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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: Republicans Meet The Teabag Terror
The Obama You Voted For
On the left, response to the president’s pantsing of House Republicans has been universal relief. Finally, more than one commenter has declared, this is the Obama I voted for. We’ve all been frustrated by the wishy-washy wishfulness of bipartisanship, haven’t … Continue reading
Circular Firing Squad
Amid all the hoopla about killing the bill, it’s refreshing to see the GOP is worse-off. Over at HuffPo, Dawn Teo reports on the simmering rivalry John McCain has going with a talk radio host. McCain’s former chief of staff … Continue reading
John McCain Meets the Teabag Terror
HuffPo’s Dawn Teo reports that John McCain’s 2010 reelection bid may face a serious challenge from the right: PHOENIX, AZ — Rasmussen announced a new poll on Friday showing Senator John McCain may be in trouble at home where a … Continue reading
Frank Rich Uses the C-Word
Cult. The meme is breaking through. You heard it here at the Ink first; it was popularized at Huffington Post; then yesterday, Frank Rich used the C-word — and hopefully started a trend toward calling movement conservatism by its proper … Continue reading
Best Tweeter
@OTOOLEFAN cracks wise in the holiday spirit: Orly Taitz went all out on her Halloween costume this year. She’s going as an Earthling. Original here. In case you haven’t heard, Taitz is organizing a protest of Bill O’Reilly.
Poor Newt Gingrich
Newt had made moves to appeal to movement conservatives: converting to Catholicism, amping up the Wacky, and sending out fundraising letters. But his endorsement of a Republican against a conservative independent candidate in an obscure New York special election isn’t … Continue reading
The Conservative Movement is a Cult
Democracy Corps did a series of focus-groups with Republicans in Georgia and found them living in their own special reality (PDF). Having survived a life surrounded by such people, I might have saved Carville and his friends a lot of … Continue reading
Republicans Face the Teabag Terror (UPDATE)
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about the birthers today and got it exactly right: As the August congressional break approaches, Republican lawmakers face the prospect of meeting The Teabag Terror at their town halls and meetings: what … Continue reading
