Archive for the ‘Republican Venality’ Category
Your Master Class In Mansplaining
Here are the only things you really need to know about last night’s debate. One, it’s more than likely the last one for the Republicans. Two, they did this: On Wednesday, contraception became the latest topic to raise the ire of conservative debate goers. During a CNN-sponsored Republican presidential debate in Arizona, the crowd booed [...]
February 23, 2012
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Zandar · 
17 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Assholes, Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Flash Mob of Hate, Republican Venality, Serenity Now!, Teabagger Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
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
Where Are The Republican Women On This?
And expanding on what Betty said below, I’m asking out of genuine curiosity the about the opinions when it comes to Republican women and the birth control brouhaha. Short of The Distinguished Ladies From Maine wanting to see “final details” of President Obama’s rule changes to provide contraception coverage through insurance companies, I’ve heard basically [...]
February 17, 2012
· Zandar · 155 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, IOKIYAR, Religion, Republican Venality, Teabagger Stupidity, Vagina Outrage, Wingnut Event Horizon
Thursday Evening Open Thread: Moral Objections
(Jeff Danziger’s website) This cartoon is from last year—like any good reactionary, Santorum’s been banging the same dishonest themes since he started his campaign. With his help, we can look forward to Walmart explaining that they refuse to pay for insurance to cover “lifestyle-related” problems like heart disease and diabetes, on the highly moral grounds [...]
February 16, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 33 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality
Afternoon Open Thread
It has occurred to me that my current home state of Kentucky is responsible for more than its fair share of absolute douchebaggery at a national level. For this I apologize. Also, Old-age Mutant Nimrod Turtle and The Amazing Rando!(tm) both can suck it. Open thread.
February 14, 2012
· Zandar · 50 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Open Thread, Republican Venality
Number Crunchers And Green Eyeshades
The President unveiled his 2013 budget plan today, and the details and priorities are very interesting, to say the least. President Barack Obama would almost double spending on the U.S. infrastructure over the next six years and would pour $350 billion into a jobs plan while shrinking the budgets of most other domestic agencies. The [...]
February 13, 2012
· Zandar · 75 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Grifters Gonna Grift, Nobody could have predicted, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality, Vagina Outrage
Saturday Evening Open Thread
Since this week has been all about the godsbothering, a historical sidebar I’ve been saving, from Kevin M. Kruse at the NYTimes: ... The concept of “one nation under God” has a noble lineage, originating in Abraham Lincoln’s hope at Gettysburg that “this nation, under God, shall not perish from the earth.” After Lincoln, however, [...]
February 11, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 111 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Open Thread, Religion, Republican Venality
Keeping CPACers Safe in Their Bubble
Jefferson Morley at Salon puts a brave face on Occupy CPAC’s Friday march: The two Americas came face to face briefly Friday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. While several thousand conservatives thronged the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, several hundred progressive unionists marched up to the hotel’s entrance, banging drums, carrying [...]
February 11, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 38 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Decline and Fall, Republican Venality
I Can’t Quite Put My Finger On It, But…
MoJo’s Nick Baumann again does us an invaluable service by pointing out the obvious fact that President Obama’s “unprecedented assault on America’s religious freedoms” by requiring church-related hospitals and universities to cover contraception at the federal level has actually been on the books for, oh, about 12 years now. In December 2000, the Equal Employment [...]
February 10, 2012
· Zandar · 69 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Venality, We Are All Mayans Now
C-PAC. C-PAC Run. Run, C-PAC, Run!
Dave Weigel, at Slate, explains: The humor comes out of the fact that the sticker’s on a WorldNetDaily jersey. WorldNetDaily: The world’s #1 source for survival seed schemes and for rumors about Barack Obama’s birthplace. Tim Tebow was born to missionaries in the Phillippines. The Washington Post, in its capacity as the company paper for [...]
February 10, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 41 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality
High In The Middle And Round At Both Ends
So if you want to know what LEROOOOOOY NNNNNEWTON! was doing while he was drowning in flop sweat and Santorum last night, he was too busy playing for Ohio by attacking the President (and Mitt Romney) here in heavily Catholic Cincinnati yesterday. Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich today brought his talk of family, jobs and [...]
February 8, 2012
· Zandar · 91 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Burkean bells, Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
R-Money’s Attack Dog
In the New Yorker, the invaluable Jane Mayer explains how “the creator of the Willie Horton ad is going all out for Mitt Romney“: Romney, unlike the remaining Republican candidates, has served no time in Washington. Yet he’s relying on a media offensive managed by operatives who have long been at the heart of Washington’s [...]
February 8, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 49 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Excellent Links, Republican Venality, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Another Republican Bottom-Feeder Speaks Up
Via Dave Weigel at Slate, news that the man responsible for the ‘Hoekstrokia’ is trying for a new personal depth record: Reactions are just exactly what you’d expect, per the Washington Post: ... “Really, really dumb,” Republican strategist Mike Murphy said over Twitter. “I mean really.” The Michigan chapter of Asian & Pacific Islander American [...]
February 6, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 73 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Hoekstroika, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality
Susan G. Komen for the Lure and the art of deception
I was about to write a post on this, but as usual, the faster and smarter front pagers beat me to it. My take is this—in the HuffPo column by Laura Bassett, both the Susan G. Komen For the Lure foundation, and the article’s writer Bassett, blame Planned Parenthood for SGKFTL’s own goal, with absolutely [...]
February 6, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 63 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Republican Venality, Schadenfreude, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Clearly We Need Laws To Protect Us From Republican Voter Fraud
Next time somebody says DEMOCRAT VOTER FRUAD ACORN BLAH BLOOGITY BLAH please calmly direct them to Indiana’s GOP Secretary of State Charlie White being convicted on six of seven voting fraud felony counts while being the state’s top election official. Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was convicted of six felonies early this morning, and [...]
February 4, 2012
· Zandar · 36 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Both Sides Do It!, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality
