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The openly lesbian spawn of Dick, Mary Cheney has contributed $1000 to the campaign of former U.S. Rep. Rob Portman (R-OH), who is running to replace the retiring Sen. George Voinovich. As a Congressman, Portman voted against same-sex marriage and against allowing gay adoption in DC. Critics consider this donation to be curious as Cheney has spoken out in favor …

SC Gov. Mark “Sanctity Of Marriage” Sanford’s trip down the Appalachian Trail of an Argentine hottie is probably going to cost him his job. His own lieutenant governor is joining the call for his removal. South Carolina Republican lawmakers are on the verge of calling a special legislative session that could impeach and remove embattled GOP Gov. Mark Sanford by …

RNC chairman Michael Steele doesn’t want a government-run health care program. He wants to protect Medicare. Which is a….anyone?

GOP Rep. Wally Herger (R-CA) is going to have some explaining to do after praising a man who bragged that he was a “proud right-wing terrorist.” Herger: “Amen. God bless you. There’s a great American!” Democrats are demanding that Herger apologize for endorsing terrorism. (Via – Americablog)

Today when Sen. John McCain cautioned the crowd at his town hall meeting to be respectful of the president, saying that he believes Obama respects the Constitution, McCain’s audience booed him. In the second clip, the crowd gives a standing ovation to a woman who demands that illegal immigrants not receive any health care.

Wingnut Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) tells a woman that she shouldn’t expect help from the government just because her husband has a traumatic brain injury. “The idea that the government is a solution to our problems in inaccurate.”

McCain: “There was a provision in the bill that talks about a board that would decide what are the most effective measures to provide health care for people, okay? So what does that lead to? Doesn’t that lead to a possibility of rationing?”

Former director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge admits in his new book that he was pressured into faking terror alerts in order to help George W. Bush win reelection. Dave Weigel, writing for the Washington Independent, notes that in the past, Ridge has denied manipulating security information for political reasons. In 2004, for example, he said, “We don’t do politics …

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) wants to create a “loser pays” system for civil lawsuits so groups like the ACLU will be “dissuaded from intimidating Christians and conservative groups.” “They’ve done a lot of harm,” he states bluntly. “They’re the group that constantly attacks the Boy Scouts for having ‘God’ in their pledge and wanting to set their own standards. The …

Democrats seem ready to give up on trying to achieve a bipartisan consensus on health care reform and say they are ready to wield their Congressional majorities to push the bill through on their own. Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans’ purposely strident tone against health care legislation during …

“If I felt that’s what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it. When I have sensed that the Lord is calling me to do something, I’ve said yes to it. But I will not seek a higher office if God is not calling me to do it. That’s really my standard. If I am called to …

Disgraced former GOP House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who resigned in 2006 in a cloud of criminal charges over campaign finance shenanigans, will be a contestant on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars. SRSLY. Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will participate in the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars,” facing off against pop singer Aaron …

Rachel Maddow tips us to ResistNet.com, a racist GOP-astroturf group that is organizing against health care reform.

A new Field Poll (PDF) unsurprisingly demonstrates that over the last 30 years, Republicans in California have become even more opposed to marriage equality. Californians’ greater acceptance of allowing same-sex marriage has come entirely from the changing views of registered Democrats and non-partisans rather than Republicans. Democratic voter views have shifted from greater than two-to-one opposition in 1977 to greater …

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” – …

Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) had already said that he would not run for re-election in 2010, clearing the way for Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist to run for his seat. But today Martinez told his staffers that he is resigning and will not return to Washington after the August recess. That clears the way for Crist to appoint himself to …

On Monday’s show, Keith Olbermann issued another of his classic “special comments,” this one on health care reform and how big pharma owns the votes of many legislators. Watch this.

The Democratic National Committee has produced a television ad calling on the GOP to rein in their nutcases. Lost cause.

New from Gallup. (Tipped by JMG reader Alex.)