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Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 12:22 pm
"He has some bone to pick with PBO that he isn't brave enough to divulge." True, but it's not just him. Some on the Left (not that GG is o...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 11:25 am
GG can't help himself. He will do/say/write any lie to cast PBO in a negative light, even if he knows instinctively that it's BS. IMO, his...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 11:21 am
Greenwald doesn't care how much of a racist/bigot Paul is proven to be. He has an irrational hatred for POTUS. Wonder why?Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 9:20 am
Glenn Greenwald needs to get off the Ron Paul/Koch/Libertarian teet. Hasn't he read the Anonymous "Ron Paul Hearts Neo-Nazis at Home and Abr...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 8:10 am
Let's not forget Glenn's mindset in the aftermath of 9/11, the very attack that directly led to the AUMF: "This is not to say that I was no...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 7:41 am
As a queer myself, I can bitch about GG. This whiney emoprog needs to get over herself. 'She' sits down in her ivory tower in Brazil with he...Re: Morning Awful: Alabama’s War on Education
02/03/12 4:39 am
"Teaching is a calling, so you shouldn't be in it for the money" -- every time I hear this BS, I want to gag. Teaching is a profession, and ...Re: Morning Awful: Alabama’s War on Education
02/03/12 3:01 am
Every time I'm around my AL kin, I begin to clearly understand how people like this get elected. Shudder.Re: NPR’s This American Life in Alabama
01/31/12 12:48 pm
#1stAL on the forefront with our American Life...Re: Scary Stupid Headupassitis
01/31/12 8:18 am
Are you as weary as I am of the numbskulls who keep bleating out the same tired platitude: "The lesser of two evils is still evil?" Yeah we...
Category Archives: The Teabagger Fail
Morning Awful: Inherit the Slave Wind
About two dozen tea party activists showed up in Nashville recently to argue for a more “progressive” view of American history in the state’s public school textbooks: Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group’s lead spokesman during the news conference, … Continue reading
Wall Street is Technically a Street in America
So I guess we can’t call this a gaffe from Mitt Romney. Nor is it a laugh line, because it isn’t funny. Mitt Romney is American street the way Hot Topic is punk: through plasticity, monoculture, and artifice. Mitt Romney … Continue reading
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 Revolution Will Be Monetized
This segment from Rachel Maddow’s show last Friday examines the for-profit scheme of modern conservative politics, a trend I’ve zeroed in on several times here while studying tea parties: the swank for-profit “convention” in Nashville, the merch and donations ask … Continue reading
The Teabagger Fail
The Beltway has noticed a backlash against tea parties: These experts say independent voters who make up the swing bloc of the electorate typically pay less attention to politics than staunch Republican and Democratic voters. The contentious debate in Congress … Continue reading
They Are Not Listening
In case you haven’t heard, some tea party folks turned up at the president’s stop in Iowa today to complain about Joe Biden calling them “terrorists” in the debt ceiling crisis (which is what they were). The president tried to … Continue reading
Movement Failures and the Debt Ceiling Crisis
So far, Common Cause is the only liberal organization that has brought the power of civil disobedience to bear on the 112th Congress in this time of manufactured debt limit crisis. Eleven clergy were arrested in a demo under the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Tea Party Welchers
Tea Party Nation, the organization that held a “convention” with Sarah Palin in Nashville eighteen months ago, is rapidly dissolving into a hate group. They’re also a for-profit entity that doesn’t pay its bills. See, TPN was supposed to hold … 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
Morning Awful: Racism Comes Out of the Tea Party Closet
Remember “Lil Obama”? The elder white man who showed up at a 2008 Sarah Palin campaign rally with a stuffed monkey that had an Obama bumper-sticker for a crown? Remember Palin rallygoers speaking their crazy-minds about Obama’s religion and background? … Continue reading
Why Tea Will Fail
The framing is perfect, the acting is just right, the message is simple and fact-driven. I like it. Judging by Kathy Hochul’s victory in the NY-26 special election, this a winning issue that reignites the rational voter. I have argued … Continue reading
