Archive for the ‘Election 2012’ Category
Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Seekers
(Jeff Danziger’s website) When EventheNewRepublic says “Mitt Romney’s Presidential Prospects May Not Be Salvageable“, and yet in terms of scaring off swing voters “Senator Santonarola Can’t Help Himself“, what’s the GOP to do? Fortunately (for horserace political reporters and satirists in all media), Charlie Pierce at Esquire perceives hints from a certain D-list celebrity: Princess [...]
February 21, 2012
· 
Anne Laurie · 
50 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Jump! You Fuckers!, Open Thread, Republican Stupidity
They’re Just Warming Up
The Supremes are eager to make some law: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a major case on affirmative action in higher education, adding another potential blockbuster to a docket already studded with them. The court’s decision in the new case holds the potential to undo an accommodation reached in the Supreme Court’s [...]
February 21, 2012
· John Cole · 139 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Decline and Fall, Election 2012
Monday Evening Open Thread: Casting Lots
(Jeff Danziger’s website) Still the single best political cartoonist working today. But just out of curiosity, how many of you post-public-school-prayers young atheists actually recognize the reference without googling? Speaking of schadenfreude, the WaPo’s Jennifer “Bomb There, Bomb Now” Rubin is not a fan of Rick Sanctorum, “the Sharron Angle of 2012“: Two stories surfaced [...]
February 20, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 146 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Jump! You Fuckers!, Open Thread, Republican Venality
What They Really Think
It slips out despite their best efforts.
February 20, 2012
· John Cole · 141 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Teabagger Stupidity
Open Thread: Sunday Salmagundi
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) In an entirely different sense, Katrina vanden Heuvel hopes that the progressive backlash against Rick Sanctorom-onius and his ilk might just make 2012 a”Year of the Woman“: “It also seems that support for Democratic women candidates is attributable to more than choice and health issues. A poll conducted by EMILY’s List [...]
February 19, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 18 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Foreign Affairs, Open Thread
Burning Desire
Secondary to John’s earlier post, Rick Ungar at the Washington Monthly had already dipped a toe into the murky waters: According to the Automobile Club of America, gasoline prices have risen, on average, 13.1 cents in the past month—despite the fact that gas prices traditionally fall in the month of February as people drive fewer [...]
February 18, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 83 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Energy Policy
Round and Round and Round We Go
Here we go again: Rising gasoline prices, trumpeted in foot-tall numbers on street corners across the country, are causing concern among advisers to President Obama that a budding sense of economic optimism could be undermined just as he heads into the general election. White House officials are preparing for Republicans to use consumer angst about [...]
February 18, 2012
· John Cole · 37 Comments
Posted in: Election 2008, Election 2012, Energy Policy, Serenity Now!
Vicar in a Tutu
Speaking of freakish religious nut Rick Santorum, via Ed Kilgore, this 2008 frothy outburst from little Ricky: [O]nce the colleges fell and those who were being educated in our institutions, the next was the church. Now you’d say, ‘wait, the Catholic Church’? No. We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic [...]
February 17, 2012
· John Cole · 93 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Republican Stupidity
I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t Douthat
As many of you know, I am a very agnostic person. I don’t know if a god exists, ever existed, or ever will exist, and neither do any of the Churches. Those of you who disagree with me are free to do so, and good on you for it. What I’m all about is the [...]
February 17, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 184 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Vagina Outrage, Wingnut Event Horizon
54 million, estimated
Yesterday, certain religious leaders and Republicans gathered in Congress to plan how to best to destroy those portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that regulate employee health plans offered by large businesses as part of employee compensation packages. Employee pay, in other words. Just to be clear, because there seems to be [...]
February 17, 2012
· Kay · 67 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Quitters Never Win
I understand why Mitt Romney would pull out of the March 1 CNN debate (four days before Super Tuesday). He should miss every opportunity for voters to calibrate their dislike for him, and an event on the eve of some primaries he and his PAC advertising will probably be able to buy is doubly worth [...]
February 16, 2012
· mistermix · 99 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012
They pay people for advice like this…
The life of a DC gasbag is a sweet one. Take the latest advice from GOP maven Mike Murphy to Mittens (emphasis added): “He should drop the biography-based message. Nobody wants a well-intentioned accountant in charge when the house is on fire. For the first time [????] in his professional life, Romney needs to stop [...]
February 16, 2012
· Dennis G. · 61 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Good News For Conservatives, Open Thread
Better Run, Better Run, Outrun Mitt’s Gun
I guess the point of this ad is that Romney has rifle that fires Santorum? All I know is that shit is flying everywhere. (h/t Litlebritdifrnt in the comments).
February 15, 2012
· mistermix · 64 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, WTF?
Mitt’s choice: Goldwater or his Father…
Mitt Romney comes off as fake. He seems like a man running from himself. When he speaks, he speaks in word strings designed to sound like something, while meaning nothing. He is running for President (for Pete’s sake) and embracing whatever he thinks Republican primary voters want to hear at any given moment. It rings [...]
February 15, 2012
· Dennis G. · 45 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, Election 2012
Mitt or get off the pot
I don’t care what the PPP polls show, a candidate who doesn’t think women should work won’t win a general election, no matter how principled, Burkean, populist a case he makes for an all-male workforce. IMHO, Santorums’ female trouble may be so bad that it hurts him not just in the general but maybe even [...]
February 14, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 49 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Mitt Or Get Off The Pot, My Own Theological Premises About The Nature Of Sex
