More Republicans in Fantasy Land

Yesterday, we learned from Republican Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum that the only reason the US hasn't suffered a second terrorist attack over the last five years is because "the 'Eye of Mordor' has instead been drawn to Iraq..."

Today's dispatch from the Republican Congress also comes from Pennsylvania, where incumbent Representative Curt Weldon says the FBI's investigation of him and his family is politically motivated because a dwarf, er, informant named Grumpy said so:

Weldon said yesterday that a retired FBI agent had "confirmed to me that a person who works on my opponent's campaign was bragging that the campaign knew three weeks ago" about the FBI's investigation into Weldon and his daughter's company....

So who's this retired agent? He's Gregory Auld, a Weldon supporter. Auld says that a man at a local gym, whom he calls "Grumpy," because he doesn't know his name, told him that three weeks ago, a guy in a [Democrat Joseph] Sestak T-shirt (Auld doesn't know this guy's name, either) said "something big" would happen to Weldon in three weeks.

Doesn't sound too convincing to me. Perhaps Weldon should have waited for confirmation from Sleepy and Bashful before going public with his concerns.

If there had been an eighth dwarf named "Wacky" (I'm probably stretching the dwarf-thing a little too thin), he probably be the one providing talking points a Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina, who came up with this one in a debate yesterday:

Vernon Robinson, who has run a series of brash advertisements about the two-term Democratic congressman [Brad Miller], charged that Miller wants to import homosexuals to the United States and supported scientific studies that would pay teenage girls to watch pornography.

I'm continually stunned at the Republican wackos who are able to get themselves elected (or nominated). Something tells me that we only get to see the true levels of nuttery when panic starts to set in, as it has this election cycle.

Tags: Pennsylvania Senate North Carolina CongressElection 2006 Rick Santorum Curt Weldon Vernon Robinson