Matt Lewis, who we've previously caught accusing "liberals" of trying to strangle Marco Rubio and struggling with the definition of irony, just can't fathom Nancy Pelosi passing a bill with mostly Republican support.

Except for the fact that she did.

Now everyone makes mistakes, but you'd think someone who's paid to write about politics would know stuff about politics. Or at least consult the Googles.

By the way, Lewis (@mattklewis) blocked me on Twitter after I pointed this out to him the other night (wingers are so sensitive!) -- so please direct any of his future SRWTs to @BlueTexanTweets.

It's now an article of faith among right-wingers like Matt Lewis that the hugely unpopular Sarah Palin was "destroyed" by liberals when she ran for Vice President. Somehow, apparently, liberals tricked Palin into making herself look like an idiot on national television, refusing to submit to a single press conference, and running a vicious, divisive campaign.

And the left's Operation Destroy Palin didn't end with the campaign.

Liberals engineered her quitting as governor before her term was complete, tricked her into starring in her own reality show (which was a bust), teaming up with the toxic Glenn Beck -- and then teasing the rubes for a year while she flirted with a presidential run, only to bail on them at the last minute.

For such a tiny minority in our Great Center-Right Nation, liberals sure are powerful, aren't they?

These are the same devious schemers, you see, that just forced Marco Rubio to babble about "theologians" when asked a 6th-grade level science question.

Right-wingers bathe in faux victimhood and martyrdom like pigs in filth.

For this one, let's start with a good definition of "theocracy."

the·oc·ra·cy
a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.

Rick Santorum, who is a radically conservative, pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic, has said that birth control is "not okay," has argued that states should have the right to ban contraception, that the federal government should require schools to teach creationism, that both homosexuals and adulterers should be imprisoned, and that doctors who perform a legal medical procedure are criminals.

Now, I'm not sure who Lewis is referring to when he writes "people" in that tweet -- but I do think it's deeply ironic that someone like Santorum is expressing alarm about theocracy in Iran.

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This is how ridiculously low the Republican party has sunk. Or the mainstream media. Or both.

This is a panel discussion about the different candidates in Iowa that took place this morning on MSNBC. It began with Alex Wagner asking whether Iowa campaigns would cause trouble for whoever the nominee is when the general election rolls around.

Nearly out of the gate, this panel goes off the rails, thanks to SE Cupp. First Alex Wagner quotes this line from a December 27th New York Times anti-Ron Paul editorial:

Ron Paul long ago disqualified himself for the presidency by peddling claptrap proposals like abolishing the Federal Reserve, returning to the gold standard, cutting a third of the federal budget and all foreign aid and opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

To which SE Cupp chirps in with her opinion that "most of that is actually good stuff!"

It goes downhill from there, and fast, especially when Jimmy Williams states that he finds it fascinating when white people tell black people (or women) what to think. He is referring particularly to this Rick Santorum comment made yesterday:

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Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks was filling in for Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC yesterday, and had on Sam Seder and conservative blogger Matt Lewis about Netroots 2010, Right Online, and media bias.

Lewis actually started arguing that the reason liberals don't have a Breitbart is because we don't need one -- we have the whole liberal media. No, really, he said that.

LEWIS: You don't need Andrew Breitbart. You have the Washington Post and the New York Times and three tv networks. The conservatives had to invent Andrew Breitbart because of the liberal bias in the media for decades. It's only been since the advent of the blogosphere the conservatives hope to keep up.

You don't need him. You've got networks. The Washington Post and the New York Times don't run any -- whatever the liberals want them to run.
It's obvious.

It seems like only yesterday when the Times ran that investigative series exposing false intelligence and urging President Bush not to invade Iraq, doesn't it?