Mr. Cantor, THIS is why we're angry.

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Tuesday October 18, 2011 · 12:17 PM PDT

2011/10/18 · 12:17

Eric Cantor on (surprise) Fox News: "We know in this country right now that there is a complaint about folks at the top end of the income scale, if they make too much and too many don't make enough. Well, we need to both go encourage those at the top of the income scale to actually put their money to work to create more jobs so that we can see a closing of the gap. You know, we are about income mobility and that's what we should be focused on to take care of the income disparity in this country." [emphasis added by author]

Nice try, Mr. Cantor. Is there nothing that you won’t distort and dishonestly reframe into faux class warfare terminology? Is there no limit to your ability to end every discussion with a proposal for lowering taxes on the wealthy and letting it all trickle-down to the ever more needy masses? You are shameless and reprehensible.

Heffay

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Monday August 03, 2009 · 5:34 PM PDT

2009/08/03 · 17:34

The source document for the forged Kenyan Birth Certificate has apparently been identified. It seems to have come from a geneology site about the Bomford family, originally of Ireland, but obviously with a branch of the family tree in Australia. The Bomford family website contains a picture of an Australian family member's birth certificate from 1959. The form is identical to the supposed Kenyan certificate being circulated as President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

David Weigel of The Washington Independent (my source for this diary) lists the many similarities between the actual Australian birth certificate and the fake "Kenyan" birth certificate (Kenya is in quotes because, as we've all read, the Republic of Kenya was not 'born' until several years after President Obama was).

Heffay

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Thursday April 23, 2009 · 2:22 PM PDT

2009/04/23 · 14:22

There is a well established doctrine in US criminal law that is summed up in the expression “fruit of the poison tree,” which is a legal metaphor establishing the axiomatic concept that evidence obtained through illegal state action is not admissible in court. In other words, if the police break the law and, as a result of that illegal action, obtain evidence of criminal activity, such evidence is “tainted” and is not admissible in a subsequent criminal trial.

I do not invoke the exclusionary rule as a direct legal analogy to the current national discussion of torture because US Constitutional rights are not afforded to every person on the face of the earth and because this rule (as with all legal matters) has important exceptions; rather, I bring it up because it beautifully and succinctly summarizes the lengths to which we as a people will go to defend our freedoms and to support the rule of law. The underlying sentiment of the exclusionary rule is clear: in the United States the end does not justify the means, if the means involve violations of US law.

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Mr. Cantor, THIS is why we're angry.

Hilarious: Source of Forged Kenyan Birth Certificate (2 Updates)

I don't CARE what was learned by torture!