An Important Message from James Carville

"I have a message from the Tea Party ... we've come to take our government back." - Rand Paul

Let Uncle James translate what Tea Party Republicans really mean when they say they want to "take our government back."

Kentucky's Rand Paul opposes the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Nevada's Sharron Angle is itching to dismantle Social Security. And California's Carly Fiorina dismisses climate change concerns as fretting about "the weather."

Look, we've all snickered at some of the kooky ideas these Tea Partiers espouse. But there's nothing funny about the challenge we face. And it certainly doesn't help that corporations now can spend an unlimited amount in support of candidates they like.

We have the power to keep these extremists out of Washington. We only have to seize this moment. It's time to fight back, and there's no better way than giving to the DSCC. I support the DSCC because they spend money where it's needed - to fight the Rand Pauls and Sharron Angles. Help me keep the extremists out of the Senate!

These candidates seem extreme to us, but there's a lot of people buying what they're selling. Angle raised more than $100,000 in an hour shilling for support on the Rush Limbaugh show. Paul is taking a page from his dad's playbook and using "moneybombs" to consolidate support. And Carly Fiorina - well, she hardly needs to raise any money at all with that cushy $42 million golden parachute she got after nearly driving HP into the ground.

Your gift today will make a big difference against these candidates. The DSCC uses donations from grassroots Democrats like you and me to build tough campaigns, fight Republican lies and get every last Democrat to the polls come November. We can beat them, but not without your immediate help.

Rand Paul and his radical pals say they want their country back. Well, I'm here to say that it's our country, too. And they're not going to drag us backward without one heck of a battle. Join the fight.

Sincerely,

James Carville


Democratic Senate Campaign Committee

A Spot of Tea (Party) with a Side of Crazy

Straight from her Wikipedia entry (you can't make stuff like this up) comes the belief system of Orly Taitz who recently lost her bid to become the Republican nominee for California Secretary of State.

Taitz alleges that Barack Obama due to his father's nationality is not a natural born citizen of the United States and therefore not qualified to serve as its president. She furthermore claims he was born in Kenya and that he falsified his Selective Service papers and his application to the Illinois bar.Regarding Obama, Taitz has said: "I believe he is the most dangerous thing one can imagine, in that he represents radical communism and radical Islam: He was born and raised in radical Islam, all of his associations are with radical Islam, and he was groomed in the environment of the dirty Chicago mafia. Can there be anything scarier than that?"

Other Obama-related rumors Taitz has repeated include:

* A number of homosexuals from Obama's former church have died mysteriously.

* Obama has dozens of social security numbers, and his passport is inaccurate. Taitz claims that a person who was cooperating with the FBI in connection with Obama's passport died mysteriously, "shot in the head."

* A Kenyan birth certificate with the name "Barack Obama" is authentic.

* Obama's first act as president was to donate money to Hamas, which she claims will be used to build Qassam rockets.

* Obama or someone connected to him has made threats to Taitz's life, including vandalizing her car.

* Obama is having the Federal Emergency Management Agency build internment camps for "Anti-Obama dissidents."

Taitz also has supported a number of other theories not directly related to Obama, including: that Goldman Sachs runs the United States Treasury,that Baxter International has developed a bird flu vaccine that kills people,that Representative Alcee Hastings and the House of Representatives are planning to build at least six labor camps,that Hugo Chavez owns the software that runs American voting machines,that FactCheck is untrustworthy because of its links to the Annenberg Foundation,and that Fox News is partly owned by Saudi Arabia.

The irony of it all? Taitz is not a natural-born citizen of the United States.