Bill Maher skewers Republican nail-biters

PASADENA, U.S.A.--Political pundit and provocateur Bill Maher offers a cogent, if snarky, analysis of why Republicans are acting so peculiar with regard to President Obama--they are out of touch with reality.

The conservative base is absolutely apoplectic because, because ... well, nobody knows. They're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Even though they're not quite sure what "it" is. But they know they're fed up with "it," and that "it" has got to stop.

The truth is that the right flank of social issue Republicans are not so much concerned with what Obama HAS done, they are apoplectic about what he MIGHT do. They worry about tax increases when he just lowered the taxes for at least 95 percent of them. They worry that he will take away their guns when he has repeatedly declined to re-up the Assault Gun ban.

The GOP base is convinced that Obama is going to raise their taxes, which he just lowered. But, you say, "Bill, that's just the fringe of the Republican Party." No, it's not. The governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is not afraid to say publicly that thinking out loud about Texas seceding from the Union is appropriate considering that ... Obama wants to raise taxes 3% on 5% of the people? I'm not sure exactly what Perry's independent nation would look like, but I'm pretty sure it would be free of taxes and Planned Parenthood. And I would have to totally rethink my position on a border fence.

I might have to agree with Mr. Maher's ambivalence about the fence.