Planet Wingnut News for Wednesday

Pat Buchanan's Torture American Style: Withhold meds from would-be Flight 253 bomber
Pat Buchanan couldn't miss out on a chance to join in the chorus of psychopathic right-wingers who have been responding with their usual grotesque visions of xenophobic hatred after the Christmas Day failed attack on Flight 253.

Buchanan: ...frankly if that means you have to deny him pain medication because he's badly burned, I think you go ahead and do that. I'm not arguing for torture, but I am...

Spencer: You just did.

Buchanan: Nobody is, but I am arguing for hostile interrogations of this fellow, because our job is to protect American lives.It's not to make sure his Miranda rights haven't been violated.

Spencer: So you're arguing for torture but with a different euphemism for it?

Buchanan: I'm arguing for the fact that this is an enemy soldier who tried to commit a mass atrocity and the idea that you're treating him like some guy who held up a 7-11, it seems to me preposterous.

Spencer: Except for all of the hundreds of terrorists that we've convicted in federal courts over the years that were able to hold that were able to incarcerate successfully and that were able to get information out of. I mean, the fact is, al-Qaeda is a dangerous and really important threat, but they are also not a super army of supermen that have Muslim heat vision, and it's ludicrous to think that we should inflate how dangerous they are because that's exactly what they want.

Rep. Steve King Thinks Palin Has A Shot At 2012 Iowa Caucuses
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is predicting that Sarah Palin will run for president in 2012. And he thinks she can win the Iowa Republican caucuses.

"I think we'll see her in Iowa," said King, in an appearance on Iowa Public Television. "There are a good number of people who could win the Iowa caucuses and I would put her in the top five or so who would be in a good position to do so."