Keith Olbermann on the crazy, treasonous Michelle Bachmann. She could very well be the wingnut of the week, too. There’s just too many to decide! Hard to believe there’s actually people out there who vote for nutjobs like this. What up Minnesota?

I think Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone got it right…… maybe she’s huffing.

Matt Taibbi: It’s funny, this morning outside of Penn Station I saw a guy huffing glue out of a paper bag and he was making more sense than Michelle Bachmann.

U.S. Rep. Shimkus (R-Il)

At the March 25, 2009 hearing of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Rep. Shimkus goes on the “God” bandwagon and states “God decides when the earth will end.

Bill Maher’s New Rules 03/27/09

OBAMA PRAISES MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS

DISCOVERY SHUTTLE TO LAND THIS AFTERNOON

U.S., RUSSIA TO SIGN DECLARATION ON NUCLEAR ARSENALS

EXTREME CAUCASIAN CRAZINESS

SHAM-WOW ON SOUTH BEACH

REID TO LIBERALS: BACK OFF

SENATOR WEBB PROPOSES PRISON REFORM

HOLBROOKE: WE NEED COMPLETE RETHINK ON OPIUM PROBLEM IN AFGHANISTAN

SASC FULL DECLASSIFIED REPORT DUE OUT, LEVIN TO CALL FOR DOJ REFERRAL

KRUGMAN: MARKET WIZARDS EXPOSED AS FRAUDS, TOO BAD OBAMA TEAM STILL BELIEVES THEM

Colin Hay – Beautiful World

It’s official: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is a typical thieving republican (but you probably already knew that, unless you were in a deep, brain-dead coma for the last couple of months).

Web Ad for Bobby Jindal Uses Celebrity Voices (and Mine) Without Permission

An ad on the web for Bobby Jindal uses a number of celebrity voices seemingly endorsing Jindal and offering high praise of the governor. The only problem is that all of the quotes are taken out of context and without permission.

How do I know? I’m one of the voices they used, which is quite curious because I am neither a celebrity nor anywhere near a Bobby Jindal fan.

Some of the other voices in the ad include Chris Matthews of MSNBC, David Gregory of NBC, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Chris Wallace of Fox News (I believe Jay Leno and Alan Colmes are also in there, but those are not confirmed yet).

That Mitch McConnell… what a card!

Too funny. When I heard this one, I laughed so hard that I nearly fell out of my chair.

Senate GOP plots comeback

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Despite crushing defeats in the last two elections, Senate Republicans have new “energy and enthusiasm” aimed at winning back the majority, says their leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. [...]

“President Bush had become extremely unpopular, and politically he was sort of a millstone around our necks in both ’06 and ’08,” McConnell said in a roundtable with reporters Friday. “We now have the opportunity to be on offense, offer our own ideas and we will win some.” [...]

“They become the way you chart the course for a comeback,” McConnell said. “Which in this country, always happens at some point.”

“The pendulum swings,” he said.

Where’s the outrage?

Do the Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason? Top Constitutional Scholar Says Yes

In early March, more shocking details emerged about George W. Bush legal counsel John Yoo’s memos outlining the destruction of the republic.

The memos lay the legal groundwork for the president to send the military to wage war against U.S. citizens; take them from their homes to Navy brigs without trial and keep them forever; close down the First Amendment; and invade whatever country he chooses without regard to any treaty or objection by Congress.

Legal expert Michael Ratner calls the legal arguments made in the infamous Yoo memos, “Fuhrer’s law.”

It was as if Milton’s Satan had a law degree and was establishing within the borders of the United States the architecture of hell. [...]

The memos are a confession. The memos could not be clearer: This was the legal groundwork of an attempted coup. I expected massive front page headlines from the revelation that these memos exited. Almost nothing. I was shocked.

Ruben Navarrette Jr. is delusional. He conveniently forgets how the past eight Bush years have nearly destroyed this country. He forgets how people such as himself refused to heed any criticisms of that crappy administration, opting instead to follow it over the cliff, and drag the rest of us along with them. He obviously thinks our troubles didn’t begin until around November of last year. Mr. Navarrette is a blind partisan hack who can find no fault in his republican cohorts.

Mr. Navarrette, contrary to what you believe to be true, your shit does, indeed, stink. If you can’t put any more effort of honesty in your writing, you really should find another line of work. We have serious problems to face. We don’t need lying, partisan hacks obstructing our efforts.

How people like you earn a paycheck is beyond me. Why CNN feels your lies are worthy of print is beyond me. But know this, history will remember what both of you have done.

Commentary: Obama is flunking economics

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — Welcome to March Madness on the Potomac.

Many Americans are so emotionally invested in the Obama presidency that they consider it too historic to fail.

They won’t tolerate any criticism of the president or his administration, finding it easier to simply attack critics. And whatever goes wrong that they can’t defend or deflect, they just blame on George W. Bush.

But to many of the rest of us, it’s clear that President Obama is flunking economics. He is trying to do too much at once, and so he is not doing any of it well. He vows to cut the federal deficit while proposing an avalanche of new spending that will — says the Congressional Budget Office — increase it by as much as $9.3 trillion over the next decade.

Why would anyone want to live in Fargo? The sinful people of Fargo are being punished for their wicked “let the good times roll, you betcha” lifestyle. Fargo doesn’t do anything for the rest of the country. All they do there is chop people up in wood chippers and worship giant idols of Paul Bunyan. The people of Fargo should move to some place where this sort of thing doesn’t happen. Why are they sand bagging? If they don’t have the sense to leave then to hell with them.

Heartbreaking Triage as Fargo Battles Floods

FARGO, N.D. — For some residents in the neighborhoods closest to the fast-rising Red River here, the last-minute announcement by anxious city officials that they would build a second set of dikes to protect the heart of this state’s most populous city was anything but soothing. [...]

“What you’re saying here is that we’re on the wrong side of the world?” Laura Krupich, a resident of the South Acres neighborhood in Fargo, asked a city commissioner as she found her house on a map showing the new earthen and sandbag levees. [...]

“You know these are people’s houses we’re talking about, and it just gets to you,” he said later, shaking his head. “But we also have to be responsible for the city as a whole.”

It’s stories like this that makes me want to ditch my diet… NOT!

Toilet sausage chef causes prison unit evacuation

CLALLAM BAY, Wash. (AP) — An inmate’s attempt to heat up sausages in his toilet went up in smoke when the cooking fire forced a unit evacuation at a Washington prison. Clallam Bay Corrections Center spokeswoman Denise Larson says 130 inmates were evacuated to a dining hall when smoke was spotted coming from a sewer vent pipe Wednesday evening.

She says the smoke was traced to the inmate’s cell and he admitted to trying to heat up snack sausage bought from a prison store in the stainless steel toilet. The inmate’s identity has not been released.

The toilet chef has been placed in segregation pending discipline at the prison on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.

Politicians are really getting shitty folks. It really is time to bring out those pitchforks.

Tennessee legislators are trying to push through a bill that limits lottery winners who happen to be on any type of public assistance to just $600. Lost your job and are currently collecting unemployment insurance? Be prepared to be drug tested!

I wonder if all the the employees of all the banking institutions that are being bailed out have to undergo similar disrespect and contempt?

States consider drug tests for welfare recipients

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Want government assistance? Just say no to drugs.

Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing.

The effort comes as more Americans turn to these safety nets to ride out the recession. Poverty and civil liberties advocates fear the strategy could backfire, discouraging some people from seeking financial aid and making already desperate situations worse.

Those in favor of the drug tests say they are motivated out of a concern for their constituents’ health and ability to put themselves on more solid financial footing once the economy rebounds. But proponents concede they also want to send a message: you don’t get something for nothing.

This story includes the world’s dumbest comment from the world’s dumbest man:

“Nobody’s being forced into these assistance programs.” -republican Craig Blair, West Virginia Legislature

Mr. Blair, I hope with all my heart that people like you end up unemployed. You really need to find out first hand that of which you know not of.

How do these idiots keep ending up in politics?