Exactly when did she lose it?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water again, it's really not. Katherine Harris:
ORLANDO, Aug. 25 -- Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and that the separation of church and state is a "lie we have been told" to keep religious people out of politics."If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin," Harris told interviewers from the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention. She cited abortion and same-sex marriage as examples of that sin.
Let's enumerate the cases:
- Harris just recently went bonkers
- Harris went bonkers a few years ago (possibly because of her election to Congress)
- Harris has been bonkers forever
That last one is particularly troubling, seeing as how this is the woman who was in charge of one of the most contested elections in history. Her current belief (and very possibly prior) is that secular laws just don't really apply. Did she believe this when she in charge of the Florida elections? Anyone care to pin the temporal tail of insanity on this particular donkey?
On a vastly more positive note, I've been quite pleased to see an example of rare cooperation that has appeared between Team Red and Team Blue out there in our greater internet. Seems that there's a Senator who's placed a "secret hold" on bipartisan legislation that would open up every federal grant and contract to a google-like search. Clearly nefarious forces wish this dead; and just as clearly it would be an enormously positive thing to have.
Red and Blue are often in violent disagreement about the problems to be solved and how to solve them, but they seem to be in substantial agreement about the need to be able to observe the problem. Talking Points Memo has a running tabulation of Senators that have denied that they're involved in the secret hold. I wonder if the real secret holder will admit it? He/she could be using this bill as a negotiation football, I suppose.
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I'd like to find that bit
I'd like to find that bit about Harris to be so unbelievable that I wouldn't even look at the supporting detail.
But I won't go looking, because you're not the sort to make that stuff up, and you've provided the link and all. Weapons grade crazy, that. Mel Gibson crazy, even.
I wasn't aware Harris was bonkers, but it doesn't surprise me. She didn't appear constitutionally suited to deal with the uproar after 2000, and became convinced, I think, that her shit didn't stink. Friends and colleagues tried to tell her, and she ignored them.
And now this. Consider the possibility that she's just got a weird form of Tourette's, with stupidity inserted where profanity normally goes. What an embarrassment. To her, to Florida, and to anyone who used to treat her with any level of respect.
Now, she claims to know the mind of God, which reminds me of a line from a re-run of House, in which a character declined to discuss God's will because that would be like penguins discussing nuclear fission.
Oh, and on the other bit, good on TPM. When that all settles out, there's going to be hell to pay, and rightly so. Pay close attention (last I looked) to the non-denial denial from Chris Dodd that, I believe, is included in the "no" category.
The benefit of the hidden form of ball-scratching known as earmarks is politically clear. But it's also an outrage, and demanding to know what horses got traded, to whom, for what, would likely slow down passage of some otherwise hideously bad and misguided bills.
Which, frankly, sounds like a win-win to me.
Heh. The Onion's on the case
Heh. The Onion's on the case:
And">http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52261]And a good skewering it is, given the small space into which they've jammed it.