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Pity Party

September 14, 2009

Updated below National Tea Party expectations…. We’re going to Washington to give them a piece of our minds(we have more to spare!). We are joining hundreds of thousands (maybe as many as 1,000,000) fellow patriots in DC. get in on the act now. Number of attendees according to Michelle Malkin's extremist-right website…… Celebrating the 9/12 [...]

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No Credibility

August 15, 2009

Conservatives in 2005 rushing to overrule one family's end-of-life decision. Conservatives say that they do not trust the federal government. These same conservatives say that because the federal government cannot be trusted, the best course is to limit the size and scope of the federal government's power and reach. If there is one overarching theme [...]

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Why?

June 29, 2009

Short blog this Monday. I've been meaning to say something about what I have found to be extremely "sore-thumbish" since Obama's inauguration. Does anyone find it odd that beginning with Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20th, corporate media has spent a tremendous amount of time plumbing the depths of some imagined Republican Party comeback? Let's [...]

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Why So Extreme?

June 20, 2009

The modern Republican Party's plight can be compared, I think, to the experience of American Protestantism in the last half of the 19th century. I'll explain in a minute. Today, many moderates, Democrats, Independents, as well as liberals, have difficulty comprehending what looks like an obvious and ongoing denial of reality by the modern Republican [...]

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A Review Of Recent Right Wing Violence

June 13, 2009

Paul Krugman on Thursday…. Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.….. And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased. [...]

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The Endless Spin Cycle

June 11, 2009

Scanning the insanity…. Lest a new earworm begins gestating in the tone deaf ears of corporate media slugs and conservative "faith basers"….. NY Times… ….President Obama’s agenda, ambitious as it may be, is responsible for only a sliver of the deficits, despite what many of his Republican critics are saying.….. About 7 percent (of the [...]

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The Republican War On Empathy

May 27, 2009

When Republicans first declared their National War Against Empathy From the Court (NWAEFC), I found it amazingly out of touch with basic common sense. But it's Republicans we're dealing with here. Bitter conservatives instantly attacked Obama's mention of empathy as a quality he would be looking for in a new Supreme Court Justice. Of all [...]

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"I Think People Should Be Afraid"

May 26, 2009

Updated below From NBC's "Press the Meat", aka, "Meet the Press", this past Sunday… The Republican Party's "idea man", Mr. Newton Gingrich….. "Let me just say, I think people should be afraid. I think the lesson of 1993, the first time they bombed the World Trade Center, was fear is probably appropriate. I think the [...]

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I Thought We Were Listening, But We're Not

May 7, 2009

Republicans have formed the National Council for a New America(whatever that name means), in an attempt to connect with Americans again. The GOP has lost, badly, in the last two elections and now only 21% of Americans are willing to identify themselves as Republicans. Something constructive had to be undertaken by GOP leaders to at [...]

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'Can't Make This Stuff Up' Tuesday

May 5, 2009

Our military's role in Afghanistan? Hunting people for Jesus. I thought we were spreading freedom. That's what Commander Guy said. __________ Hell no, we're not intolerant. GOP'ers pick Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to replace Arlen Specter as ranking Republican on Senate Judiciary Committee. Commenting on Sessions' 80's fight against black Americans, former MLK adviser said this [...]

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