In retrospect it amazes me just how improbable the modern Republican coalition really was. Cooked up in the mix of interest groups who voted Republican from Reagan through Bush 2 are business cons who absolutely depend on illegal immigration and nativists who will never rest until they end it, you have fiercely anti-Catholic evangelicals and …
Archives for February 2008
Things That Should Be More Common
As expected Scott Horton took a much closer look at the details behind the suspicious Alabama blackout of a 60 Minutes broadcast on the Don Siegelman prosecution. Unexpectedly, Horton disproved his hypothesis. The key figure in the Oak Hill group is Robert M. Bass. His campaign donation profile shows that he has supported both Democrats …
Open Thread
So it looks like the entire election is going to be a competition between the candidates to see who can denounce people the hardest and the fastest. *** Update *** Apparently.
Tagged
Quick, look around and grab the closest book to where you’re sitting. No scooting over to that unopened copy of Whitehead’s Function of Reason, cheater, just grab what’s nearby. Willing to say what it is? Tom Levenson just tagged me with the “123” meme so it looks like I have no choice. My mission, should …
Jack Kingston, Moron
I find it thoroughly depressing that this is one of the leading lights of the right: He is so full of it he can’t even keep wipe that shit-eating grin off his face. Where do they find these people. Who votes for them? Why?
Election Year Vandalism
Apparently, someone vandalized the Obama HQ in Gregg County Texas: The building is the Gregg County campaign office of Barack Obama where just yesterday, hundreds of East Texans showed up to see actor, Samuel L. Jackson stump for the campaign. The building is not only the headquarters for Obama’s Gregg County campaign, but it is …
Bloomberg Out, No One Gives A Shit
Now that Bloomberg has announced he is not running, can we stop paying attention to whiny narcissists (see Nader, Ralph)? You have a clear choice this election. You can go vote for the third Bush term with lots more war and with the filth still in charge, or you can vote to end the nonsense …