First in our report is Senator David Vitter (R-Diaper), who was late to his flight at Dulles International the other day. He threw down a big old “Don’t you know who I am” tantrum when he was late for his flight the other day. According to RawStory in a story from Roll Call, Vitter...

It is not news that there are violent whack jobs on the fringe of the Republican Party. The last Presidential campaign gave us plenty of evidence, and we don’t really need Alexandra Pelosi’s film to tell us not only that there are extremist whack jobs out there on the Republican fringe, ...

Life in foster care is the fate of far too many foster children in this country, and the Republicans in the Tennessee legislature are determined to sentence even more foster children to that sentence. Why? It’s fear of the gay that moves them, surely. Here’s a bit from the article in the...

I’m thinking we need to change the name from “Whack Job of the Week.” They are all whack jobs. Maybe a different name every week, or something like that. For Bunning, a Hall of Fame baseball player and barely adequate human, I’m thinking “Bobblehead” works. I̵...

The Republicans simply can’t get enough of the whackjobbery, can they? This weekend is the annual CPAC conference at the Omni Shoreham in Washington. They’ve got the usual suspects speaking, and last night the big stars were John Bolton and Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media. Bolton joke...

Barack Obama made a well-received speech to Congress last night. He appealed directly to the American people, whether they are hurt directly by the recession or know people who are. And Obama was positive about the character of the American people and how that character, with leadership by governmen...

Utah State Senator Chris Buttars has been reprimanded by his state party. (We wrote about this the other day.) The GOP out there in the busy bee state has decided not that Mr. Buttars is wrong in thinking that gays are the most significant threat to the US of A, far worse than armed terrorists, but ...

There’s lots to report on. Chris Bowers comes up with some interesting statistical analysis at Open Left, for instance. I’m wondering when the whack jobs will pick this up and twist it around. He notes that polling shows that support for the legalization of medical marijuana is higher th...

Every once in a while you’ve got to stop and smell the manure the Republicans are spreading and just wonder if anyone on their side believes any of their crap. It’s insane. Here’s a party that has fought for every single tax cut since Reagan was in office. We’re talking just ...

Hey, that’s going to be a lot more than just a cliche from now on, at least in Arkansas. Check out this legislation that will allow people to carry concealed weapons in church. From Oregonlive: The Arkansas House on Wednesday approved a bill allowing concealed handguns in churches, despite hea...