News that three-quarters of Loyal Bushies remain unemployed has given libtards everywhere a healthy and enjoyable dose of schadenfreude.  Paul Krugman thinks this might be a sign that the days of wingnut welfare are over:

As an economist, I’m supposed to believe in incentives; and the remarkable cohesiveness of conservatives has a lot to do with incentives.

Show some independence, and you’ll face a lavishly financed primary challenge from the Club for Growth. Be a loyal soldier, and you will be taken care of — through what’s commonly referred to as “wingnut welfare.”

Remember when Scooter went to The Hudson Institute to be a “scholar”? – well, he was until he was convicted of multiple felonies and they disappeared him.

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Now that the GOP is out of power, they’re pumping out even more batshit insanity in an effort to stay visible.  I have two pieces of Grade A wingnuttery for you (and one bonus nonpolitical piece of insanity).  Tell me about others you know of in the comments, and I’ll add them.

Q) Who is to blame for the economic meltdown?

A) Chuck Schumer and George Soros! (best wingnuttery begins about 5 minutes in).

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This weekend, not only do we get to watch what should be a good football game, we get to enjoy the demise of Pajamas Media. Via Instaputz:

And so it ends. Pajamas Media, a laughingstock even in the embryonic stage, is no more. Putz, one of the founders, is already attempting to distance himself from the operation, despite spending more than three years driving most its traffic:

I don’t have much to do with the PJM business side…

But what will those bright lights at Protein Wisdom, The Anchoress, Atlas Juggs, and other rightblogs do now that they only thing left is PJTV (which they plan to charge for)?  The Anchoress:

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But we’ll understand the confusion. Daniel John Essek, proud resident of Kentucky’s Whitley County, and founder of the Society for Liberty and Prosperity (membership: two, including his wife), wants a federal judge to rule whether Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate is a forgery.

“This is patriotism,” says the Ron Paul/John McCain/Sarah Palin supporter.

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The Instapundit has a new column up at Forbes and, as you’d expect, it sucks.

“War is the health of the state,” wrote Randolph Bourne, horrified by World War I and its excesses. And that phrase has been used by libertarians and opponents of state power ever since, as a reason why war is a bad idea.

Certainly the experience of World War I–and, in America, the dramatic expansion of state government power under Woodrow Wilson, as documented in Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism–supports that argument. But subsequent history makes me wonder if war is really as healthy for the state as some other things that get less attention.

When you have to cite The Pantload in the second paragraph, you’re in trouble.

But when the next national crisis struck–the Depression, under FDR–the U.S. got a massive expansion of government that, unlike Wilson’s, has remained with us to the present day. FDR’s policies may have extended the Depression, but what is clear is that when the Depression was over, the New Deal remained. There was no return to normalcy afterward.

Fuck me running – it’s that Amity Shlaes FDR-extended-teh-Depression shit again.  Can’t the wingnuts just admit it’s been debunked debunked debunked?

More fucktardery after the jump.

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Mistress Cynica points us to this bit of fucktardery from Kathleen Parker:

As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.

Likely will?  Oh please.  They will continue to rearrange deck chairs.

Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D.

I’m bathing in holy water as I type.

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn’t soon cometh.

Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party. And, the truth — as long as we’re setting ourselves free — is that if one were to eavesdrop on private conversations among the party intelligentsia, one would hear precisely that.

More whining after the jump.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw

I don’t know who this Peter Schiff is.  He could be the biggest fucking douchenozzle on the planet, and based on the fact that he is a contributor on the Fox Business Network, that is a strong possibility.  Even so I haven’t seen a video clip I have enjoyed more in a while, and I am including this, this, and this.  Watch this guy school these rightwing losers (Ben Stein, call on line 1!) who are recommending people buy Bear Sterns and Merrill Lynch because they are so cheap.  And one of them even recommends WaMu!  How did that work out for you assholes?

Homage to Peter Schiff:  Calling the crisis right from the start [Infectious Greed]