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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...
Category Archives: town halls
Main Street Uprising
Remember a few months ago when I said that Libya was a smoldering powder-keg? There are reports trickling in of confrontation and resistance by ordinary Americans at town halls. Republican representatives are taking the Ghadafi route by using oppressive tactics. … Continue reading
Main Street Movement
I want more of this. We’ve seen the Wall Street movement, now Main Street needs a movement.
The Teabag Terror Attacks!
As I’ve been saying for months, the GOP has no idea what a monster it has created. From the Miami Herald: A 65-year-old man rallying in favor of healthcare reform was knocked to the ground by a man who disagreed … Continue reading
Lynn Jenkins Makes an Even Bigger Ass of Herself
Lynn Jenkins, R-Heartless, was already in trouble for her racist comment that the GOP needs a “great white hope.” Now she’s managed to laugh at a woman for wondering how she can get health insurance for her young son without … Continue reading
What’s Gov Got To Do With It?
Via Thump and Whip, Representative Olson (R-TX) tells a tearjerker of a story about the evils of socialized medicine. Except the government has nothing to do with the story. My favorite part? When one voice points out the contradiction, a … Continue reading
On Huffington Post
Monday night’s piece on Parker Griffith’s town hall is my first article at Huffington Post!
In the Market for a Health Care Yugo
I’m in the market for a Yugo. At the town hall I covered last night, Dr. Tom Ott stood at the microphone to make this remark: (He) spoke of his wife, Margaret, who died in the 1980s of breast cancer … Continue reading
Dear David Hedrick
Sir, I, too, am a disabled veteran of the armed forces, though I see no need to make ostentatious mention of that in public. For it has been my observation that when a man prefaces his remarks this way, bullshit … Continue reading
Red Meat At Town Hall
Give Parker Griffith (D-AL) his props. He knew exactly what kind of a crowd to expect, and he had a strategy to win them over early: throw red meat. Before a packed Norton Auditorium on the campus of the University … Continue reading
What Dingell Should Have Done
What Senator Dingell should have done: 1) Say: “you don’t have to shout.” Then hand him the microphone. 2) Ignore him. 3) Approach the young man in the wheelchair. Smile and shake hands with him. 4) Continue ignoring the loudmouth. … Continue reading
Peggy Noonan Fail
Peggy Noonan is one of the most vapid conservative writers, which is saying a lot. Her op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal is classic Noonsense: (Democrats) must know at this point they should not have pushed a national health-care … Continue reading
