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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: Teabaggers
It’s Not About Race Except When It Is
A poll from Washington State (.PDF) finds that 74% of tea party protesters agree with the following statement: While equal opportunity for blacks and minorities to succeed is important, it’s not really the government’s job to guarantee it. But it’s … Continue reading
Astroturfing
Guess who invented the tea party astroturf formula? Karoli quote: Abramoff and Scanlon created a turnkey PR grassroots/grasstops formula they could apply to any situation where they sought to influence the outcome. It could be an election such as the … Continue reading
What’s Wrong With Wingnuts, In A Nutshell
They double down on the absolutism and purge their party in the process. Demanding purity, they lobby for a retrograde agenda. Weigel points to three planks in Maine’s new GOP platform: – Return to the principles of Austrian Economics, and … Continue reading
Tyranny Of The Imagination
According to Malcolm Wiley of the Secret Service, this is NOT (repeat NOT) a Secret Service agent directing a riot squad in Quincy, IL yesterday: Wiley explained that the Secret Service routinely marks a perimeter around venues like the Oakley … Continue reading
More Teabaggers Failing
Remember that prediction I made that this year would see the tea party wear out its welcome with America? Capping a week of MSM rethinking on tea party coverage, Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic asks whether conservatives have gone mad: … Continue reading
Doof Quote of the Day
If this guy served a day in the actual military I’ll be surprised. If he ever rose above the rank of sergeant, I’ll be shocked speechless: Worried about liberal infiltrators, Kevin Terrell, a self-described colonel in the Ohio Valley Freedom … Continue reading
Trumka Tags Teabaggery
Trumka takes on the whitewashing of tea party activism in the last year:
Tax Day Blog
I’ll be covering an event within walking distance of my house today, carrying a US Army flag and recording the events for posterity. For me, tax day is a great day to be an American, and more so this year … Continue reading
Teabaggers Failing
The wingnutosphere is restless; right-wing netizens seem to be in a mood for choking games with Michael Steele’s cash flow: Earlier today, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin published one of what has become a series of posts about previous donors to … Continue reading
Cognitive Dissonance In Action
Apologies for the smudged lens; it was impossible to tell on an LCD screen in afternoon sunlight.
Yes To Puppets
I’m with Digby in her analysis of right-wing dominance in the health care debate: This is, btw, why people make those stupid puppets for the big marches. If you aren’t willing to bring on the Nazi imagery, it’s the only … Continue reading
