One of the more telling moments from last night’s Republican presidential debate was when the audience at the Reagan Library broke out in wild applause at the mention of 234 death row inmates executed in Texas on Gov. Rick Perry’s watch… no doubt some of whom were innocent. I can understand why some people might […]
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Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn*
As Texas is beset by droughts and wildfires, Salon notes that Rick Perry has been begging for federal funds. Of course Rick Perry doesn’t want to see Texas burn, so it is rational of him to ignore his rhetorical distaste for the federal government and demand that it help. And Texas could use the help, […]
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Ron Paul Attacks Rick Perry
This is a smart ad from the Ron Paul people: It ties Ron Paul squarely to Ronald Reagan and it hits Rick Perry where it hurts most in a Republican primary: It trumpets the fact that he backed Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 1988. One weird misstep: Note the punching of the words “the one” […]
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Congressman Joe Walsh Not Doing His Job
Racist bag of shit Teabagger Congressman Joe Walsh can’t be bothered to do his job. He’s refusing to listen to President Obama’s jobs speech and is hosting his own jobs summit on the same night: “I don’t see the point of being a prop for another of the president’s speeches asking for more failed stimulus […]
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This Is a Metaphor for Something: Christine O’Donnell Book Reading Draws Five People
News-Press.com, via Wonkette. Not even tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell could draw a large crowd for her book signing Wednesday in staunchly Republican Naples, Florida during August, a month when there are few tourists and many locals are on vacation. Still, O’Donnell took the turnout of five people — members of the media outnumbered customers […]
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With Jesus’s Help, Michele Bachmann Will Go All the Way to the Wet House
Though it sounds like Michele Bachmann begins this video by saying “who likes white people?” she’s really saying “who likes wet people?” That was never the most shocking part of this video, though. I think the most shocking part of this video comes after the wet-people greeting, when she sets aside politics and testifies for […]
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Michele Bachmann: Performance Artist?
Over the weekend, Michele Bachmann said this: “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people, because the American people are roaring right now. […]
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Mitt Romney Gets Angry Over Social Security
During the 2008 campaign, everyone made fun of Mitt Romney’s hair for being too perfect. So this time around, Romney has no doubt paid for a very expensive hair adviser to make sure that his hair is always perfectly mussed. He’s probably market-tested the angle of that cowlick on his front-left temple. The problem with […]
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Mitt Romney Looks Out for His Favorite People
Romney continues to boldly look backward, according to ThinkProgress: With the constant stream of Wall Street donations flowing into his campaign coffers, it was only a matter of time before GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney called to repeal Wall Street’s number one enemy — the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Though Congress enacted the law […]
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Rick Santorum: Font Thief?
100gf says, “Dutch type foundry Typotheque has filed a lawsuit against the people behind Rick Santorum‘s presidential campaign website, claiming that the site allegedly uses the Fedra font without permission.” If Typotheque’s charges are true, this is yet another case of a Republican who doesn’t respect the integrity of intellectual property. Admittedly, the suit doesn’t […]
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Another Reason Why Obama Will be Relected
NYT: The call came in the morning to the lawyer representing Manuel Guerra, an illegal immigrant from Mexico living in Florida who had been caught in a tortuous and seemingly failing five-year court fight against deportation. With the news early Thursday that federal immigration authorities had canceled his deportation, Mr. Guerra became one of the […]
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Let Us Now Take a Moment to Praise Jon Huntsman
Over the weekend, Jon Huntsman said this: The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012. When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when […]