Daily Archives: Thursday, July 9, 2009

Is Republican Senator Jim DeMint losing it?

Plugging his new book last night, DeMint said:

Part of what we’re trying to do in Saving Freedom is just show that where we are, we’re about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like Chavez is running down in Venezuela. People become more dependent on the government so that they’re easy to manipulate. And they keep voting for more government because that’s where their security is. When our immigrants get here, they’re worried, because they see it happening here.

How do people this utterly stupid manage to get elected?  It’s no small puzzle.

h/t TPM

Is Netanyahu losing it?

From  Ha’aretz

…To appreciate the depth of his paranoia, it is enough to hear how he refers to Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, Obama’s senior aides: as “self-hating Jews.”

…Behind closed doors, Netanyahu’s coalition partners – including Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman – have also expressed shock at his behavior. One senior minister told an aide that he is finding it very difficult to work with the premier. “He drives us mad,” the minister said. “Every minute things change, and I am constantly busy doing maintenance on Netanyahu.”

h/t TPM