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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: Republican Lies
Sargent Sabotage
Sargent thinks the GOP game plan (sabotage process, blame Obama, ????, POWER!) can still work: Republicans will argue that this shows that the public wants the GOP to stall the Dem agenda. But I think something else is going on: … Continue reading
Talking Point
Dozens of GOP congresscritters say “flawed health care bill:” See what I mean when I say the mash-up is the final act in the evolution of media?
Reconciling Reality
The history of reconciliation in graph form, via Rachel Maddow’s Twitter stream, ought to be used to challenge every Republican who yammers about “unprecedented” health care bills being “rammed down our throats.” Speaking of which: am I the only one … Continue reading
GOP Civil Rights Hall of Fame
Why are there no Republicans in the Civil Rights hall of fame? This is the same Texas Board of Education that erased liberals from the civics books. This is Orwell, folks: Day by day and almost minute by minute the … Continue reading
Another Joe Wilson Lie
Joe Wilson (real name Addison Graves Wilson) told a fib at his press conference last Thursday when he claimed to be an immigration attorney: According to the bio on Wilson’s website — or what’s left of the site, after it … Continue reading
Tea Party Story Changes
FreedomWorks has revised its estimates of the tea party crowd in Washington Saturday… downwards, to “between 600,000 and 800,000″ attendees. Matt Kibbe, president of the astroturfing agency known as FreedomWorks, told the assembled teabaggers that ABC News had reported crowd … Continue reading
Teabaggers Lie (UPDATE)
Matt Kibbe, president of the astroturfing agency known as FreedomWorks, told the teabaggers assembled in Washington that ABC News had reported crowd size as 1 million to 1.5 million people. Problem is, ABC never said that: At no time did … Continue reading
Joe Wilson Is A Disgrace (UPDATE)
Funny, I can’t recall a single Democrat heckling Bush even once during any of his joint session speeches. Well, there was that one time Cindy Sheehan got arrested for wearing the wrong t-shirt, but I still can’t recall any heckling … Continue reading
Health Care Reform Will Eat Your Grandma
Having succeeded in putting off legislation until after the August recess, Republicans and Blue Dogs are using the delay to launch a tidal wave of bullshit to kill the bill: If this line of attack sounds familiar, that’s because you’ve … Continue reading
Vote Suppression in Alabama (UPDATE)
It was my fond hope to never again mention the existence of Dale Jackson, the Rush Limbaugh of Huntsville. But he did something yesterday that deserves mention: WVNN’s morning show host, Dale Jackson, posted a fake news release from “Marion … Continue reading
Making Their Own Realities
Wingnut conservatism is an unquestioning ideology — really, it’s more of a theology. Whenever reality collides with that theology, the practitioners will first attempt to change the subject and then try turning the accusation on the accusers. Because it’s never, … Continue reading
