Money Doesn't Grow on Trees, Just Republican Hypocrites and Perverts

Anti-Gay GOP 'Family Values' Lawmaker Mark Souder Resigning Over Affair with Staffer

Souder "Eight-term Rep. Mark Souder will announce his resignation Tuesday after it came to light that he was conducting an affair with a female aide who worked in his district office, Fox News has learned. Multiple senior House sources indicated that the extent of the affair with the 45-year-old staffer would have landed Souder before the House Ethics Committee. Elected as a family values conservative as part of the Republican revolution in 1994, Souder survived a tough re-election challenge in 2008 and survived a contested primary two weeks ago. Souder was absent from Washington most of last week, missing multiple votes and only voting on Thursday. While the rumors had been flying, Souder claimed that he was at home tending to his ill wife."

Oh, the hypocrisy. Souder's website reads:

"I believe that Congress must fight to uphold the traditional values that undergird the strength of our nation. The family plays a fundamental role in our society. Studies consistently demonstrate that it is best for a child to have a mother and father, and I am committed to preserving traditional marriage, the union of one man and one woman."

He doesn't seem to have a problem with one man and multiple women.

Jonah Goldberg may not be the dumbest conservative to ever live though he is up there with conservatism's top contenders such as James Inhofe (R-OK), Conspiracy A-Dough Dough

Could someone explain to me again how Jonah Goldberg became a valued intellectual in American political life? (Oh that's right, it's because his mother was a professional character assassin who befriended a horrible harpy named Linda Tripp. )

Here's Jonah's latest:

As I wrote last year, I find it amazing that the "Birthers" are considered more dangerous and evil than the "Truthers." The Birthers believe that an ambitious man who travelled a lot as a kid has concealed the circumstances of his birth so he could be eligible for the presidency. I don't think they've made their case. And, frankly, I'm not sure I'd want them to at this point. Aside from the horror of a Biden presidency, I for one don't yearn for a constitutional crisis. And while I am sure there are more elaborate and crazier versions of Birtherism, the basic allegation isn't that crazy, at least in the abstract.



Ok. I don't think I need to explain why Jonah is a blithering idiot in that statement. But he's a big intellectual and I'm just a lowly DFH so you can draw your own conclusions.

But this is really amazing:

Now, Trutherism, on the other hand, is a really insidious and evil claim: that the White House was "in" on 9/11 and that it either passively or actively aided and abetted the murder of 3,000 Americans and the attempted murder of tens of thousands more (surely the hijackers hoped to kill far more people inside the World Trade Towers). Indeed, the upshot of Trutherism is that "the government" sought to kill countless congressmen and effectively incapacitate the legislative branch and our military leadership indefinitely. Depending on which version of Trutherism you buy into, you'd have to believe dozens or even thousands of government agents were in on the whole thing, too. Moreover, if this had been proven true, the only moral, legal, or rational response would have been not just impeachment and criminal prosecution, but literally the formal executions of the president, the vice president, and much of the national-security establishment. They'd all have to hang.
And yet, "Birtherism" is dangerous and paranoid and "Trutherism" is quirky and no big deal, according to liberals.



First of all, I don't know that liberals think "Truthers" are quirky and no big deal, while we consider "Birthers" dangerous and paranoid. I think both groups are nutty as fruitcakes. But what I do find fairly dangerous is the fact that Republican elected politicians and conservative "intellectuals" can entertain such a silly crackpot notion that it would even matter if the president were born outside the US (which he wasn't.) In order for this to be meaningful in any way you have to believe in some kind of long term Manchurian candidate nonsense that takes this one into the realm of the super kooky, alien abduction style of conspiracy mongering.

Liberals as a group do not think much of "truthers". The rumor that liberals are the main force behind 9-11 truthers is more a smear by the far Right conservative fanatics to draw attention away from their own involvement - here is one Republican truther and here is a conservative Oklahoma City bombing truther who has advocated violent treason.