Why No Nation Can Endure Half Fox News and Half Free: House GOP Believes Pell...
A vote to resolve the debt ceiling political crisis failed last night because House Republicans–who hold a majority in the House of Representatives–opposed the bill. Here’s a major reason why–Pell...
View ArticleHow the Tea Party Monster Was Created
One of the things to remember about the Tea Party Uruk-hai who run the Republican Party make up the shock troops of the GOP is that they were manufactured–just like the orcs in the Lord of the Rings....
View ArticleAnd Romney Just Scared Liberals Into Supporting Obama
Guess who Mitt Romney picked as co-chair of his “Justice Advisory Committee”? Robert Bork. Yes, this Robert Bork: Banning Porn, Art and Science : Bork also called for shrinking the size of the First...
View Article“They Thought They Could Control” the Monster
Recently, I described how the out of control Tea Party Fort Sumter conservatives were created and encouraged. Athenae dispatches conservatives like David Frum who are SHOCKED that this could possibly...
View ArticlePlacing (Tea) Party Over Country
So the Tea Party Fort Sumter conservatives have sunk to new lows–they’re celebrating the downgrade of U.S. debt (italics mine; video at the link): Is the tea party happy that Standard and Poor’s, the...
View ArticleWhy Half of Americans Pay No Income Tax: It’s the Subsistence, Stupid
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, in an attempt to win the craziness sweepstakes, has been proclaiming hither and yon that half of all Americans pay no income tax. Call me confused, but I...
View ArticleConservatives: Still Disappearing African-Americans From the South
In this case, South Carolina. From Steve M.: I was reminded of this when I glanced at Jacob Weisberg’s Jon Huntsman profile in Vogue and my eye fell on this this har-har-har good-ol’-boy anecdote about...
View ArticleThe Left Does “Give a Fig About Science”–For Its Own Sake
By way of Matthew Yglesias, we read that,over at National Review Online, Kevin Williamson claims progressives only care about science as a way to wage culture war (yes, coming from movement...
View ArticleGetting Fired For Doing Your Job Well: The Everglades Restoration Edition
Sheril has the details: That’s what Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Republican-controlled Legislature just did. Embarrassing for Florida and a travesty for the Everglades. They’ve dismantled the...
View ArticleGOP Response to Hurricane Irene: Take More Hostages
They’re getting pretty good at hostage taking, and it worked before. Alex Seitz-Wald reports: Despite the devastation caused by Hurricane Irene this weekend, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA)...
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