D. Cameron Findlay (Woman's Rights, Stupidity)

FACT: At a recent meeting of US Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick's labor advisory committee, Zoellick went to great lengths to explain how important women's empowerment was to him, and unveiled a long list of programs to help women workers around the world. Next, he turned to Deputy Secretary of Labor D. Cameron Findlay for an explanation of how Trade Adjustment Assistance had too often been ignored. Findlay: "TAA is treated like a teenage girl in the back seat of a car. You promise her anything to get what you want. And then when you get it, you leave her." According to the Washington Post, "The group, including five women union reps, was stunned. 

Dirk Kempthorne (Stupidity, Cowardice) 

FACT: Idaho residents have renamed the state capital Fort Kempthorne after Governor Dirk Kempthorne recently surrounded it with concrete barriers and other security measures in the wake of September 11. You see, Dirk spent $335,000 on fortifying the capital when the rest of state government is cutting spending in other areas. "I hope the governor feels secure sitting in his fortress while the rest of us are sitting in traffic,'' wrote a Boise resident to The Idaho Statesman. "The office of the governor is not for cowards, something to think about next election." 

Karan Kumar (Stupidity, Criminal, Honor and Integrity)

FACT: The New York Times reported that Kumar, a prominent Republican from Nassau County, NY, had come up with a rather unorthodox solution to a problem which had been troubling him - namely, articles appearing in local magazines accusing him of being involved in criminal activity. Kumar decided to fake his own kidnapping in the hope that his enemies would be investigated. This plan backfired after Kumar was "released" and discovered by police in a local park. Unfortunately for Kumar, he couldn't describe any of his kidnappers. Nor could he explain why they let him go. It was not immediately obvious why he was wearing different clothes to the ones he was kidnapped in. And then of course there was the cab driver who told police that he'd given Mr. Kumar a ride from Queens to the park in which he was found. Karan Kumar was questioned by the police and admitted to the deception, revealing that he'd been staying in a motel in Queens watching TV coverage of his disappearance for two days. He now faces up to two years in jail on two misdemeanor charges of making a "punishable false written statement." 

Drew Lewis (Criminal, Stupidity)

FACT: Drew Lewis used to work for Ronald Reagan as Secretary of Transportation. Failing at his job, he was replaced by Elizabeth Dole in 1983. Lewis was arrested for drunk driving after he flipped his Lincoln Navigator while leaving his driveway. Yes, driveway. Lewis proceeded to tell the police officer who responded to the accident that he was "too drunk to get out," according to the Allentown Morning Call. Lewis faces thirty days in jail if convicted. Yeah Right.

COMMENT: As ridiculus as this sounds. It should be taken very seriously. This is a man, a past high level official in a presidential administration, who decides that he should risk the lives of others, understanding full well that he was far to incapacitated to drive. He should be in prison.

Rush Limbaugh and Bill Schneider (Bigotry, Stupidity, Election 2000) 04/2002

FACT: Rush Limbaugh made the tubby-moron hall of fame with such insightful comments as the one about the  2000 election results, "If you take away the black vote, Bush won by a landslide." Not to be outdone, CNN's Bill Schneider explained that, if you don't count black people's votes, Bush would have won by 187 electoral college votes and, if you take away the black vote in the 2000 Senate races, Democrats win only 37 seats instead of 50.

COMMENT: Luckily, we don't live in the "White's only" world of Limbaugh and Schneider. One point that they did leave out however was that Gore won in a shut-out if all racists misogynists and war-mongering windbags are deleted from the voting equations

Kay O'Connor (Flatworlder, Stupidity, Women's Rights) 

FACT: Kansas state senator Kay O'Connor recently took the unusual step of denouncing the 19th Amendment when she was asked to appear at the Johnson County League of Women Voters' ''Celebrate the Right to Vote'' luncheon. She declined, telling organizer Delores Furtado that ''You probably wouldn't want me there because of what I would have to say.''  According to O'Connor, ''Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote.'' Apparently O'Connor doesn't care much what her constituents think of this view. ''If I don't get re-elected, my only punishment is to go home to my husband and my roses and my children and my grandchildren.''

Chuck Spingola (Bigotry, Intolarance, Hypocricy, Stupidity) 

FACT: Chuck Spingola, and some members of his ministry, "Missionaries of the Pre-Born" were visiting the University of Wisconsin campus to talk about the evils of abortion and homosexuality, which unfortunately didn't go down too well with some of the students. During a confrontation, Spingola allegedly started choking a gay man, while telling him that his time had come to go to hell. 

Chuck Yob (Woman's Rights, Stupidity)

FACT: According to Republican National Committeeman Chuck Yob of Michigan, the GOP is a strong supporter of women who run for elected office. In fact, Yob thinks they're particularly well suited to be secretary of state because "they like that kind of work." Our sources tell us that Yob was shocked to learn that secretary of state isn't actually secretarial work. "Well, then," he said, "perhaps they'd be better suited as nurse of state, housewife of state, or stewardess of state." Ha ha ha ha. That crazy GOP produces such clever Mysoginists!

Crittenden, Lideen, Olson, and O'Beirne (Women's Rights, Stupidity)

FACT: Danielle Crittenden, Barbara Lideen, Barbara Olson, and Kate O'Beirne appeared in an article in Britain's Daily Telegraph to bemoan the rotten state of feminism in America. These four rich, privileged Republicans had the gall to ask America to "take back the vote - we've used it unwisely. We'd like to give it back to our husbands." They continued to explain that Bush would have won by a landslide if women hadn't been allowed to vote. This follow the same lardly-logic of the fatmaster himself, Rush "for the twinkies" Limbaugh who smartly pointed out that if Bush would have won by a landslide if blacks were not allowed to vote. Well, Rush, God knows Republicans attempted to do just that. The Florida disenfranchisement fiasco was but a small crumb on the racist GOP nazicake. 

COMMENT: This baffling desire to return to the stone ages is typical of the "Promise Keepers" cult of kooks who think women are effective only as maids, cooks, nannies and sexual objects. Me thinks they are in the minority, unfortunately, they are windbags of epic proportions with wealth to force their ideas on the unsuspecting populace. Read: Scaife, Coors, Moon, Murdoch.