Links of the Day: Random GOP Insanity

I came across a lot of crap today... Here's the highlights.

#1- If you want a definitive example of how completely deluded and out of touch with reality the Republican Congress is, look no further than Sen. George Allen (R-VA)'s interview on yesterday's 'Face The Nation'. Sen. Allen spews talking point after tired talking point and is just a huge tool. He refuses to state what he thinks should be done with Sec. Rumsfeld, falling back on, as Schieffer notes, "the default position that people fall back on when they don't want to comment on somebody in the government. They say, well, that's up to the President." Allen's a good lil' soldier and Schieffer saw through it. On Iraq, he refuses to acknowledge the serious setbacks preventing progress and, when pressed for an idea on when to exit, parrots back the President's 'when they stand up, we'll stand down' line. Finally, on immigration, he tries to play nice by mentioning that he's a parent of immigrants (awww), but that he can't support amnesty proposals (ignoring that no such proposal was made; the Republicans called the proposals- those with numerous punishments and hurdles- which led to citizenship 'amnesty'). He then refused to say whether he was running for President. I hope he does, of course, I really want a Democrat to win. You can listen to an audio podcast at iTunes. A transcript is available- here. Money quote-

"I think the Republicans need to stand up for the rule of law."

I... I don't even know where to begin with that one.

#2- Michelle Malkin, when she's not busy causing protestors to get death threats, has a new idea on how to get Congress to keep all brown people away from her Republican eyes get tough on illegal immigration... assisting a movement to "send bricks to Washington encouraging our Congressmen to stand tough on border security". Yes, actual bricks. She then features images of sample bricks and instructions on how to mail them (Priority Mail preferred; time is of the essence here). Yea, friggin' great idea, you racist moron... have all your unhinged readers mail a weapon to members of the United States Congress.

Good luck with that; I hope you weren't planning to fly anywhere this summer.

#3- From the party that magically made ketchup a vegetable and classified fast-food work as 'manufacturing' jobs, comes the next cool way to hide their plundering of our nation. Before resigning to escape the Abramoff scandal spend more time with her family, Interior Secretary Gale Norton held a press conference to proudly announce that wetland loss had reversed in the past few years. Great news, right?! Well, not so fast there.

As Field and Stream notes, "The Bush Administration announced that the nation is no longer losing wetlands--as long as you consider golf course water hazards to be wetlands." Yup. By reclassifying golf course water traps/ponds (which Republicans no doubt see a lot of) as 'wetlands', they were able to make the numbers appear to say the losses had been reversed. As the article further notes, "The boldness of Norton's claim was particularly galling given the Bush Administration's record on wetlands. President Bush, like other presidents before him, promised a policy of 'no net loss' of wetlands, but his administration has consistently supported rollbacks of the Clean Water Act to satisfy industry and development." President Bush? Lie? Fail to keep a promise? Nah. I'll say this- when you have Field and Stream magazine pissed at you, you've got a lot of problems.

What fun can we expect from the GOP tomorrow? Stay tuned!