This week in crazy

OK, these aren't all from this week. But the crazy is getting so widespread on the right that I just can't cover each story individually. In effect, I'm getting swamped with crazy. So I'm just going to link to a variety of things here.

Above, that's Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-TX, who really is the dumbest man in Congress. I know, I know, he has a lot of competition, but trust me, they don't get dumber than Louie Gohmert. I've blogged about him before. (As just one example, here he is in 2010 explaining about terror babies.)

Of course, Barack Obama - a black man in the White House! - has got all the loons worked up. I still think it's remarkably crazy that a Republican health care plan has got all these Republicans having hysterics, but... well, I did say "crazy," didn't I?

When the Supreme Court was asked to repeal Obamacare, they said no. But they probably didn't really mean it, right?

A Republican lawmaker in South Carolina has introduced legislation that would send state and federal officials to jail for implementing the Affordable Care Act. …the proposal, which has been has been prepared by state Rep. Bill Chumley (R) for next year’s legislative session, threatens state officials with up to two years in jail and a $1,000 fine for enforcing the law.

"I think we’re within our rights to do this," Chumley said.

Of course you are, South Carolina. Just because the South lost the Civil War doesn't mean that federal law trumps state law. Wait, now you too, Wisconsin?!

Last month, a group of Wisconsin lawmakers also said they would support nullifying the law and arresting federal officials for trying to enact it. One of them, state Rep. Chris Kapenga (R) openly paid little mind to the court’s decision.

"Just because Obama was re-elected does not mean he’s above the constitution," Kapenga said.

And I guess just because a Supreme Court dominated by right-wing Republicans declared that it was constitutional, that doesn't mean anything in wingnut alternate reality, huh? So they plan to arrest anyone following federal law! How's that for crazy?

When you're crazy, losing an election doesn't mean you can't still force your version of reality on America, nor does losing a Supreme Court decision. That's because right-wing faith-based loons just know they're right, and they're not going to stand for the majority deciding otherwise.

I might also point out that this is part of the same fight we've had with the Confederacy since the Civil War. It's not just the South these days, but that's because the Republican Party's 'Southern strategy' filled the GOP with Dixiecrats. These days, the South tends to lead the Republican Party, and Republicans everywhere follow like sheep.

So of course they're going to bring up slavery:

Hmmmm…sounds compelling and innovative. Obama is way more slaveholdery than actual slaveholders. Let’s see how this argument fleshes out, shall we? This being American Thinker, it is sure to be incredibly well-reasoned and coherent. There is no doubt that by the end of this article, we will totally understand how Obama is all slave-y and how owning actual people does NOT make you slave-y...

...We’re still not getting to the part where Obummer enslaves us all with healthcare or debt or something. Let’s keep going. (Readers, we’re doing you a solid here and skipping over the approximately one million paragraphs that wouldn’t be out of place in a sophomore philosophy class. Sample sentence: “Slavery is self-refuting, as it contradicts the foundation of property rights, namely that a human being owns himself.” Thank us later.) After the “reading Locke while high and then writing about it” portion of the article passes, we get to the super-duper well-reasoned conclusion:

Jefferson was a man who opposed slavery at its root — its incompatibility with the basis of private property, namely individual sovereignty — but who found himself unable to undo the societal wrong in his lifetime, or even to extricate his own life from its taint. His ideas and his words paved the way for many great developments, not least of which was the end of slavery in America. His principled hope was achieved, albeit belatedly.

Obama, on the contrary, is a man who embraces the core principle of slavery — the denial of individual sovereignty, i.e., self-ownership. His main difference on this score from the slave owners of the past is that, rather than pursuing the contradiction of defending private property while simultaneously defiling it, Obama merely wishes to undo property itself, thus rendering enslavement a universal principle of government.

Jefferson actually owned people, but later on some people read some Jefferson and thought that owning people might not be cool, so, ipso facto ergo, Jefferson freed all the slaves, including his own retroactively like magic. The Kenyan socialist pretender will take your monies and give them to other people via a scary thing called “taxes” so, also, too, Obama wants to own all the people in America. THAT IS AN AIRTIGHT SYLLOGISM GODDAMMIT. To sum up: war is peace, ignorance is strength (which makes those motherfuckers at American Thinker incredibly strong) and freedom is slavery. The end.

Now, I don't want you to think the crazy is all about Barack Obama, so here's some crazy about Hillary Clinton. (Then again, she works for Obama, so I'll admit that there's a link. Still, the Clintons got their share of crazy before Obama was even on the radar.)

Tomorrow the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold hearings on Benghazi. Coincidentally, earlier this week it was reported that Hillary Clinton suffered a concussion after fainting due to dehydration from a stomach virus, and won't be available to testify before the committee. You have one guess as to where this is going.

The Daily Caller's Jim Treacher asked for the concussion certificate:

If she has a concussion, let's see the medical report. Let's see some proof that she's not just stonewalling. If it's true, then we can all wish her a speedy recovery. But it's ridiculous to expect us to take her word for it.

And then concussion-gate became a thing, at least among people who suffer one each time they fall on their asses...

The State Department has announced that Secretary Clinton will be available to testify come January. That's a likely story from someone who orchestrated the murder of Vince Foster/faked a head injury/shot JFK.

Now that's crazy, yes, but... I'm sorry, it just doesn't reach the level of crazy that's become the norm on the right these days. Clinton-crazy just can't match Obama-crazy, I'd say. And as evidence of that, I'll leave you with this:

Tom Morrissey

You might think that President Obama’s comfortable reelection last month would put an end to the Republican birther conspiracy. But if you do, you don’t know Arizona Republicans.

The latest battle for the movement that believes Barack Obama is ineligible to be President was fought Monday at the state’s Electoral College vote, where a trio of Republican electors — including state GOP chair Tom Morrissey — once again raised concerns that Obama’s birth certificate is a fake during the electoral college vote. ...

Morrissey, the leader of the Republican Party in Arizona and a former Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for the state, tried to present his concerns over Obama’s eligibility as something other than birtherism.

“My issue isn’t whether he was born here,” he told KFYI radio in Phoenix Monday. “I have questions [about Obama’s longform birth certificate]. … You know, I have a law enforcement background. I come at this with a little different perspective. It just doesn’t ring right with me.” ...

Another of the electors who raised concerns, Gila County GOP chair Don Ascoli, told TPM on Monday he’s used to being on the losing end of the birth certificate fight. But even if he’s going down, he said, he’s going down swinging no matter what the cost to his party or his state’s reputation. ...

In continuing to push the conspiracy that Obama has hid his real birth certificate all the way to the electoral college vote for his second term — which the president won by a comfortable margin — Ascoli, and the other electors that shared in the concerns over Obama’s birth certificate were keeping alive an Arizona tradition. The state has been a hotbed of birtherism since the start of the movement and still boasts the movement’s most prominent elected official defender: Sheriff Joe Arpiao.

Note that Morrissey isn't just some random loon. He's the leader of the Republican Party in Arizona. But some people will just never, ever, ever accept that a black man can be the legitimate President of the United States. Now that's crazy, huh?