Archive for the ‘Election’ Category
Ten Reasons Why I’m Still Smiling after the Election.
Okay, I know it may seem like there’s very little to be happy about after last Tuesday’s “shellacking” (as President Obama put it) in the polls (which wasn’t nearly as bad as some were predicting), and I too certainly fear for the next two years and all the chaos we are likely to see as […]
November 8, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Money, Politics
Don’t Be Surprised If Democrats Don’t Lose Big
Two wars that weren’t paid for. Huge tax cuts for the rich that weren’t paid for. TARP bailout that wasn’t paid for. Medicare Part-D that wasn’t paid for. Then they point and say, “Look at this huge deficit Obama created!” For months now, the “fact” that Democrats “will lose big” this election has been repeated […]
November 1, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, myth busting, Politics, Predictions, Racism, Right-Wing Insanity
Was the September Jobs Report a Preview of a Teabagger Congress?
Last Friday, the White House released the disappointing unemployment figures for the month of September, with unemployment stuck at 9.6% following a net loss of 95,000 jobs. I stress “net” because even though the private sector gained jobs, the number was offset by the elimination of hundreds of thousands of government jobs (as columnist EJ Dione […]
October 11, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Money, Politics
Special Edition: Report of Mass Voter Fraud in Houston full of holes (Update 2)
Breaking News (story will be continually updated throughout the day/week as information is uncovered.) The rightwing blogs are all a twitter with a story on Fox “news” that “an SEIU (Service Employees International Union) employee, “Steve Caddle” (later corrected as “Sean Caddle”) was behind an attempt at rampant voter fraud, attempting to register “23,207” fraudulent […]
September 29, 2010
Posted in: Election, myth busting, Politics
Republicans PLEDGE to Do Nothing New (Turd polish edition)
Last week, Republicans released their “Pledge to America” (or as Keith Olbermann calls it, a “Lemon Pledge”). Longer than Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract On With America” (thanks to about 14 hilarious full page photo inserts and eight mostly blank divider pages), yet shorter on details, answers, and even leaving many (Conservative) “problems”, like “earmarks”, left totally […]
September 27, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Money, Politics
Tea Party nominees are Evangelical nuts with no economic solutions
The Tea Party appears to be scoring some major victories in the Republican Primaries this year, challenging & defeating a series of Republican incumbents across the country… not via mass popular appeal, but thanks to heavy Teanut turnout matched with anemic GOP turnout on Primary Day in races that attracted on average fewer than 19% […]
September 20, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Politics, Religion, Right-Wing Insanity
Name ONE thing the Tea Party stands for that helps People more than Corporations
Last Saturday was Glenn Beck’s “I Have a Scheme” rally (credit to Wonkette for the pun). Though it was dubbed “not a political rally”, no question that the 99% white crowd consisted almost entirely of Tea Party teanuts with politics on their mind. The theme of the rally was “Restoring Honor”. Restoring honor? This is […]
August 30, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, Energy Independence, Environment, Healthcare, Money, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity
Anatomy of a One-term President. A cautionary tale.
A litany of dumb moves, failures of leadership, kowtowing to Conservatives while fighting with his base, a military situation with no end in sight, a stalled economy, high unemployment where no ones job feels safe, and an inability to convince people of the urgency to get off foreign oil. A good man elected to replace […]
August 16, 2010
Posted in: Economy, Election, General, Politics
More “Party of Jeff Davis” evidence: Move to Repeal/Rewrite “GOP’s” 14th Amendment.
Credit where credit is due, last week the DailyKOS’s Jamison Foser pointed out the over-looked fact that the 14th Amendment that Republicans are suddenly so hot to repeal/rewrite was a Republican Amendment (passed in 1866, the year after Lincoln’s assassination and the end of the Civil War) that the GOP website proudly touts touted as […]
August 9, 2010
Posted in: Election, Politics, Racism, Right-Wing Insanity, Unconstitutional
The Party of Lincoln has become The Party of Jefferson Davis
Two years ago next month, I wrote one of my most referenced Op/Eds: “Time to put this ‘Party of Lincoln’ nonsense to bed.” I pointed out at the time that present day Republicans take enormous pride in reminding minority voters that Abraham Lincoln… the founder of their Party… “freed the slaves”… the most intrusive, anti-big […]
July 26, 2010
Posted in: Election, myth busting, Politics, Racism, Right-Wing Insanity
The sudden acceptability of racism on the American Right, part 2
Back during the 2008 Presidential campaign, one couldn’t help but notice the sudden surge in racist attacks/jokes/slurs against presidential candidate Barack Obama without a hint of shame. It seemed I would receive about three racist emails a week over the last few months before the election. Suddenly, there was no shame in being a mouth-breathing racist […]
July 20, 2010
Posted in: Election, General, Politics, Racism, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity
GOP to Steele: Don’t give our war away to Democrats!
Last week we heard from a parade of Republicans denouncing RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s absurd suggestions that Afghanistan is “a war of Obama’s choosing”, that the majority of the country is now opposed to the war there, and that “Obama’s decision” to send “ground troops” into a region known as “where empires go to die” […]
July 5, 2010
Posted in: Election, General, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, War
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