Among the Iowa winners were Mitt Romney (establishment candidate), with Rick Santorum (Evangelical candidate) trailing by 8 votes, then Ron Paul (Libertarian candidate). Trailing significantly was Newt Gingrich, an old guard brand all to himself. Where then was the Tea Party candidate? For several decades, there has been an establishment
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Eric Cantor, epicentre of GOP tea party intransigence, exposed by 60 minutes
Eric Cantor, perhaps the assholiest of all the Republican assholes, stepped into it big time on the big stage of 60 minutes. In a classic bit of ‘gotcha’ television, host Lesley Stahl actually performed a bit of journalism, catching Cantor in demonstrating the intransigence that has become his – and
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Measuring the success of social movements: Occupy, Arab Awakening, the Tea Party, and Keystone XL
How do we measure the success or effectiveness of a social movement? Ultimately we probably wish to change our society in some way, or perhaps to resist the changes that are occurring. Sometimes these changes can be very targeted such as implementing a specific government or corporate policy. And sometimes
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: New Rules: 11/11/11
From the last show of the season. “If A Christmas Carol was performed by the Tea Party Dramatic Society, it would be a cautionary tale about how the hero, Scrooge – a blameless job creator – is turned into a … Continue reading →
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Should We Be Concerned With Those Harper is Passing the Pipe With?
In 1911, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil, then the largest multinational corporation, because it was simply becoming too big and powerful. The company’s battles with former president Teddy Roosevelt were legendary, as depict…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The media’s questionable coverage of the Occupy movement
It can’t be said that the mainstream media isn’t covering the Occupy Wall Street et al protests. Indeed, a major difference between these protests and so many others that came before it is that the media has given it quite extensive coverage. Ho…
Continue readingWhat kind of education does $50,000 get you?
The right has been having fun with some of the signs and statements of the Occupy crowd. Some have extended their mockery by posting Anti-Occupy Vancouver posters around town. Remember the Tea Party signs and why we laughed so hard at them? Things have…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: OWS & The Tea Party
Some very sensible observations about similarities and difference between the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements from Karl Denninger, who helped form FedUpUSA (a precursor of the Tea Party) in the wake of the March 2008 Federal Reserve bail … Continue reading →
Continue readingNot a shocker. Americans support Occupy Wall Street 2-1 over Tea Party.
That’s news to most news organizations, which have virtually ignored OWS while kowtowing to the Tea Party.A new Time magazine poll asked respondents for their opinion of “the Tea Party movement.” Just 27% had a favorable opinion. Then the poll…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Wall Street protests, Obama, and changing the political conversation
In some ways it is not appropriate to give too much undue attention to the current Wall Street protests in New York that are spreading around the US and into Canada. Doing so deemphasizes the very large amount of consistent and meaningful citizen acti…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Republican Eric Cantor Concerned About Growing Mobs On Wall Street
In a shameless but hardly surprising display of partisan hypocrisy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) referred to the Occupy Wall Street protests as “growing mobs.”Why is this hypocritical? Well it has something to do with his enthusiastic s…
Continue readingWhere we juxtapose. If a prominent progressive media figured called MIchelle Malkin a ‘sympathy fuck’ all hell would break loose
But when it’s Andrew Breitbart wailing and cussing on Janeane Garofalo, silence.Breitbart was speaking at the annual Tea Con (‘Tea’ and ‘Con’ together, clever that), a Tea Party extravaganza put together in part by one Steve Stevlic, a guy recently pro…
Continue readingWhy evangelicals like Stephen Harper and Rick Perry love Israel
Mother Jones has a must-read post on something that is no mystery but needs to be said. Western evangelicals like Stephen Harper, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann et al have a devotion to Israel that on the surface is puzzling.These are people who are deep…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Will Rob Ford Put an End to Blissful Ignorance?
On February 15, 1983, the New York Times ran a headline: Reagan Misstatements Getting Less Attention.Ronald Reagan was not only the first American President to bring the Religious Right into his administration, but he also launched an era of …
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Libertarian Hypocrisy
In the Republican “Tea Party Debate” earlier this week, when Ron Paul was asked whether or not a healthy, uninsured 30-year-old man should be left to die if an unexpected tragedy put him into a coma, he unsurprisingly replied that … Continue reading →
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Teapartyzombiesmustdie.com
Sick, of course… but also funny as hell. I’m sure a “liberalzombiesmustdie” version would be just as amusing; most certainly to those who despise liberals. Also not hard to imagine the stereotypes and cast of undead characters that would be … Continue reading →
Continue readingTrashy's World: New Tea Party personalities…
Some of these new Tea Party candidates are pretty vicious. Gwendolene Thomason, 42, a Tea Party supporter from Jefferson City, was one of the hundreds on hand who were convinced that the Doberman was a Tea Party candidate until he was outed as a dog. “I liked what he had to say,” she said. ”He […]
Continue readingWill Teabaggers swallow Schweddy Balls?
Remember that SNL skit with Alec Baldwin featuring the NPR ladies and a delightful confection cooked up by Baldwin’s character named ‘Schweddy Balls’? Ben & Jerry’s has introduced a new ice cream in honour of that skit. It looks delicious!Should be…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: On Global Warming, the Tea Party is Worse than the GOP
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There’s a fascinating new public opinion analysis out today from Anthony Leiserowitz and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. It looks at political divides…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Can Canada’s Conservatives truly become our ‘natural governing party’? Maybe
Prime Minister Stephen Harper tries just to stifle his worst instincts. Warning: Canadian prime ministers may not be exactly as illustrated. If you’re too young to get this, just don’t worry about it. It’s pretty obscure anyway. Below: Richard…
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