Daily Blend: Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Kim Lehman [source: Iowa Independent]

I wonder how the history will look back on the antics of the Republican Party of the 2000–2010 period and whether they will ask if the GOP hadn’t just underwent some collective lobotomy or something.

• Republican National Committee woman Kim Lehman becomes first ranking politician (even amongst Republicans) to assert that President Obama is a Muslim.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• City of Philadelphia’s new money-making scheme: Billing low-traffic bloggers $300 for the price of a “business privilege license”. Because, apparently, non-commercial blogging is now a business enterprise, or something.

• How to recognize a Tea Party advertisement: When it starts with a Bible quote …
  (via Right Wing Watch)

• Let’s all pray hope for the best of luck to PZ Myers and his “shriveled black lump” of a heart.

• Shirley Sherrod will not return to the USDA.

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Tags: Kim Lehman • Barack Obama • Philadelphia • blogging • bloggers • Tea Party • teabaggers • Bible • Hunt Downer • Republicans • elections • PZ Myers • Shirley Sherrod • USDA