Ask yourself: does the dead person care? They’re dead. They don’t know what is happening to them. Why should we deny the full sexual expression of the living just because of narrow-minded, Judeo-Christian values? It doesn’t hurt anyone, does it? Just more of the same narrow-minded thinking that modern, progressive sorts decrying Rick Santorum’s social conservativism should find abhorrent. Admit it: people get all negative about necrophilia because they think it’s icky, and all right-thinking sorts know that icky isn’t a valid reason to disapprove of homosexuality, so it certainly isn’t a valid reason to disapprove of this.
Rightwing fuckwit Clayton Cramer, comparing necrophilia to homosexuality.
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Sarah Palin has an interesting definition of ‘help.’ A brokered convention would be a catastrophe for the GOP. If this is the sort of “help” Palin plans to give her party, she can expect a thank you note from the White House.
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Sarah Palin has an interesting definition of ‘help.’

A brokered convention would be a catastrophe for the GOP. If this is the sort of “help” Palin plans to give her party, she can expect a thank you note from the White House.

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Women testifying about birth control? Pfft! What do they know? Steve Benen: Following up on an earlier item, here was the witness table at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as discussion about contraception access and health care got underway. You’ll notice, of course, that all of the witnesses are men. What you can’t tell from the photo is that the second panel will feature four more men, and the combined total of the nine witnesses will include no women, no experts on contraception, no experts on health care, and no experts who might say something Republicans disagree with. As ThinkProgress noted, this proved to be a bit too much for some of the Democratic woman on the committee. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) asked a sensible question under the circumstances: “Where are the women? When I look at this panel, I don’t see one, single woman representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need coverage for basic preventive health care services.” As the farce hearing progressed, nearly all of the Democratic women on the committee left the room in protest. I’m literally flabbergasted here. I can’t think of any way to adequately express how dumb I think this is. It’s like the GOP sat down and asked themselves, “What is the absolute stupidest way we can handle this? How can we make this look as bad as possible?”
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Women testifying about birth control? Pfft! What do they know?

Steve Benen:

Following up on an earlier item, here was the witness table at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as discussion about contraception access and health care got underway.

You’ll notice, of course, that all of the witnesses are men. What you can’t tell from the photo is that the second panel will feature four more men, and the combined total of the nine witnesses will include no women, no experts on contraception, no experts on health care, and no experts who might say something Republicans disagree with.

As ThinkProgress noted, this proved to be a bit too much for some of the Democratic woman on the committee. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) asked a sensible question under the circumstances: “Where are the women? When I look at this panel, I don’t see one, single woman representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need coverage for basic preventive health care services.”

As the farce hearing progressed, nearly all of the Democratic women on the committee left the room in protest.

I’m literally flabbergasted here. I can’t think of any way to adequately express how dumb I think this is. It’s like the GOP sat down and asked themselves, “What is the absolute stupidest way we can handle this? How can we make this look as bad as possible?”

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Keep digging, Rick.
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Keep digging, Rick.

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This is why they call Santorum ‘the 14th century’s finest mind.’

Crooks and Liars:

John King asks if the easing of roles for women in combat is a good thing. And Santorum answers with: “I want to create every opportunity for women to be able to serve this country . . . but I do have concerns about women in front-line combat. I think that could be a very compromising situation, where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved. It already happens, of course, with the camaraderie of men in combat, but I think it would be even more unique if women were in combat,” he added. “And I think that’s not in the best interests of men, women or the mission.”

Oh, you know those ladies; flighty and panicky and emotional and all that.

This is probably the worst women-in-combat gaffe since Newt Gingrich said women can’t serve on the front lines because they’d be in trenches. “Females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections,” Newt said, “and they don’t have upper body strength.”

It’s one thing to opine on women and have absolutely no idea what the hell you’re talking about, but it’s another to actually be married and be absolutely clueless about women. It’s like some weird Republican learning disorder, where you can’t grasp the obvious examples that are around you every day. To hold onto your prejudices in the face of daily evidence to the contrary can’t say good things about your worldview, since it means your worldview is formed contrary to reality.

My sympathies go out to Newt’s and Rick’s wives, because they’re clearly married to oafs.

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Noonan’s columns are notable for their lofty elitism, their wandering thematics, and above all, for the immaculate self-confidence with which she says really dumb things.
Ed Kilgore, on why Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan is a typically lousy pundit.
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A very dumb man.

Political Wire:

When East Haven [CT] Mayor Joseph Maturo (R) was asked by WPIX-TV what he would do for the Latino community in the aftermath of four police officers being charged with violating the civil rights of Latino residents he said that he might go home and eat tacos.

I’m at a loss for words…

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NEWSFLASH: America’s dumbest candidate continues to be dumb. Dave Weigel: A hat tip to Mike Memoli for this one, who noticed a lede buried in the final graf of a Perry dispatch by Alana Semuels from South Carolina. After Perry left, walking by a mannequin wearing a Squat N’ Gobble t-shirt whose hand was raised above her head – a hand Perry tried to call on during a question-and-answer period — a spirited political discussion broke out in the restaurant, with some patrons waving Nobama ’12 bumper stickers. The Perry campaign may be the one that rescues Alan Cranston from political trivia’s slush pile. The senator from California, who ran for president in 1984 for some reason then barely survived re-election to his old job, is no longer the politician who’s weakened himself most by bungling a presidential campaign. This man once led the GOP field for his party’s nomination to the nation’s highest office. Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?
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NEWSFLASH: America’s dumbest candidate continues to be dumb.

Dave Weigel:

A hat tip to Mike Memoli for this one, who noticed a lede buried in the final graf of a Perry dispatch by Alana Semuels from South Carolina.

After Perry left, walking by a mannequin wearing a Squat N’ Gobble t-shirt whose hand was raised above her head – a hand Perry tried to call on during a question-and-answer period — a spirited political discussion broke out in the restaurant, with some patrons waving Nobama ’12 bumper stickers.
The Perry campaign may be the one that rescues Alan Cranston from political trivia’s slush pile. The senator from California, who ran for president in 1984 for some reason then barely survived re-election to his old job, is no longer the politician who’s weakened himself most by bungling a presidential campaign.

This man once led the GOP field for his party’s nomination to the nation’s highest office.

Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?

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Rick Perry 'like Bush only without the brains'

Is Rick Perry dumb? (Politico)

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It's not an opinion, it's provable objective fact: GOP economics are idiotic

Voices Faulting G.O.P. Economic Policies Growing Louder (NYT)

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