Video of Sarah Palin squawking at speaking to “supporters” of a newly formed group called “Tea Party of America” today at a rain-soaked rally in Iowa… and covered LIVE by Sun News! Go figure. In a Godly portent worthy of … Continue reading →
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Red Tory v.3.0.3: Do Teabaggers Read Books?
Well, not that much, apparently. At least if sales figures for the latest raft of books penned by Tea Party icons are any indication of that group’s appetite for book learnin’… Despite widespread media hype, TroubleMaker, by vacuous non-witch and … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe PCs may not be a fully Tea Partyesque group, but there are some similarities
John Ivison from the National Post recently wrote a column calling out Liberal interim leader Bob Rae on his comparison of the Harper Progressive Conservatives to American Tea Partiers.
Bob Rae initially said that there can be no doubt that Stephe…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Answer to the Tea Party No-Taxes Pledge
The world had just watched in befuddlement as the mighty USA has reeled from the impact on its governance of a large group of members of Congress who have united in a pledge placed before them by Grover Norquist.Norquist’s claim to fame is his mission …
Continue readingLeDaro: Tea Party is racist
A study by the university of Notre Dame has removed any doubt. It has only changed its uniform otherwise it is just another white supramist group with a tiny number of black Uncle Toms.
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Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: How Canadians Forced the Republicans to Miss the Bus
The Neocons South of the border, are in a flap … again.Not satisfied with bringing their country to the brink of collapse with their silly posturing over raising the debt ceiling, they are now attacking Obama for riding in a bus.Maybe it’s just that …
Continue readingWhat Rob Ford, the tea party and the Conservatives should learn from the British riots
But they won’t.The last time Britain saw widespread rioting, in the 1980s, street violence came after a long and failed political struggle against the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, which suppressed trade unions and decimated social serv…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “They are objectivizing us!” – The Tea Party rocks the Stupid
Cheering for a credit rating downgrade. They play with sparklers in fireworks factories too. *sigh* Filed under: Politics Tagged: Stunningly Stupid, Stupid, Stupid with Political Power, Tea party
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Has the Ottawa Press Gallery Joined Big Bird’s Red Army?
The late Dalton Camp, former president of the now defunct federal Progressive Conservative Party, tells a story in his book: Whose Country is This Anyway, of a group of young conservatives who had disrupted a speech by Jean Charest.Charest at the time,…
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 readingTrashy's World: The so-called “bipartisan” agreement in the U.S…
… is only putting off the inevitable unless something more substantive can be done to alleviate the unfathomable levels of American debt. Americans are going to have to pay now – because the price to pay later will bring their proud nation to its knees. Usually, The Onion is a work of satire. Usually. But […]
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Happy Civic Holiday… and why Obama did the deal he did.
To all of you in Canada who get this first Monday off, whether it’s called Civic Holiday or whatever, all the best to you. As for politics on this day, attention has turned to our US neighbour’s attempts to get their debt ceiling agreement in place before they default tomorrow. A tentative deal has been reached, which still has to be voted on and passed, but many progressives and liberals – both in the US and here in Canada – are dismayed at the Democrats and President Obama’s unwillingness to force the Republicans to compromise more in the agreement. They view it as a sellout of Democratic and progressive/liberal […]
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 readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Debt Ceiling Crisis? Obama Should Just do What Reagan and Bush Did
Ronald Reagan incurred more debt than all previous presidents combined, and was forced to raise the debt ceiling 17 times. No trumpets blared.George H.W. Bush, inherited this massive debt and was forced to raise the debt ceiling 7 times. No beating of …
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 …
The Disaffected Lib: Could the Tea Party Be America’s Salvation?
No seriously, just bear with me for a moment. Tea Party members of America’s House of Representatives appear intent on bringing their government down. These excerpts from der Spiegel illustrate what’s happening:..the [US] system only …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Norway: Terrible Side-Effect of Islamophobia
The horror, tragedy and seeming madness of the killing spree in Norway are almost impossible to imagine. There is a temptation to focus on the mourning and solidarity with people in Norway and to resist analysis as something cold and foreign to the hum…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is the Tea Party America’s Khmer Rouge?
The struggles underway between Congressional GOP leaders and the White House over America’s debt ceiling have an eerie, nihilistic air to them.Some attribute it to the struggles Republican House leader John Boehner and Senate leader Mitch McConell are …
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 readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Is Slavery Really the Best Thing for Families?
If you think keeping track of the myriad of think tanks and AstroTurf groups that prop up the neoconservative movement, is a challenge; try unravelling their Religious Right infrastructure.Just when you think you’ve nailed down the Republican, Conserva…
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