Wondering what the Republican base looks like... Via TPM, Via Kos on Twitter: A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republican respondents nationwide, gives an interesting peek…
Republicans haven't changed much from the Bush administration. Bipartisan to them still means that Democrats adopt Republican ideas: Last week, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) "made it clear that…
Marco Rubio is the Republican Senate candidate in Florida who is cleaning Crist's clock. He's a darling to the Tea Party/Club for Growth set. He proposed an interesting idea for…
I realize, given the build up to the Exorcist-like music, that I'm supposed to take this video very, very seriously. So why can't I stop laughing? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZs8k4pJcyk[/youtube] Oh, the drama! …
This weekend the Minnesota Star Tribune wrote an editorial calling on Minnesotans to fill out their census forms. Minnesota is in danger of losing a Congressional district in 2010. Guess…
That is the title of this blog post from Ron Reagan's Air America blog. I never get to to hear Ron Regan's show, but he can be very good of even pretty wonky topics. So it was fun to hear him have on at the expense of wingnut buffoonery this past year.
Republicans have been jumping on the bandwagon to criticize President Obama because of the failed terror attack on Christmas Day. Some have been using the incident for fundraising, look at…
In general I stay away from Politico as it is the TMZ of political journalism, but it has stayed in my news reader for some reason. And today I learned…
Part One: Many of you probably heard about the attempted terrorist attack on an airplane landing in Detroit, but what you might not have heard about was Republican Congressman Pete…
Nothing much the Teabaggers say or do these days really surprises me anymore. Their actions and words open up glimpses into their thought processes which is always intriguing albeit a…
Via Think Progress: In an interview with National Review today, DeMint said that the tea parties should no longer be thought of as “separate” from the Republican Party: “The GOP…
Has anything like this ever happened before? House Republicans are preparing for a trip to Copenhagen and looking to derail Democratic efforts to negotiate an international climate agreement. About a…
NRO wrote an article that may be unsnarkable. Jay Nordlinger documents the use of the word "teabagger" to describe the rightwing activists. To “teabag” or not to “teabag”: That is…