Archive for the ‘Election 2010’ Category
Scott Walker’s sea of corruption may have run Captain Preibus aground
Courtesy of the We Party Patriots, we learn that Reince Priebus (and there’s a rejected Bond villain name if I’ve ever heard of one) seems to be implicated in the illegal activities that have already resulted in the arrests and indictments of several of Governor Walker’s current and former aides. Walkergate” is unfolding into a [...]
January 31, 2012
· 
Soonergrunt · 
26 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Election 2010, Election 2012, Grifters Gonna Grift, Kochsuckers, Republican Venality, Teabagger Stupidity
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
Yes We Can-Can
Charles Krauthammer is mad enough to stomp bunnies, a man consumed with the type of bitterness that can only come from being thwarted by putative allies when a cherished goal is in sight. Things were going so well. With an assist from elderly social conservatives in patriot drag,* the GOP had successfully rebranded the economic [...]
January 21, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 154 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Daydream Believers, Election 2010, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Kochsuckers, Media, Politics, Schadenfreude, Sociopaths, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility, The teabagger's apprentice, Vouchercare
He just keeps walking
I don’t think this is catastrophic or anything, but it is a set-back and a huge pain in the ass for state election officials: A judge in Wisconsin threw a curveball Thursday evening into the recall campaign targeting Republican Gov. Scott Walker, ruling that state election officials must make a greater effort to screen out [...]
January 6, 2012
· Kay · 36 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012
Well, here is a bit of good news…
My house was one of the houses that this weasel had called on Election Day. Voter suppression efforts like this are key to EVERY Republican election strategy, so it is nice to see a scam exposed and punished from time to time (you can read the local coverage in the Sun Papers here and more [...]
December 6, 2011
· Dennis G. · 64 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2010, Open Thread, Republican Venality
From the ground up
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. As usual, voters are way ahead of professional national opinion leaders. To borrow a phrase used in the article, the Tea Party is now “less an abstraction” to the people who actually live in Tea Party districts, as opposed to the national narrative creators who don’t live in these districts. [...]
November 30, 2011
· Kay · 61 Comments
Posted in: Election 2010, Election 2012, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Good News For Conservatives, Grifters Gonna Grift
I thought we were winning but we may be losing
I started reading more about for-profit K-12 schools last spring because I was talking with people about teachers and unions during the Issue Two campaign. In the course of those conversations, I found that people here were very surprised to learn that nearly half of “public” charter schools in Ohio are run by for-profit entities. [...]
November 22, 2011
· Kay · 66 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Don't Mourn, Organize, Education, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything
Good news for voting enthusiasts
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October 26, 2011
· Kay · 42 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
John Lewis is concerned, but I’m well past “troubled”
Great piece by John Lewis on voting: Since January, a majority of state legislatures have passed or considered election-law changes that, taken together, constitute the most concerted effort to restrict the right to vote since before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The 1993 National Voter Registration Act — also known as the Motor Voter [...]
August 27, 2011
· Kay · 106 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2008, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012
Transparency is our goal, right?
As I’m sure you’re aware by now, because I complained about it constantly, I have a personal interest in the role of Fox News in getting my current governor, John Kasich, elected. The media personalities on Fox (Governor Kasich’s former co-workers) weren’t subtle when promoting candidate Kasich. Too, Rupert Murdoch is a personal friend and [...]
July 25, 2011
· Kay · 26 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Decline and Fall, Election 2010, Election 2012
Now that he’s admitted it, and he’s the secretary of state, doesn’t he have to do something to prevent it?
Finally: The Ohio state Senate was set to consider this week what critics are calling the most restrictive voter identification law in the country. The push for restrictive voter ID measures in the Buckeye state is part of a trend of similar legislation sweeping Republican-controlled legislatures across the country. But Ohio’s measure is so restrictive—it [...]
June 28, 2011
· Kay · 43 Comments
Posted in: Election 2008, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment, Rare Sincerity, Republican Venality, Uncategorized
This Indictment is quite a read…
I live in Baltimore. Last year on Election Day, while I was out working to GOTV we received a robo-call at our house around 6pm telling us: Hello I’m calling to let everybody know that Governor O’Malley and President Obama have been successful. Our goals have been met. The polls were correct, and we took [...]
June 17, 2011
· Dennis G. · 27 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2010, Election 2012, IOKIYAR, Open Thread, Republican Venality
30 million people have gone missing, again
The actual, as opposed to imaginary, health care plan that Paul Ryan put forth and the entire Republican Party signed onto (pdf) has many, many pieces but I’d like to point to the provisions for covering the uninsured. There aren’t any. The GOP health care plan repeals the parts of the PPACA that cover the [...]
June 7, 2011
· Kay · 44 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2010, Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
We’ll survive this. Maybe.
When I was 19 or so, I worked for a time in a completely disreputable health food store located in a dying strip mall in what is now probably suburban Atlanta but was then a small town in Georgia that had aspirations of becoming a suburb of Atlanta. I know there are reputable health food [...]
May 21, 2011
· Kay · 46 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Crazification Factor, Domestic Affairs, Election 2008, Election 2010, Election 2012
Conservatives who bet heavy against the auto industry, and lost, take another unearned victory lap
Now that the work is done, conservatives decide to show up: General Motors Co., state, and local officials are to visit the company’s Toledo Powertrain Plant on Tuesday where they are expected to announce plans to invest an additional $260 million and hire up to 400 additional employees to produce new fuel-efficient eight-speed transmissions for [...]
May 10, 2011
· Kay · 185 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2010, Free Markets Solve Everything
