Whether you think Carl Paladino is serious, insane, or the next sub-genius, his campaign certainly is ironic. Maybe he is just following in the footsteps of some of the crazier members of the Republican party (cough, Bachmann, cough Palin) and trying to see how insane you can be and ironically still get away with it.
Matt Taibbi has yet another brilliant article/rant in Rolling Stone about the Tea Party, where it came from, how it has been appropriated by corporate Republican power brokers, and just where that leaves us. Go read it. Just to get you to read it, here are two paragraphs from the end: Of course, the fact […]
CNN has a documentary that has a double helping of irony. The documentary is about Polish Jews who are coming out of the closet about their religion. Not only did communist governments try to suppress all religion, but in the years after WWII antisemitism was rampant in Poland, to the point where many Jews hid […]
The GOP is campaigning to repeal Obama’s health care overhaul bill, calling it socialist and a job killer. To support this, they quote polls that show that Americans oppose the reform bill by numbers like 40% against to 30% in favor (with 30% neutral). So it sounds like Americans want the GOP to kill Obamacare. […]
I don’t care what the pundits say about Jimmy Carter. I think he is the nicest, most genuine, and the most underrated president we ever had.
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political races, we are indeed seeing a huge upsurge in the amount of money being spent by third parties for the upcoming election. The NY Times has a couple of maps that show where the money is being […]
In the Republican’s new “Pledge To America” they say: We will allow small business owners to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their business income. However, there are two common forms of “small business” that doesn’t pay any taxes already. Instead, in Subchapter S corporations and Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships (LLCs), […]
PolitiFact, a non-partisan fact checking service, is one of my favorite sites for finding out the truth about politicians. Not only do they do the hard research and fact checking that the media doesn’t bother with anymore, but they do it with style and often a good sense of humor. A good example is their […]
You may or may not like Paul Krugman, but he has a must-read rant in the NY Times called “The Angry Rich“. Here are a few quotes, but the whole (fairly short) thing is worth a read: Anger is sweeping America. … No, I’m not talking about the Tea Partiers. I’m talking about the rich. […]
© Tom Toles More and more I’m feeling like this. I mean, when I lived overseas and our government did stupid things like the Viet Nam war, people would console me by saying that the American people were good, it was just our government. But now it seems like we finally elected a president who […]
What I want to know is why is Meg Whitman so desperate to be governor of California? She has already spent $119 million of her own money on the campaign, more than any other self-funded candidate in history. But now, Whitman has been caught staging a fake town hall meeting. And it isn’t like she […]
California proposition 19 — to decriminalize and tax marijuana — is being opposed by an organization called “Public Safety First”. But it seems ironic that an organization whose very name implies that they want to promote public safety, has received a rather large donation from the California Beer and Beverage Distributors. Why would the alcohol […]
Just some quick notes: First, the only thing comforting about the thought that the Republicans will gain power in the upcoming mid-term elections is that that just means that they will be shooting themselves in the foot again. Just look what they did with 8 years with Bush as president, control of the Supreme Court, […]
Tina Dupuy has an excellent article entitled “The Enthusiasm Gap or He’s Just a President” that speaks to one of my pet peeves. It is bad enough that the right-wing is (semi-successfully) painting Obama as a socialist, fascist, foreign-born, Muslim sleeper agent. But it doesn’t help that the left-wing is depressed and disillusioned. So disillusioned […]
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