“She would have been one heart attack away from running the world.”

A speaker at the National Moment of Silence – August 14, 2014 – Kansas City, Missouri.

Tom Sullivan, at Digby‘s place:

….One has to wonder what sort of dynamic led from asking two men to walk on the sidewalk into a deadly shooting….

Previously:

Kansas City moment of silence – August 14, 2014 (August 14, 2014)

Kansas City moment of silence – August 14, 2014 – part 2 (August 15, 2014)

#NMOS14 Moment of Silence Kansas City Mike Brown Rally (August 16, 2014)

The Ferguson Commission: Change agent or spinning wheels? (November 24, 2014)

From the inimitable Digby:

So you’ve probably heard that Eric Cantor came running out of the White House debt meeting today screaming “the bad man tried to touch me!”….

From Blue Girl via Twitter:

@BGinKC Blue Girl

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if at tomorrow’s #debtceiling talks, @EricCantor’s chair had a booster seat & a Tonka truck on the table? 8 hours ago

The governator had it right in a previous life:

Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Detective John Kimble: They’re horrible. They’re like little terrorists.

Phoebe O’Hara: Tell me about it.

They sat Eric Cantor at the wrong table.

Previously: Eh, what a maroon… (July 11, 2011)

 

We are not worthy.

….conservative Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal talking about a new television show:

“You have major criminality, excused as nothing. You can do anything you want, as long as you’re poor.”

That’s absolutely right, of course. Except for one word.

[emphasis added]

Well, isn’t that rich?

From the incomparable Digby:

…Let’s face it, these people are ridiculous. At least the 60s revolutionaries were trying to stop the government from fighting a war, fergawdsake. These people are trying to stop the government from helping people buy health insurance. Have you ever heard anything so absurd?…

We are not worthy.

We are not worthy.

The incomparable Digby:

Prove It

…it’s worth noting more explicitly, that the government presumably always “knows” that someone is guilty before they indict him or her for a crime. At least it should. The point of the trial is to make them prove it. They have to put their evidence on the table and convince 12 people that it’s enough to take away someone’s freedom or, in this case, execute them. And because trials are public, this demonstration of proof creates trust in the justice system and the rule of law among the population at large…

[emphasis in original]

You’d think a wingnut might comprehend that, except they can’t fit the whole paragraph on their palm.

From a comment at Digby’s place:

…you should never argue semantics with people with a mental age of twelve and the historical perspective of a houseplant.

From the incomparable Digby (We’re not worthy!):

…For some reason I keep thinking about the Senate voting 98-1 for the Patriot Act and all going to the steps of the capital to sing “God Bless America” together. Try to picture that happening under a Democratic president under any circumstances.

How true. How true.

We are not worthy.

Mainstreaming Crazy

…In fact, the default position among Democrats, Republicans and the media is that the only kooks in the country with whom it is unacceptable to be professionally or financially involved with are on the left. And “the left” is defined so broadly that it includes groups like MoveOn and Vote Vets. The right, in contrast, has fully integrated even their extremist fringe into the mainstream and everyone accepts it…

[emphasis added]

Go. Read the whole thing.