If you tell a lie big enough
Shorter Jim DeMint: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. P.M.Carpenter notes some of the big lies DeMint is telling, while Booman writes that...
View ArticleSo, What Was All That Karzai/Obama Stuff About Today?
Fresh off watching the Karzai-Obama presser, I’m wondering why they bothered. Both of the two most crucial steps in determining any post-2014 US presence in Afghanistan got punted – there was no deal...
View ArticleA Moderate Republican Breaking Point?
James Joyner, writing for the Atlantic, has a great piece up on Republican intransigence over Hagel’s nomination. He looks at the foreign policy statements Hagel has made and describes them as firmly...
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Sierra Club to use civil disobedience for first time in 120 year history
Michael Brune, the Sierra Club’s Executive Director lays out the reason for its momentous decision to use peaceful civil disobedience as a tactic for the first time in its long history. For civil...
View ArticleRight Tries Turning The Benghazi Hearings Into A Single Clinton Phrase
Rightwing bloggers are all twitchy about Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony on the Hill today. The trouble is, there’s no real there there. That some early details were reported incorrectly by the...
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“The only Constitution that Barack Obama upholds is the Soviet constitution”
You’d think by now that Republicans would have worked out that saying really outrageously dumb stuff just gets them laughed at and costs them votes with everyone but their base. Paul Broun is one of...
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The GOP and Charlie’s Anthropic Stupidity Principle
Charles Stross has a tongue-in-cheek post today I think is worth making an analogy about. He wonders, as have we all, why there are so many stupid people. I have a speculative answer: We are hominids....
View ArticlePass The Popcorn
Oh boy, this is going to be great! “There is now an out in the open civil war within the Republican Party,” conservative Iowa radio host Steve Deace wrote in a Politico op-ed this week. He’s right....
View ArticleHagel! Hollaback!
I have a modest proposal for President Obama in which he can screw around with Republican opposition to the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary. I’ll get to that in a minute. Let’s take a...
View ArticlePetulance
The Obama administration and Democrats is sitting awfully pretty this week. This is the week that Republicans will explode, no matter what happens. Pass the popcorn: The danger for Republicans is that...
View ArticleBad Medicine
Run, do not walk, to the local newsstand and pick up a copy of this week’s Time Magazine for the lengthy investigative reporting done by Steven Brill on the price-gouging and profiteering of the...
View ArticleA Sequestion For You
What if they gave a budget and nobody came?: As sequestration begins, Republicans have been overtaken with something close to giddiness, and Democrats seized with gloom. It appeared as recently as a...
View ArticleSen. Carl Levin of Michigan won’t run for reelection in 2014
Los Angeles Times, By Michael A. Memoli, March 7 Washington – Michigan Democrat Carl Levin announced Thursday that he would not run for reelection in 2014, adding to an exodus of experience in the...
View ArticleThere’s An Old African Saying…
When two elephants battle, it is the grass that suffers. Welcome to my blog, fellow blade! The Dueling Budgets battle has begun, and Republicans, Inc. are playing the banjo: WASHINGTON (AP) — House...
View ArticleReince? May I Recommend…
…a Grand Army of the Republicans, Inc.? ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says his party needs to increase its numbers without changing its political...
View ArticleIt’s Days Like These…
…I wish I was an ignorant Republican, Inc-er. I did my taxes last night. It was not pretty. I had an instructor for Tax Accounting when I was Actorino212, and he once said something really profound....
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He Just Don’t Get It, Do He?
President Obama, I mean: WASHINGTON – In his fifth annual budget proposal to Congress on Wednesday, President Obama once again has put forward a fiscal mix of investments in infrastructure, education...
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Politics 101: Always know your surroundings
Also tastelessly posted at What Would Jack Do? The post Politics 101: Always know your surroundings appeared first on The Agonist.
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The Song of the Furies
Witnesses to them that died, The blood avengers at his side, The Furies’ troop forever stands. Aeschylus was more right than he knew. I’ll leave it to Gabby Giffords to explain what this post is about:...
View ArticleInelegantly Pursued
But then, this was Mark Sanford, who needed to be called on it: As the NRCC’s move suggests, Sanford’s recent history is the main reason the race is so competitive. In 2009, he admitted to traveling to...
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