Not content to lie about the present and the future, Republicans have stepped up efforts to rewrite history. In Texas, the right-wing elected officials charged with setting the state’s curriculum voted to ensure that Texas schoolchildren will learn, among other things, that the founders were Christian, there is no separation of church and state, Thomas [...]
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Republicans and History
March 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics
Tags: Dick Armey·education·health care reform·history·McCarthy·Paul Broun·Republican idiocy·Republicans·right-wing hysteria·Steve King·Texas·Texas textbooks·The Great War of Yankee Aggression·Velvet Revolution
The Gift that Keeps on Giving?
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Let the Sarah Palin media blitz begin! I have no interest in watching any of the many, many interviews Palin will be doing in the coming weeks. We pretty much know how every public appearance will go: she’ll sputter nonsense, using 10 words when she needs 4, and string together empty platitudes that come close [...]
Tags: 2012 Republican primary·Joan Walsh·Katie Couric·Politics·Republicans·Sarah Palin
Let’s Try This Again. . .
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
With the obvious caveat that this story is based on rumors from unnamed sources, if it does accurately reflect Giuliani’s thinking, there are a couple flaws with Rudy’s strategy. For one, Giuliani was a terrible presidential candidate. He started with a healthy lead in the polls, and went on to get double digits in only [...]
Tags: 2012 Republican primary·Politics·Republicans·Rudy Giuliani
Poll: Americans Support Banging One’s Head Against the Wall
September 27th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
As highlighted by Greg Sargent, a recent NY Times/CBS Poll finds that while 64% of Americans believe that Republicans are opposing health care reform for purely political reasons, 65% of Americans believe that the Democrats should not pass a health care reform bill, even a good bill, without Republican support. That is, at least [...]
Tags: California·constitutional convention·health care·Republicans
In Fairness, I’m Pretty Sure Some Republicans Do Not Have Mothers
September 25th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is fast becoming one of my favorite senators. Last week, I attended a hearing where she laid into an economist from the Heritage Foundation, pointing out the absurdity of claiming that extending unemployment benefits will lead to people not seeking jobs in an economic climate where there are 15 million people [...]
Tags: conservative logic·Debbie Stabenow·health care·maternity care·Republicans
Republicans Are In Bed With Utilities Lobbyists? (It’s Too Easy)
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics
According to the LA Times:
An Orange County lawmaker [Mike Duvall] who inadvertently broadcast explicit remarks about his sexual conquests over an open microphone during a lull in a Sacramento hearing abruptly resigned from office this afternoon.
The famously conservative Republican Assemblyman was just having a little pre-hearing banter about his sexual exploits with a couple of [...]
Tags: adultery·California Assembly·conservatives·hypocrisy·idiocy·KCAL·lobbyists·Mike Duvall·NY Times·OC Weekly·Orange County·political scandal·Republicans