GOP's false talking point

Among other things, House Minority Leader John Boehner recently said:

"There's a political rebellion brewing, and I don't think we've seen anything like it since 1776."

John, you ignorant slut... Look, I get that teabaggers like to pretend they're direct spiritual descendants of the people who overthrew the British government (way back when it took more than mindlessly forwarding fallacious emails to be a rebel). But are you seriously saying that the "rebellion" today -- which consists of old white people complaining about the things happening in their Fox-addled imaginations -- is a bigger deal than the Civil War ? I mean, in terms of rebellion, the Civil War kinda blows the American Revolution out of the water. Twenty five times more people died in the Civil War than died in the Revolution. 625,000 dead is a hell of a rebellion. How many teabaggers have done more than garden variety political activism ?

Hell, the teabaggers haven't managed to gin up anything that compares even to the Whiskey Rebellion -- which would make a much better parallel for the teabaggers, since it was a rebellion over a tax that was enacted in order to pay down the national debt. I suppose historical accuracy isn't really the point. But still...

Smarter demagogues, please.

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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX):

I talked to a retired FBI agent who said that one of the things they were looking at were terrorist cells overseas who had figured out how to game our system. And it appeared they would have young women, who became pregnant, would get them into the United States to have a baby. They wouldn't even have to pay anything for the baby. And then they would turn back where they could be raised and coddled as future terrorists. And then one day, twenty...thirty years down the road, they can be sent in to help destroy our way of life. 'Cause they figured out how stupid we are being in this country to allow our enemies to game our system, hurt our economy, get setup in a position to destroy our way of life.

Words fail...

I note that John Cole is critiquing a growing spat between Joe Klein and Glenn Greenwald over Greenwald’s ongoing spat with Jeffrey Goldberg which grew out of Goldberg’s spat with Dave Weigel over Weigel’s criticism of Matt Drudge.

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A woman who made her neighbours' lives hell by having noisy sex has been spared jail for a second time.

Caroline Cartwright admitted breaching an Asbo for a fourth time while "screaming" during sex with husband Steve, and playing loud music.

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She breached this notice five times and was made the subject of an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) in April 2005.

In January this year she received an eight-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for breaching the Asbo three times.

But in March her neighbour, Rachel O'Connor, called the police after hearing Mrs Cartwright shouting and screaming.

Mrs Cartwright said: "I have tried to minimise the situation by having sex in the morning - not at night - so the noise was not waking anybody."

I like how an "asbo" is apparently such a common thing in the UK that the reporter didn't have to explain it until the seventh paragraph.

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