The Right Wing in a Nutshell

Or two nutshells, to be perfectly accurate.

The first, from New Hampshire, is nothing short of appalling:

Barrington Republican Martin Harty told Sharon Omand, a Strafford resident who manages a community mental health program, that "the world is too populated" and there are "too many defective people," according to an e-mail account of the conversation by Omand. Asked what he meant, she said Harty clarified, "You know the mentally ill, the retarded, people with physical disabilities and drug addictions - the defective people society would be better off without."

Harty confirmed to the Monitor that he made the comments to Omand. . . .

Omand says Harty then stated, "I wish we had a Siberia so we could ship them all off to freeze to death and die and clean up the population."

Of course, he now claims it was a "joke," as the Republicans understand such things.

I don't know if I'd call this worse, but it's certainly in the same league:

And from CNBC's Larry Kudlow:



I'm sure he just misspoke, but I think it says something about the way the right wing has poisoned this country that such a misstep is even possible.