The Born Insanity

I love waking up to something that puts a smile on my face -- like the fact that lunatic Birther (drag) queen Orly Taitz was epically laughed out of court yesterday. A federal judge in Georgia -- just one of the states she's trying to pursue a case in -- essentially smacked down her tired claim that Barack Obama isn't a U.S. citizen and therefore was illegally installed as president of the United States.

Here's just some of what Judge Clay Land, a Bush appointee, said:

"She has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as President of the United States...

Acknowledging the existence of a document that shows the President was born in Hawaii, Plaintiff alleges that the document 'cannot be verified as genuine, and should be presumed fraudulent.' In further support of her claim, Plaintiff relies upon 'the general opinion in the rest of the world' that 'Barack Hussein Obama has, in essence, slipped through the guardrails to become President.' Moreover, as though the 'general opinion in the rest of the world' were not enough, Plaintiff alleges in her Complaint that according to an 'AOL poll 85% of Americans believe that Obama was not vetted, needs to be vetted and his vital records need to be produced.' Finally, in a remarkable shifting of the traditional legal burden of proof, Plaintiff unashamedly alleges that Defendant has the burden to prove his 'natural born' status. Thus, Plaintiff’s counsel, who champions herself as a defender of liberty and freedom, seeks to use the power of the judiciary to compel a citizen, albeit the President of the United States, to 'prove his innocence' to 'charges' that are based upon conjecture and speculation. Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which our Country was founded in order to purportedly 'protect and preserve' those very principles ....

Plaintiff’s complaint is not plausible on its face. To the extent that it alleges any 'facts,' the Complaint does not connect those facts to any actual violation of Plaintiff’s individual constitutional rights. Unlike in Alice in Wonderland, simply saying something is so does not make it so."

Land went on to threaten Taitz with sanctions if she dares to file any more "similarly frivolous" actions in his court.

And how did the always calm, sane, and even-tempered Taitz respond?

She said Land "should be tried for treason with Obama" and that his decision "showed a total disrespect for the Constitution of the United States of America."

(h/t Alex Koppelman at Salon)