Archive for the ‘I Can’t Believe We’re Losing to These People’ Category
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
Even with 9.1% unemployment, no one wants this job
Around two months ago I started getting calls from a person who works for the state Democratic Party. He told me they think my state representative has the potential to be vulnerable, because of some hazy rumors of scandal or general bad behavior or corruption that (apparently, allegedly) surround him. Pick one: scandal, general bad [...]
December 1, 2011
· Kay · 59 Comments
Posted in: Balloon Jobs, Crazification Factor, Daydream Believers, Domestic Affairs, Election 2012, Good News For Conservatives, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
Wrong But Strong
This is from ONN, Ohio News Network, an outlet that leans so far Right I once actually took the time to email them and complain back before I gave up on contacting media outlets altogether. It’s such a classic example of even-steven, both-sides-do-it, scaredy-cat reporting that it made me laugh out loud: From the president [...]
September 20, 2011
· Kay · 74 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Both Sides Do It!, Domestic Affairs, Election 2011, Election 2012, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
Labor Day (Yet Another Framing Problem)
(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) E.J. Dionne, in the Washington Post, on “The Last Labor Day“: Let’s get it over with and rename the holiday “Capital Day.” We may still celebrate Labor Day, but our culture has given up on honoring workers as the real creators of wealth and their honest toil — the phrase itself [...]
September 5, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 75 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Daydream Believers, Free Markets Solve Everything, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
Both sides to a contract understanding the terms of the contract shouldn’t be controversial
I was looking around the Consumer Financial Protection Burea site. The CFPB is the new federal agency that Elizabeth Warren invented and set up, and Rich Cordray has been named to run. Richard Shelby (R, Lenders) has vowed to fight the CFPB, presumably because he’s opposed to the idea of both parties to a contract [...]
August 15, 2011
· Kay · 23 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Crazification Factor, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Get off my grass you damned kids, Grifters Gonna Grift, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
Late Night Open Thread
Solely because I found it entertaining, Dave Weigel at Slate on “The Freedom to Call People ‘Terrorists‘”: The founders are as venerated now as they’ve ever been, but for reasons that elude me, they’re remembered in a way-too-sanitized way. The founders were slashing, petty, mean slingers of insults. They spent far more time drafting angry [...]
August 3, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 80 Comments
Posted in: I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Open Thread
Conservatives maybe a tad worried about Wisconsin?
The charitable Koch Brothers, out and about, helping the community, like they do: mailers have now turned up from Americans For Prosperity Wisconsin, addressed to voters in two of the Republican-held recall districts, where the elections will be held on August 9. The mailers ask recipients to fill out an absentee ballot application, and send [...]
August 1, 2011
· Kay · 92 Comments
Posted in: Election 2011, Free Markets Solve Everything, Glibertarianism, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
It’s Like a Two Year Dumb Off
I swear to FSM, what we have is not a Republican majority in the House, we have the contestants in a two year battle to see who is the dumbest. Today’s effort is from Louis Gohmert: While a startling number of House Republicans refuse to accept experts’ dires warnings about the possibility of default come [...]
July 18, 2011
· John Cole · 89 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Republican Stupidity
Yes, They Really Are That Dumb
So, despite the withering sprays of snark dispensed by both John and myself, the GOPers in the House went off and advanced their defense of crab-bucket environmental destruction. Yup, the liberty train rolled into town today in the form of a voice vote in the House to block funding for the enforcement of the formerly [...]
July 15, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 73 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue
Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Had Those Grain Shots and Mushrooms
While eating the brown acid: Some Republicans are starting to have buyer’s remorse over their party’s insistence that a vote to raise the debt limit be tied to a long-term deficit reduction package. “Maybe the debt ceiling was the wrong place to pick a fight, as it related to trying to get our country’s house [...]
July 14, 2011
· John Cole · 79 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Teabagger Stupidity
Caught Between a Rock and Blockheads
If it weren’t so damaging to our country if the Republicans can’t convince enough of their house caucus to vote for the debt limit increase, this would be so much fun to watch: The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, warned Wednesday that allowing a federal default could have disastrous political consequences for his [...]
July 13, 2011
· John Cole · 160 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Teabagger Stupidity
Dim Bulbs
Apparently, in order to do anything other than create jobs, the Republicans yesterday attempted to repeal a light bulb bill that was written by a Republican and signed by Bush.
July 13, 2011
· John Cole · 61 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Teabagger Stupidity
Chaos, Misinformation, Recalcitrant Stupidity — His Job Here Is Done!
Dave Weigel at Slate reports that Ron Paul will not run for re-election to the House: ... Five years ago, Paul was a marginal political figure who could save reporters from a slow news week as the subject of a profile. He was “Doctor No,” the guy with the “Don’t Steal, the Government Hates Competition” [...]
July 13, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 55 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Decline and Fall, Election 2012, Glibertarianism, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Republican Stupidity
And In Other News: GOP Finds New Ways To Say “Its Your Money and We’ll Burn It If We Feel Like It.”
I ran across news of a minor skirmish in the war to save/destroy America, but I guess it’s worth transmitting, since this time the good guys won. Believe it or not, a united House Republican caucus failed in their bid to save ordinary Americans from the tyranny of efficient light bulbs. With this vote, the [...]
July 13, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 55 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
Mental Wounds Still Screaming, Driving Me Insane
Looks like the Iowa GOP is going for a ride on the crazy train: Rep. Michele Bachmann has been gunning for the support of Iowa voters, the first in the nation to vote for their party’s presidential nominees, and it looks like her efforts may be paying off. The conservative congresswoman finished first among the [...]
July 11, 2011
· John Cole · 177 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Sociopaths, Sweet Fancy Moses!, Teabagger Stupidity
