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Flakies – The Wingnut Series

Flakies - The Wingnut Series

Thanks to E.A. Blair for suggesting this wonderful new product...and illustration. We're planning on introducing more of your favorite wingers on Flakies boxes because...well, because every wingnut deserves the recognition. Let ...

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Voices In Their Head

Voices In Their Head

Is there not an ounce of sanity left anywhere in the Republican party? Barely 36 hours after the caustic New Year’s Day vote, Boehner faced a coup attempt from a clutch ...

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Michele, my Belle, these are words that go together well

Michele, my Belle, these are words that go together well

From The Onion: Saying that she’ll be gone soon anyway so she might as well, Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann introduced H.R. 259: The Homosexual Decapitation Act, which would give the United ...

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GOP – America’s White Party

GOP - America's White Party

Surprise, surprise. Stupidity is alive and well in the racist wing of the conservative movement. Eagle Forum’s Phyllis Schlafly is riled up about comprehensive immigration reform, and she has hardly been ...

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Bye, Bye Bachmann

Bye, Bye Bachmann

All good bad things must eventually come to an end. Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann, who last year ran for the Republican presidential nomination, announced on Wednesday that she will stand ...

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Late Night Political Humor

Late Night Political Humor

The best of late night political humor via Daniel Kurtzman’s Political Humor. Happy Friday. ___ "During a Senate hearing yesterday, Senator John McCain said it was too hard to always have to update ...

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Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

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McCain Does A Little GOP Ass-Kicking

McCain Does A Little GOP Ass-Kicking

John McCain has finally had enough of his Republican teabagging cohorts, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. In the latest expression of Republican frustration with conservative GOP colleagues, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) ...

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How Does God Answer Political Prayers?

How Does God Answer Political Prayers?

Our friend, John Liming, wonders how God might deal with two conflicting prayers of a political nature. I have been reading an article on the website, Raw Story, where it is ...

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Making ‘Cents’ of Tom Coburn and Disaster Aid

Making 'Cents' of Tom Coburn and Disaster Aid

Item 1: The Oklahoma tornado disaster has killed at least 24 people, left hundreds injured and caused millions of dollars in damage. But that has not stopped a senator from that ...

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The Right Needs Smarter Bigots

The Right Needs Smarter Bigots

If you're new to right-wing think, here's an easy to remember rule of thumb to help you along; any and all evil in the world can be attributed directly to ...

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Another Dick Cheny ‘STFU’ Moment

Another Dick Cheny 'STFU' Moment

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 ...

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Scandals: Real and Imagined

Scandals: Real and Imagined

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 ...

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The Crazy, The Scum and The Dead

The Crazy, The Scum and The Dead

While gun nuts sink a little deeper into madness with each passing day, Seattle is turning guns into bricks. The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback ...

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To Infinity and Beyond!

To Infinity and Beyond!

Had enough of right-wing political crap and find yourself with a deep desire to get as far from the madding crowd as you can? Read on... The opportunity to travel to Mars ...

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In Leviticus v. Deuteronomy, There is No Winner

In Leviticus v. Deuteronomy, There is No Winner

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NRA – The Blood on Their Hands

NRA - The Blood on Their Hands

  LaPierre's speech of lunacy here. ___ Follow MarioPiperniDotCom on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. .

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Guns ‘n Kids and NRA Loons

Guns 'n Kids and NRA Loons

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 ...

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America The Brave…or is it America the Fearful?

America The Brave...or is it America the Fearful?

A guest post from James Fidlerten. ___ 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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Gun Crazy Arizona Does it Again

Gun Crazy Arizona Does it Again

I'm not sure that 'crazy' is strong enough an adjective to describe the many (or few) who go to the absurd lengths they do in defending America's out-of-control gun culture. ...

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Hillary vs. Anyone in 2016

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The presidential election is four years away but it’s hard to not get a little excited when you read of numbers like this from the PPP.

Add Georgia to the list of states where Democrats might be competitive in 2016 with Hillary Clinton as their nominee. She has a 49/44 favorability rating in the state and would lead Marco Rubio (49/46) and Paul Ryan (50/45) in hypothetical match ups. She would lead by an even wider margin against Newt Gingrich (51/44).

We have now found Clinton competitive in polls in Alaska, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Texas.

The Republican brand is so tarnished right now that anyone Dems put up in 2016 would probably be favored to win. That’s true even if the right’s current golden boy (a little less so after his disappointing SOTU response speech), Marco Rubio, runs. The latest Bloomberg poll has the Republican favorability numbers at 35 percent. In comparison, Obama is at 55 percent. Ouch.

But having Hillary run in 2016 would just about cement the deal. It does not appear that Republicans are about to let up on their senseless attacks on women’s rights and minorities. As well, the Tea Party is dead set on getting a few more radical conservatives like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock to run. Nothing says “We’re the Stupid Party and proud of it!” better than having a couple of neanderthals like Akin and Mourdock representing your side.

The icing on the cake would be Republican’s reincarnation of Joe McCarthy, Ted Cruz, deciding that he was ready for the White House and run in 2016. I’d pay money to see that grandstanding, snarky bully going down in flames in a presidential election.

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Vice-President Hillary Clinton?

I think I like this.

My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President.

So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton.

Why do I say this? Because Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of a Democratic base that’s been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive Republicans. Hillary Clinton on the ticket can do that.

Interesting.  An Obama-Clinton ticket is a positive on so many fronts, I can’t see a downside to it.  The economy will still be a drag come November so what better way to rev up voters than by adding some juice to the ticket.  But I doubt it’ll happen.

Clinton has already stated she plans on leaving the Secretary of State post and has no interest in the VP job.  But hey, this is the daffy world of politics where yesterday’s hard held belief is today’s easy-bake flip-flop…so you never know.

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Obama-Clinton 2012?

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This might be interesting.

“It’s on the table,” veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told CNN’s John King in an interview Tuesday on John King, USA. “Some of Hillary Clinton’s advisers see it as a real possibility in 2012.”

The scenario – whereby Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would switch positions – has been bandied about by political observers for months, seen by some as a potentially savvy strategy to gin up excitement among what appears to be a depressed Democratic base.

“President Obama needs some of the women, Latinos, retirees that she did so well with during the [2008] primaries and, so they switch jobs, not out of the question, and the other interesting question is, Hillary Clinton could run in her own right in 2016 and be younger than Ronald Reagan when he was elected president.”

I can’t see Hillary taking on the VP job, it would appear to be a demotion.  But hey, crazier stuff has happened.

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Justice Hillary Clinton

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I’m liking this bit of news

Sen. Orrin Hatch says he’s heard Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s name mentioned in connection with the Supreme Court vacancy brought about by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens.

You know it’ll make Rush Limbaugh’s head explode, don’t you?

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Glenn Beck’s Clarity of Thought (/sarcasm)

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Glenn Beck with Katie Couric on Hillary Clinton and his voting preference…

“I can’t believe I’m saying this but I think I would have much preferred her as President, and may have voted for her against John McCain.”

“I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. How’s that?”

Sure Glenn. Here’s a guy trying to give the impression that he’s balanced and rational in his thinking by making a statement which he’ll never have to back up or prove.

What a clown.

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