Headlines - Saturday December 10

Eric Cantor thinks Insider Trading is okay for Congress to do. CNBC

 

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John Cole: The thing to remember about the chaos ensuing in the GOP primaries, where each week a different candidate is the new new savior before publicly shitting the bed, is that this is all the fault of the Republican party itself. They allowed the party to create this alternate reality about, well, everything that happened the last decade. They are the ones who encouraged their party to believe that a center-left Democrat is actually an America hating socialists. They are the ones who made this mess, so when they are all horrified when each week a different candidate looks the fool by pandering to the base, remember, they are the ones who encouraged the base to think all this crazy shit.

 

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Newt wants everyone to know that Palestinians are pretend people

This is a Thing People Are Discussing, today: smartest being of all time Newt Gingrich declared in an interview that the Palestinian people are "invented" in his grand historical estimation, sort of like how all peoples with their fancy national identities are at one point or another in history also "invented" out of thin air. "Americans," for example. But let's not let this latter detail ruin Newt's main point: why haven't Palestinians discovered that they are fake yet? READ MORE »

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(Think Progress) Say what you will, but theocratic dimwit Rick Perry is a gift to snark.

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Wisco: GOP Flateartherism Strikes Again

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The relentless human Pez dispenser named Michelle Duggar has miscarried what would have been her 20th child. The couple seems to have taken their cue from Rick Santorum over what comes next.

At a routine check-up Thursday to find out the sex of their 20th child, their doctor was unable to find a heartbeat and told the couple they had miscarried in the second trimester. "After the appointment, we came back home and told the children," says Michelle, 45. "We had just been talking about baby names last night and they were getting excited about naming a boy or a girl. It has been a real sad disappointment." She says the family will select a name after they know if the baby was a boy or girl, and then plan to have a funeral service.

I wonder if the funeral will be on their reality show.

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Mario: The Nasty Mr. Santorum

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Unemployment Rate Shows Improvement Despite Republicans' Best Efforts

 

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Rick Santorum is known for his insistence that religion has an important place in political life — and also for criticizing various examples of scientific consensus such as evolution, global warming, stem-cell research, human sexuality, and other matters. But in his latest pronouncement, he might have just outdone himself.

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Rick Perry "pauses for six seconds" while trying to remember the name of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "Montemayor," is his first effort.