100 Days Of Right Wing Wackos Would Make You Weary, Too

By Megan Carpentier | April 29, 2009 | 2:00pm

This week’s New York Times Magazine cover story on Obama’s first hundred days doesn’t look exceptionally celebratory. It looks more like, “This is what 100 days as President will do to you.” [NY Times]
Washington continues to buzz about Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter‘s party-switch, which even the White House didn’t learn about until yesterday morning despite Joe Biden’s efforts to get him to do it. [Washington Post]
But in 2001, Specter blasted then-Senator Jim Jeffords for his party-switching; he even tried to make it illegal. [LA Times]
Michael Steele‘s pissed off about the Specter switch because he was going to back Specter in the primary…which is probably partly what Specter was worried about. [Politico]
Rush Limbuagh wants John and Meghan McCain to switch parties now, too. [Huffington Post]
Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine thinks assholes like Limbaugh are part of why the party is losing voters in droves and Senators in dribs and drabs. [NY Times]
Specter’s desertion means that Norm Coleman shall never surrender his fight to have the courts declare him the winner of the Minnesota Senate Race. [Politico]
Speaking of Minnesota, Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann thinks that the outbreak of swine flu is either a Democratic conspiracy, the result of God hating Democratic Presidents or poor management by Democrats. [ThinkProgress]
Less insanity regarding American health: The Senate finally approved the nomination of Kathleen Sebelius to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite Republican opposition to the fact that a pro-choice President picked a pro-choice nominee for the gig. [Reuters]
Keith Olbermann, like much of America, would really, really like to see Sean Hannity waterboarded. [USA Today]
However, no one wants to see former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich take Moonlight Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof’s offer of an apprenticeship. [PR Newswire]
And, apparently, Pat Buchanan likened a Nazi war criminal to Jesus; in Pat’s world, killing 29,000 of his fellow Jews is What Jesus Would Do. [Huffington Post]