More Teabagger Lunacy And Lies

There doesn't seem to be a lid on the craziness displayed by the teabaggers. Just when I think they've reached the ultimate in lunatic ideas, they find a way to top themselves. This time the idiocy comes from a teabagger candidate running for the Republican nomination in a North Carolina congressional race. The candidate, who self-identifies himself with the teabagger group, is Bill Randall (pictured).

Randall is now saying that the United States government and BP may have engaged in a conspiracy to create the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. He doesn't say why either one would want to intentionally create an oil leak -- just that he thinks they might have done it. Here is what he said to the media last Tuesday:

“Now, I’m not necessarily a conspiracy person, but I don’t think enough investigation has been done on this,” Randall said at a media conference on Tuesday. “Someone needs to be digging into that situation. Personally, and this is purely speculative on my part and not based on any fact, but personally I feel there is a possibility that there was some sort of collusion. I don’t know how or why, but in that situation, if you have someone from a company violating a safety process and the government signing off on it, excuse me, maybe they wanted it to leak.

“But then it got beyond what was anticipated, and we had an explosion and loss of life. And, oh man, then we have panic. Is there a cover up going on? I’m not saying there necessarily is. But I think there’s enough facts on the table for people that (they) really need to do some investigative research and find out what went on with that and get a subpoena of records and everything else.”

Randall admits that this idea is "purely speculative" and "not based on any fact", but he still wants to spend a lot of government money to investigate it anyway. I thought the teabaggers were whining about the government spending too much money, but I guess it is only expenditures that actually help people that they are oppose. It seems to be fine to spend government money on conspiracy theories.

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin continued to spin tall tales on nationwide television. She doesn't seem to care at all whether what she is saying is true or not, as long as it sounds good to her teabagger base. On Tuesday night she appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show and claimed that several nations have offered help with the Gulf leak but the U.S. government (President Obama) won't even return their phone calls. Here is her nearly incoherent quote on the show:

"They can’t even get a phone call returned, Bill. The Dutch. They are known, and the Norwegians. They are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. They offered to help and, yet, no, they too, with a proverbial can’t even get a phone call back. That is what the Norwegians are telling us, and the Dutch are telling us, and then the entrepreneurial Americans."

Of course it isn't true. On the day before her interview, the Washington Post (certainly no bastion of liberality) reported that the U.S. had accepted help from those nations. But I guess I'm expecting too much of Palin since we learned in the 2008 campaign that she doesn't read newspapers. Here is what the Post said:

"In late May, the administration accepted Mexico’s offer of two skimmers and 13,779 feet of boom; a Dutch offer of three sets of Koseq sweeping arms, which attach to the sides of ships and gather oil; and eight skimming systems offered by Norway."