statement that “Opinions expressed are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the APS or of the Forum.” This newsletter is not a journal of the APS and it is not peer reviewed.

Discussion of climate change can be productive only if all parties are honest about the facts. Jim Hoft is utterly uninterested in honest discussion of anything.

UPDATE 07/14/08 11:28 AM EDT: Yes, children… another day, another lie from Jimmycrap Hoftwad:

The fact that there were more US fatalities in Afghanistan the last two months was not because the violence is surging there but because of the success of the Bush surge in Iraq:

Ummm, no. The reason that there were more US fatalities in Afghanistan the last two months is, in fact, because the violence is surging there. Look at the very graph that Jimmycrap uses to illustrate his point: it shows 45 coalition deaths in Afghanistan in June of this year, the highest monthly total since the coalition began combat operations in that country. Deaths in Afghanistan are increasing because the Taliban is stepping up its attacks on coalition forces in that country.

Golly, why don’t we just send more troops to Afghanistan to deal with the problem? Well, we don’t have them. Why? Because they are tied up in Iraq:

The nation’s top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasingly violent insurgency, but that the Pentagon does not have sufficient forces to send because they are committed to the war in Iraq.

Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said insurgent Taliban and extremist forces in Afghanistan have become “a very complex problem,” one that is tied to the extensive drug trade, a faltering economy and the porous border with Pakistan. Violence in Afghanistan has increased markedly over recent weeks, with June the deadliest month for U.S. troops since the war began in 2001.

“I don’t have troops I can reach for, brigades I can reach, to send into Afghanistan until I have a reduced requirement in Iraq,” Mullen told reporters at the Pentagon. “Afghanistan has been and remains an economy-of-force campaign, which by definition means we need more forces there.”

So, the bottom line: Violence is indeed surging in Afghanistan, and Jim Hoft is indeed a liar. Stick with reality, kids… you’ll get far less confused.

07/02/08 8:38 AM EDT: The lies from Jim Hoft just never end:

This is outrageous!
After General Wesley Clark attacked Senator McCain, a 5 year POW in North Vietnam, another Obama surrogate, Senator Jim Webb, came out today and told McCain to “calm down” about using his service in the campaign.
This comes from a freshman Democrat who based his entire campaign on his military service.
Figures.

Here’s a clue for Jim Webb —
McCain didn’t bring it up- Clark did.

Here’s a clue for Jimmycrap Hoftwad: You’re a lying sack of shit, and everyone but your moon-eyed toadies knows it.

The claim that McCain has not raised the issue of his military experience in his campaign is a complete fabrication. McCain has been flogging his military experience as a qualification for holding office for years:

Whether he’s deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton.

That’s the nickname for the site where he spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, a past that McCain regularly recalls on the campaign trail to fend off policy attacks, score political points and give voters a glimpse of his sentimental side. He campaigns with squadrons of POWs and made a video to mark the 35th anniversary of his release from prison.

When Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Senator John Edwards, rebuked McCain’s medical-care proposal and noted that he’d always enjoyed government health benefits, McCain responded that he knows what it’s like to get inadequate care — “from another government.’’ During an October debate, while knocking a Hillary Clinton plan to help fund a museum celebrating Woodstock, McCain said he missed the 1969 festival because he was “tied up at the time.’’ Even his rivals applauded.

The McCain campaign brings up the war “often enough to make sure it stays in people’s minds, but not so much that it seems exploitative and crass,’’ said Paul Waldman, co-author of “Free Ride,’’ a book that argues the press has treated the 71-year-old Arizona Republican gently.

...

McCain discovered the political cachet of his POW experiences while running for a House seat in Arizona — after living there for just two years.

At a candidates’ forum, he dismissed accusations that he was a carpetbagger with a well-timed ad lib: “The place I lived the longest in my life was Hanoi.’‘

The audience burst into applause, and “the race was effectively over right then,’’ McCain would write in “Worth the Fighting For,’’ a 2002 book about his political career.

Under fire as a senator for questionable dealings with an Arizona friend and supporter during the savings-and-loan scandal, McCain fumed: “Even the Vietnamese didn’t question my ethics.’‘

McCain also touted his POW years at the 1996 Republican National Convention while nominating Dole as the party’s standard-bearer.

Guess who else thinks that military service is not necessarily a qualification for being President, Jimmycrap?

Give up?

That’s right — John McCain himself!

Clark’s argument that military service is not sufficient alone to be president is an argument that has been made by McCain himself:

- During an interview with National Journal, John McCain was asked if “military service inherently makes somebody better equipped to be commander-in-chief.” McCain said, “Absolutely not…I absolutely don’t believe that it’s necessary.” [National Journal, 2/15/2003]

- I believe that military service is the most honorable endeavor an American may undertake.But I’ve never believed that lack of military service disqualifies one from occupying positions of political leadership or as Commander and Chief. In America, the people are sovereign, and they decide who is and is not qualified to lead us. [American Legion Speech, 9/7/1999]

- Earlier this year at Washington’s Gridiron Club, where humor is the required fare, McCain lay bare what underlies his candidacy. Wearing a jacket outlandishly festooned with dozens of fake military medals, McCain said, “The question I ask myself every morning while shaving in front of the mirror is: OK, John, you’re an incredible war hero, an inspiration to all Americans. But what qualifies you to be president of the United States?” [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11/7/1999]

In fact, in an interview on NPR on May 1, 2004, McCain noted that “some of our greatest presidents have not [had military experience]. … And all of them turned out to be fine commanders in chief.” Thus, by his own admission, McCain’s policies — not his military record — should determine if he is qualified to be president.

Jim Hoft will continue to lie whenever he can. Lying is the only talent that Jim Hoft really has.

06/29/08 8:45 AM EDT: Jimmycrap has found a new lie:

June 13:

Malik Obama: “My Brother Will Be Good For Jews Despite His Muslim Background”

June 28:

She may also want to talk with Obama’s own brother in Kenya Malik Obama who says that Obama is a Muslim.

The truth? Malik Obama never made that statement. Jim Hoft is lying — again.

Media Matters has posted the transcript of the phone interview of Malik Obama. Only his answers are audible; the audio file does not include the interviewer’s questions. Malik Obama does not say what Jimmycrap Hoftwad quotes him as saying. He doesn’t say anything that even comes close.

Jimmycrap will continue to lie whenever he can. Lying is the only talent that Jim Hoft really has.

06/23/08 7:48 AM EDT

What Jimmycrap Hoftwad claims:

“Obama Says “We Are No Longer a Christian Nation”“

What he himself admits Obama said:

“Whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation…”

(Emphasis mine.)

Jimmycrap Hoftwad: lying sack of shit, or just too goddamned stupid to understand plain English?

06/04/08 8:49 PM EDT

Once Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit has invented a lie he loves, he never lets it go.

[W]hen Barack Obama was asked last month about Israel’s drag on America, he replied, ”...I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.”

Goddamn Fucking Liar Jimmy Hoft tears this quote out of context from an interview published last month in The Atlantic. Read the entire article, and it becomes clear that Obama is referring not to Israel as a “constant sore”, but the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In fact, Obama voices strong support for Israel:

If one bothers to read the entire article, one sees that “this constant sore” is in fact the inability of the US to effectively assist in the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

“Look, we don’t do nuance well in politics and especially don’t do it well on Middle East policy. We look at things as black and white, and not gray.”

But by God, the Goddamn Fucking Liar Jimmy Hoft will ignore every scrap of context in his eagerness to print smears.

Here is some more of the context that Jimmycrap Hoftwad will not give his readers:

I think that the idea of a secure Jewish state is a fundamentally just idea, and a necessary idea, given not only world history but the active existence of anti-Semitism, the potential vulnerability that the Jewish people could still experience. I know that that there are those who would argue that in some ways America has become a safe refuge for the Jewish people, but if you’ve gone through the Holocaust, then that does not offer the same sense of confidence and security as the idea that the Jewish people can take care of themselves no matter what happens. That makes it a fundamentally just idea.

...

When I visited Ramallah, among a group of Palestinian students, one of the things that I said to those students was: “Look, I am sympathetic to you and the need for you guys to have a country that can function, but understand this: if you’re waiting for America to distance itself from Israel, you are delusional. Because my commitment, our commitment, to Israel’s security is non-negotiable.”

...

I welcome the Muslim world’s accurate perception that I am interested in opening up dialogue and interested in moving away from the unilateral policies of George Bush, but nobody should mistake that for a softer stance when it comes to terrorism or when it comes to protecting Israel’s security or making sure that the alliance is strong and firm. You will not see, under my presidency, any slackening in commitment to Israel’s security.

...

The notion that a vibrant, successful society with incredible economic growth and incredible cultural vitality is still plagued by this notion that this could all end at any moment—you know, I don’t know what that feels like, but I can use my imagination to understand it. I would not want to raise my children in those circumstances. I want to make sure that the people of Israel, when they kiss their kids and put them on that bus, feel at least no more existential dread than any parent does whenever their kids leave their sight.

Anyone who trusts Jim Hoft to explain to them what Barack Obama, or any other public figure, has said and what they mean will be deliberately misled.

There is no limit to Jim Hoft’s dishonesty.

There is no limit to Jim Hoft’s dishonesty.

There is no limit to Jim Hoft’s dishonesty.

There is no limit to Jim Hoft’s dishonesty.

There is no limit to Jim Hoft’s dishonesty.

There is no limit to Jim Hoft’s dishonesty.

• Having had my face rubbed in the fact that my accusations regarding the Democrats’ use of the self-executing rule exposed me as the laughable hypocrite that I am, I will now pretend that the Republicans used this tactic just once to fix an itty-bitty clerical error. Please ignore the historical fact that the Republicans have used the tactic more than 190 times. God forbid that I confuse my readers with any actual facts.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.

Like so much of the wingnut blogosphere, Widdle Jeffie is whining about the proposed use of the self-executing rule to pass health care reform in the House. This procedure will avoid an actual House vote on the Senate’s bill, by attaching the Senate bill to a package of fixes to be passed by the House. This, apparently, is just too too much for poor widdle Jeffie, and he lets the fauxtrage flow:

Are we really surprised anymore?

That’s the question I keep coming back to, as it becomes more and more and more apparent — not that it wasn’t already abundantly clear — that the Democratic Party leadership is prepared to pay any price and bend any rule and destroy any career necessary to bring about whatever procedural nightmare will equate to passage of their radical health care reform agenda.

A brand new headline from the Washington Post, just crossing the computer a little while ago, informs us that the “House May Try to Pass Senate Health-Care Bill Without Voting On It.” I can’t help but wonder if it’s even news anymore.

...

Why should we be surprised that [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi] will look for a possibly unconstitutional, definitely improper procedural loophole to use in the process of ramming said legislation down our throat?

You know, as a guy who runs a Web site like America’s Right, I look at an article like the one in question and think to myself: “Gee whiz, Jeff … is there even any value in pointing out that Nancy Pelosi has, yet again, shown that she simply does not care what America thinks?” And part of me says “no.” Part of me believes that, for Nancy Pelosi, disregarding the will of the American people comes as naturally as breaking campaign promises does for this president. The other part of me, however, cannot help but draw attention to it all. Its maddening.

So, are we really surprised anymore? Of course not. Are we outraged? Absolutely.

There’s certainly something missing from Widdle Jeffie’s tantrum that shouldn’t surprise anyone. That would be the fact that the self-executing rule procedure that has him wetting his pants has long been a favorite of Republicans:

When Republicans took power in 1995, they soon lost their aversion to self-executing rules and proceeded to set new records under Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). There were 38 and 52 self-executing rules in the 104th and 105th Congresses (1995-1998), making up 25 percent and 35 percent of all rules, respectively. Under Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) there were 40, 42 and 30 self-executing rules in the 106th, 107th and 108th Congresses (22 percent, 37 percent and 22 percent, respectively). Thus far in the 109th Congress, self-executing rules make up about 16 percent of all rules.

On April 26, the Rules Committee served up the mother of all self-executing rules for the lobby/ethics reform bill. The committee hit the trifecta with not one, not two, but three self-executing provisions in the same special rule. The first trigger was a double whammy: “In lieu of the amendments recommended by the Committees on the Judiciary, Rules, and Government Reform now printed in the bill, the amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of the Rules Committee Print dated April 21, 2006, modified by the amendment printed in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted in the House and the Committee of the Whole.”

The substitute submitted by the Rules Committee did not combine all the amendments adopted by the three reporting committees, as is customarily done. Instead, it deleted two amendments adopted by the Judiciary Committee that would have required disclosure of lobbyists’ contacts with Members and staff, and lobbyists’ solicitation and transmission of campaign contributions to candidates.

It then further amended its own substitute by automatically deleting a third Judiciary amendment requiring a Government Accountability Office study of lobbyist employment contracts.

So, are we really surprised any more by Jeff Schreiber’s habit of carefully failing to mention relevant facts? Of course not.

Are we outraged? Nope.

But we are entertained. We’re pointing and laughing at “honest” Jeff Schreiber and his self-defeating, self-impeaching antics. Again.

(hat tips: Daily Kos and Media Matters)

As I noted a short time ago, Paul Mitchell whined about a Mississippi state law that he hadn’t read and insisted that he would not read. That’s an example of a wingnut deliberately cultivating his own ignorance, which is of course an extremely common occurrence. But that wasn’t enough ignorance for this good ol’ boy. Nope, now he’s decided to compound the lie by claiming that he never wrote about the law — while simultaneously admitting that he mentions the law in the very first paragraph of his earlier post.

Paul, the imbecile store called. They’re running out of you.

• I yearn for the good old days, when childbirth was dirty and dangerous. That’s what put us on the moon, after all.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.

Further evidence of the astroturf nature of the “tea party” movement has come to light:

Tea Party activists from across the country have come to Washington for a three-week long “Take The Town Halls to Washington” rally, an effort to lobby undecided House Democrats to vote against health care reform. At a press conference for the event on Friday, the Daily Caller spotted signs and buttons clearly paid for by the Republican National Committee. Activists distributed “red-white-and-blue buttons and signs emblazoned with the words ‘Listen to Me!’” — an official RNC slogan — with disclaimers at the bottom of the signs reading “Paid for by the Republican National Committee”...

Someone explain to me, please, why anyone should listen to these paid shills.

I am definitely going to do what I can to spread the use of this phrase.

(hat tip: Crooks & Liars)

In for a penny, in for a pound, I always say. What more fitting way to greet Democrats sick health care reform proposal than with the eliminationist rhetoric it and the Democrats deserve.

And he justifies his hatemongering with the infantile but-Mommy-everyone-else-is-doing-it excuse.

I’ll make it plain once again: Dan Riehl and most of his fellow wingnuts have the moral intelligence of sewer rats.

• Before May 2003: 15 of 92 torture tapes erased or damaged
• Early 2003: Dunlavey’s paper trail “lost”
• Before August 2004: John Yoo and Patrick Philbin’s torture memo emails deleted
• June 2005: most copies of Philip Zelikow’s dissent to the May 2005 CAT memo destroyed
• November 8-9, 2005: 92 torture tapes destroyed
• July 2007 (probably): 10 documents from OLC SCIF disappear
• December 19, 2007: Fire breaks out in Cheney’s office
  

If none of this material is evidence of torture, why has it disappeared?

Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife?

I’m not sure I quite understand this, given that cost is so important as a burden to taxpayers when it comes to health care. If Democrats want so badly to abort babies because of it, why are we bothering with someone who has a broken neck and back at 69? It sounds to me like she’s pretty well used up and has probably been living off the taxpayers for plenty of years to begin with. Aren’t we at least going to get a vote on it?

Sen. Reid’s daughter Lana Reid Barringer, 48, who was driving the mini-van, and his wife, Landra G. Reid, 69, a passenger, were both injured. Landra suffered a broken back and a broken neck in the crash; Barringer suffered minor injuries, Sen. Reid’s office said Thursday.

I realize her crook of a husband and his pals in Congress have excluded themselves from the mess they’re going to compel everyone else to join, but we’re still paying the bills, are we not? I don’t see that she’s worth it at this point, frankly. I can’t recall her ever doing anything for me.

Come on, Harry – do your civic duty. The nation’s broke and counting on you guy. Pull the plug and get back to work. And don’t bill us for a full day today, either. This is no time to be sloughing off. Air freight her home, you can bury her during recess on your own time and dime. Or are you going to bill us for that, too?

Reid has stayed at his wife’s bedside throughout the day Friday and returned to the Capitol in the late afternoon.

This should not surprise us, of course — Riehl the moral vacuum has already admitted that he allowed his gay brother to die alone. The amusing part is that Riehl then throws a tantrum when Media Matters reproduced his post without comment. The Whiny-Ass Titty Baby actually has the gall to complain that

They have no right to take exception to my post.

Really, fucktard? Who does somebody have to be, before you will permit them to take exception to your posts?

I do so hope that Dan Riehl is proud of becoming the standard-bearer for the self-absorbed morally empty wingnuts that are poisoning the political landscape of a once-great nation.

UPDATE 03/13/10 7:28 AM EST: As always, when a wingnut like Riehl gets called on his own moral vacuity, the protestations of innocence are loud and impassioned. Unfortunately, Riehl is too fucking stupid to hide his own death worship.

In the aftermath of his post in which he advocates killing Landra Reid, Riehl has been the target of considerable blowback, both in the blogosphere and via Twitter. In one tweet, Riehl makes this comment:

Use your head. I dont advocate killing anyone. Doh!

Dan Riehl is, of course, lying. He is on record as being in favor of extra-judicial executions of accused criminals:

They say the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact. Well, neither should be trumped up Constitutional Rights. Degenerates like Maurice Clemmons should be shot in the head and left for dead whenever they get caught.

Riehl may be idiot enough to think that he can sell the idea that he was speaking merely rhetorically when he demanded the death of Landra Reid. However, his own words make it clear that he really does want to see people he doesn’t like murdered.

In a blog post entitled Justice Obama? You Betcha!, Jeff Schreiber stated:

I, for one, would love to see Barack Obama on the Supreme Court. I just don’t think, ideological slant or otherwise, he really has a grasp of the law or of the Constitution, the document he believes to be “deeply flawed.”

Schreiber was challenged to provide the entire quote, rather than just two carefully selected words, and to present that quote in context. Of course, he responded promptly:

“I think it is a remarkable document … the original Constitution as well as the Civil War Amendments, but I think it is an imperfect document, and I think it is a document that reflects some deep flaws in American culture, the Colonial culture nascent at that time. And in that sense, I think we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and that the Framers had that same blind spot. I don’t think the two views are contradictory, to say that it was a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now, and to say that it also reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”

Look at that quote. Just look at it and marvel at it. It is truly a shining exemplar of painstaking accuracy, as one can see by noting how very closely it matches Obama’s actual words (which can be heard at 45:26 in the original broadcast):

“I think it is a remarkable document, I think... the original Constitution, as well as — as well as the Civil War amendments, but I think it is an imperfect document, and I think it is a document that reflects some deep flaws in American culture — the colonial culture nascent at that time. African-Americans were not — first of all, they weren’t African-Americans. The Africans at the time were not considered as part of the polity that was of concern to the framers. I think that, as Richard said, it was a nagging problem in the same way that, these days, we might think of environmental issues or some other problem that, where you have to balance, you know, cost-benefits, as opposed to seeing it as a moral problem involving persons of moral worth. And, in that sense, I think we can say that the Constitution reflected a enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and that the Framers had that same blind spot. I don’t think the two views are contradictory to say that it was a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now, and to say that it also reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”

You see? You see how perfectly Jeff Schreiber reported Obama’s words? Is that not astonishing?

It is clear that everyone on the far right of the great American political debate owes Jeff Schreiber a huge debt of gratitude for setting the standards of honesty and character where he has.

Hey, it’s meat. How could I resist?

(hat tip: Meatpaper, which I am so subscribing to…)

• Lookie! I can write nearly 800 words criticizing a proposed state law! Why is that so astonishing? I haven’t read the bill, and I’m not going to read the bill! Yet I can blather on and on and on and on about a bill I know nothing about! Gawd DAMN I love being an ignorant assclown!

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.

(hat tip: Daily Kos)

March 3, 2010: 153 House Republicans vote to reject a bill that would prevent the use of dangerous forms of restraint and seclusion (including the use of drugs) to discipline schoolchildren.

The Republican party has now officially become the party that is in favor of anything that decent people would recoil from in horror. They are the party of moral incompetence.