After all the recent bad news, the Republicans must be feeling a bit defensive and embattled. Because they are trying really hard to create a scandal for Obama, which they are even helpfully calling “Carbongate“. The story started with a report authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin that questioned the impact of carbon dioxide on […]
In an interview in the Washington Times, Newt Gingrich lays out his vision for conservatives and Republicans. He calls it “thinking outside the party-label box”. What Gingrich is saying is that the Republican brand is so damaged, that Republicans must promote conservative Democrats (!) I would urge conservatives in California to find a Democrat to […]
In an unintentionally ironic commentary on CNN, Republican John Feehery warns that now that the Democrats have a 60 seat majority in the Senate (with Senator Al Franken), we can expect such horrors as The Metric System (are you scared yet?)! What will this lead to? Soft drinks sold in liter bottles? Oh yeah, they […]
The latest installment of the Mark Sanford saga is that in his original confession about his lover in Argentina, he, uh, failed to tell the entire truth (he lied). Now he wants to “lay it all out” (as he inconveniently put it) and has added several additional romantic liaisons with his girlfriend that he failed […]
This is absolutely nuts: The quote from Michael Scheuer is “The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” Glenn Beck agrees. In today’s Wall Street Journal is an opinion piece about how dysfunction helps the GOP. It […]
Great story from Willie Brown: I got into a cab Friday, and the driver asked, “Was Michael Jackson a Republican?” “I don’t think so. Why?” “He managed to knock both that two-timing South Carolina governor and that two-timing, Bible-thumping senator from Nevada off the front page. Republicans haven’t gotten that much help from a black […]
A graph printed in the NY times arranges the states according to their divorce rate, teenage birthrate, and (perhaps most telling of all) their subscriptions to online porn sites. So, which states would you think would lead in these “sin” statistics? Red States, the home of family values, moral rectitude, and social conservatives? Or Blue […]
Maybe it is just me, but doesn’t Colbert look more like Obama with his short hair?
After Fox News labelled disgraced Governor Mark Sanford as a Democrat (when he is a Republican), Intershame pointed out that this happens far too often to be an honest mistake:
Personally, I think the sex life of anyone — including elected officials — is their own damn business, but you can’t help but shake your head at the behavior of people like Governor Mark Sanford and you may even enjoy watching him squirm. After all, he preached morality to others while sinning himself. He publicly […]
Is becoming the party of white supremacists the best way for the Republican Party to attract new members? Pat Buchanan seems to think so, but the result was not just dripping with irony, it was positively drowning in it. Last Saturday, Buchanan hosted a conference — optimistically entitled “Building the New Majority” — on how […]
Last week, right-wing talk radio was all steamed up that most of the car dealerships being closed by Chrysler were owned by people who had contributed to the GOP. Keith Olbermann does a much better (and funnier) job than I could of explaining why this is so.
It is one of those curious ironies of life that the best thing that liberals could do right now would be to oppose the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Why? For many reasons. Opposing Sotomayor will make it more likely she is confirmed. It is simple politics (a game that the Democrats […]
© Tom Toles More information about the climate bill working its way through Congress. Only a single Republican voted to move the bill out of committee. The rest seem to think that “America cannot afford to do anything about climate change and shouldn’t bother trying”.
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