A NEW CAUCUS IS BORN-- SPREADING HATRED IS US-- AND IT'S BIPARTISAN; AS LONG AS YOU'RE A MORON IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH PARTY YOU BELONG TO

Any congressmen can form a caucus or a study group or a task force. They're just a group of members meeting to pursue common legislative objectives. A bunch of xenophobic, right wing loons, a bipartisan bunch, I might add, just started a new caucus today. I'm wondering if Virgil Goode, Jr. will be named Chairman Emeritus For Life. The organizers are Sue Myrick (R-NC), Bud Cramer (D-AL), Kay Granger (R-TX), and Ben Chandler (D-KY) and the "dear colleague" letter they sent out says the purpose is to educate members about "radical Islamists, their goals and their use of jihad to achieve them."


63 congressmen have already signed up and Myrick said the caucus has not formed before now because of the "bitterly partisan" divide in Congress in recent years. Now xenophobes and wingnuts from both parties feel free to fraternize and waste time and money on this nonsense together. Bud Cramer, the Democrat with the third most reactionary lifetime voting record among House Dems and who sits on the House Intelligence Committee and the new Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, said the caucus will seek to answer, among other questions, "Who are the terrorists, where do they come from, what motivates them?"

Of course Bud is practically a progressive compared to Texas fringe fanatic Kay Granger. He's also practically an Einstein and captain of the debate team compared to her. Speaking to reporters today about the new caucus she blurted out "The more we know, I think, the more we know we don't know." No one asked her if she studied rhetoric from the same master as the Bushes.