Stupid Crap of the Week!

Here are some of the more brilliant things said this week by prominent Americans:

US Republican Senator Jim DeMint on the President of the United States:

We saw within a few days that this President was going to be heavy-handed, he was going to implement his agenda and pay back his political allies, and it just went on from there to ObamaCare and then to Dodd-Frank. It has been the most anti-business and I consider anti-American administration in my lifetime. Things that are just so anathema to the principles of freedom, and everything he has come up with centralizes more power in Washington, creates more socialist-style, collectivist policies. This president is doing something that's so far out of the realm of anything Republicans ever did wrong, it's hard to even imagine.

Yes, it's hard to imagine because it's such a load of bullocks.  What the hell is DeMint even talking about here?  Anti-business and anti-American?  Corporate profits are at an all time high.  And what has the President done that's anti-American?  I don't think DeMint really knows what any of these words mean.

Okay, maybe this next one is too easy.

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter on the riots in England:

A few well-placed rifle rounds, and the rioting would end in an instant. A more sustained attack on the rampaging mob might save England from itself, finally removing shaved-head, drunken parasites from the benefits rolls that Britain can't find the will to abolish on moral or utilitarian grounds. We can be sure there's no danger of killing off the next Winston Churchill or Edmund Burke in these crowds.

Because nothing pacifies people more than just murdering them.  And since they're not human beings worth anything anyway, why not?

How does anyone get to be this hateful and stupid?

And finally, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney shows that he doesn't really distinguish between powerful legal entities and actual, you know, human beings:

"Corporations are people, my friend.” 

This would actually be an attractive proposition if Republican politicians would just treat real people the same way they treat corporations.

EDITED TO ADD:

Missed this one.  Nebraska candidate for U.S. Senate Jon Bruning:

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, a frontrunner to win the GOP nomination against Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), compared poor people to scavenging racoons in a speech this week. […]

“The raccoons figured out the beetles are in the bucket,” Bruning said. “And its like grapes in a jar. The raccoons – they’re not stupid, they’re gonna do the easy way if we make it easy for them. Just like welfare recipients all across America. If we don’t send them to work, they’re gonna take the easy route.”

 Yes, poor people on welfare are raccoons.