This week, in a
Breitbart News exclusive,
reality TV star Sarah Palin joined a
growing chorus of
Republican nutjobs and
grifters in
calling for the
impeachment of the
soulless dictator,
President Barack
Hussein Obama.
The former half-term governor preached to the choir about all those yearning-to-be-freeloaders flooding our nation's borders—aka, Obama's (latest) "Katrina moment"—which is threatening to turn Texas blue... or something.
Meanwhile, House Speaker (in name only) John Boehner was busy drafting his response to Obama's recent #taunts and insults.
In the end, Boehner settled on a pre-impeachment lawsuit over the president's unilateral decision to issue a "stand-down order" in re Obamacare's employer mandate.
Suffice it to say, this is great news... for Orville Redenbacher!
Also, too... for John McCain!
Morning lineup:
Meet The Press: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif; Former Mideast Peace Envoy Martin Indyk; Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI); Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX); Roundtable: Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Stephen Henderson (Detroit Free Press) and Kimberley Strassel (Wall Street Journal).
Face The Nation: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R); Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL); Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA); Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX); Roundtable: Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Nia-Malika Henderson (Washington Post), Danielle Pletka (American Enterprise Institute) and Gerald Seib (Wall Street Journal).
This Week: Attorney General Eric Holder; Roundtable: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Republican Strategist Ana Navarro, Democratic Strategist David Plouffe and Cokie Roberts (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R); Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX); Diplomat Dennis Ross; Roundtable: Republican Strategist Karl Rove, Bob Woodward (Washington Post), Radio Host Laura Ingraham and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Border Patrol Agent Chris Cabrera; Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL); Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD); Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report from inside America's nuclear control center (preview); and, a report on the discovery of the largest cache of missing art since WWII—including some pieces looted by the Nazis—and the battle over its ownership (preview).
On Comedy Central...
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report were in reruns (again) this week, so I've got nothing new to share. Instead, for a change of pace, here's Jon Stewart doing stand up in 1996.
The Daily Show
Monday: Journalist Dahlia Litwick
Tuesday: TBD
Wednesday: Actor/Comedian Jerry Seinfeld
Thursday: Actress Emma Stone
And Stephen Colbert on the late, great Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Radio Hosts Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich
Tuesday: Vice President of Google Vint Cerf
Wednesday: TBD
Thursday: Lawyer Steven M. Wise
Elsewhere...
Minnesota House candidate Bob Frey (R) explored the business of junk science.
[W]hen questioned about his position on social issues, Frey added that it "does certainly need to be addressed for what it is. It's not about the gay agenda but about the science and the financial impact of that agenda. It's more about sodomy than about pigeonholing a lifestyle."
Frey then explained his view: "When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there's an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That's why the term is AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome."
Meanwhile...
Kentucky state Sen. Brandon Smith (R) took climate change denialism to new heights of stupidity.
Republican state Sen. Brandon Smith had this to say about global warming last Thursday during a hearing convened by the Kentucky Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment:
"I don't want to get into the debate about climate change. But I will just simply point out that I think that in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars, there's no factories on Mars that I'm aware of. So I think what we're looking at is something much greater than what we're going to do." [...]
According to NASA, the Earth's average temperature is 57 degrees Fahrenheit. By contrast, Mars has an average temperature of negative 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
And, last but not least...
In his new book, former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) rescinded his apology over that whole "legitimate rape" thing.
Two years after the Missouri Republican's comments on rape, pregnancy and abortion doomed his campaign and fueled a "war on women" message that carried Democrats to victory in the Senate, one of the few regrets he mentions in a new book is the decision to air a campaign ad apologizing for his remarks.
"By asking the public at large for forgiveness," Akin writes, "I was validating the willful misinterpretation of what I had said."
And when it comes to his infamous line about rape and pregnancy, that "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," he writes defiantly: "My comment about a woman's body shutting the pregnancy down was directed to the impact of stress on fertilization. This is something fertility doctors debate and discuss," Akin writes. "Doubt me? Google 'stress and infertility,' and you will find a library of research on the subject."
60% of the time, it works every time.
- Trix