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  • Romney Calls Santorum the ‘D’ Word

    Romney Calls Santorum the 'D' Word

    Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...

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  • Holy Rick Santorum, Batman!

    Holy Rick Santorum, Batman!

    No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...

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  • “We the Rich…”

    We the Rich...

    Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...

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  • A Romney Victory Is Ensured With Trump’s Endorsement ()

    A Romney Victory Is Ensured With Trump's Endorsement ()

    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 ...

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  • Why I Love Newt Gingrich

    Why I Love Newt Gingrich

    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 ...

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  • Republican Cannibalism

    Republican Cannibalism

    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 ...

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  • Romney Hood

    Romney Hood

    One of our readers sent me an email with an idea for an illustration - Mitt Romney as Romney Hood. I thought it was brilliant and came up with the ...

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  • Why Do People Take an Instant Dislike To Newt Gingrich?

    Why Do People Take an Instant Dislike To Newt Gingrich?

    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 ...

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  • Gingrich Takes A Thrashing

    Gingrich Takes A Thrashing

    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 ...

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  • SOTU

    SOTU

    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 ...

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  • Just Another GOP Debate

    Just Another GOP Debate

    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 ...

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  • No More Mister Nice Guy for Mitt Romney

    No More Mister Nice Guy for Mitt Romney

    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 ...

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  • Mike Huckabee Solidifies His Birther Creds

    Mike Huckabee Solidifies His Birther Creds

    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 ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    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." ...

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  • The Last Word On Jon Huntsman

    The Last Word On Jon Huntsman

    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 ...

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  • Does Romney Urinate Straight Down His Leg?

    Does Romney Urinate Straight Down His Leg?

    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 ...

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  • The Constitution – Libertarian’s False Idol

    The Constitution - Libertarian's False Idol

    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 ...

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  • Gingrich’s Delusional Politics

    Gingrich's Delusional Politics

    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 ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    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 ...

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  • What Do North Korea and Indiana Have In Common?

    What Do North Korea and Indiana Have In Common?

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See Newt Run. See Newt Spin. See Newt Implode.

The best part of the 2012 election race might very well be watching Newt Gingrich go down in flames…and not by enemy fire but from his own words and the nihilistic sewage he spews out on a daily basis. And I can’t think of a more deserving individual than Mr. Self-Proclaimed Intellectual (although Palin, Bachmann, Boehner and a dozen other GOPers do come in for a close second).  Anytime a politician gets mocked by both the opposition and his own party, you know his chances for higher office are all but gone.

With his latest salvo, Gingrich has crossed the dividing line from STFU You Lying Immoral Bastard to Ridiculous Monkey.  First there was his appearance on Meet The Press where he referred to Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal as “radical change”.

“I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering… I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”

When angry conservatives stood up in unison to defend the Ryan plan, Gingrich felt compelled to back down. And back down he did with this lovely piece of Newtonian logic.

“Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, because I have said publicly those words were inaccurate and unfortunate.”

Which begs the question: why Newt? If you thought it accurate enough on Sunday to actually go on about Ryan’s Medicare plan and call it a “radical change” and an example of “right-wing social engineering”, what made it inaccurate on Tuesday? Is it too cynical to suggest that the only thing that really changed in the intervening two days was the sledge hammer placed squarely over your head by a right-wing noise machine who called you a bad conservative for not marching lockstep with other Republicans? Might that be it, Newt? We think so, scumbag.

And then there was the matter of Gingrich’s 1993 support for the individual health insurance mandate, something which he has fought hard against in the last two years. Here’s how Newt reconciled his apparent inconsistency.

“I do not support a mandate. I am opposed to Obamacare. I am in support of the 26 attorney generals (sic) who have filed suit. The Center for Health Transformation that I supported, that I helped found, has been actively opposed to Obamacare for two-and-a-half years.”

“That was a clip from 1993, when in fact, the conservative position was to have individual insurance, in opposition to Hillarycare — because she wanted everybody to be in government — but let’s get that out of the way, okay?”

Well no asshole, it’s not okay. Tell us more.

“I’m saying that you see a 20-second clip from 18 years ago, when you were fighting Hillarycare, and when virtually everybody in the conservative movement was united in trying to stop Hillarycare.”

“Now, nobody at that time was talking about the 10th Amendment. Nobody at that time was talking about these kind of constitutional issues. But to jump from that and say, ‘Gosh, if Newt said this in 1993, he must be for Obama’ — skipping, by the way, two-and-a-half years of active, consistent opposition to Obamacare?”

“I mean, I think the kind of amnesia that Washington gets into is, frankly, silly.”

How stupid does Gingrich take everyone to be? His entire argument boils down to: “If Democrats are against something, than I’m for it. When Dems were against the individual health insurance mandate, my buddies and I were for it. Now that Dems have shifted to the right and accepted individual mandates, I’m against it. Don’t you get it, morons? I’m Newt Fucking Gingrich. What I said 18 years ago or 2 days ago doesn’t matter. All that matters is what I say and do in the next 15 seconds.”

And there folks is your worthless Republican party of 2011 – no different from the 1993 version. They were lying, self-serving vermin then and they’re lying self-serving vermin now. With no principles to guide them other than “I”m against whatever Dems are for”, these people have turned a once proud political party into a decrepit joke.
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Mopping Up After The Republican Debate

Best quote I’ve seen on Bush’s Internets regarding last night’s Republican presidential debate:

“…it looked like an episode of Jerry Springer or Maury without the intellectual appeal.”

Here’s what you need to know about last night’s debate in South Carolina and the status of the Republican party. Two of the pre-debate “Freedom Rally” sponsors were the John Birch Society and The Oath Keepers – two extremist right-wing groups. With paranoid friends like those, who needs enemies?

The sanest of the insane at the debate were probably Pawlenty and Cain – but the latter was not given a chance to spout his anti-Muslim hate.  Cain has stated in the past that he would never appoint a Muslim to his cabinet or as a federal judge because

“there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government.”

Cain, who sets himself apart from President Obama by referring to himself as “a real black man”, has also stated that Planned Parenthood was…

“put in black communities so they could help kill black babies before they came into the world.”

The odds that this jackass gets the Republican nomination are less than zero.  While the GOP has no problem embracing fools (Bush, Palin, Bachmann, Trump, birthers, teabaggers…), they do draw the line at embracing non-white fools. This we know.

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Louie Gohmert – Another Republican Dumbass

For a party which has the not-so-bright and comical Michele Bachmann considering a presidential run, nothing should surprise anyone when it comes to the idiocy running rampant throughout the GOP.  Yet somehow, Texan Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert never ceases to surprise.  Gohmert (of terror baby fame) believes he might know the real reason behind President Obama’s Libyan intervention.  The conspiracy theory has it’s origins in the Affordable Care Act which Gohmert is hoping to dismantle.

Gohmert on the floor of the House:

It’s a bad bill. And then when you find out that the prior Congress not only passed that 2,800 page bill with all kinds of things in it, including a new president’s commissioned officer corps and non-commissioned officer corps. Do we really need that? I wondered when I read that in the bill. But then when you find out we’re being sent to Libya to use our treasure and American lives there, maybe there’s intention to so deplete the military that we’re going to need that presidential reserve officer commissioned corps and non-commissioned corps that the president can call up on a moment’s notice involuntarily, according to the Obamacare bill.

Good one, Louie.  You figured it out.  The Kenyan Muslim in the White House is going to bring about the end of the U.S. military so that his Obamacare Force of doctors and health care workers can rise and take out good conservatives with hypodermic needles filled with a venomous solution concocted by an African witch doctor.

Louie Gohmert is either paranoid or a dumbass.  I’m guessing he’s both.  FactCheck has the truth behind Obama’s secret army.

Do you ever wonder how so many willfully ignorant Republicans get elected to public office?  Might it be that they’re fractionally less stupid than the people who vote for them?

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Exxon and Republicans Wins Another Round On Climate Change

Somewhere in America, self-serving fat cats at Exxon are grinning like a clowder of Cheshire cats.

In a vote split cleanly along party lines, the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday rejected measures reaffirming climate change as a scientific reality, with every Republican on the panel voting “nay,” Roll Call‘s Jennifer Bendery first reported.Committee Republicans rejected three amendments acknowledging the science of climate change, with every Republican on the committee voting against an amendment introduced by California Democrat Henry Waxman calling on Congress to affirm “warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.’’

It’s 1633 all over again and Congressional Republicans have become modern day Inquisitors as they strive to shut down scientific thought. The scientific community is cast in the role of Galileo while Republicans play the part of the anti-science, backward-looking and corrupt Catholic Church. It’s money, greed, religion and blind ignorance over science and enlightenment. The village idiots who believe that Fox News is a real news station would rather follow the teachings of conservative and corporate con artists than listen to true scientists. But then, that’s what makes them village idiots. Whatever. You’ve got to believe that science will win out at the end.

History is not going to be kind to the Republican party of 2011.

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Republican’s “Vibrations of Weirdness”

George Will is concerned.

If pessimism is not creeping on little cat’s feet into Republicans’ thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. This is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible Americans, who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point in the electoral cycle, must nevertheless be detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party.

The most recent vibrator is Mike Huckabee..

When not showing righteous indignation toward unwed mothers, Huckabee finds himself pandering to the lowest form of human intelligence existing in the right’s growing fringe of loons – birthers. Asked by a talk radio wingnut about the President’s supposed unwillingness to show his birth certificate, Huckabee said:

“I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya. . . .”

Huckabee was given a golden opportunity to earn credibility points by dismissing the question as well as the entire birther movement as pure nonsense. Instead he opted to feed the beast with his “I would love to know more..” response. And for good measure he threw in an outright lie. Barack Obama did not grow up in Kenya. Five of his first eighteen years were spent in Indonesia. The rest were in Hawaii.  As for Huckabee’s claim that he meant to say Indonesia, well, that’s been shown to be a lie too.

Huckabee joins Newt Gingrich in attempting to create a nefarious Obama/Kenyan connection. Here was the newt’s comment from a few months back.

“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

Which led Will to write…

So the Republican winnowing process is far advanced. But the nominee may emerge much diminished by involvement in a process cluttered with careless, delusional, egomaniacal, spotlight-chasing candidates to whom the sensible American majority would never entrust a lemonade stand, much less nuclear weapons.

And that, folks, is your day’s message from a conservative icon.  Good stuff.
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