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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: The Teabagger Fail
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
Nuttier Than a Pecan Pistachio Peanut Butter Sandwich
The tea party is revolting — but when are they not? HuffPo does actually pay some writers, including Jon Ward — who reports there will be no Tax Day Tea Parties this year. Oh, and the budget deal we’re all … Continue reading
Tea Party Thermidor? Try Thermite
You’ll never guess who said this: “People should understand we do things in baby steps…We have to remind people that while we just had a historic election, the reality is, we’re woefully short of 60 votes in the Senate.” That’s … Continue reading
Further Adventures Of The Teabag Terror
When David Gregory called tea parties “the most animating force right now in the Republican Party,” he accidentally hit on exactly the right word. Like a political Frankenstein, K-Street astroturfers borrowed an obscure Ron Paulite meme and pumped it full … Continue reading
A Tea Party Is Not A Protest
At WaPo, Amy Gardner gets the tea party exactly wrong in one word: Two years ago, (Gena) Bell was a floral arranger in Cincinnati with plenty of time on her hands (she used to trim five Christmas trees in her … Continue reading
Tea Party Express To Defeat
Start with the fact that Mike Castle was the first Republican to discover the tea party was not his friend when a woman stood up in his town hall meeting to wave her birth certificate and demand the president’s, to … Continue reading
Pass The Popcorn
In April of 2009, FOX News and the Republican Party both fed the flames of a new political movement. At the time, I warned: Like a mad scientist’s creation run amok, the beast that Dick Armey and his corporate sponsors … Continue reading
Glenn Beck Has A (White) Dream
What was that thing I said the other day about measuring the size of a crowd? Because we can argue all day about an estimate, but one thing you never want to do is measure a crowd before it’s arrived … Continue reading
Olbermann “Interviews” Sharron Angle
Genius. The difference between this and what Breitbart does is that Olbermann’s not pretending this interview is real.
Sam Stein Succumbing To Beltway Syndrome?
Huffington Post’s Sam Stein is one of my favorite writers. An otherwise excellent article about Nevada’s tea party-republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle is spoiled by the first sentence: “The Tea Party movement is better-known for its alignment with libertarian, anti-Washington … Continue reading
