Tag: Republican Lies

Seriously?

Filed in National by on April 12, 2012 3 Comments
Seriously?

Karl Rove declares that Obama will take the low road in 2012. Well, he’d know something about that.

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Sign the Petition, Send Them Back to the Rock They Should Be Hiding Under

Filed in National by on February 6, 2012 4 Comments

On Facebook, there is a page called “One Million Moms”. This is an effort by the American Family Association that exists to mobilize conservative women to push back on advertising and products that they think are too gay friendly — or as they put it “standing up for their children”. This Facebook page is a cesspool of hate speech, mostly focused on gay people, but if you are The Other, you are not spared here. This group recently has started campaigning against JC Penney, who is advertising on the Ellen DeGeneres show.

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Heathcare Warrior, Arm Thyself

Filed in National by on October 16, 2010 11 Comments

Do you remember all of the breathless claims of Republicans and Tea Partiers talking about their “Canadian friend” that hates the Canadian healthcare system and came to the US for a really important surgery?  Yeah, as you may have guessed, it is probably bogus.  Last week, I heard a radio interview with the author of […]

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Republicans Have Big Ones Too — Bills That Is

Filed in National by on November 30, 2009 2 Comments

Remember the lie about the Health Care legislation was longer than War and Peace? Turns out that out of the top 10 longest bills, half of them have been written by Republicans reports Open Congress. But long bills are written by both Democrats and Republicans. The second longest bill to appear in Congress over the […]

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