Tag: Republican Crazy

Deep Palin Thoughts

Filed in National by on July 8, 2009 13 Comments

#1 Sarah Palin gave interviews yesterday while fishing. Is she planning on spending the rest of her term on vacation? #2 Yesterday Palin said this: I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw […]

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GOP Base Still Supports The Quitta From Wasilla

Filed in National by on July 7, 2009 4 Comments

According to a USA Today poll, two-thirds of Republicans want Palin to become “a major political force in the future”. For you math-impaired, two-thirds of 21% of the electorate that calls themselves Republicans is only 14% of the electorate. That’s right 14% of the American electorate is down-right crazy.

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Bringing Teh Stoopid

Filed in National by on July 6, 2009 27 Comments

She wants to give our children the same lifestyle we had — not a better one. Oh wait, that’s not it, she said the Earth was 6,000 years old. Facepalm. h/t Bad Astronomy

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Sarah Palin: The Aftermath

Filed in National by on July 5, 2009 57 Comments

I’ll admit to a wee bit of obsession on the Sarah Palin resignation story. Now that we’ve had a couple of days to think about it, what have we learned? Not much, I think. Let me see if I got this straight – her stated reason for resigning was that she wasn’t seeking re-election and […]

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Breaking: Palin To Resign

Filed in National by on July 3, 2009 57 Comments

Gov. Sarah Palin announced today that she will not be seeking a second term as the governor of the 49th state and then added she will be resigning. Should she be considered the front runner for the Radical Right Republican Party? Or are their personal issues that need to be dealt with instead? (h/t The_Borg) […]

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QOTD

Filed in National by on July 3, 2009 6 Comments

Shamelessly stolen from Balloon Juice, except ours is a two part question: Is there anyone in public life with a mustache who isn’t a buffoon? (Delaware version) Is there anyone in public life with a mustache who isn’t a buffoon? (Nationwide version) Anyone else?  Add their names in the comments….

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David Anderson is crazy and I love it

Filed in National by on July 2, 2009 44 Comments

David Anderson on Roe v. Wade: The gates of hell were opened that day in 1973 and our values seem to be sucked down to the pit. Child abuse soared, families collapsed, murder soared, rape climbed, schools became war zones, and America suffered humiliation in Viet Nam and a disgraced Presidency. The once great manufacturing […]

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Popcorn Stocks Soaring!

Filed in National by on July 2, 2009 2 Comments

Pass the popcorn, this is going to be good. The Palin-McCain campaign feud is starting to spill out into the mainstream media now. Recently there was the Vanity Fair article about Palin, which featured criticism from her critics in Alaska as well as critics from the McCain campaign. Now, the feud is escalating. Someone has […]

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The Leader of the DE GOP Is Not Pleased

Filed in Delaware by on June 27, 2009 26 Comments

An independent voter let us know that Mike Protack, the leader of the Delaware Republican Party, wrote the following: In what has been the biggest aggregious offense since the passage of the Stimulus Bill of 2009, the U.S. House has passed the Cap-and Trade Bill.  The vote was largely on party lines resulting in 219 […]

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The Sound You Hear Is . . .

Filed in National by on June 27, 2009 7 Comments

. . . nemski slamming his head against the desk repeatedly. Republican Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern, who last year said that homosexuals are worse than terrorists, has written the Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Morality. The what? The Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Morality. A local Oklahoma TV station interviews her about this “document”. She writes […]

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Rush Blames Sanford’s Affair on Obama

Filed in National by on June 27, 2009 15 Comments

Rush Limbaugh, leader the of National Republican Party, blames President Obama for pushing Gov. Sanford to edge — “it’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under”. h/t again to Ed Brayton’s Dispatches from the Culture Wars.

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Just Stop It! Stop It Now!

Filed in National by on June 27, 2009 11 Comments

As Ed Brayton says they’re “making the baby Jesus cry”.

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Delusions of Grandeur

Filed in National by on June 26, 2009 13 Comments

Mark Sanford explains his refusal to resign as governor of South Carolina in Biblical terms. King David didn’t resign after the Bathsheba affair did he? In case you thought it was some kind of accident, Sanford restated his analogy in a press release. Late Update: In a statement issued after the meeting, Sanford doubled down […]

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