Category Archives: Lost Cause mythology

Morning Awful: Grandiose Old Patriarchy

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Grandiose Old Patriarchy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The Republican Party has decided to double-down on its burgeoning war with women. Darrell Issa (R-Crazyland) held a hearing on “President Obama’s” contraception mandate (it was theirs before it was his) yesterday, … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: There is Always Money for the Lost Cause

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: There is Always Money for the Lost Cause”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailHelen Keller is on Alabama’s quarter, but preserving her documents is less important than the “heritage-not-hate” of flapping Confederate flags. (As I keep saying, Southern apologetics is about … Continue reading →

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On Last Stands and Lost Causes

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “On Last Stands and Lost Causes”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSlowly but surely, the urgency of the moment is becoming clear. The “new” Republican Party is prepared to sink to any low necessary to enact as much of its agenda as possible. … Continue reading →

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Culture of War

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Culture of War”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailA new CNN poll finds that half the tea party and Republicans think slavery was not the main cause of the Civil War. That is revisionist fringe history. There isn’t a particle of truth to … Continue reading →

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Kulturkampf And Rand Paul

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Kulturkampf And Rand Paul”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Kudos to Rachel Maddow for recognizing that tea party extremism is essentially leftover reaction to the Sixties. The word she’s looking for — the noun that describes this kind of regressive politics in … Continue reading →

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Lost Cause Mythology

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Lost Cause Mythology”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailJohn Meacham offers a very perceptive take on the confederate history flap in Virginia as the latest episode in conservative “Lost Cause” mythology: They would like what Lincoln called our “fiery trial” to be seen … Continue reading →

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Defeat Strategy

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Defeat Strategy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSenate Republicans are turning their desperate ire on the Senate Parliamentarian, a man seldom seen and rarely even photographed. Politico’s Manu Raju writes: “I think most people don’t trust him,” said a senior GOP official who … Continue reading →

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Lost Cause and Betrayal Mythology

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Lost Cause and Betrayal Mythology”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailTaking a page from southern apologists for slavery and Jim Crow, the conservative movement has succeeded in creating a “lost cause” and betrayal narrative for its electoral losses in 2008. Public Policy Polling … Continue reading →

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Sarah Palin’s Lost Cause

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Sarah Palin’s Lost Cause”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSarah Palin was all over the cable news channels today inaugurating a new Lost Cause mythology to explain November’s electoral defeat: What do I mean by “Lost Cause?” Well, in America the best example … Continue reading →

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Last Stand of the Culture Warriors

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Last Stand of the Culture Warriors”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailPolitico.com covered House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) giving a speech about bipartisanship at a Georgetown University forum today. Hoyer said that if Republicans could write half of every bill that would … Continue reading →