Larry Pittman is the Small Mind of the Day

Representative Larry Pittman (Republican, North Carolina) was on the topic of whether Barack Obama is a “traitor” to his country. And then he made a funny!

"Someone had posted something with a picture of Barack Obama and across it said 'traitor.' And, you know, I don't always agree with the guy, I certainly didn't vote for him but I gotta defend him on this one. I just don't think it's right at all to call Barack Obama a traitor. There's a lot of things he's done wrong but he is not a traitor. Not as far as I can tell. I haven't come across any evidence yet that he has done one thing to harm Kenya."

So he's a racist, Birther nitwit. What is it with North Carolina these days?

Welcome to the face of the Republican party

Don Yelton, a Republican Party official in North Carolina, thought it’d be a good idea to appear on “The Daily Show” and defend his party’s new voter-suppression law. It didn’t turn out well for him or the state GOP.

Yelton, who’s practically a caricature of himself, told Aasif Mandvi the new state voting law is intended to tilt elections in Republicans’ favor, used the “n” word, referenced “lazy black people that wants the government to give them everything,” and said, in all seriousness, that one of his “best friends is black.”

Though Yelton resigned from his post, he told a local television station that he stands by his comments. “This is being picked up in Raleigh, across the state,” he told WLOS in Asheville. “They’re trying to say, ‘Look at this guy. He’s racist.’ The whole question isn’t about racism.”

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Phil Berger is the Small Mind of the Day

"The gallery is to remain silent. The senators on the floor are the only voices that matter."  

That's North Carolina Senate Pro Tempore Phil Berger (Republican). See, in a variety of Republican-controlled state legislatures are trying to ram through abortion restrictions. In North Carolina's case, they did so in a rather sneaky way (surprise!).

As critics filled the gallery, Phil Berger tried to silence them with a statement that—well, it sort of reeks, doesn't it?