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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: 2012 GOP nomination
Morning Awful: Santorum Craves Apocalypse
Rick Santorum would like everyone to stop apologizing for accidental Qur’an burnings. Who cares how many Americans get killed over it? Not Rick, who has never been a friend to the American soldier — or the separation of church and … Continue reading
Politics and Religion Are Not Supposed to Mix
Let me repeat that title: Politics and religion are not supposed to mix. That’s the basis on which our country was founded. Quite simply, that’s what separation of Church and State is all about. In the UK, where I live, … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Honest Romney
Mitt Romney is flaming out. Not only is he burning money at a furious pace, he’s also losing to Rick Santorum nationally and in key states. Maybe the stress has gotten to him, because yesterday he accidentally said the unthinkable … Continue reading
When Does the GOP Debate Boxset Come Out?
And bring back Arrested Development too. (I have never seen Arrested Development. I was paid to type that by the entire Internet.)
Morning Awful: Santorum INGSOC Slogans
Presidential contestant Rick Santorum yesterday at a rally in Ohio: “Freedom isn’t to do whatever you want to do, it’s to do what you ought to do.” Get that? Most of us think of freedom as something that gives us … Continue reading
Santorum Hates All the Troops, Not Just the Female Ones
Just as a reminder, Rick Santorum voted against giving American service members state-of-the-art body armor. So it isn’t just the female troops that set him on edge, but any soldier, airman, or Marine that doesn’t want to die in the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Santorum’s Intelligent Design
Presidential contestant Rick Santorum took the Republican nominating reality show to new depths over the weekend. Among the lowlights was this clueless attack on public education: (Santorum) said he wants to get the federal and state governments out of public … Continue reading
Rick Santorum is More Christian than You
Mitt Romney wants to undo Frank-Dodd, passed in 2010. Newt Gingrich wants to undo the child labor laws of the early 20th Century. Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve-bashing repeats the 18th Century Hamiltonian debate over central banking. But Rick Santorum, who … Continue reading
Cults, Consciousness, and Culture War Conservatism
Paul Krugman describes the basic problem of modern conservatism, which cannot answer any challenge of the 21st Century because it is living in an imaginary previous one: (T)he long-running con game of economic conservatives and the wealthy supporters they serve … Continue reading
Santorum Courts the New Conservatism
Readers may recall how former KKK Grand Dragon David Duke aimed to change the image of racist right-wing politics by giving it a mainstream look and appeal, even running for office in Louisiana. “White nationalism,” the new term of choice, … Continue reading
Newt Gingrich Rageface
The photo on the left is from Charles Ommanney of Newsweek. It makes Newt look like a ragecomic, the memetastic drawings that populate websites like Reddit and 4Chan. Users make ragecomics with a set of template characters, of which Mega … Continue reading
