++Why did anyone ever believe that Cliven Bundy, a Sovereign citizen adherent won't be a raving racist? The whole rationale for their movement is that the 14th Amendment made the federal government illegitimate.
++Sean Hannity claimed his embrace of Cliven Bundy was a result of his history defending citizens from claims of eminent domain. Yesterday on the mall,the cowboy and Indian alliance protested the Keystone XL Pipeline largely on those grounds. Conservative reaction--crickets.
++Kudos to Rachel Maddow--probably egged on by Steve Benen--on her segment on the Christian Identity Movement,Posse Comitatus,the Sovereign Citizens movements to explain where Cliven Bundy came up with his ideas. The segment was based on a Washington Monthly article on the far right during the time when Benen was editor.
++Not to be outdone in wackoland was Wayne La Pierre's raving rant at the annual NRA convention. You must goggle it to understand this man is deranged. Of course, you should not leave your house unless you are armed. The ultimate plot for gun control is --not Barack Obama but the Democratic campaign for Hillary Clinton.
++At the NRA confab, Sarah Palin said that during her administration she would have baptized terrorists by water boarding them.
++The best conspiracy theory on the whole Cliven Bundy situation was that Harry Reid wanted the ranch land to create a solar farm to be built by the Chinese. This was floated by none other than the Koch Brothers, who are waging a war against both Harry Reid and Solar energy. Today's New York Times has an editorial on how the Koch Brothers are getting Southwestern states to embrace a tax on solar panels.
++Republicans are trying to make a comeback after the Bundy disaster by claiming that Clippers' owner Donald Sterling is a Democrat. Sterling was caught on tape telling his African-American/Mexican mistress she could screw Blacks but don't bring them to his ball games. He gave campaign funds twice to Democrats in the 1990s--first to Bill Bradley's ill-fated Presidential campaign and for the recall campaign against Governor Davis. But in Los Angeles,his biggest crime was singling out Laker great Magic Johnson as someone he didn't want to see at his games. The NBA claims they will investigate. The NAACP withdrew their lifetime achievement award to Sterling.
++Meanwhile "Operation American Spring" revved up their PR in the aftermath of the Bundy fiasco. On May 16th,the group led by "militias" and elderly American vets call for 10 million people to march on Washington and another 2 million to stay behind until President Obama and all the elected leaders of Congress resign. They are to be tried by a tribunal manned by Former Congressman West,the head of the Heritage Foundation,Darryl Issa,Rand Paul and others. Today, a newspaper article in the Reno paper mocks the effort by saying people in Nevada were saying President Obama would resign by May 16th.
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