Yet another GOPer grovels before Limbaugh, begging forgiveness for having dissed him

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 This time it’s U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt (above) of Kansas who suddenly has felt the need to bow and scrape before the Great El Rushbo.

 It seems safe to say that Tiahrt got some grief from the Limbaugh Dittoheads in his district for DISMISSIVE REMARKS he recently made about the de facto head of the Republican Party.

The wingnuts aren’t going to like this!

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 As we all know by now, the self-appointed guardians of true American patriotism are very particular these days about whom President Obama shakes hands with and to whom he bows and how low he bows.

 Yet, the Obama White House has blithely released this photo of the president not just bowing but practically stooping to shake hands with Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s dog.

 Fox News will go crazy over this one:

 UPDATE: The right-wing attacks on Obama for shaking hands with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are so silly that Obama is MOCKING THEM.

 And Greg Sargent says this of the president’s ridicule of his critics:

It’s worth recalling that there was a time when Dems would quake with fear about national security attacks coming from the right, let alone respond to them with outright mockery. In this sense, Obama’s tone underscores how much the political climate has shifted on such matters.

Noted political scientist says 2008 election represented a rare realignment

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 Larry J. Sabato, the University of Virginia political scientist whom the Wall Street Journal has called “the most quoted college professor in the land,” is out with a new book on the 2008 presidential election.

 Sabato CONCLUDES that last year’s was “a realigning election — a very rare event in American history.”

 If he’s right about that, it’s good news for the Democrats and bad news for the Republicans.

Al-Qaeda already misses Dubya, hates it that Obama is popular among Muslims

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 Well, it seems that certain Islamic terrorists are VERY NERVOUS about the popularity of America’s new president among the Muslim masses.

 They never had that problem when George W. Bush was in the White House.

Pix of GOP presidents chumming with tyrants

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 While some right-wingers are having a hissy-fit over President Obama shaking hands with and smiling at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, let’s take a look back at Republican presidents sharing niceties with communist leaders of their times:

 (Hat-tip to DemocraticUnderground for photos.)

 UPDATE: Newt Gingrich, seemingly oblivious to all the evidence to the contrary, ARGUES that past presidents never smiled when meeting with tyrants.

 UPDATE II: By popular request, here’s a photo of George W. Bush holding hands with some Saudi guy:

Lunatic fringe warns that government-sponsored volunteerism is a sinister plot

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 You would think that the conspiratorialists eventually would be concerned about spreading their weird theories too thin. I mean, the public barely has time to think about one scary warning from the kooks before another one comes along.

 But, no! Pseudo-patriotism requires a relentless flow of fear-mongering, lest it wither and die on the proverbial vine.

 Consequently, we now have THIS WARNING that the innocuously-titled Serve America Act, which even enjoyed support from some Republicans in Congress, is actually a devious scheme to sap us of our precious bodily fluids — or something like that.

Wall Street crybabies are resentful

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 THIS ARTICLE in the current issue of New York magazine captures the self-pity among overpaid Wall Streeters whose jobs would have disappeared were it not for a bailout from taxpayers.

 Be sure to read the comments on this piece, too.