Former Obama White House spokesman Bill Burton had some sharp words for Karl Rove during their debate on Fox News Sunday. After a long rant from Rove attacking Obama on the economy, Burton shot back: “As someone who was a leader in the White House that turned a record surplus into a deficit, that got us in a war that we never should have been in, and turned the floor of the New York Stock Exchange into a casino — I don’t think the American people are quite ready to hear a lecture from you on good governance.”

Liberals called George W. Bush a simpleton, but as Michael Tomasky argues, he was deeply informed compared with Rick Perry, who seems to delight in demonstrating his ignorance… Perry declared that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by scientists greedy for grant money… [H]e told a New Hampshire school-age child that he’s “not sure anybody actually knows completely and absolutely” how old the Earth is… Perry will home in on the darkest corners of the Tea Party mind and work relentlessly to activate the demons that lurk there. It will all be right out in the open… Every few weeks, or days even, something happens that makes me ask myself how much more right-wing this party can get. 

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