“The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities… As I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s work. They are people who create either little utility or negative utility on the job.” [American Spectator, via ThinkProgress]

Fearing that Arizona was stealing the spotlight as The Most Batshit State in the Nation (Florida having long since ceded the race), South Carolina’s pack of Thoroughbred Assholes have been fighting hard to maintain the Palmetto State’s title.

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Yet another thin-skinned Republican:

Tom Corbett, current Attorney General of the state of Pennsylvania and Gubernatorial Candidate, has subpoenaed Twitter to appear as a Grand Jury witness to “testify and give evidence regarding alleged violations of the laws of Pennsylvania”.

The subpoena orders Twitter to provide “any and all subscriber information” of the person(s) behind two accounts – @bfbarbie and @CasaBlancaPA – who have been anonymously criticizing the man on the popular micro-sharing service.

And what are the tweets that have so enraged the 60-year-old AG?

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This appears to tick every wingnut box there is:

BP America’s vice president of Gulf of Mexico exploration, David Rainey (November 19, 2009):

Drill baby drill!

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These leeches – the Young Eagles:

As we’re guessing you know by now, that’s the RNC-created program for young donors whose night out at a bondage-themed LA club ended up on the committee’s tab — triggering the latest round of speculation over whether Michael Steele can survive.

Is it J. Roby Penn IV, the Young Eagles’ mid-Atlantic regional director and 29-year-old heir to an oil-and-gas fortune, who tells visitors to his Facebook page, “My ancestors, actually, weren’t on the Mayflower. They sent the servants over first to get the cottage ready”?

Scum.  GOP scum.

The GOP’s Young Eagles [TPM]

So, how does our new CNN contributor feel about the Census long form, the “American Community Survey”?

Erick Erickson, yesterday:

What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my property. They can’t do that. They don’t have the legal right, and yet they’re trying.

Erick Erickson, today:

Naturally the left is out today saying I was on the air advocating killing census workers.

Nothing of the sort, of course. Erick’s only advocating threatening to kill Census workers.

[via ThinkProgress]