Birther diehard Orly Taitz, perhaps taking a page from the Sarah Palin internet memo handbook, had this to say in the aftermath of last week’s averted terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253, which may or may not qualify as sedition.

On her show last night, Rachel Maddow reported on the too-weird-to-be-made-up link between Hooters, the Chamber of Commerce, and the health care debate. Maddow picked up on TPM’s reporting on both the controversy and the counterclaim of a Chamber of Commerce PR firm, which said that the campaign was actually orchestrated by someone else to make the Chamber look bad. But she also had a lot of fun making Hooters jokes:

The Tea Party movement is often seen by outsiders as one big monolithic force, especially by its detractors (who occasionally use nastier words than “monolithic” to describe it). But lately, there has been a mounting civil war between two rival factions of Tea Partiers.

One big bone of contention? The GOP‘s growing involvement with the movement.