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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...
Tag Archives: politics
Undertow
Hedging bets, Nate Silver notes five ways the Republicans could do worse than expected. Making an excellent allusion to the 1998 midterm elections, he adds: The case that Democrats could do better than expected — not well, by any means, … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Rand Paul Stomp
A new ad from Kentucky Democrats:
Morning Awful: Manchin Gun
Quick, someone tell this faux-Democrat that every single candidate I’ve ever seen handling a weapon in an ad has lost: Pamela Gorman, Bradley Byrne, Dale Peterson, and of course Mike Dukakis. Wait…I’ve changed my mind. Instead of telling Manchin anything, … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Witch O’Donnell
Great big hair and ruby lips ♫♪ Funds fly from her campaign tips ♫♪ Echoes voices in the right ♫♪ She’s a restless spirit on an endless flight ♫♪ Wooo hooo which O’Donnell, we’ll see how ♫♪ High she flies … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: October Surprises
A great interview with journalist Harvey Wasserman on the subject of October Surprises.
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
Morning Awful: Tea Party Floats
This is so utterly tasteless I hesitate to describe it. All those denials that tea party activism is racist? Flushed now down the craphole of reality:
Morning Awful: Nothing New, Newt?
This weekend saw Newt go full metal birther: What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asked. “That is the most accurate, predictive … Continue reading
Polling In The Age Of Teabaggery
See those lines going up and down like a seismograph? It doesn’t help to pay too much attention to any particular swing. Polls are necessarily lagging indicators in the best of times, and the whole point of a well-financed, organized … Continue reading
Media Drops Finance Reform Bombshell
The president managed to get a consumer reform bill out of Congress, and the details look good. As HuffPo tells it: The era of the $35 cup of coffee has come to an end, for most. Whhhhhaaaaah? I thought the … Continue reading
