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Y’all, Juanita confesses that it is unseemly, rude, and downright embarrassing to be enjoying a ringside seat at the unfolding of  Newt’s sorry soul.

“I should not take delight in the pure and total degradation of a man, but I know that I must have led a good life for the Lord to let me watch both Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich wallow in burning hubris almost Shakespearean in content.  And that it has been a slooooow slide into the pits of laughingstock for both of them has made it all the more rewarding,” she confesses.

“I’d like to think I’m enjoying it even more than Newt’s two ex-wives.  I doubt it, though.”

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Juanita has something fun for you today.

There’s a guy named Cliff Kincaid whose major accomplishment is that he exposed Walter Cronkite as a communist.  By doing that, Ole Cliff became a major player in rightwing investigative journalism.  Cliff has all manner of titles and whatnot for his work with wackyism.

Cliff Kincaid: Commie Hunter

His latest is a keeper.  With logic more twisted than a wire coathanger, he says that Obama is being investigated by the FBI for being a ….. oh, you just have to read it ‘cuz you wouldn’t believe me if I told you.

In a front page story about a major FBI terrorism investigation, The Washington Post has reported that the targets include “Chicagoans who crossed paths with Obama when he was a young state senator and some who have been active in labor unions that supported his political rise.” The implication is that the trail could lead to the White House.

This is an unusual investigation that does not primarily involve Islamists. Instead, it is focused on elements of the old international communist networks that many people mistakenly thought had faded away with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Look, this is simple:  Obama is from Chicago.  Union bosses are from Chicago.  What more proof do you need?

Bless his wackytoon heart, Cliff goes on for paragraph after paragraph – obviously being paid by the word – tying Leon Panetta to the same commies supporting Obama.

Now, here’s the key paragraph:

Obama and Panetta were players in the “progressive” community, which since the days of Henry Wallace, presidential candidate of the Progressive Party, has had a red tint. Obama had his own communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party member under FBI investigation for 19 years, while Panetta gave DeLacy, who had traveled to China to meet with Soviet and Chinese intelligence agents, sensitive reports on U.S. military matters. Any notion that Panetta had no awareness of DeLacy’s Communist affiliation was obliterated when Panetta in 1983 inserted a tribute to DeLacy into the Congressional Record, praising his resistance to “McCarthyism.”

Honey, we are progressives around here, but the only thing tinted red is Thelma’s hair.

So, if you ever get to wondering what makes the rightwing so goofy, it’s this crapola.  They believe this stuff.  They do.

And if you’re in the mood for even more crazy, check out this guy.  He’s one of the guys who used to believe that Janet Reno had black helicopters on standby to take us all to re-education camps.  Cheeezzzz … any kind of education would help!

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Some folks put a pencil to it and it came up this way:  32 Corporations Spent More On Compensation For Top Executives In 2010 Than They Paid In Income Taxes

If that ain’t a pile of horse feathers, I’ll eat Joe Bob’s hat.  We’ve got about as much chance as a steer in a packing plant.

I have a question:  Why aren’t the Tea Party folks mad about that?

Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.

.Rick Perry accepts the ‘Boot Up Texas’ award at 2011 RightOnline

So, you folks out there follow Rick on Tweeter and Facemook.  (By the way, I completely stole the FaceMook thing from my young whippersnapper buddy PDiddie, who had to explain it to me.)

And, y’all, since I’m not a blogger, can I be one of Rick’s “new media activist?”  I have no idea what the hell that means, but it sounds like something I might be competent at.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spends his Saturdays telling kids to get off his lawn.  He spends every other day of the week purposefully forgetting things.  I’m just positive of that.

The latest is his indignation at Eric Holder for believing in the Constitution of the United States of America. McConnell wrongly believes that Eric Holder should try terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, instead of a civilian court, because they don’t deserve “all the rights” given to Americans.

Say what?

McConnell said Holder’s assertion last week that civilian courts are the most effective way to fight terrorism is “an audacious claim about the war on terrorism.”

“These comments insult those who have served on the front lines, but Holder’s clear intent was to justify the Obama administration’s two-year misadventure in treating captured terrorists like common criminals,” McConnell wrote.

Say double what?

Uh, didn’t we try Timothy McVeigh in a civilian court?  Seems to me that worked out okay.

“We ain’t no damn banana republic with a military junta.  Mitch McConnell spent a grueling 2 months, from July to August of 1967, in the military service in the hellhole of dangerous Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he was discharged for a wimpy medical condition called optic neuritis.  He immediately went to work as an intern on Capitol Hill and finished law school 2 months later.  So, he can shuddup about military courts.  He don’t know diddle squat about military courts,” Juanita says.

“You had your chance, Old Man,” she hollers, “and you gave it up for self promotion.”

Damn, she’s kinda had it with him.

Thanks to David for the heads-up.