Bill Maher recently said that during the past 30 years, “Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital.” Amen, brother. If we needed any more evidence that the far right in America has lost its collective mind, word has gotten out about a public meeting held June 30 as part of a healthcare “listening tour” by Rep. Mike Castle, a moderate Republican from Delaware. Rightwing crazies from that state turned out in force, and shouted about a laundry list of current ultra-conservative gripes and conspiracy theories. The atmosphere was like that of a lynch mob, at which the mobbers attacked Rep. Castle on the following “issues”:

“Socialized medicine” will bring down healthcare faster than the Twin Towers came down.

The cap-and-trade “tax” will destroy the American economy.

Greenhouse gas has nothing to do with global warming.

Global warming is just a “theory, like evolution.”

The swine flu virus was created at Fort Dix in order to force Americans to be infected with AIDS-infected vaccines made from “baby juice.”

And, finally, the right’s current weird obsession, President Obama is not a citizen of the United States.

This last issue practically turned the meeting into a riot, even though Obama has presented a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate that includes a raised seal and the signature stamp of Hawaii’s state registrar.

Enjoy the video below of the birth certificate issue being brought to Castle’s attention, and remember that we have goofballs like FoxNews’ Glenn Beck and radio blowhard Rush “Mr. Republican Party” Limbaugh to thank for the current madness.

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In case you haven’t heard the latest craze among right-wing talkers, it’s about Al Carlin, an Environmental Protection Agency analyst who stated his skepticism about global warming. Conservatives are saying that Carlin’s views on climate change were suppressed by EPA honchos because they didn’t agree with Obama administration opinions.

Now, it’s true that conservatives are well-versed in the issue of presidents stifling scientists who oppose their views — Bush did it for a solid eight years, after all. But here’s the big difference: Carlin is not a climate scientist — he’s an economist who wrote some reports on his own, without prompting by the EPA, after taking on the issue of global warming as a “hobby” on his own time. Nothing was “suppressed,” since Carlin’s reports weren’t EPA reports at all. Meanwhile, of course, Sen. James “The global warming debate is predicated on fear, rather than science” Inhofe of Oklahoma is calling for a criminal investigation into the Carlin matter – in order, we imagine, to scare the daylights out of the scientists at the EPA.

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