Archive for the ‘Bring on the Brawndo!’ Category
Gap-astrophic Failure
Steve Benen flags down the real story so far in the GOP primary: it’s not Mitt’s finishing problem, or clods of Santorum gumming up the works, or even Newt’s ego self-immolating like a phosphorus elemental in a gasoline refinery, but the significant turnout deficit compared to just four years ago. So, what were the totals [...]
February 8, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
96 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
I Think That’s Some Sort Of Bomb Iranian Mix
Well, since John Yoo is on vacation this week or something waterboarding herds of unicorns and John Bolton’s Mustache is busy with trying to adapt drone controls for use by facial hair (hard to fly straight and hit the red button at the same time when you’re only a mustache) to bomb Syria, it’s up [...]
February 6, 2012
· Zandar · 127 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Military, Our Failed Media Experiment, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, War
Over There
While I have so recently been reminded by our friends in the 101st Chairborne that I’m some arugula-chomping, word-chopping, bubble-bound faux-American, it happens that even folks from my particular corner of Alinskystan talk to people whose daily life is as real as it gets. Which is to say that one of my friends most often [...]
January 30, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 186 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Rare Sincerity, War
GOP CURIOUS
For the lulz. He just can’t help himself. It’s this simple. One party talks about the debt, one party is trying to do something about it. One party wants to slash taxes and follow policies that would make the debt worse, the other is willing to come to the table and make hard decisions. That’s [...]
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 56 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Bring on the Brawndo!, Burkean bells
Why am I the designated loser?
I was talking to a local Democrat the night before last about Obama’s chances. He’s the former county chair, now retired. He said he was done with politics when he retired, said he was going to spend time with his grandchildren and follow Notre Dame football and to hell with all of us, but he [...]
January 12, 2012
· Kay · 101 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!
Why Stupid Talk About Violence Matters (Up from the archives edition)
The story of the White House shooter John wrote about last night sent me digging into my archives to find a piece I wrote in the wake of the appearance of someone carrying a long gun at an appearance by President Obama. Or rather, in the wake of old friend Megan McCardle’s attempt to deflate [...]
November 18, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 52 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Bring on the Brawndo!, hoocoodanode
Getting Another One Past The Goalie
Fresh off his success getting Congress to pass legislation to help find jobs for returning Iraq and Afghanistan vets, the next stage in President Obama’s push for jobs bill is a similar $1 billion measure to hire, train, and deploy healthcare workers. The Obama administration will announce Monday as much as $1 billion in funding to [...]
November 14, 2011
· Zandar · 19 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Crazification Factor, hoocoodanode, Our Failed Political Establishment
Clowning Is An Honorable Entertainment Profession That These Fools Are Besmirching
Yes, Herman Cain added a couple points to his scumbag multiplier with the “Princess Nancy” crack and Perry.exe encountered reality and blue screened on stage, but the real problem at last night’s debate was a number of GOP candidates (Newt and Ron Paul End The Fed) gleefully saying that as President they would basically end [...]
November 10, 2011
· Zandar · 65 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?
Everything You Need To Know About Iowa Republican Caucus Voters
The “but Republicans will never tax me, just those other people” scam is arguably the most successful example of wishful thinking and voting against your own self-interest that I’ve ever seen. From the Des Moines Register: Two-thirds of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers earning less than $50,000 a year believe they personally would be better off [...]
November 4, 2011
· Zandar · 28 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clap Louder!, Decline and Fall, Republican Stupidity, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Tax Policy
It’s Peanut Butter Bubble Time!
Anyone who still thinks record-breaking drought patterns in the South don’t matter because Al Gore is fat, red state immigration laws chasing off migrant farm workers is only a good thing, and rampant food commodity speculation by the financial sector is a way to boost the economy, and that a few giant food conglomerates controlling [...]
November 1, 2011
· Zandar · 40 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Decline and Fall, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Free Markets Solve Everything
Passing The Political Football
Once again my senator Mitch McConnell continues to show America that Republicans are focused like a laser on the most important issue facing the country right now: jobs the economy abortion national security screwing with college football conferences. Earlier this week, the Big 12 conference appeared ready to admit West Virginia into the league—a move [...]
October 28, 2011
· Zandar · 49 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Decline and Fall, Our Failed Political Establishment, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, We Are All Mayans Now
It really doesn’t have to be this way
Might be a good follow-up question the next time CNN promotes the Tea Party under the guise of hosting a debate: At CNN’s Tea Party-indulging debate on Monday, Ron Paul, a medical doctor, faced a pointed line of questioning from Wolf Blitzer regarding the case of an uninsured young man who suddenly found himself in [...]
September 15, 2011
· Kay · 138 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Crazification Factor, Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, Kochsuckers
These Boots Are Made For Walking
So, ten years after 9/11, have we come to our senses and stopped spending a trillion on defense and “national security” and surveillance? No. Will we gtfo of Afghanistan and Iraq? No. Will we stop using the Patriot Act for hings like the drug war? Of course not. But we do have this: Air travelers [...]
September 6, 2011
· John Cole · 128 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Send in the Clowns
It’s the end game in Tripoli. From the Guardian’s live feed on events there: 10.45pm: Libyan rebels are now within two miles of the centre of Tripoli, AP reports… ...and this: 11.04pm: Al Jazeera is reporting that two of Gaddafi’s sons, Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi, have been arrested and another son, Muhammad, has surrendered. And [...]
August 21, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 347 Comments
Posted in: Bachmann Turner Diaries Overdrive, Bring on the Brawndo!, Election 2012, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), Uncategorized, War
It’s hard to be humble, but it isn’t going to get any easier
During a speech before Ashtabula County Republicans in March 2009, Kasich talked about the need to “break the back of organized labor in the schools,” according to the Ashtabula Star Beacon. He did not back away from that quote last week, saying as he pushes ideas to change schools he has often clashed with teachers [...]
August 17, 2011
· Kay · 33 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Bring on the Brawndo!, Clap Louder!
