Tag: Republican Bamboozlement

Summer Of Spittle II Coming?

Filed in National by on April 22, 2011 16 Comments

Return of the angry town halls this summer? Voters are not fooled by the GOP’s spin that they are “saving” Medicare.

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Wednesday Morning Fun: CRI

Filed in Delaware by on April 20, 2011 15 Comments

I have been thinking that CRI, which stands for “Caesar Rodney Institute” is probably secretly an acronym for something else. Let’s come up with other things that CRI might REALLY mean.

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The Very Serious Paul Ryan Budget

Filed in National by on April 6, 2011 6 Comments

The very serious Paul Ryan released his magical deficit reduction plan yesterday. Cutting taxes = deficit reduction and ending Medicare = JOBS.

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Lying Is OK If You Believe It

Filed in National by on March 30, 2011 2 Comments

Fox News managing editor Bill Sammon admitted that he called Barack Obama a socialist even though he thought it was far-fetched. He justified the lie by saying everyone started talking about it.

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Repeal The Job-Killing Speaker Of The House

Filed in National by on February 17, 2011 10 Comments

John Boehner on Tuesday: “Since President Obama has taken office the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs, and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it.”

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How the World Sees Us

Filed in National by on February 5, 2011 2 Comments

…at least via our right wingnut crazies.

This hit my mailbox ALOT over the past few days, and I cringed every time I saw it: Middle East unrest according to Glenn Beck and friends. The Guardian rounds up a the crazy, the stupid and the dangerous of the Wingnut-o-Sphere, and you should go over there to see it all.

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Paying China First

Filed in National by on January 31, 2011 4 Comments

In a nutshell, that seems to be forming up as the GOP plan to avoid defaulting on the US debt if there is no agreement on the debt ceiling.

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Dispatch From The GOP Braintrust

Filed in National by on January 25, 2011 4 Comments

Michele Bachmann indulges in some historical revisionism.

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Watching the CRI Working Hard for Their Climate Change Denier Merit Badge

Filed in Delaware by on January 6, 2011 4 Comments

Required, apparently, for full participation in the Wingularity.

Again, via Tommywonk, we learn that CRI (and their Director of Center for Energy Competitiveness, David T. Stephenson) have been posting up their promised *discussions* of the so-called flawed foundations of Delaware’s Energy policy. There are three new missives today:

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It’s Hard Work Being Scalia

Filed in National by on January 6, 2011 3 Comments

Antonin Scalia not only redefines words, he redefines history in his 14th Amendment revisionism.

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If We Had A Real Think Tank In Delaware…

Filed in National by on January 6, 2011 3 Comments
If We Had A Real Think Tank In Delaware…

…they’d be working overtime to make sure that this comes to fruition:

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In Which We Find the CRI Beginning their Astroturf Campaign In Favor of Dirty Energy

Filed in Delaware by on January 5, 2011 10 Comments
In Which We Find the CRI Beginning their Astroturf Campaign In Favor of Dirty Energy

First place to go to get up to speed on this is Tommywonk’s place, where he notes that they are retreating to that tried and true tactic of basically just making shit up.

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More GOP Hypocrisy on Earmarks!

Filed in National by on December 10, 2010 2 Comments

Surprise, surprise, surprise

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