Archive for the ‘Crazification Factor’ Category
They already got a hearing
I’m all for this fair and balanced hearing conservatives are holding: Republican Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will convene a hearing tomorrow, “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?” The lead witness is the Most Reverend [...]
February 15, 2012
· 
Kay · 
112 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor
The Onion as Real News, part 4,391; Update to Why We Fight
Once again, The Onion has a story that might as well have come from an actual, real news source, if such had still existed in the US: New Breeding Program Aimed At Keeping Moderate Republicans From Going Extinct Some choice tidbits: Though hopes for the captive breeding program remain high, many leading political conservationists note [...]
February 13, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 93 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Crazification Factor, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Open Thread, Our Failed Political Establishment
Why We Fight
I followed a link from commenter Harlana to Little Green Footballs, where Charles Johnson reads Fox News discussion threads so you don’t have to. There are almost 5000 comments posted in the thread — these are from the first few pages. Notice that the racist bastards deliberately misspell their slurs or insert random spaces, so [...]
February 13, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 162 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2012, Flash Mob of Hate, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Post-racial America, Sociopaths
Goldwater, Romney and the 27%
Here I was doing some research about George Romney and his conflict with Barry Goldwater and the wingnuts of his day, when I looked up and mistermix had posted the Daisy Ad. With the Arizona and Michigan primaries next in line, Mittens may have a hard time explaining away his father’s refusal to support Goldwater [...]
February 12, 2012
· Dennis G. · 39 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Election 2012
If we stopped talking about abortion, we might have to talk about health care, and no one wants to do that
Good for him: Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) pushed back against conservative criticism of new White House rules which would require religious organizations to provide insurance coverage for birth control, calling the attacks “too much hyperventilating.” “This is not about abortion,” said O’Malley during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “It’s about [...]
February 6, 2012
· Kay · 138 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor
Send the Panty Sniffing Squad to Inspect Mitt’s Magic Underoos
Now that Michelle Obama’s underwear is up for discussion at all the usual wingnut sites, can we start talking about Mitt Romney’s? After all, for a Mormon, it’s “the most sacred of all things in the world, next to their own virtue, next to their own purity of life”, so I’d think that it’s something [...]
January 30, 2012
· mistermix · 110 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor
To achieve a goal, you have to set a goal…
The first real primary where all the participants are members of the Republican Party base is done. Newt wins and the Mittens coronation tour is over. Trench warfare now begins. Iowa and New Hampshire will let anybody in to play Republican-for-a-day and influence the results, but South Carolina is different and only the true faithful participate. South [...]
January 21, 2012
· Dennis G. · 291 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Election 2012, Open Thread
Rampaging Honey Badger Mars Sparsely Attended Pro-Walker Rally
WAUWATOSA, WI (January 21, 2012) – A giant, mutant honey badger disrupted a rally organized to show support for embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, charging into the small gathering and slightly injuring at least one attendee. The unusually large carnivore, estimated to weigh 15 tons, struck without warning, terrorizing the fives of Wisconsinites who had [...]
January 21, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 123 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Election 2010, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Kochsuckers, Open Thread, Politics
Winning the 27% Primary…
A few weeks ago folks had written The Professor off as a dead man walking. And now look at him. Some polls have him pulling ahead of Mittens and Governor Oops has GTT and endorsed Newt on the way out the door. Sure an ex-wife will be on a late night network news show to [...]
January 19, 2012
· Dennis G. · 11 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Election 2012
There’s that number again…
Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire has an item on a Fox News poll that asked Republican voters which candidate was running a nasty campaign. The Professor came in second after “Don’t know” to win the honors and Mittens was third. But it was the question about positive campaigning that brought out the magical number of the [...]
January 16, 2012
· Dennis G. · 87 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Election 2012, Open Thread
All About the Paul Newsletters
Stephen L. Taylor has a thorough round-up of the Paul newsletters, if you’re interested (and, judging from the comments in last night’s open thread, many of you still are). His conclusion: Really, the bottom line is this: absent an especially comprehensive and satisfactory explanation, the newsletters utterly disqualify Paul from the nomination, let alone [...]
December 27, 2011
· mistermix · 188 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Glibertarianism
What are the odds of overtime play…
The Republicans Leadership of the House (well at least the Orange One) have decided to cave on their latest hostage taking excursion. That means that on Friday morning, Boehner will ask fellow Republican House members to support President Obama’s position on the payroll tax cut extension by unanimous consent. If all goes according to plan, [...]
December 22, 2011
· Dennis G. · 77 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Open Thread
Ron Paul Made Millions from Racist Newsletter
It’s probably all stored as Kruggerands in his mattress, to guard against the Amero conversion (via SLT at OTB): Yet a subsequent report by Reason found that Ron Paul & Associates, the defunct company that published the newsletters and which counted Paul and his wife as officers, reported an income of nearly $1 million in [...]
December 18, 2011
· mistermix · 131 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Glibertarianism
No, No, No, Frothy Mixture. The Question Is: Does Natural Selection Believe in You?
Missed this yesterday, but via TPM, this, from the candidate with the unfortunate Google problem: Discussing controversial classroom subjects such as evolution and global warming, Santorum said he has suggested that“science should get out of politics” and he is opposed to teaching that provides a “politically correct perspective.” (From the Des Moines Register.) Well then, [...]
December 10, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 87 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Decline and Fall, Election 2012, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue
Mr. Brooks: stalked by his youth…
The pundits/gasbags of Wingnutopia are focused on the The Professor. Some like Rushbo are moving towards a full embrace of Scarborough’s Gingrich meme: “Who was the last person to actually cut government? Who was the last person who actually led a movement that balanced the federal budget? . . . The last time there was [...]
December 9, 2011
· Dennis G. · 80 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, Crazification Factor, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, Election 2012, Open Thread
