Archive for December, 2011

Ron Ron Ronaway

by John Cole

This is amusing: Kent Sorenson, the one-time chair of Michele Bachmann’s Iowa campaign who threw a jolt into the caucuses by switching to Ron Paul tonight, said he only told Paul officials of his decision when he arrived at a Des Moines rally for the congressman tonight “10 minutes ago,” Sorenson, a GOP state senator, [...]

December 29, 2011 · John Cole · 192 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Teabagger Stupidity

There’s a rose in a fisted glove

by Angry DougJ

Bear in mind that this is from a Politico article, and they offer nothing to quantify their assertion, but I found this idea interesting: The anti-war stance, the sharp criticism of the war on terrorism, the calls to rein in military spending — all of it is fueling Paul’s support among the young voters who [...]

December 29, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 116 Comments
Posted in: War

Cough

by Tim F.

Should have bet money on it. Gingrich is not materially different from Trump, Bachmann, Perry or Herman Cain. He is another clown with a slightly different brand. The only meaningful question is whether the thing that trips Newt up will be his past, his faulty brain-mouth filter or the crickets and spiders that live in [...]

December 29, 2011 · Tim F. · 102 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Nobody could have predicted, Republican Stupidity

Open Thread

by mistermix

This is from a 63 year-old Charles Bradley’s first album.

December 29, 2011 · mistermix · 29 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

Still More Nuked Gingrich

by Zandar

With just 5 days until the Iowa Caucuses, Team Newt is “managing expectations” for Gingrich’s crash and burn. On Wednesday evening around 6:30 ET, Newt Gingrich strategist Joe DeSantis declared the Gingrich surge in Iowa officially over. “Oh I think anywhere in the top five would be surviving Iowa,” DiSantis told CNN. Just a couple [...]

December 29, 2011 · Zandar · 91 Comments
Posted in: hoocoodanode, Republican Stupidity, Wingnut Event Horizon

Party Loyalty Defined

by mistermix

Ed Kilgore is writing at Steve Benen’s blog while Steve takes a much-deserved vacation. I thought his definition of party loyalty was pretty good: [...] I do think any Senate member of either party should be held to three simple rules: You must not endorse candidates (particularly for president) of the other party; you must [...]

December 29, 2011 · mistermix · 72 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, Democratic Stupidity

Tolerate our Intolerance or Else

by mistermix

Catholic Charities are losing state contracts for providing foster care and care for victims of sex trafficking because they won’t place foster kids in gay households and don’t believe in contraception, and the cries of the butthurt are legion: “In the name of tolerance, we’re not being tolerated,” said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the [...]

December 29, 2011 · mistermix · 65 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights

Erick Erickson Does Not {Heart} Santorum

by Anne Laurie

Via Jonathan Bernstein at WaPo’s Plum Line, a little sweet schadenfreude for those of us in the Reality-Based Community tribe [RedState link]: No Surprise, Iowa Social Conservatives Are About To Shoot Us All in the Foot Again I’m hearing several campaigns and external pollsters have a surge for Rick Santorum. With the National Review folks [...]

December 29, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 50 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Republican Stupidity

Newt Loves Pets — and a Nice Embouchure

by Anne Laurie

(Nicole Hollander via GoComics.com) You’ve probably already heard about the idea that Gingrich will “humanize” himself by “Campaign[ing] With Pets and Music“: Newt Gingrich’s campaign has decided to take another route on his bid to the Republican nomination: pets and music. The campaign said today that it will soon launch a “Pets With Newt” site [...]

December 28, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 140 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012

How Can This Be?

by John Cole

I just don’t understand how anyone could vote for any of the current Republican candidates. I just don’t. Not to go all Pauline Kael, but I just am unable to put myself into the mindset that would make me vote for any of them. Each one is uniquely horrid in their own way. I had [...]

December 28, 2011 · John Cole · 264 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012

Why do birds suddenly appear?

by Angry DougJ

Mitt Romney joins the global anti-Big-Bird jihad: During a campaign event in Clinton, Iowa Wednesday, the former Massachusetts governor told supporters that there were a number of things he would do to balance the budget. “One is to stop certain programs,” he explained. “Stop them. Close them. Turn them off. Even some you like.” “You [...]

December 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 103 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute

Wednesday Evening Open Thread

by Anne Laurie

(Don Wright via GoComics.com) So, the Greedy Old Perverts have their long-term agenda. What’s on everyone’s short-term agendas?

December 28, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 34 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Republican Venality

I wanna be your dog

by Angry DougJ

Rickroll: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads in a new CNN poll of Iowa six days before the January 3rd caucuses, outpacing Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) 25 to 22. But the real surprise in the poll is that former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum moved to third with 16 percent of the vote, after months of [...]

December 28, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 52 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives

Debunking the “Ron Paul Cares About Civil Liberties” Myth

by ABL

Long-time Balloonbagger TVHilton is guest blogging over at No More Mister Nice Blog, and he penned a post that is well worth reading: Last week Glenn Greenwald won the Dumbest Tweet of the Week award with this beauty, about Ron Paul: Of course, this is laughable to anyone familiar with Paul’s positions on, say, abortion, [...]

December 28, 2011 · ABL · 455 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism

I believe he’s gonna work me into the ground

by Sarah Proud and Tall

Gnoot has a post up about his proposal to prepare kids from poor families for the low paying, menial jobs they will often be forced to take after leaving school by giving them low paying, menial jobs while they are at school. Wouldn’t it be great if New York City schools served their students as [...]

December 28, 2011 · Sarah Proud and Tall · 153 Comments
Posted in: Education, Fuck The Poor, Fucked-up-edness, Sociopaths

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