Unsurprisingly, God-bothering lunatic Michele Bachmann emerged triumphant in today’s Ames, Iowa straw poll winning 28.6 percent of the nearly 17,000 votes cast, narrowly edging out libertarian Ron Paul by 152 votes. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty finished a distant third … Continue reading →
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Red Tory v.3.0.3: A Vote for “Rick Parry” is a Vote for a Better America Tomorrow!
Stephen Colbert answers the question, “What will you do with all that unrestricted SuperPAC money?” with the launch of a TV commercial urging voters in Iowa to cast their ballots in the upcoming Ames Straw Poll for write-in candidate “Rick … Continue reading →
Continue readingRedBedHead: Ross Perot, the Tea Party: Why Are Third Party Politics In the US So Crazy?
As radical as they think that they are, the Tea Party follows a pattern of attempts to create a third party in the US political duopoly – which, let’s face it, is a one party state with two factions. The constant pressure to put aside “partisan” politi…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Could US Debt Debate Fragment The Republicans?
Tea Party Republicans: ready to go all the way
Republican House Speaker John Boehner must be wondering at this moment what to do with his rather large embarrassment of riches – with the emphasis on embarrassment. The mid-terms swept Republicans into …
LeDaro: Obama and Debt Ceiling Negotiations
The following cartoon says it all. What more will Repugs ask of him?
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Obama’s Debt Ceiling Rope-a-Dope
Perhaps it’s just because he appeals to my deeply cynical inclination regarding politics in general, but MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell seems to be providing the sharpest, most insightful commentary these days concerning the strategic machinations behind all the posturing over raising … Continue reading →
Continue readingRedBedHead: Obama’s Phoney Budget War
There’s a fairly decent chance that the morons who run the American Empire will let the country slip into default at the beginning of August, causing a cascade of penalties and blowback that will kill the barely breathing recovery. Greek politicians ca…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Bill Maher compares the failure of jurors to convict Casey Anthony in the killing of her child with the failure of Republican voters to connect the dots between the U.S. budgetary deficit and the fact that the wealthiest people in … Continue reading →
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Revisionist Revere and The Nuclear Threshold.
Half-term governor turned facebookin’ an’ tweetin’ an’ reality teevee-in’ star Sarah Palin once again found herself being set up by the “lamestream media” when some reporter asked her (I shit you not) the “gotcha question” of what she learnedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif during her visit to Paul Revere’s house. What the “librul state-run-media”
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Revisionist Revere and The Nuclear Threshold.
Half-term governor turned facebookin’ an’ tweetin’ an’ reality teevee-in’ star Sarah Palin once again found herself being set up by the “lamestream media” when some reporter asked her (I shit you not) the “gotcha question” of what she learnedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif during her visit to Paul Revere’s house. What the “librul state-run-media”
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Revisionist Revere and The Nuclear Threshold.
Half-term governor turned facebookin’ an’ tweetin’ an’ reality teevee-in’ star Sarah Palin once again found herself being set up by the “lamestream media” when some reporter asked her (I shit you not) the “gotcha question” of what she learnedhttp://www…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Dog on Santorum
Another doomed Repubican aspirant (a much more appropriate word than “hopeful” I think). Speaking to a small group of supporters in Florida last week, Santorum said that throughout his political career he’s faced mighty obstacles and has soldiered on. To … Continue reading →
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”? John Cole at “Balloon Juice” has a thread up documenting some pretty hilarious
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”? John Cole at “Balloon Juice” has a thread up documenting some pretty hilarious
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The system is broken: strategic voting, coalitions, and the political regime under which we live
While I can of course see the rationale for strategic voting, there is much to be said for voting with one’s conscience. When we consistently choose the lesser of two evils, our choices are reduced to evil, and the results are evil. When everyone hol…
Continue readingRepublicans wage war on the environment (with a little help from the Democrats)
If anyone still believes we are going to save ourselves from environmental catastrophe, the U.S. Congress is doing its best to disabuse us of our optimism. It has mounted a wholesale effort to preclude any serious efforts by the American government to …
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