Phyllis Schlafly, who is apparently still alive, is writing a book. It will tentatively called
Screw You: The Story of Screw You, Because Screw You (ed. note: that title could not be confirmed) and is
on something of a pre-book tour in order to remind everyone that she was crazy Ann Coulter long before crazy Ann Coulter even existed (ed. note: we cannot confirm that Ann Coulter ever actually existed. She may have been a made-up persona for branding purposes, like Betty Crocker.)
"I grew up during the Great Depression, and didn't have any of these government handouts, and we grew up to be what was called the Greatest Generation. The idea of an enormous number of people getting food stamps? Nobody's hungry in the United States. I think we need to build more self-reliance. We need to build the nuclear family, in which the father is the provider and the mother is a mother."
Schlafly then bit the head off a live bat.
"I don't see any evidence that Hispanics resonate with Republican values. They have no experience or knowledge of the whole idea of limited government and keeping government out of our private lives. They come from a country where the government has to decide everything. I don't know where you get the idea that the Mexicans coming in resonate with Republican values. They're running an illegitimacy rate that is extremely high. I think it's the highest of any ethnic group. We welcome people who want to be Americans. And then you hear many of them talk about wanting Mexico to reclaim several of our Southwestern states, because they think Mexico should really own some of those states. Well, that's unacceptable. We don't want people like that."
True story: every time Phyllis Schlafly passes a Taco Bell she panics, thinking Mexico has gained another foothold in suburbia from which to launch their eventual takeover of the Southwestern states. (ed. note: we may have made this up.)
Schlafly is one of the longtime leaders of hardline conservatism, no really, so it's worth noting (1) just how many of her core beliefs seem to be based on ridiculous tropes or other semi- or not-so-semi-conspiratorial garbage and (2) that all of them seem to be predicated on outright and only clumsily directed bile towards, well, everyone. "Spittle-flecked" would be the sole necessarily descriptor for most of her various pronouncements. She's one of the fossilized ankle bones from which you can reconstruct the record of just how and where the conservative movement started to become Batshit Insane.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2011: Crunch. Jobs report even worse than projected:
Analysts' expectations ahead of today's monthly jobs report were lowered this week after the release of troubling news about manufacturing, housing and retail sales. But they weren't lowered enough.
In its seasonally adjusted report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that only 54,000 jobs were added to the economy, far below the monthly average of 182,000 new jobs added in the first four months of 2011. The private sector added 83,000 jobs, less than a third of what it did in April. Layoffs of 28,000 public-sector employees by financially straitened state and local governments brought the overall numbers down.
The official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent.
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On today's
Kagro in the Morning show, it's appropriations season. We talk budget process, where approps fit in, and why certain bills move first.
Greg Dworkin's round-up: summer storm prep; "A Simple Way to Reduce Suicides"; "The GOP is too juvenile to govern"; and Krugman once again being right on the deficit, Simpson & Bowles not so much.
Armando joined in on the death of Sen. Lautenberg, and all the attendant political questions. Lastly, a look at a fascinating
Washington Post story about one Pentagon adviser's so-far unsuccessful attempt to reform the military commissary system.
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