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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: Republican Party
Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
Republicans are doing a great job marginalizing themselves by sticking up for employers’ “rights” to deny their employees birth control. More importantly, a stand against birth control access nullifies their advantage on one of America’s most divisive issues: abortion. Ezra … Continue reading
Republicans Double-Down, Democrats Disperse
House Speaker John Boehner really isn’t very good at his job. In case you haven’t heard, Mr. Tropic Thunder called President Obama “almost un-American” during a press conference Tuesday. (“Almost,” because you don’t nevah go full un-American. Especially when you … Continue reading
“Self-Deportation” is Code for “Ethnic Cleansing, Phase 1″
They didn’t have papers either: “(This bill)…attacks every aspect of an illegal alien’s life…is designed to make it difficult for them to live here so they will deport themselves.” Mitt Romney last night? Nope, that’s Alabama House Majority Leader Mickey … Continue reading
The Center Cannot Hold
I could not bear to watch the final Republican debate. One of my Twitter correspondents — a sweet-tempered Alabamian named Jill who identifies with neither party, and so considers herself part of the middle — asked me why not. I … Continue reading
All You Need To Know About Obama, Republicans, And Jobs In Two Charts
Empirical evidence that federal jobs spending works, which is why Republicans oppose it so fervently. The first is via PoliticusUSA, the second via Jed Lewison at DKos.
The House GOP Has a Plan
Booman got it exactly right last week: It is within the Republicans power to obstruct and, by doing so, make the president look weak and ineffectual. That’s the path they’ve chosen. However, the collateral damage has been enormous and the … Continue reading
The Party is Only Interested in Power
Why would Republicans cut spending in a down economy? I am not convinced they don’t understand the consequences of their actions. I think they understand perfectly well that they are making America’s debt more expensive and starting a double-dip recession; … Continue reading
Double-Down on the Crazy
What to do when half the independents in your “movement” have figured out the scam? Utah’s independent voters are cooling to the state’s tea party movement, with support dropping by more than half over the last several months, according to … Continue reading
There’s No Republic in the Republican Party Anymore
Over the years, I have heard or seen countless statements from conservatives, Republicans, etc. about the United States as a “republic, not a democracy.” This theory holds that republics are not supposed to be democratic, which is erroneous, and that … Continue reading
Trick Or Treat
In reverse chronological order: attendance for Colbert and Stewart was 215-250,000. One Nation was easily 100k. Appalachia Rising, which came out of nowhere to grab the world’s attention, was between one and two thousand. Trick or treat! The October Surprise … Continue reading
How To Spot A Republican
From Captain Coolaid. A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend … Continue reading
