Category: politics
you can’t spell “clueless” without “GOP”
When Dick Cheney is still making star turns on FOX “News” a full three months after he was wheeled out of office, you know there’s a power vacuum in the Republican party. And over the past month or so, it seems like the circus has rushed into that vacuum. Teabaggers. Secessionists. Torture apologists. Christian Nationalists. [...]
this too shall pass
I’m counting down the final minutes here on an era that I’m certain will go down as a dark stain on America’s history. I’d start a list, but I don’t have that kind of free time. Would I count just the massive failures, or just the gross incompetencies, or just the blatant treasons, or just [...]
so they loaded up the truck and they moved back to Wasilla, yeehaw
I would just love to have known what thoughts were going through Senator John McCain’s mind at the moment pictured here on election night. He had just finished what I considered to be a graceful concession speech, albeit a speech interrupted by ugly and inappropriate outbursts from his gathered supporters. After the speech, and at [...]
nutty business
From an excellent, fair and balanced article in The Guardian about ACORN, the latest distraction from Fox “News” and their ilk:
Here are the facts. Acorn verifies the legitimacy of every registration its canvassers collect. If they can’t authenticate the registration, or it’s incomplete or questionable in other ways, they flag that form as problematic (“fraudulent”, [...]
more of the same
Via Huffington Post
but you lost
The phrase I said most often last night that was directed at the television: “But you lost!” This is just like that time when the Arizona Cardinals and Detroit Lions played in the conference championship. It was historic these two long-suffering franchises were one step away from the Super Bowl. And remember the final score?! [...]