Category Archives: Alabama Republicans

Bigotry And Lies In Alabama

Alabama Senator Scott Beason at Saturday’s Cullman County Republican Party breakfast: “Democrats do not want to solve the illegal immigration problem because they know, this is a fact, that when more illegal immigrants move into an area, when their children … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: Alabama Crimson Tea Tide

Alabama is officially a red state at last. Republicans own the state house for the first time in 136 years: Stewart attributed the Republicans’ taking of the Legislature for the first time in 136 years, as well as every state … Continue reading

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Alabama Advertiser

Alabama is garnering the wrong kind of attention this spring with political ads that just beg for parody. Here’s the latest:

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Richard Shelby

I’ll give Jeff Sessions credit: he at least wrote back to me about his gang-rape vote. Richard Shelby, on the other hand, has yet to acknowledge the complaint. Now Shelby’s put an unprecedented “blanket hold” on 70 Obama nominees, and … Continue reading

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Parker Griffith: Good Riddance!

So my representative in Washington is switching from the Democratic Party to the Republicans? Shock! I am SHOCKED, I say, that a man who pandered to teabaggers at health care town halls with Soylent Green death panels and immigration hysteria, … Continue reading

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209 Pages

Remember all those Republicans and Blue Dogs hefting health care legislation in the air to emphasize its weight? Once you stop enlarging the print and double-spacing it, the Senate health care reform bill comes in at just 209 pages. Both … Continue reading

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The Strange Story of Guy Hunt

Former Alabama governor Guy Hunt died yesterday. He was 75. In an odd convergence of history, his passing comes less than a day after Rod Blagojevich was impeached 59-0 by the Illinois Senate. For while countless press reports have mentioned … Continue reading

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