Ever since the news broke Wednesday morning that Senate Democrats had secured the 34th vote to uphold the Iran nuclear deal, Republican presidential candidates have been making their displeasure known — and some of them are being quite dramatic about it.
Senator Marco Rubio appeared on Fox News, and said that not only will a majority of Congress disapprove the deal — which is likely correct — he also threatened the possibility of new military action if he’s elected to the White House.
“But here’s a broader point: This is not a treaty. There’s nothing about this that’s binding on the next administration,” Rubio said. “And if I’m the President of the United States, on my first day in office we will lift what the president is doing. We will reimpose sanctions — and in fact I will ask Congress to increase sanctions, and we will back it up with a credible threat of military force.”
New Jersey governor Chris Christie went on the network’s daily panel show Outnumbered, and made a stark moral pronouncement: “Every death that Iran causes is now on Barack Obama’s head.”
Of course, it’s fair to wonder if Christie would feel the same way about everyone in the Bush administration, and all the deaths that they directly caused in the Iraq War (a war that also empowered Iran along the way).
Donald Trump characteristically responded with an attack ad via Instagram, contrasting the nuclear deal with the fact that Iran continues to hold American prisoners: “It’s Time For A Real Negotiator.”
A video posted by Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee posted a stern message on Facebook, saying in part: “Iran has killed hundreds of American soldiers and has the blood of thousands of Christians, Jews, and Muslims on its hands. It shouldn’t take a mushroom cloud for the American people to wake-up!”
Senator Lindsey Graham marked the occasion not by breathing Obama’s name or mentioning his Democratic colleagues providing the needed votes — instead, Graham attributed the victory to Iran.
The Iranians have now secured enough Senate votes to ensure they have a pathway to a bomb, missile to deliver it, & money to pay for it.
And so now we have the Graham Doctrine: Do not, under any circumstances, enter into negotiations with the town from Footloose.
File photo: Republican U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. senator Lindsey Graham at the Voters First Presidential Forum in Manchester, New Hampshire, August 3, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
There’s nothing wrong with Planned Parenthood that a Christian conquistador couldn’t fix. Did you know Obama’s the son of Satan? We’re just getting started here. It’s “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted, and hateful behavior of the increasingly unhinged right wing. Starting with number five:
5. Rachel Campos-Duffy
Unless you’re strapped to a chair, lids splayed open, Clockwork Orange-style, and forced to watch Fox News day in and day out, you can be forgiven for missing Outnumbered, the network’s daily exercise is well-dressed, roundtable trolling.
I know for myself — and I know in the Greek Orthodox Church it’s the same idea of sanctification, that marriage is a sacrament, it’s a holy thing. And my job being married is to get my husband and my kids to heaven with me. And I think that changes the whole perspective.
For someone who passed the bar in 1998, one would think Sullivan would know better than to wade into this Todd Akin-esque morass of redefining rape, which never ends well for conservatives.
In another strange description that appeared to blur the clear line between consensual sex and rape, Sullivan said, “Many women have what’s known as ‘regret sex.’ They feel dirty afterward; they feel guilty.”
In the New Hampshire case, Sullivan said it was “a possibility” that the alleged 15-year-old victim just regretted having sex, and that perhaps being young made her feel guilty.
The boy (now 19) accused of the rape is innocent until proven guilty, of course. That said, Fox News, why should you give legal authorities a platform to accuse women and question their credibility — in this case, that of a 15-year-old girl —by suggesting that, rather than being sexually assaulted, they merely regretted having sex?
Bryan Fischer is a… how can we put this politely? A human toxic waste dump; Deepwater Horizon in corporeal form; a bigoted thug with a Bible and a blog, whose rhetoric is so hateful his own hate group had to temporarily disown him.
In a post published on the American Family Association’s blog Thursday, Fischer argues that the “hideous barbarism of Planned Parenthood” is a sign that “the pagan rituals of the Aztecs have returned from the bowels of Hades with a vengeance.” (Culture conflation is the least of this witless cesspit’s sins.)
Cutting brains and hearts out of living babies is as ghoulish, demonic, and horrific as anything done by the benighted pagan tribes of the 16th century. If there ever was a contemporary organization birthed in the nether regions of hell itself, Planned Parenthood is it.
For human cruelty, barbarity, savagery and utter inhumanity, the Aztecs had nothing on the modern priests of paganism who engage in human sacrifice 327,000 times a year in Planned Parenthood clinics, each one a virtual pagan temple.
It is long past time to immediately and completely defund Planned Parenthood, and then investigate it, prosecute it, and put it out of our nation’s misery.
The careless use of Grand Guignol imagery that Fischer splatters on the page doesn’t make his attacks on women’s health any more compelling; it does somehow make him even more repulsive. We didn’t think that was possible.
Well, they’ve gotten right to the bottom of this whole Barack Hussein Obama travesty playing out in the Oval Office. Conservatives who believe the president is a secret Muslim, gun-snatching, race-baiting, Kenyan-Sharia-fascist-hippie-peacenik-Nazi, are really missing the point.
The fact is the Commander-in-Chief is really just the Antichrist in disguise.
Obama’s deplorable responses to the atrocities against Christians isn’t just pathetic – it is evidence of a much more insidious evil. Obama, in my estimation is, if nothing else, an anti-Christian bigot who is motivated above anything else with the irradiation of the American Christian zeitgeist.
[…] What disappoints me is the pathetic criticism and mealy-mouthed manner of conservative critics. I can’t count how many conservative pundits trip over themselves to moderate their words against Obama, calling him “naive”, “wrong-headed,” “misinformed,” and (this one is the best) “out of touch.”
Really!?!?!
No… he’s totally in touch. He’s not naive. He is thoughtfully evil. He is the modern day Nero (minus the perversion). And like Nero he blames Christians for the uprisings. He obfuscates the obvious evil of his parental religion – Islam. He knows exactly what he’s doing. And what he is doing is systematically destroying the Christian heritage and zeitgeist of America. And if he has his druthers – across the globe.
“You think me extreme?” Emmanuel says, before going on to claim that “Obama embodies all the characteristics of the legendary nemesis.” (Yes, we do think he’s extreme. Most of these fruitcakes are not polite enough to ask us what we think, so kudos to Emmanuel.)
“And frankly,” he concludes, “I wouldn’t surprise me [sic] if he goes down as history’s Anti-Christ of Revelation.”
This must be the densest concentration of right-wing crazy ever packed into a single story. (This week, anyway.)
So Zimmerman and the gun store owner, Andy Hallinan, created a mini-documentary (embedded below) and submitted to an interview on Florida radio (samples of which are available below for your listening displeasure, courtesy of Right Wing Watch). It’s best to hear this stuff from the horse’s mouth, however noxious that equine breath may be.
It’s as if every addled, extreme far-right position mated and birthed a conservative Chimera — a fire-breathing freak of nature that lives perennially 50 years in the past, with 10 arms carrying 20 guns, and five pairs of paranoid eyes, each looking over a separate shoulder for someone new to shoot.
Watch this news clip on a decision by a private corporation in the free market — or as the Fox hosts call it, “the tyranny of the minority.” But make sure to stay to the end, for a refreshing take from a rather interesting guest panelist.
Oh no he didn’t! You won’t believe what Fox News host Keith Ablow said about First Lady Michelle Obama in today’s must-see video. It was too much for even the other Foxbots.