Perverse as it sounds, corporate America apparently wants the swine flu to spread.

Pat Robertson accuses Islam of being an oppressive political system rather than a religion. Not like fundamentalist Christianity, nooo.

I never thought I would have to admit this, but Glenn Beck totally nailed it when he said that Obama is a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white people and/or white culture. He's done a pretty good job of covering it up so far, but his judicial nominees expose him for what he really is:

Remember when The War On Terror was the biggest, most important struggle in the universe, and America's very survival was at stake? Well, that was but a trifle compared to the fearsome new danger which is gathering to threaten our great nation, and this time there is no Decider W. Bush to protect us.

The thing that always makes me go gyarrggghhh about Republicans' worship of Ayn Rand (and, indeed, Ayn Rand herself) is their refusal to recognize that they are the pro-parasite party. They're so outraged by the thought that somewhere in America a poor person might be getting a few government crumbs - for free OMG - that they don't notice or care that the GOP has been giving corporations taxpayer-funded turkey dinners for decades, long before Obama decided to keep Dubya's gravy train rolling.

Yes, it's true - Politico is actually trying to claim that the media have gone easier on Obama than they have on Bush.

How scary is it that A) Mike Allen and I have the same wet dream, and B) It's about Roger Ailes?

I believe that the theatrics are the message. By going all cloak-and-dagger for this unrevealing waste of time, Beck is reinforcing the paranoid fantasy that he shares with his viewers: The Obama administration is so vindictive and all-powerful that any decent ordinary patriotic American who would dare speak out against it must be disguised so the black UN helicopters don't spirit their family away to the FEMA camps in the middle of the night.

It really is quite remarkable how much stupid Republicans can pack into just a few short paragraphs. Check out today's NYT story about the GOP's brilliant political strategy of all-obstruction, all the time: