As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
In case you missed the story, Pope Benedict made headlines this week by doing what it is popes do best - putting the irrational fear of God into his followers.
The ...
Romney was asked whether questions dealing with distribution of wealth and power were a matter of jealousy or fairness.
You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class ...
If one could meld the Republican presidential candidates into a single person, what would emerge? I was thinking along the lines of Jekyll and Hyde and the result, as demonstrated ...
I had to write something about Rod Blagojevich’s impeachment. Actually, I need to thank the former Illinois Governor for keeping me amused for the last number of weeks and more important, for giving the professional comedians out there such a rich source of material to draw from.
I think I can best sum up Blagojevich’s performance by offering you a segment of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann’s show from last night. Watch for the second half of this clip where Olbermann plays the highlights from this week’s late night television shows portrayal of Blagojevich. It’s hilarious, especially the Mother Teresa, Ghandi and Stephen Colbert segments.
If President Obama offers the commerce position to Gregg, you can bet that Republicans will plead with the New Hampshire senator to turn it down. Interesting stuff politcs.
For anyone who has paid attention for the last 8 years and were repulsed by the display of arrogance and smugness by the Republican party, you can’t help but smile these days. The GOP is a party in disarray with no vision, no soul and no direction.
In an article in the Washington Post – For GOP, a Case of Misshapen Identity – Republicans speak of a need to redefine themselves and set a new course for the future. They speak of their party being “broken“, in a “rebuilding time“, “trying to figure out who we are” and “soul searching“.
It is refreshing to hear some Republicans finally understand that the party’s “deeds did not match its words. Did not rein in spending. Did not rein in earmarks” and that “In many ways we got what we deserved“.
You’re damn right you did! Bush and his minions made a mockery of not only the democratic process but of his own party as well.
All that said, let’s all hope the Republican party does, in time, become a principled political force focused on the needs of the country and not on those of a select few. One party rule for too long a period of time is unhealthy and dangerous for any country.
So while I hope the GOP does eventually find itself, for now I’ll delight in watching them wander in the desert of mayhem and lost identity. It sort of puts a smile on my face.
I understand that politics is what it is and Republicans are playing the opposition game but how funny to hear them now claim they have the answers as to how to get the economy moving. This is from a party which held the levers of power for 8 years, six of which they had complete control of both the White House and Congress.
What they fail to understand, I think, is that people voted for change. If they wanted the same fiscal policies which drove the economy into the ground, they would have voted for John McCain. As for President Obama, he is obviously doing his best to get a bipartisan bill but at the end of the day, it’s going to be a Democrat bill. Republicans are not about to roll over for Obama no matter how much their partisanship further hurts the country.
My daughter, Cristina, sent me an email today directing me to a website called Urban Dictionary. Wikepedia had this to say about Urban Dictionary:
“Urban Dictionary is a Web-baseddictionary of slang words, phrases, and names based on user submissions. As of January 27, 2009, the site claims “3,661,117 definitions written since 1999.” Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by site visitors.”
So I checked it out and was curious as to what the entry for my favorite person had to say. Of course I speak of George W. Bush. There’s a lot of silliness in the definitions submitted, both in favor, and not, of the 43rd president. There was one I did find interesting.
“…and so he led the country to fascism. A fascist country is one that runs mostly using military power, with a strong sense of nationalism…much like a dictatorship…he used propaganda to discriminate against a certain scapegoat – usually a country or religious group.”
-History textbook
“The Rise of Hitler”
Right off the bat, allow me say that comparisons between Bush and Hitler are ridiculous. Whatever criticism we might have of Bush’s policies, comparing him to the most evil individual of the 20th century is just plain wrong and it’s not my view nor is it a discussion I’d ever enter.
What I did find interesting was the comparision of Bush’s presidency to fascism. No, I don’t think America was a fascist state under Bush but did it have fascist tendencies? Absolutely. For an intelligent, balanced view of the US and fascism, see Matthen N. Lyons article, ‘Is the Bush Administration Fascist?‘
“Fascism is an authoritariannationalist ideology focused on solving economic, political, and social problems that its supporters see as causing national decline or decadence. Fascist governments typically seek to prepare a nation for armed conflict with other nations, to defend itself or to expand its state to allow for the growth of a nation.”
For anyone who has an understanding of the Bush administration’s neoconservative wing’s concerted policy of lies and deceit in taking the US to war in Iraq, the above definition is not lost on them.
Also, if there exists any group in the US which has an ideology which claims that America is in a decadent decline which can only be solved through authoritarian political means, it’s the Republican party’s Christian right base.
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