From the "There oughta be a law" file.

Emilia1956 posits...

New Rule: If Obama Has to Show His Birth Certificate, Then Romney Has to Show His Tax Returns.

Sounds fair enough.

So it goes.

Sweet jeebus. PPP via John Aravosis...

-In Tennessee only 33% of GOP primary voters think Barack Obama was born in the United States, while 45% do not.
-In Georgia 40% of Republican primary voters think Obama was born in the United States, while 38% do not.
-In Ohio 42% of Republican primary voters think Obama was born in the United States, while 37% do not.

Tough times for a blogger - they've moved beyond ridicule.

Not that I'll stop trying...

Stuff I know…

…regardless of - or despite - the internet...

You might be - I am - but the country is not broke.

There is no "the" Tea Party.

President Obama was born in Hawaii, U.S.A.

There has always been class war. My side has been losing for quite awhile.

If they say it isn't about race, it's about race.

And, of course...

Quote of the day.

President Obama...

We do not have time for this kind of silliness.

He's talking about the birther nonsense, but the broader application is obvious.

Shut up, she explained.

Michele trumps Donald...

Michele Bachmann says questions about President Obama's birth certificate have been settled.

I mean, that's it then, isn't it?

Oh, this could get fun...

Huckl...erm...Huckabee: Stupid or lying?

Yes.

Coinage of the day.

"Tea Birther"

I like it. Saw it first here.

He's talking about birthers…

…but James Vega explains a lot more than that when he notes that the problem is...

...that the creature the official conservative/Republican movement has nurtured all these years has broken out of the laboratory and is beginning to ravish the countryside.

Was a time, in my own personal memory, that a Republican wasn't required to swear fealty to a patently un-American ideology. Proud Democratic partisan that I am, I'm a bit nostalgic for those days, back when Dan Evans tossed the Birchers out of the WA GOP, and Rocky had a voice and a following in Republican ranks.

I'm not sure there's a viable return to legitimacy in the Republican future, but its existence in the past is evidence that it's possible, I suppose. Until then, like I always say sometimes...