What doesn't Kill the Far-Right Only Makes Them Crazier!

[LongTomH]

Bob Cesca, over at the Huffington Post, is paraphrasing Nietchze's famed quote. It seems the wacky wingnuts are regrouping:

For the last eight years, we've observed Karl Rove's non-reality based universe in which logic was entirely abandoned in lieu of whatever reality the administration invented in order to serve its ridiculous policies and to mask its glaring nincompoopery. Intellectually dishonest at best -- destructive and criminal at worst.

This didn't end on Election Day.

Since their thumpin' last week, the far-right has pushed the crazy to eleven and snapped the knob clean off -- an opening salvo of twisted hackery portending an insane four-to-eight years of attacks on the Obama administration. If the last seven days have been any indication, the far-right is shaping up to make the 1990s seem quaint -- even erudite by comparison. That which used to be your basic, off-the-shelf intellectual dishonesty has grown into, as Digby pointed out recently, full-on intellectual violence.

Intellectual violence. While not a new term, it perfectly defines what we're seeing now: accusations and smears that so severely confound logic they literally attack -- violate -- reality and the human intellect. It's like a berzerker dervish of argumentative elbows and fists indiscriminately flailing around, thwacking anything in its orbit, so much so that constructing a counterpoint is literally painful, "Why the hell am I trying to debunk this?! Ow! My head. Aw hell, I need a drink."

More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/what-doesnt-kill-the-far_b_143398.html

It's tempting to laugh at these nutballs now that they're being evicted from the White House; but, remember, please, they still dominate much of the media. Worst of all, they're planning for a comeback!

[Warpy]

1. They were worse at this time in 2000

when Florida was obviously a sink of corruption and they were waiting for the courts to install their king George.

They are just as awful whether they win or lose.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. only in retrospect. even so . . . .

No, I think they are worse now.

[nxylas]

3. Why won't he release his birth certificate?

Oh, he did. Um, OK, why won't he release his long form birth certificate?

And if he does, you just know Plan C is gonna be:

IT'S A FAKE!!!!!1111ELEVEN

[JohnWxy]

4. It's a real quandary: What do we do with the Fascist Parallel universe neo-cons.

Maybe the "W" was onto something with the Manned Mars project. If only we had enough missiles to send all the Republicans there (one way trip, of course). Then we could actually get some things done here.