From a political party overflowing with sociopaths and creeps, none other than Dick Cheney encapsulates to a greater degree what it is the Republican party has become. The blood of ...
It can be debated as to whether the filibuster came about as a political accident or was created to give minority parties a stronger say in opposing specific legislation they ...
While gun nuts sink a little deeper into madness with each passing day, Seattle is turning guns into bricks.
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Here's the full quote from Charles P. Pierce.
If your "way of life" involves handing deadly weapons to five-year olds, your way of life is completely screwed up and you should ...
A guest post from James Fidlerten.
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After September 11, 2011, America became united, as it grieved the loss of so many lives on American soil. The tragic event also changed so ...
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When an enabler of sexual abuse directed at children sits on the threshold of sainthood, you know you're living in a world of screwed-up priorities.
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Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, ponders Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election.
Looking back, O'Connor said, she isn't sure the high court should have ...
Barbara Bush on a Jeb run in 2016.
"We've had enough Bushes."
An entire planet concurs.
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The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the ...
The above is in response to Maureen Dowd's ridiculous assertion that President Obama is incompetent for failing to get the 60 votes the Senate required to move the gun background ...
In desperate need of an excuse for voting against background checks, here's the one an unnamed Democratic senator is using.
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Exactly.
Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."
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Less than 24 hours after the tragedy at Boston and without a clue as to whom the perpetrator might be, the bigots have crawled out from under the rocks they ...
When did ignorance become
a point of view? ~Dilbert
Is it time yet to make a double-digit IQ a prerequisite to running for public office?
Via Foolocracy:
Texas Rep. Joe Barton doesn’t believe ...
Morris was so laughably wrong in almost everything he said that even many die-hard conservatives no doubt found him to be a buffoon. When he tells you over and over again that there’s no way your side can lose, and then they do, his credibility suffers even with people who want to believe him. But what really did him in, I think, was when it came out in December that he was, in all probability, running a scam on the Fox News viewers whom he implored to contribute to his super PAC to defeat Barack Obama. None of the money went to that cause, instead probably finding its way back into Morris’s pocket. It’s one thing to treat Fox viewers like fools—most of the network’s personalities do that every day. But it’s quite another to treat them like marks. If you do it as blatantly as Morris did, the entire brand is threatened.
In the end, it became too obvious that Dick Morris wasn’t working for the betterment of the conservative movement, or the Republican party, or Fox News. He was working for the betterment of Dick Morris. Once that became all too obvious, I’m sure Ailes had no qualms about showing him the door. After all, there’s plenty more where he came from.
Fox viewers – fools? Nah. Really?
Morris might have been more blatant in his ways than the many grifters who appear daily on Fox but there’s a fine line between Morris’ antics and those of say, a Bill O’Reilly. Truth and honesty would never take precedence over the $20 million O’Reilly pulls in each year in salary alone from Fox. Bill knows what his audience of low-information muppets wants to hear and he delivers without fail.
Morris’ campaign hurt the Republican and Fox brands. To think that Rove swallowed what Morris was telling him explains why both have been shown the door. Their polling machine was way out compared to the competent Democratic war room.
Retribution happens far and wide in between but when this type of justice passes,you sit down and sip a glass of wine with relish.
There was a moment, during the Jon Stewart/Bill O’Reilly “debate”, when Bill said something telling, in response to Jon’s assertion that the Fox people were nuts in their thinking. He said something along the lines of “not everyone believes what they are saying, it’s for the money”. I wondered if he was talking about himself.
I am sure that the foxbots didn’t mind being taken for fools, just thinking that they are doing something to hurt Obama is good enough for them.
Morris’ campaign hurt the Republican and Fox brands. To think that Rove swallowed what Morris was telling him explains why both have been shown the door. Their polling machine was way out compared to the competent Democratic war room.
Retribution happens far and wide in between but when this type of justice passes,you sit down and sip a glass of wine with relish.
There was a moment, during the Jon Stewart/Bill O’Reilly “debate”, when Bill said something telling, in response to Jon’s assertion that the Fox people were nuts in their thinking. He said something along the lines of “not everyone believes what they are saying, it’s for the money”. I wondered if he was talking about himself.
Fox viewers=the dumbest people on the planet!