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Mitt Romney – Intransigent, Lying, Dope
In even semi-respectable media circles, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is being castigated for his speech yesterday in Des Moines, Iowa which Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine labeled “Romney’s Budget Fairy Tale”. He further went on to describe it as “an amalgamation of free-floating conservative rage and anxiety, completely untethered to any facts”. The
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Featured Trope
New GOP Strategy: Term Limits
You may have missed this one in the run-up to the holidays last year, in the midst of some of the most desperate right wing rhetoric excreting from the mouths of prominent Republicans regarding Health Care Reform. In a classic example of “They went thattaway”, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), joined in hypocrisy by Dr. Death
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Briefs
Donald Trump Surprises… Nobody
In today’s penultimate moment of Duh!, Donald Trump announced he wasn’t going to run for President, and no such announcement would be worthy of The Donald without a little self-promotion: This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the
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Can you say “Unindicted Co-Conspirator”?
The not-too-surprising revelations contained within the Senate Ethics Committee’s report regarding the attempted payout of hush money by former Sen. John Ensign, and the attendant cover-up of the same, are being discussed across the broad spectrum of media today. Central to the discussion is just what role Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) played in the “negotiations”.
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Spotlight on Gedde
Gedde resides in the greater Seattle metropolitan area, the bastion of progressivism in the otherwise largely conservative state of Washington. Like many transplants to the area, he arrived on the waves of irrational exhuberance in the mid-1990s. A “Reagan” Replublican in his youth (mostly due to ignorance and selfish-interest in Military pay raises), he’s spent
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News
Pelosi Hasn’t Failed Before, She Won’t On Health Care, Say House Dems
HuffingtonPost: A trio of House Democrats expressed confidence on Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will summon the 217 votes needed to get health care legislation through her chamber. Share on Facebook
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On one of the Sunday conservative trope-fests known as the Sunday morning news talk shows, “This Week with Christiane Amanpour”, Economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman made some rather pointed comments regarding Newt Gingrich, the field of 2012 GOP presidential candidates, and supporters of GOP ideology. I think it easy for progressives and rational people with
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Metastatic Narcissism and Modern Conservatism
Cancer begins with a single error in replication. One of the smallest parts of our collective self divides, normally just another link in the long chain of events that has resulted in everything that we are to this moment. Only this link functions outside the well established rules governing the chain for which it was
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[originally published 2010/08/07] It’s summertime. A time of ice cream, Baseball, running through sprinklers on the front lawn, and gathering the family together and embarking on a brief journey that entertains the kids, provides a break from the pressures of work and responsibility for the parents, and forms lasting memories for the entire family. Yes,
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I am Joe’s rhetoric. I am a complex system of intertwined communication techniques, intelligently designed with a singular goal: to serve only Joe. I am the mechanism through which Joe is able to manipulate his environment to meet his needs. You see, Joe is a selfish being, and he toils with single-minded purpose to feed
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The Fantasy that is Texas Secession
I think it is finally time to inject a small dose of reality into this fantasy that is Texas secession. Of course, it is unlikely to foment much serious debate from those whom indulge in this particular self-delusion, but that’s never stopped me before. On second thought, there will no doubt be serious debate, but it won’t necessarily be reasonable or rational.
Share on FacebookPelosi Hasn’t Failed Before, She Won’t On Health Care, Say House Dems
HuffingtonPost: A trio of House Democrats expressed confidence on Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will summon the 217 votes needed to get health care legislation through her chamber. Share on Facebook
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The Combover: All you need to reject Mitch Daniels in 2012 It’s real. It’s immediately apparent, and it’s awful. I’m not simply mounting a puerile attack on the unfortunate appearance of a political candidate. Although, I’m sorely tempted; if you look at the photo on the right (or left in the summary), that’s not a Yarmulke. It’s been suggested that the evolution of any given combover
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Sarah Palin – Craven Opportunist and Recent History Dope I suppose it should come as no surprise that Sarah Palin would attempt to use the present unrest in Libya to bolster [the appearance of] her foreign policy cred in advance of, well, your guess is as good as mine. She’s skipping the upcoming “candidate” debate in California, I presume because she’d actually have to
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Donald Trump Surprises… Nobody In today’s penultimate moment of Duh!, Donald Trump announced he wasn’t going to run for President, and no such announcement would be worthy of The Donald without a little self-promotion: This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the
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Can you say “Unindicted Co-Conspirator”? The not-too-surprising revelations contained within the Senate Ethics Committee’s report regarding the attempted payout of hush money by former Sen. John Ensign, and the attendant cover-up of the same, are being discussed across the broad spectrum of media today. Central to the discussion is just what role Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) played in the “negotiations”.
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