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Just when you thought the birther movement was going the way of the dodo bird, we get this…

Nearly half of the Arizona Legislature wants to force President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election.

A state House committee on Tuesday approved the measure sponsored by 40 of the state’s 90 legislators. It would require presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the requirements to be president.

All 40 co-sponsors are Republicans, comprising 75 percent of the GOP caucus. Two of them have since resigned to run for Congress.

It’s as if Republicans have entered Bizarro World and are enjoying it too much to want to leave.  These people have lost all reason and sense of self-respect with their anything-goes craziness.  What a horrible embarrassment it must be for any thinking conservative to refer to themselves as a Republican.  It truly has become the party of idiots.

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A couple of state Republicans in Tennessee had this brilliant bit of dialogue. Maclin Davis is a former attorney for the state Republican party and Ron Ramsey is the Lt. Governor running for Governor.

Mutt and Jeff do their thing.

Davis: Now since the Republicans control both houses of the Tennessee legislature, it seems to me that they might consider passing a state law that says in all future elections no candidate for president can be put on the ballot in Tennessee unless they produce positive proof they are a native-born citizen. If we had one like that a few years ago, we’d be a whole lot better off today. Is there any chance that you would consider that?

Ramsey: … I suppose that every state could individually do that.

Davis: It seems like it would be really good if somebody would file a suit against our present president to get back all the money he’s been paid as president on the grounds he’s not a legitimate president since he’s not a native-born citizen. The great preponderance of the evidence is he’s not a citizen. …

Ramsey: … I’ve got a tableful of advisers sitting over there and they’ll probably start cringing right about now when I start talking about some of this stuff right here. … I’m going to tell you something. I don’t know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not. I don’t know what the whole deal is there. But I’m going to tell you something. When you walk out on the street down, people don’t really care about this issue. I’m all about winning elections, not as Republicans in this nation but also as Republicans in this state of Tennessee.

Ramsey’s camp is backtracking from the “I don’t know whether President Obama is a citizen…” remark.  They claim it’s taken out of context.  Geez.  Every time one of these assholes makes a remark that highlights either their racist attitudes or simple lack of intelligence, they claim foul.  If Ramsey is not a birther, what prevented him from making his thoughts on the subject clear?  Nothing except the fact that he is obviously a birther.

Politico has more on the story.

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I think it would be fair to surmise that when conspiracy meister Glenn Beck refers to a conspiracy theory as “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard”, then there’s a pretty good chance he’s making a valid point.

On his radio show yesterday, Fox News personality Glenn Beck lampooned the birther movement…” Beck argued that the birthers’ agitation is actually a “dream come true” for Obama because they are constantly “discrediting themselves” and making all conservatives look foolish.

Beck is actually right on this one – birthers do tend to tarnish and degrade the entire conservative movement.  What is ironic though, is that the tea party crowd, of which Beck is a major player, do exactly the same thing.  Nothing diminishes conservative criticisim of Obama more than a camera and microphone at a tea party event.  The signs, the rhetoric, the misplaced anger, the idiocy, all of it is just so ludicrous and far-fetched that even valid criticism of Obama gets lost in the shuffle.

In any case, Beck’s denouncement of birthers is not enough to free him from title of Wingnut-in-Chief.  Here’s how he finished off his anti-birther rant yesterday.

“So why don’t we concentrate on those things. Because they’re provable. They’re actionable. And they and once these in, once these things are in, you ain’t gonna have a courtroom to be able to go back on him. You give this kind of movement, if they continue this kind of movement over the next four years, I don’t know what the hell you have left in the end. So why don’t we go after the things that are provable, after the things that actually you need to stop right now. And if you want to argue, you want to argue, then let’s argue based in fact, based on things that are provable and true. And what do you say? Do you want to argue the Constitution? Good. Let’s show the number of people in congress and in the Senate that don’t even read the Constitution. Can’t tell you right now if healthcare is even in the Constitution. Let’s talk to the scholars. Let’s talk to the average Joe that understands this isn’t in the Constitution. Let’s argue the Constitution on the laws and the systems that they are building today. Instead of arguing the Constitution and whether or not he was born in America, why don’t we argue the constitutionality of a little known thing called czars.”

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Via the DailyDish…

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Phil Wolf, owner of Wolf Automotive used car dealership, stands in front of a billboard on his auto lot on November 21, 2009 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Wolf paid $2,500 to have the billboard painted, and it has sparked controversy since it was put up the day before. Wolf, 57, said the dealership received more than a thousand calls from throughout the U.S. and Canada in a single day, both in support and against the sign. ‘We’ve had death threats. We had people call and say they were going to firebomb the place last night,’ he said, adding that local police provided overnight security outside the dealership because of the threats. Wolf, a supporter of the ‘birther’ movement, questions President Obama’s citizenship. ‘We’ve got to recall our country, the election,’ he said. This guy (Obama), is illegal.’ He also blamed the President for the massacre at Ft. Hood. ‘The cavalier attitude taken by Mr. Obama towards the enemy within us is absolutely horrible. If I had a snake in the house, I would kill it,’ Wolf said. Several left-leaning advocacy groups have called on the public to boycott the auto dealership. By John Moore/Getty Images.

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I think (gulp) I’m starting to like this woman. I hate to admit it but there is something about her wacky determination that I find endearing. She reminds me of a little girl who is told they can’t have an ice cream cone before supper but, doggoned, she’s not taking no for an answer. Sort of admirable and cutesy…in an insane kind of way, of course.
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This piece of crap is actually playing on television in Texas and a number of other states.  You do realize that this is going to go on for another seven years until a white president takes office.

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Sometimes even looniness needs to be put into perspective. I love this.
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Via Rumproast, I give you the birther’s theme song.  This is what you get when you can’t handle having an African-American President. Let’s all hope (for their sake) they get over it soon enough.

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The lyrics…so you can print and frame ‘em.

A funny thing went down in the presidential race ‘08
The democratic nominee was thought to be so great
But our founders made a rule and what they wrote was really clear
Only natural-born citizens are eligible…my dear

Obama ,tell us where were you born?
‘Cause the media won’t do their job anymore
You’re grandmother in Kenya said you were born on foreign shores
So Barry tell us where oh where were you born?

You’d think that Ol’ Barrack would wanna try and nip this in the bud
To settle all these lawsuits and wipe away the rumor mud
But the one thing that could prove it he won’t let anybody see
A bona fide presidential birth certificate mystery

Obama ,tell us where were you born?
‘Cause the media won’t do their job anymore
You’re grandmother in Kenya said you were born on foreign shores
So Barry tell us where oh where were you born?

Can you confirm Barrack…where were you born?
‘Cause the jpeg on your website was proven forged
I gotta say pal to me this whole thing just smells rotten to the core
So Barry tell us where oh where were you born?

Barrack Hussein Obama tell us…where were you born?
You don’t like your middle name spoken aloud in your side a thorn
Obama tell us where oh where were you born
I said Barack Obama tell us where oh where were you born?

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Alright, so it’s out.  I was born in Mombassa, Kenya.  Need proof?  Here it is, dammit.

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I lie, of course.  But hey, have you always wanted your own fake Kenyan birth certificate?  Well, this is your lucky day.  Go here, fill in the form and presto, you’ve got a fake Kenyan b/c just like President Obama!  It’s so authentic-looking it could fool Orly Taitz and her birther following.

God, I love the internets.

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When that birther movie gets made a couple of years from now, there is only one actor who could possibly play the role of Orly Taitz.  Meryl Streep.

She’d have to only meld her accent from Sophie’s Choice with the persona from the character she played in The Devil Wears Pravda.  The setting and mindset of the entire birther movement could be pulled directly out from any Three Stooges or I Love Lucy episode.

How perfect would that be?  I’m working on casting the rest of the characters.

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