Tag: Republican Bamboozlement
Late Night Video — There’s A Rep for That!
Don’t know if Apple will be asking to take this down anytime soon, but this is clever and funny:
Cathcart Wants It Both Ways
Dick Cathcart is really pissing me off. Today, he published an opinion piece in The News Journal that tries to rewrite recent history.
He [Bryon Short] and just about 100 percent of his Democratic colleagues voted in favor of the package, whereas just about every member of the House Republicans voted against the tax and fee hikes.
Guess what? The Republicans could have scuttled every one of the tax and fee hikes. Every. Single. One.
Proof No. XVIII On Why Conservatives Really Don’t Care About Small Government or Stopping Spending
Senate Finance Committee Approves Amendment Providing Millions for Abstinence Education
So here we go again. Senator Orin Hatch proposed this amendment which would provide $50 million per year through 2014 solely for abstinence education programs. These are the same experimental programs that have been shown to be a failure and that President Obama cut from the budget because they do not work.
Late Night Video — the Return of McCarthyism
Interesting comparisons here. Video is 9 – 10 mins long. Find more videos like this on DramaTube
How ACORN Helped Defund the Entire Military Industrial Complex
Well, maybe not all — but there’s some nervousness out there. After yesterday’s post on why reducing spending and government is so tough — today I find that Congress has just enacted a way to really cut back on expenditures that I whole heartedly endorse:
The Teabagger Pledge
I saw this at dKos yesterday, but it also turned up in my email several times, today, so I thought I would post it here. Perhaps our local teabaggers will print this up and make a point of getting their cohorts to signup. Or perhaps tell us they endorse this letter in the comments!
Late Night Video — The Definitive 9/12 Video
Lifestyles of the White and Gullible, indeed…a word of advice — put down all liquids before watching. The English-only guy is especially fun. But so is the lady on Social Security who wants the government out of her life.
The Public Is Smarter Than Republicans Think
Greg Sargent at Plumline finds some data in a Bloomberg poll that suggests that most Americans know that the Republican health-care reform opponents are just trying to scare people. Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health care […]
The Next Rightwing Outrage?
So, is Sarah Palin running for president or what? Steve Benen tells us the next outrage that Palin is trying to start: We learned last night that President Obama expects health care reform to cost “around $900 billion over 10 years.” Obviously, that’s a considerable investment, but the president reminded Americans that this is less […]
Afternoon Open Thread
David Neiwert is the author of The Eliminationists — How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, a book I’m currently reading. If you’ve followed any of Neiwert’s work at Orcinus or at Crooks and Liars, you know that his longtime project is reporting on the fringe right and increasingly he has been reporting on how the ideas and speech of these fringe groups gets mainstreamed.
More Michael Steele FAIL
So what if you began a “Freedom Tour” and nobody came?
This is another tale of FAIL from Michael Steele and the GOP efforts to reach out to minorities. He begins this tour at Howard University — the tour lands at Historically Black Colleges and here you go:
Just As You Thought the Palin Trainwreck Might Be Over…
…Levi Johnston shows up to talk to Vanity Fair. This, of course, is just a teaser and Levi has been out and about not doing the Quitta from Wasilla any favors.
Mike Castle Goes Out of Town to Get His Inner Wingnut On
On Monday, Castle went to Philly to be part of a panel of legislators to discuss Health Insurance reform for some radio show.
What is interesting about this is that Castle abandoned his so-called “moderation” for some pandering to the wingnut base:
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