Tag: Republican Bamboozlement
Rep. Lynn Jenkins, Great White Dope
Kansas Rep. Lynn “Great White Hope” Jenkins is in the news again. This time it’s for her thoughtful and compassionate response to an uninsured constituent. In this clip, taken at a July town hall meeting, Jenkins is confronted by a constituent named Elizabeth Smith — a full-time waitress with two young kids. Smith’s employer doesn’t […]
Michael Steele Is The Perfect Leader For The GOP
Michael Steele both loves and hates Medicare. He is both opposed to government-run health care and doesn’t want any cuts. He doesn’t wants cuts to Medicare, but he does. Yeah, I don’t understand it either. I’m sure it’s an art piece, though, and Steele is some kind of existential genius. Does anyone have a B.S. […]
The New Wingnut Lie — Death Books for Vets
Have you heard about this one? An ex-Bush appointee, Jim Towey — one in charge of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under BushCo (!) — writes an op-ed in the WSJ painting a booklet that provides some guidance on end-of-life planning and claims that it deliberately steers vets towards death.
This would be, of course, wrong. The HuffPo has some great info on this, but the first thing you should know about Mr.Jim Towey and this current jihad of lies is this:
Support the Billionaires
Make sure you watch this all the way through the credits — nicely done! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVwrCzRUX0[/youtube] h/t Bob Cesca, who also notes that one of the organizing tenets of the C Street “Family” is: about a Calvinist interpretation of the New Testament as a divine mandate for the acquisition of wealth, and government ought to be […]
The Deep Roots of the Right Wing Crazy Tree
Rick Pearlstein wrote an amazing op-ed today, which shows how the wingnut crazy has been a persistent part of the political landscape throughout much of the 20th century. (I love the story about how the right thought of Truman and Roosevelt years as “20 years of treason”. Especially since the current expectation by their descendants is that history will rehabilitate BushCo in the way it rehabilitated Truman.) Pearlstein makes this point:
Dick Armey Out of His Cushy Lobbying Job!
This is an interesting Friday afternoon news item: Dick Armey — lately infamous for his work promoting Freedomworks, the corporate-backed group astroturfing Town Halls this summer — has quit his lobbyist job at DLA Piper,claiming to want to work full-time on the Freedomworks thing.
The Fraudulence of Wingnuts — Glenn Beck Edition
Outsourced to Jon Stewart who is very funny and very scathing here:
Is This All There Is?
…and the usual repub thuggery, of course. But Chuck Grassley took to the floor to for a ritual WTF? moment, and Jon Stewart deconstructs the tale Grassley so ineptly tries to tell: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Doof of the Day
“If you like the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they’re run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.”
Right Wing Townhall Harassment Strategy
So I guess given the persistent ratcheting up up the paranoid, hateful and just plain fact-challenged rhetoric of the wingnuts this can’t be a surprise — one of the teabagging organizers is providing detailed directions on how to disrupt townhalls held by Democratic congresspeople this August
CRI An Honest Broker? — Part 3
Here we take a look at the connection of CRI to the llarge and highly networked institutional apparatus that is the conservative think tank business.
The 19 Commandments of the Republican Party
This is from frequently hilarious commenter Dickday over at TPMCafe (caps are his, but imagine Fred Thompson’s voice reading this):
The Guide To Republican Excuse-Making
Whenever a Republican gets caught doing something wrong, he or she and their apologists are always ready with an excuse. Here’s a handy-dandy guide to Republican excuse making.
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