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Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-OH)
Posted in Republicans on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yo quero Hispanic Vote?
Posted in Republicans, Would-Be Presidents, elections, politics on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In yet another exercise in political suicide, the Republicans seem to be conceding the Hispanic vote to the Dems this election cycle. With the exception of John McCain, all of the Republican candidates are encountering “scheduling” conflicts on the date of the Spanish language Univision debate.
Here’s Kos:
What’s obviously happening is that they don’t want to [...]
Your local news with the latest on the weather, traffic, and how to solicit gay sex in public restrooms
Posted in Broadcasting, Family Values, Journalism, Media, Republicans, Sex, Television, politics on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
CBS13 Sacremento in covering the Larry Craig gay sex scandal actually roleplays how to solicit gay sex in a public bathroom. Hilarious. God bless local news.
Don’t you find it flattering when people throw change at your bum?
Posted in Books, Republicans on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I doubt the veracity of all of these stories, but Glenn Kessler has written a book about Condoleeza Rice, and this New York Daily News write-up of it is either hilarious or deeply disturbing; I’m still out on which.
One thing we learn? Bush apparently refers to Condi as “the most powerful woman in [...]
Katrina Retrospective
Posted in Bush, Republicans, katrina, politics on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s been a ton of Katrina articles the past few days and I wanted to highlight without comment some of the best ones I’ve read.
Doug Brinkley writes about the feckless rebuilding efforts in New Orleans and what it says about the priorities of the Bush Administration, the local politicians, and the future of the area.
Newsweek [...]
Bin Laden – Chasing Smoke
Posted in Republicans, War, afghanistan, bin laden, terrorism on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Newsweek has an excellent article on the ongoing hunt for Osama Bin Laden. If you have no desire to read some of the excellent books on our war in Afghanistan (like Not a Good Day to Die by Sean Naylor or Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzulo) then this article is a more than [...]
The Republican Party: like Hollywood, except creepier and without as many crotch shots
Posted in Republicans, Sex on August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Roll Call reported yesterday that another Republican politician was arrested for lewd behavior in a public bathroom.
Seriously, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS as of late?
I mean this completely un-snarkily. But this summer alone, we’ve had Larry Craig’s grabby hands under bathroom stalls, David Vitter’s diaper shenanigans, Michael Flory’s rape conviction, the [...]
Republicans, contraception, and more on the political brain …
Posted in Branding, Contraception, Democrats, Reproductive Rights, Republicans, Would-Be Presidents on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In The Political Brain•, Westen mentions that the Republicans are remarkably good at making their values appear to be the values of the majority of Americans when it comes to controversial issues, even though the polls consistently show that the Democratic positions are actually more similar. This is due to two things, Westen says. First, [...]
The Forest – What Bush-style governing really looks like
Posted in Bush, Republicans, politics on August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There were two more stories yesterday and today about executive overreach by the Bush administration.
The first is about the as-of-yet unknown details of the NSA wiretap program. The Office of the Vice President has acknowledged now that it is holding key documents about the program and is claiming Congress cannot reach into the Vice President’s [...]
The Political Brain
Posted in Books, Democrats, Framing, Republicans, Writer-Crushes, politics on August 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
My professor told us this story (which I am now going to promptly butcher) about his time on the campaign trail. In 2004, he was going door-to-door campaigning deep in the backwoods of rural Mississippi (or Arkansas, or Louisiana, I forget which, but you get the gist). They were in a particularly poor neighborhood one [...]
Yes, David. I do.
Posted in Conservative Craziness, Minutemen, Republicans, War, What the Fuck?, immigration on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In response, in part, to my earlier post and to Rick Perlstein (who replies in turn), David Horowitz asks if the left knows who the enemy is.
Before I answer in more detail, let me also draw everyone’s attention to something else I posted earlier because a similar theme can be drawn from the Minutemen video [...]
Katrina Tax Breaks go to Bama Stadium Luxury Condos
Posted in Republicans, katrina, politics on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Although there are thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims still living in Katrinatowns, real estate investors are buying up and developing luxury condos in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and qualifying for tax breaks and incentives meant for Katrina victims as part of the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005.
With large swaths of the Gulf Coast still in ruins from Hurricane [...]
The Straw(man) Poll
Posted in Republicans, Would-Be Presidents on August 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I agree with Dan Balz over at the WaPo that the Republican Iowa Straw Poll is no longer needed or useful (assuming it ever was). A lot of fake folksiness and rubbing elbows to raise money and give off the illusion of relating to the common man, if you ask me.
And since Giuliani, McCain, and Fred [...]
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy
Posted in Journalism, New York City, Republicans, Would-Be Presidents on August 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Via Lawyers, Guns, and Money.
People who know me know that I hate the general level of incompetence and sheer stupidity of what passes for journalism nowadays. I subscribe to the radical belief that articles should be informative, filled with facts, identify sources of information, acknowledge bias when it exists, and unequivocally state when someone is [...]
Dumbest Thing I’ve Read All Day: Young Republicans watch the Simpsons not because it’s, you know, funny, but for the family values….
Posted in Pop Culture, Republicans on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I suppose it’s kind of a cop-out to pick the “dumbest thing I’ve read all day” from the first news article I’ve read this morning, but I just really can’t imagine reading anything more silly today than the quotes in this:
In a 2002 National Review Online op-ed titled “Homer, Conservative Hero,” Deroy Murdock wrote, [...]
a bargain at twice the price
Posted in Republicans on July 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Alex Massie suggests:
We really need to offer a buy out package to Bush and Cheney. I say $100 million each to end their term early. Totally worth it. It’s about 60 cents per American.
just another charming display of republican family values
Posted in Prostitution, Republicans, god and such on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Republican Sen. David Vitter is so moral. He hates abortions, gay marriage, immigrants and gun control. He was probably this close to assuring his place in heaven right next to Daddy Dobson. But – alas! – he has a soft spot for high-class ladies of the night. Luckily Vitter – who just admitted that he [...]
libertarians: manliest of all blog readers
Posted in Bloggers, Democrats, Internet, Libertarians, Republicans on July 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
According to Mother Jones open-source politics issue, the median political blog reader is a 43-year-old man with a household income of $80,000 and 75 percent of political blog readers are male.
Seventy-five percent of the total political blogosphere audience is male? Because a good portion of the blogs I frequent are feminist blogs written by [...]
gonzo journalism on a boat full of fundies
Posted in Journalism, Republicans on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh wow — investigative journalism abounding this week. Only this time our writer takes on a much more formidable crowd then some PR execs — a gaggle of ultra-conservatives floating at sea!
Amidst the National Review cruise, Johann Hari encounters a crowd that believes the Iraq war was a resounding success and, above all else, [...]
Giuliani takes bold position
Posted in Republicans on June 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Shorter Giuliani: In lieu of actual policy or ideological conviction, I’ll just name a whole lot of things that a lot of people don’t like and arbitrarily promise to stop them! (and throw in references to terrorist attacks for good measure)
Former New York mayor and presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani … said he would make good [...]
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