Cole writes: "Sanity: Former US officials and academics (including me) call on the Congressional leadership to remove dangerous conspiracy theorist Michele Bachmann from the House Intelligence Committee."
Michele Bachmann announces the end of her presidential campaign, 01/04/12. (photo: Reuters)
Sanity and Insanity in American Politics (Bachmann, Sessions, Romney, and Chicken)
03 August 12
anity: Former US officials and academics (including me) call on the Congressional leadership to remove dangerous conspiracy theorist Michele Bachmann from the House Intelligence Committee. Bachmann has not only embarrassed herself and Congress by saying that the federal government is riddled with “Muslim Brotherhood moles,” but her crackpot ideas have hurt US diplomacy in Egypt. Moreover, she is openly linked to the MEK terrorist organization. She shouldn’t be privy to intelligence or making intelligence policy!
Insanity: Michele Bachmann is a sitting representative in the US Congress!
Sanity: France has passed a tax on financial transactions. Since the finance sector has clearly become corrupt and a big casino in which our futures are gambled, this measure might rein in the irrational exuberance, and it is an obvious place to go in a recession for governmental resources for the public good.
Insanity Mitt Romney’s tax plan would cut taxes on the rich and increase them for you and me! He is campaigning on this plan and openly telling you that is what he is going to do. And no one thinks that is weird. Are we serfs, and he’s the candidate of the House of Lords?
Sanity: Today, 47 million women are now eligible for preventive care services, including prescription contraception, as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
Insanity: Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) compared birth control to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Sanity: The campus policeman who pepper-sprayed student protesters last winter no longer works for the university.
Insanity: The government has found a way around Posse Comitatus, the law that prevents the US military from arresting people on US soil. They have just turned local police forces like that in Anaheim into special forces operatives with full battle gear.
Sanity: Over 60 percent of Californians continue to favor the state’s greenhouse gas reductions program, and Californians say that the candidate’s position on climate change will affect how they vote in the presidential election.
Insanity Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, when told by Barbara Boxer that 98% of scientists reject his contrarian position on climate change, said he was “offended by that…” We’re offended that you’re playing Russian roulette with the lives of our children and grandchildren, senator. Plus, have you been back to Alabama this summer?
Sanity: KFC says it supports gay marriage rights.
Insanity: Evangelicals are lining up at Chick-a-Fill fast food joints to show support for the bigotry of the chain’s owner.
The gay chicken wars have come to America.
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Another commentless thumbs down...Don't you folks even have confidence enough in your beliefs to at least tell the person you are disagreeing with why? I guess not. So, i guess this means either that you do think these folks are "insane" or that you believe that the truly insane should be held accountable for their actions or that you would prefer to have any one of these bums than someone who is truly insane?
Quoting dkonstruction:
I think you both are missing his meaning. He is not saying that Bachmann, Romney, et al., are insane; he is calling the fact that they are supported and enabled by half the country "insanity," and he is not using that word in either the clinical or the judicial sense.
And yes, most folks on here, it seems to me, give thumbs-downs to say, "that violates my knee-jerk beliefs" rather than, "that is a lousy argument." So I don't usually bother with the thumbs.
When i posted the comment i only had thumbs down...i don't argue with myself online...only in private...and, i was not throwing a "hissy fit" but i do think it is obnoxious (and lazy) for people to disagree with a thumbs down instead of taking a minute to post the reason such that there can actually be some reasonable and intelligent back and forth on this board...i know, too much to ask for too much to expect....
It all stats & ends with hitting your head against a brick wall repeatedly dk. Through frustrating experience, it is folly to try to debate a right winger. Facts have no place in the conversation; if it is promoted on Fox-News or by the likes of Beck or Limbaugh then like their view of the bible, it is the unassailable gospel. They phoo-phoo facts, hard researched unimpeachable facts as not worthy of consideration if said facts do not meet their version of reality. So in essence dk, it is easier to click a red thumbs down to show dislike, or disdain in some cases rathe to attempt an argument/debate with one that walks with their head in a right wing cloud. I by the way awarded you with a thumbs down but decided to scribble this & await your reply & its version of truth direct from talking points & twisted non-logic.
I keep remembering back to the pictures from "the battle in seattle" when teamsters were holding signs saying "save the turtles"...so there is hope (sometimes). bottom line though is that we need to figure out how to talk with and engage people who don't already agree with us otherwise we just keep talking to ourselves. but, i hear ya, and you're right that with some folks there is just no talking rationally.
I try to thumbs-up anything I think is intelligent and reasoned (even if I disagree), and only thumbs-down the really hateful mindless spew (even if I happen to agree in principle).
I agree with you, Michelle Bachman should be held accountable and should not be on the intelligence comittee. Putting Michelle Bachman and intelligence in the same sentence is about as insane as the stuff she says and does is.
In my mind Mitt and the things he says and flips flops on things is acting insane also.
I will say Mitt and Michelle act insane trying to appease their party and the rich corporations they serve. I dont think they are actually insane but they do things that would indicate they are.
If you want meaning, you'd be better off listening to a well-trained parrot.
It's inevitable.
Bachman should have a job sweeping the floor in Congress' rooms. (No offense to the good people that actually have to do that.)
Our Commander-in-Ch ief:
Enters and maintains Undeclared Wars Without End;
Approves of Human Torture;
Dismantles Constitutional rights to Privacy, and Due Process;
Sends yet more CIA goons to 'Help' other Nations;
Has more Secrets, and 'Cover-Ups', than we know; Sends drones anywhere and everywhere, which just happen to Kill Innocents, women and children.
Gives away the US Treasury to his Banksta Buddies ( who are too Greedy to Fail);
Don't, please, get Distracted by 'Bachman Insanity'.
We have Real Trouble; far, far beyond her.....
This aritcle is not about Obama, I think you righties have no defense for your party or candidates so you just keep attacking Obama. This is a distract and deflect strategy. The article is about the insanity of Michelle and Mitt.
As Colin Powell stated it early on: "You break it, you own it"...
In typical Crazy Eddie style, with his hands waving crazily in front of him said, "These elections are just INSANE! Sale ends November 6th."
Politicians who spread the fear & hate spread the fear & hate. There is an epidemic in too many parts of the country, the 6th district in Minnesota included.
Right now I'm thinking of what it would be like to have a bunch of billboards with Bachmann's eyes staring at you every day on the way to work. And I'm shuddering.
The Bachmann's and Romney's and much of the Republican party are far from insane. Yes, Bachmann is certainly dim.. as for the whole, they are dishonest, greedy, rascist, corporate a**-kissers,
oligarchic, and self-seeking and I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them...and not even that!
I love the comments format for RSN and delight in the debate, so have at it, sez I.
Agreed, Majikman -- the comments are my favorite part of RSN. I enjoy knowing what others are thinking, especially when the postings are thoughtful and reasoned or offer info I didn't have (though sometimes the ones that just express anger are very good too!). I do object to the obvious flamers who NEVER have a positive thing to say! We do have a few of those, and often I don't even bother with the red thumb on them -- no point, and I rather think if we all just totally ignored them, they'd eventually go away.
Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
And given that Sen. Jeff Sessions was offended by Boxer's assertion regarding climate change, I am offended that he's offended by such a facade of "moral indignation."
Then I went through and listed by each behavior what could possibly make a sane human being say and do what our current crop of so-called conservatives say and do.
98% of the items listed could definitely be attributed to delusion. That much delusion certainly warrants a pathological way of perceiving and dealing with the world.
This is, of course, not scientifically rigorous. But put together with the Bachmanns, Romneys, the Pauls, W. Bush, the banksters, Dickhead Armey, The Tea Partiers, et al, this article presents a serious indictment and a serious step that shd be just a start of what we need to do with some of our Congressmen.
My friends, educated in the psych. field, have recognized for years that Wall Street and the banisters are sociopaths. Anyone who believes that humans will physiologically change to be able to live in chemical filth, or who think that with enough money they can escape the destruction of this planet, is delusional in the extreme. That is exactly what an oil CEO said in the last week.
When you let irrational fears guide your life decisions and deny the truly dangerous issues we face, you are not just a coward, you are insane.
Which brings me to a sore subject. Much of this extreme nonsense is being conjured up by naturalized citizens:
1. Rupert Murdoch - owner of Fox News, originally from Australia;
2. Ayn Rand - Atheist sociopathic writer from Russia, who has influenced the "I've got mine" group among GOP lawmakers (Paul Ryan being the foremost proponent); and...
3. Orly Taitz, a Russian import.
These are anti-American Ideas coming from a party which claims to be so religious and so patriotic! Rmoney cozies up to and takes his marching orders from these people. We're in trouble folks if he's elected!
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