They don't have to hand out the crazy at RNC HQ - That's where the crazy is MADE.

Apparently having white supremacists shoot up DC museums-- the Holocaust Museum shooter was a birther-- doesn't matter or seem like a dangerous consequence to these people.

It's not as if Inhofe is going to suffer in any way from these comments because the extreme lunatic fringe *are* his base. They've gone so far right and round the bend that they have no idea how crazy they appear to everyone else.

One would like to think an experienced member of the U.S. Senate would have the courage and decency to simply say, "I don't want anything to do with these lunatics."

Not funny enough for a Monday, Steve.

The US Senate Clown Car is capable of much worst idiocy than Inhofe's jabberings about Obama. And have associated en masse with worst lunatics than the "Birthers."

Exhibit A: Iraq

How exactly is the White House going to solve this, by executing Birthers for treason?

Which might happen if a Birther U.S. Army Officer refuses an order in a war zone.

Clearly it is his fault; if he was just white like he is supposed to be then there wouldn't be a problem would there?

The birther madness seems to hinge on a factual distinction pointed out by the CNN president in a letter to Dobbs.

The letter said that the Hawaii records office can't provide a copy of the "original" birth certificate because the office has gone electronic and all the originals (everyones) have been destroyed.

By that logic, nobody from Hawaii could ever become president, and probably many other states are in the same mess.

It's the kool-aid dude!

After drinking the kool-aid, Reich-Wing 'commentators' are able to read Obama's mind!

After drinking the kool-aid, Reich-Wing politicians are able to talk out of both sides of their mouths!

After drinking the kool-aid, Reich-Wingers are to again tell you that the only answer to our economic problems are to cut taxes for the upper 1% of earners!

After drinking the kool-aid, Reich-Wingers are able to tell you that unless Obama proves he is not a Kenyan to the 100% satisfaction of Lou Dobbs and Glen Beck, he must not really be an American!

Look it's very simple, when you get Selected to be President by the SCOTUS you must make a statement that you've never snorted cocaine, apologize for DUI, and cover up your failure to complete your Vietnam era champagne gaurd service.

If you're elected by a majority of the people in an electoral college landslide, and you're black, you must provide your original birth certificate, a DNA sample, and round up everyone who was in your bithing room to testify in a sworn depostion as to your U.S. citizenship.

It's as if they're handing out crazy pills at RNC headquarters.

Nope, no need to waste the money on the drugs. These people are born that way - "being Republican" is a mental disorder.

The RNC doesn't need to hand out crazy pills, just their latest talking points. The wingnuts are well trained. They know what to do. Clearly the birther nonsense is just another tactic in the overall goal to undermine and destroy Obama's presidency. There is no longer any pretense among the shrunken Rethugs that they care about governing or what's good for the country: They care only about absolute power, and are so deranged they believe they can ignite a racist rebellion against our first black president.

Welcome to Idiot America.

Another episode of "Not all Republicans are stupid but all stupid people are Republicans".

The level of message creep is kind of scary. This is something that's been debunked every step of the way and continues to be debunked, but despite this it just keeps creeping along.

Looks like a concerted effort to cause regular folks to have 'concerns' about the presidency of Obama. It's all about adding doubt.

The thing is that the 'Birther' nonsense is actually just a trick. Listening to G "Dumbass" Liddy makes that clear (who exactly decided a Felon who is responsible for nearly getting a U.S. President impeached ought to be the 'decider' of if Obama is legally president?) that the 'Birthers' are setting up impossible requirements. Nothing in the Constitution requires producing a physical 'Birth Certificate', yet that is exactly what Liddy demands to be 'satisfied', when he knows that no such document will ever be produced, having been digitalized.

Liddy lies, and he lies damnably. LIDDY WILL BURN IN HELL!

I'm sorry, ed, but as a resident of the Great State of Illinois, I have known a lot of stupid Democrats.

I listened to Glenn Beck's radio show last Thursday for the first 5 minutes it was on, I wanted to see what he had to say about Obama's presser on health care.

Beck didn't talk about the Gates comment or health care reform, he said that after seeing Obama that it confirmed something that had been percolating in his head for a while-- that Obama's real secret master plan is...get ready for it...reparations.

The idea of reparations hasn't been talked about much but I think it probably dovetails quite nicely with all the birther madness-- paranoid winger beliefs based on fear of a black president. I expect we'll hear more about it as time goes on. (sigh)

Rapists often complain that the rape was their victim's fault. If only she hadn't worn that provocative blouse or if only she had kept her window locked, etc.

If only Obama would do more to dispel the birther myth (beyond provide the document deemed legal in Hawaii, or provide a copy of the birth announcement in the Honolulu newspaper, the birthers wouldn't have an argument.

I say to both Inhofe and rapists everywhere, bullshit. It is never the victim's fault.

It's clear to the wingers that the space-time continuum has jumped the tracks-- we are now living in a reality that doesn't really exist. In the real reality, the one where what's really happening is happening, the country has been taken over by a Kenyan Black Muslim whose closest advisor is the Antichrist.

Damning new revelations about reparations will always be forthcoming. They are the highest, purest form of one of movement conservatism's key memes:

They're going to take your money, that you earned, and give it to Them.

Beck's crazy, but he's not stupid. You get booed for not playing your greatest hits.

Here's a quote from the Politico piece Mr Benen links to above:

"'On that issue, I’m pretty distinctive that the president is from Hawaii,' he [House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana] said. 'I just don’t know where he’s coming from on health care.'”

Usually, I can decode what it is the Publicans / conservatroids / other sociopaths and/or psychotics are attempting to say, and/or think they are saying.
But on this one, I'm lost -- anyone have any idea what this Member of Congress, this political leader, this decision-maker for our country, thinks the word "distinctive" means?

The point that they make is that they are so insane or so racist that they cannot accept the fact that someone other than an old white man is president. (The other point that they make is that for some people, no amount of evidence is sufficient.)

Most recent update from Greg Sargent: He called Inhofe spokesman Jared Young and asked "whether the Senator questions Obama's legitimacy as President. He answered:
NO. His focus is on issues."

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/breaking-inhofe-does-not-question-obamas-legitimacy-as-president/

Still, couldn't Inhofe have just said that in the first place?

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the Looniest Republican of them all?

Mirror:
- It cannot be Lou Dobbs. He hates all non-whites and that is the gold standard of republicanism.
- It cannot be Sarah Palin. She proved that she is not a quitter by quitting and that just provides street-creds to republicans.
- It cannot be James Inhofe. He just repeats what his corporate masters tell him to say.
- It cannot be James Demint. He is just an orthodox republican who understands that party loyalty is more important than loyalty to the country.
- It cannot be Sean Hannity. He just wants a revolution to remove Obama and there is nothing crazy about that.
- It cannot be Rush Limbaugh. He always uses facts, even if he has to make them up.
- It cannot be Glen Beck. He would have be a whole lot saner to be only looney.
- It must be a tie between Michael Steele and the Log Cabin Republicans. They actually seem to believe that there is a place for them in the republican party and everyone knows that is totally looney-tunes.

Did any other president have to prove their citizenship with the long-form birth certificate? If not, then why is it so important now?

As I have stated previously, it's all just a bunch of Sour Grapes!

Who the hell is Liz Cheney? Why do you people even let her open her pie hole? She's the daughter of a torturer, spymaster, and liar extrodinaire war criminal.

One has to wonder why Hitler's relatives/supporters weren't given this kind of expose to support his reasons for what he pulled-off and other of his lofty goals. This country's sense of intelligence is really quite nauseating...

Since George Bush it's become clear that Republicans can only motivate their base with the perception or insinuation of threats (socialism, foreigner as president . . .)

Once the GOP convinces people there's a threat the Constitution goes right out the window because how can words possibly defeat socialists and terrorists? And then the media is suspect because they are covering up the threat.

At that point only the NRA can save America so anyone who is critical of hunters having AK-47s or who approves of tighter regulations for gun shows becomes The Enemy.

In this tightly wound GOP mindset no social policy, no environmental regulations, no recovery plan can trump the need to defeat The Enemy.

The post-Reagan GOP has become the party of crankypants ideologues and their enablers. It's getting quite tedious.

Did any other president have to prove their citizenship with the long-form birth certificate? If not, then why is it so important now?

Because the other presidents were white, and Obama is black.

SASQ.

If the Republicans wanted to straighten this out, they could do it in a few sentences. It's a matter of record that the McCain campaign checked this red herring out early in the race. His then campaign chair admitted that they found absolutely no evidence in favor of it, and in fact found proof that Obama was born in the US.

McCain should go on national TV and tell the world that. But no; anything that distracts people from reality is grist in their mill.

"It's as if they're handing out crazy pills at RNC headquarters."

Well yes they are, they call them 'talking points'.

Not to change the subject, but there is a story out of Alaska today that the real reason Palin quit is not because she is a quitter but because she was not really born on this planet and her time here was up. She was actually born on Neptune! She actually has gills! She actually has yet to produce any proof that she was not born on Neptune! Check it out!

This isn't a problem for Republicans to solve.

As Sen Inhofe clearly said .. this is between the "Birthers" and Obama.

... and who says that the Birthers are Republicans ?
Did they look at the registration cards ? .. their long form birth certificates ? .. their web sites ?

At this point, the best response is to LAUGH AT THEM, tell them they need to buy a sandwich board and walk up and down the street, warning people about the "Obama conspiracy" while also crying that the "end is near."

These people are bat-shit crazy and need to be treated as such.

And which party should we blame for this one ?

Yeah. There are a lot of nuts out there.

What the hell kind of name is Inhofe, anyway? You can't tell me that guy is a natural-born American. And don't bother publishing garbage like his birth certificate or birth announcements in his local paper, either. Everybody knows it's way easy to fake that stuff.

Besides, he's too stupid even to be from Oklahoma. He's probably not even from this planet. Isn't there some kind of law that says extraterrestrials are not allowed to sit in the Senate?

People! There really is something to this Palin/Neptune/fish story:

July 7, 2009, 2:45 pm
The Daily Palin: The Next Fish Run Is Unknowable

Ms. Palin emphasized in her interviews that she has no set plans.

“I was telling Todd today, I was saying, ‘Man, I wish we could predict the next fish run so that we know when to be out on the water,’ ” she told Time Magazine. “We can’t predict the next fish run, much less what’s going to happen in 2012.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/the-daily-palin-the-next-fish-run-is-unknowable/

"2012" "Fish Run" "Out on the Water"

Are you people listening?!

The point that they make is that they are so insane or so racist that they cannot accept the fact that someone other than an old white Republican man is president.
Posted by: Outis

Fixed.

So if some nuts started a rumor that Obama has a tail, would he be obliged to moon the press in order to disprove it to their satisfaction? That's how crazy the birther position is.

Maybe the "prove it and we'll stop" line should be used to test the "Palin has gills" theory: If she can't breathe under water, then we'll be satisfied she doesn't have gills. There! Now it's up to her to prove it, right?

All those Oklahoma Senators and Representatives are crazy as bedbugs along with being racist and sexist pigs.

There are a handful of Republicans who haven't done anything to disprove allegations they are lunatics who have escaped their "long-term care units".

I suspect they never will address such allegations.

Paging "Senator" Inhofe. Paging "Senator" Inhofe. It's time for your PJs, teddy bear and sedative. Paging "Senator" Inhofe!