Quote of the Day

"He is bringing us back... to days before the Civil War, when unfortunately too many Americans mistakenly believed that not all men were created equal. What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin... Look at his embracing of Derrick Bell, the radical college racist professor whom he... embraced literally and figuratively asking others to open their hearts and minds to the radical agenda of a racist like Derrick Bell who believed that white men oppress blacks and minorities. And Barack Obama, evidently at least at the time, believed what Derrick Bell believed."

-- Sarah Palin, last night on Hannity

And that, folks, says it all -- everything you need to know.

A cartoon character offering a worthless opinion on an utterly non-existent controversy.

Meet your Republican party, circa 2012.

They've got nothing. Literally, nothing.

Quote of the Day

"I tell ya, this is why people are disenchanted and becoming more and more disengaged really from what their government is doing because when we see an issue like this, words spoken that may not be true, coming from our president, and embarrassing our Supreme Court and not respecting the separation of powers... Since August more Americans have paid more attention to the (health care) bill and more Americans are becoming more concerned. It hadn’t been a matter of he not being able to explain his policy with government take over and mandation of health care, but Americans understanding what is in there not liking it."

-- Sarah Palin, responding to President Obama's State of the Union address on Fox News

Mandation?

Even now, after all we've seen, it still boggles the mind that Barack Obama can stand before the country and give a pretty fiery, well-articulated call to arms -- one that actually embraced his opponents far more than they deserved to be and called out the kind of petty, grudge-fueled partisan pissing match politics that are holding this country hostage -- then 20 minutes later this blithering idiot can prove that it fell largely on deaf ears out there in RushBeckistan.

Quote of the Week (Runner Up)

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care... Such a system is downright evil."

-- Sarah Palin

I just about give up at this point, folks.

Goodbye Cruel World

So I took the weekend off.

Anything big happen that I missed?

AKMuckraker (via the Huffington Post): Palin Quits, Threatens Bloggers and Media Outlets with Legal Action/07.05.09

(In all seriousness, I realize it's been a couple of days but if you haven't done so already, you have to actually read Palin's rambling, incoherent resignation speech from Friday. To see it in print -- the weird asides, as if she's talking to herself; the inexplicably random words written in all caps -- it's the comedy gift that keeps on giving.)