Olbermann Gets The Last Word On Shirley Sherrod

... for now:



But you can count on rightists to just keep moving forward with their nihilism. More and more of the Republican House extremists have joined Michele Bachmann's so-called Tea Party Caucus. Today's Salt Lake Tribune looked at it's own state's DC contingent-- and remember, Utah right-wing activists, already ousted mainstream conservatives (Cannon and Bennett most recently) when they didn't appear extreme enough-- to see who was jumping in and who isn't.

Rep. Rob Bishop hitched his wagon to the new Tea Party Caucus this week, though his Republican colleague from Utah, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, wants nothing to do with the effort... Chaffetz, a tea party supporter, thinks a formal caucus could choke the life out of the grassroots movement.

“The more you try to put structure around the tea party, the more compromised it will be,” he said through his Twitter page. “If any one person(s) tries to co-opt it, the tea party will lose its identity and effectiveness.”

At least 38 of his House Republican colleagues view the matter differently. They have joined the caucus, formally created Wednesday. No Democrat has joined.

Utah’s Republican candidate for Senate, Mike Lee, hopes to join a similar caucus in the Senate if he wins in November. Lee would like to team up with Sens. Jim DeMint, of South Carolina, and Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma, along with Republican candidates like Marco Rubio in Florida and Rand Paul in Kentucky, to form a Senate Tea Party Caucus.

He seems to have left out Sharron Angle, the teabagger candidate from Nevada. Is she too crazy even for kooks like Mike Lee? No one seems to have the definitive list of the extremists willing to be identified as members of Bachmann's crazy caucus. Some, like Houston whack-job John Culberson, seem to be in and out several times a day. As of tonight we've been able to confirm these lunatic fringe members of the Republican Party as falling in behind Bachmann: B.P.'s favorite congressman Joe Barton (TX), half a dozen other nutcase Texas racists-- Lamar Smith, John Carter, Michael Burgess, John Culberson, Louie Gohmert, Pete Sessions-- only one of the half dozen active Republican closet queens-- Trent Franks (AZ)-- would-be Michigan governor Pete Hoekstra, Gary Miller (CA), Rob Bishop (UT), Walter Jones (NC), Todd Akin (MO), Doug Lamborn (CO), Dan Burton (IN), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Roscoe Bartlett (MD), Gus Bilirakis (FL), Cliff Stearns (FL), 3 of the craziest of the Georgia loons (Broun, Gingrey and Price), Steve King (IA), Joe "You Lie" Wilson (SC), John Fleming (LA), both Kansas House members running for the Senate (Tiahrt and Moran), and one member of the Republican leadership: Mike Pence (IN). Of these Tea Bag Caucus members 5 voted for Bush's no-strings-attached Wall Street bailout: Pete Sessions (TX), Lamar Smith (TX), Joe Wilson (SC), Pete Hoekstra (MI), and Gary Miller (CA), all of whom take big bucks-- thinly veiled bribes-- from Wall Street CEOs and lobbyists.