The town of Scottsdale, Virginia has your typical Fourth of July parade, but here’s an interesting juxtaposition. In the first photo is challenger Tom Perriello, the democratic nominee for Congress, riding on a float pulled by a bio-diesel fueled tractor: Two floats later came the incumbent, Republican Virgil Goode, being pulled by… a Hummer. Just […]
So far, the Republicans have staged 77 filibusters during the current Senate session, already beating the previous record of 58 filibusters held during the 1999-2002 Senate term by a significant amount. So the next time you wonder why Congress can’t get anything done, you know where to look.
Is Charlie Crist, the bachelor Republican Governor of Florida, gay? And just to add to the weirdness, Republican dirty trickster Roger Stone (who worked for Crist during his 2006 gubernatorial campaign) is distributing a video showing Crist making out with a girlfriend. Supposedly this shows that Crist is not gay. Except, well, the purported girlfriend […]
Want to know why Republican congressmen and senators are dropping like flies? The Swing State Project has put together a “comprehensive compendium of Republican hubris, fuckups, and misfortunes”. They nickname it the “Year of Living Catastrophically”. It has not been a good two years for the GOP. Enjoy. http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2303
In USA Today, conservative idiot Jonah Goldberg attacks Obama’s patriotism (again) based on something Obama said. Well, um, except that Obama was repeating something that Reagan said during his inauguration speech. I’m just happy that conservatives are willing to hold Reagan to the same patriotic standards as they hold Democrats. It is worth reading the […]
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Now that neocon ideology has utterly failed, its proponents don’t seem to know when to shut up and go home. Take Bill Kristol, who appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning and suddenly started acting like Hillary Clinton’s best friend: I think Hillary Clinton was gracious. She’s put behind her the horrible sexism and misogyny […]
The Republicans just reintroduced an amendment to the US Constitution that prohibits gay marriage. This amendment has no chance of passage — the main purpose of reintroducing it is to stir up the conservative base for the upcoming elections. But the ironic (and fun) part is looking at the list of 10 original sponsors, where […]
The west coast is definitely not a good place to be a Republican right now. First, Oregon Republican Senator Gordon Smith ran a TV ad trying to attach himself Obama’s coattails. Then California’s Governator made comments distancing himself from Republican proposals. Now this — Fox News reports several Republican candidates in the state of Washington are taking advantage […]
Bush says the surge in Iraq is working. McCain says the surge is working. The media parrots these sound bites. But a report released by the General Accounting Office says otherwise. What a concept: someone actually took the goals the Bush administration laid out in January 2007 for the “surge”, and one-by-one analyzed them to see if […]
Mike Erickson is a Republican running for congress in Oregon. He has sent out campaign materials stressing his pro-life beliefs. Except that in 2001, when a woman he was dating got pregnant, he gave her $300 and drove her to an abortion clinic, dumping her there. It is especially delicious when the hypocrisy of a […]
The twin cities of Minneapolis / St. Paul are hosting the Republican National Convention this summer, but they are having a big problem. They can’t find enough volunteers to work at the convention. In response, they are putting out the word that party affiliation is not important. “This is not about being partisan; it’s about […]
Two weeks ago we reported on the strange goings on in New York concerning the congressional seat formerly held by Vito Fossella (which incidentally is the only New York City congressional seat held by a Republican). Things were pretty strange then, but they just got even stranger. If I were a tele-evangelist, I’d claim that […]
Democrat John Kroger won the Oregon Democratic primary to become their candidate for Attorney General, but in an interesting turn of events, he is also the Republican candidate! Because the Republicans couldn’t find anyone willing to run for the office, election officials were left with counting write-in votes, and the winner was Kroger (defeating several […]
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