So why not pick on Rick Perry?”Rick Perry is going to go down in history for the all-time train wreck beginning. Because private polling in Iowa 40 days ago had him leading.”The Texas governor, former uber-star of the American tea partiers, is now at u…
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Newsflash. Aborted babies talk to Rick Santorum.
Santorum: I have it on good authority unborn babies think you're wrong. Cain: You're shitting me.
As you know the entire junior A wrestling team sweating and grunting for the GOP presidential nomination is great entertainment if a little on the dumb side. The wacko factor is so out there that if . . . → Read More: Newsflash. Aborted babies talk to Rick Santorum.
Continue readingFor GOP’s sake, Chris Christie must run
Last night’s GOP debate was probably the worst political debate I’ve ever witnessed. I’m not alone. Most of the reaction from the right has been brutal. They hated it. They’ve been moaning all day for some depth from the field. D’uh.That’s why Chris Ch…
Continue readingLeDaro: GOP loves strippers and adult entertainment
The guardians of religion and Christ are also great fans of striptease and adult entertainment. Tampa, Florida is well prepared for the GOP’s August 2012 convention. Repugs commandment #11 is to support strippers and adult industry in general; howe…
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: The Obama Cult Apparently Still Has Some Members…
Over the past few weeks I have posted several articles critical of Barack Obama and his clear-cut progressive fakery. For a brief run-through of some of the things that Obama has done to earn the title of fauxprogressive, click here. I even went so far as to enter the first definition for fauxgressive on the […]
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Talking to political adversaries: Tips on reaching across the aisle
Tips on talking to political adversaries. Moving past politics, partisanship and labels, recognizing corporatism masquerading as progressivism or conservatism, and going straight to the issues.
Continue readingbastard.logic: Another Stop Along the Road to Damascus
by matttbastard The pullquote from one of David Frum’s latest eviscerations of contemporary USian conservative folly, a meditative riff on Susan Sontag’s infamous “Were our enemies right?” speech, was making the rounds yesterday (eventually getting linked by the subject of Frum’s … Continue reading →
Continue readingBlunt Objects: How Republicans Will !%$@ Themselves
This CBS News Poll says it all:Americans are unimpressed with their political leaders’ handling of the debt ceiling crisis, with a new CBS News poll showing a majority disapprove of all the involved parties’ conduct, but Republicans in Congress fare…
Continue readingRepublicans say Obama administration is "anti-jobs", "anti-business’ and "anti-american energy"
We can expect nothing new to come from the Republicans in their critique of the Democrats and their captain, Barack Obama. This was apparent during the New Hampshire GOP presidential debates in the U.S. today.
Gingrich, Romney, Paul, Cain, Sa…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Republican Kryptonite – Integrity
It’s not easy to reach the highest tier in today’s Republican hierarchy. Qualities that would be seen as genuine attributes in any decent, sane society are transformed into fatal character flaws when seen through Republican filters. Any dou…
Continue readingbastard.logic: Obama’s Citizenship & Race: Separated at Birth?
It never ceases to amaze me how eager some white liberals are to divorce race from political analysis when it comes to Obama. Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler (who seems to have settled nicely into his blogospheric role as … Continue reading →
Continue readingBirth Pangs: No Means …Um … Well.. it depends..
No means no.. at least unless you are drugged or a young girl who is the victim of incest or otherwise failed to have a Rethuglican actually witness your rape. – Redefinition Of Rape: The bill sponsor Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) faced serious backlash after he tried to narrow the definition rape to “forcible rape.” […]
Continue readingBirth Pangs: Abortion Auditors
The GOP apparently feels that rape victims deserve no shred of dignity and so if a rape victim has had a “taxpayer funded” abortion she will have to prove via “contemporaneous written documentation” that she was in fact assaulted and did in fact qualify. And one tax expert says that the measure could even lead […]
Continue readingRight of Center Ice: The Tea Party Strikes Back
How dare President Obama attempt to the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich expire, adding a whopping 4.6% to an already “overtaxed” population! But America shouldn’t worry, ’cause the Tea Party has got their backs. And I don’t mean “America” in the collective sense, I mean those Americans who came
Continue readingbastard.logic: Rand Paul Parties Like It’s 1964
by matttbastard Belated congratulations to newly-minted Kentucky GOP Senate candidate and latest Tea Party ubermensch of the moment Rand ‘Son of Ron’ Paul, for defeating the establishment candidate with Chuck Norris round-house kicks a well-fought insurgent primary campaign. Why, It’s enough to make … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
by matttbastard Salon knows the score – no Hollywood wingnut roundup is complete without giving mad props to alpha-wingnut Victoria Jackson: Again – no Hollywood wingnut roundup is complete without giving mad props to alpha-wingnut Victoria ”There’s A Communist Living in the White … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Bye Bayh, Mon Cowboy
by matttbastard Every Republican’s favourite soon-to-be retired moderate [sic] DINO gunslinger Evan Bayh refuses to quietly ride off into the sunset: “There’s just too much brain-dead partisanship, tactical maneuvering for short-term political advantage rather than focusing on the greater good, … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: Irony is Dead, Redux
by matttbastard Education reformers were out in full force at this past Sunday’s Perry-Palin rally in Texas (I truly heart Moran Country). (Also, TEH NUGE!!!1one Ain’t no party like a Tea Party partaaaay.) h/t Adam Serwer Photo: Bryan Fotographer, Houston Press Recommend this … Continue reading →
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