A (Dim) Light Dawns in Louisiana

And it’s a hoot:

A member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who eagerly supported Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to fund private schools has had an epiphany: Muslim schools might start getting taxpayer money!

Rep. Valarie Hodges, a Republican who represents East Baton Rouge and Livingston, now says she wishes she hadn’t voted for the Jindal voucher bill.

“I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America’s Founding Fathers’ religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools,” Hodges told the Livingston Parish News.

“I liked the idea of giving parents the option of sending their children to a public school or a Christian school,” Hodges added.

The newspaper reported that she “mistakenly assumed that ‘religious’ meant ‘Christian.’”

Once again, your standard wingnut doesn’t know the establishment clause from eggplant. This lady’s testimony shows us an intention to violate the First Amendment by using taxpayer dollars to promote Christianity.

A private Islamic school in New Orleans applied for vouchers under Louisiana’s voucher program, and the state legislature freaked out. The Islamic school has since withdrawn its application.

However, other religious schools are ok:

New Living World, which says it can accept more than 300 vouchers, is one such school. The campus has no library, and classrooms are often adorned with little more than a TV on which biblically-themed DVDs recite the day’s lesson. Another, The Upperroom Bible Church Academy, is housed in a windowless building with no playground. They can accept more than 200 students, and would stand to receive as much as $1.8 million. Eternity Christian Academy (135 vouchers) doesn’t permit the teaching of evolution.

This is how ignorant yahoos reproduce; they infect the schools.

When Being an Obama Supporter Is Unacceptable

Another terrifying glimpse into the fathomless abyss of the rightie brain — In Ohio, a sobbing woman thanked President Obama for the Affordable Care Act. Four years ago this woman, Stephanie Miller, had lost a sister to colon cancer. The sister had been uninsured and did not get proper treatment, according to Miller.

So how does the genuinely demented Jim Hoft react? BUSTED! he screams. He has proof that Stephanie Miller is an Obama supporter. Her Twitter handle is @obamasbestfan, and he has a photograph of her wearing an “I (heart) Barack” T-shirt.

This is the sort of thing that makes a rational person feel like Alice floating down the rabbit hole. You can search Hoft’s post in vain for any indication that Miller is anything but an enthusiastic Obama supporter. So what is she “busted” for? Existing?

And what does this tell us? Righties think disagreeing with them is immoral.

Elsewhere in Ohio — clearly the place to be yesterday — an anti-Romney protester is assaulted at a Romney rally. The protester was holding a sign and chanting when the Romney supporter tried to shut him up by stuffing a handkerchief in his mouth. The protester calmly spit out the handkerchief and kept chanting.

Bobby Jindal and Tim Pawlenty were the headliners at the rally, and protesters were chanting “Pawlenty Go Home.” Why they were giving Jindal a pass, I have no idea. Hoft’s reaction? “OBAMA GOONS Provoke Attack at Romney Campaign Rally.” That Hoft is a pistol.