I Can't Keep Up!

Republicans are misbehaving so badly and so often I can't keep up with breaking news!

On Saturday, April 28 Senate candidate John Raese (R- W. VA) said:

Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm. ... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that," Raese, campaigning against Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, said at a Saturday event. "Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm. Jawohl.

This is of course an utter fabrication-- and witness the veiled Nazi reference.

President Obama of course has no plans to wrestle farm children away from their lambs and piglets and corn plants. Raese was referring to a rule that would have prevented children from being paid for farm work deemed to be dangerous-- and the White House withdrew it, meaning children can now stick their arms into baling machines if their employers ask them to.

Raese also stood up for psycho rocker Ted Nugent for his recent remark that if Obama is re-elected he will either be dead or in prison. Raese called it a figure of speech.

Not long ago Raese compared smoking bans to the treatment of Jews by the Nazis.

Raese favors abolishing the IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, and the Federal minimum wage, opposes abortion and stem cell research, and supports drilling in pristine Arctic environments, the controversial Arizona immigration law, and Obamacare-- and oh, yes, he wants the U.S. to put 1000 lasers in the sky because somehow they will protect us.

Two words: Whack job.

Sources

Foley, Elise. (2012, 1 May). John Raese alludes to Hitler, claims Obama wants to kill 4-H programs. Huffington Post.

Jarman, David.  (2012, 26 April). John Raese defends Ted Nugent from the thought police. Daily Kos.

Kleefeld, Eric. (2010, 12 October). Meet John Raese. TPM.