Right Wing Leftovers

  • Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party rally cost taxpayers $14,000.
  • Speaking of Bachmann, she and Rep. Steve King are so in sync that they are now sharing a press secretary.
  • Niger Innin and Harry Jackson are taking their bogus “war on the poor” effort to the Tea Party crowd.
  • FRC’s Peter Sprigg blasts Census officials for telling gay couples to report themselves as married .
  • It is “unlikely” that Tommy Thompson will challenge Sen. Russ Feingold.
  • Mike Huckabee has now registered to vote in Florida.
  • Behold an upcoming FRC event: “How a Climate Change Treaty Threatens You, Your Nation and Your Church.” Not “How a Climate Change Threatens You, Your Nation and Your Church,” but “How a Climate Change Treaty Threatens You, Your Nation and Your Church.”
  • Finally, quote of the day from David Brooks: “First, let’s all stop paying attention to Sarah Palin for a little while … She is in 2010 what Jerry Falwell was from the mid-1990s until his death — a conservative cartoon inflated by media. Evangelicals used to say that Falwell had three main constituency groups — ABC, CBS and NBC.”