Good golly, this is picking up steam. State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Troglodyte) is pissed about veterans touring Pennsylvania to spread inconvenient truths:

“As a veteran, I believe that any veteran lending their name, to promote the leftist propaganda of global warming and climate change, in an effort to control more of the wealth created in our economy, through cap and tax type policies, all in the name of national security, is a traitor to the oath he or she took to defend the Constitution of our great nation!” Mr. Metcalfe’s email reads. “Remember Benedict Arnold before giving credibility to a veteran who uses their service as a means to promote a leftist agenda. Drill Baby Drill!!!”

We might remind the exclamation-hoarding Mr. Metcalfe that George W. Bush took a similar oath — twice — yet it’s only lefties who seem to care about calling him on it, and even the Socialist-in-Chief is content to let sleeping tyrants lie.

Pennsylvania state lawmaker: Veterans who support climate change legislation are ‘traitors.’ [Think Progress]

We may need to revise our South Carolina Douchebag Standings, following this stunning debut by two county Republican chairmen:

There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves. By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation’s pennies and trying to preserve our country’s wealth and our economy’s viability to give all an opportunity to succeed.

Mind you, this was a defense of Jim DeMint’s prowess at haggling. What a gutte neshumah he is!

DeMint watches out for all of us [SC Times and Democrat, via HuffPo]

Congressman Paul Broun (R-Pigfuckers) at a town hall last week:

“When I was sworn into the Marine Corps, I was sworn to uphold the Constitution against every enemy, foreign and domestic,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of domestic enemies of the Constitution and one of those sits in the speaker’s chair of the United States Congress, Nancy Pelosi.”

We think we’ve got it figured out: If everyone on the Right calls for an assassination, nobody can be blamed for it.

Broun: Pelosi A ‘Domestic Enemy Of The Constitution’ [TPM]

‘We Will Overthrow The Government’ — Calls For Violence Repeatedly Stoked By Conservative Voices [Think Progress]

GOP candidate puts opponents’ names on Halloween tombstones [Raw Story]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm_adM-14K4

Louie Gohmert (R-NSFW) takes issue against hate-crimes legislation because “sexual orientation” is too vague:

If you’re oriented toward animals, bestiality, then, you know, that’s not something that can be used, held against you or any bias be held against you for that. Which means you’d have to strike any laws against bestiality, if you’re oriented toward corpses, toward children, you know, there are all kinds of perversions.

Whew. Is it hot in here? We may have to revive Stinque After Dark just to run excerpts from the Congressional Record.

Rep. Louie Gohmert: Hate crimes bill will lead to Nazism, legalization of necrophilia, pedophilia, and bestiality [Think Progress]

• Nathan Deal, GOP candidate for Georgia governor: “We got all the complaints of the ghetto grandmothers who didn’t have birth certificates and all that.”
• BET cofounder Sheila Johnson, campaigning for Bob McDonnell, GOP candidate for Virginia Governor: “We need someone who can really communicate, and Bob McDonnell can communicate. The other people I talk to, and especially his op-p-p-p-ponent… He could not articulate what needed to be done. So communication is hugely important.” Stutterers are not amused.
• Peter Schiff, GOP candidate for Connecticut senator, reviving the Hoekstra Meme: “I’m interrupting my career. It’s not like I want my new career in politics. But I’m willing to interrupt it the same way that somebody interrupted their career and joined World War II and went off to fight the Nazis.”

Meg Whitman’s gonna have to step up her game. Mere hypocrisy just doesn’t cut it.

I post, you decide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n-uePbXT4Q

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Kent Conrad:

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), the Senate Budget Committee chairman and a member of the unsuccessful Gang of Six effort, raised a few eyebrows this week with a message for his “progressive friends.”

Conrad, a consistent opponent of the public option, wanted liberals to know “government-run programs” aren’t necessary to lower costs and expand access. He explained that he’d finished reading T.R. Reid’s “The Healing of America” over the weekend, and learned Germany, Japan, Switzerland, France, and Belgium are doing just fine. “[A]ll of them contain costs, have universal coverage, have very high quality care and yet are not government-run systems,” Conrad said.

Wrong.

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