Posts Tagged ‘republicans’
What’s the matter with Kansas
Actually, there are dozens of things wrong with Kansas and hundreds of things wrong with other states that have just come to pass with the rash of GOP-controlled state governments that are passing astonishingly conservative legislation. Here’s just one more: Kansas [Read More]
Education in America gets further F***ed up
And by F***, I mean Foxx, as in North Carolina’s own Virginia Foxx. Foxx is perhaps best-known as the batshit crazy-like-a-fox representative who said that Matthew Shephard’s murder having been a hate crime was a hoax, and that the health care bill was more [Read More]
Likable Republican? By a bad Democrat
I used to feel more comfortable blogging opinions that weren’t well-fleshed out. Why do I need to be right? This blog exists for me to write merely what I’m thinking at a given point in time. If I turn out to be wrong, I’ll readily admit it. And if I [Read More]
Tuesday night politics
After multiple Republicans filibusters, the Democrats finally passed an extension of unemployment benefits, even though it was supposed to be a “jobs bill” (see Ezra Klein) and had been heavily watered down just to get the 60 votes to break the filibuster. This [Read More]
All Apologies
Many in the GOP are distancing themselves from Congressman Joe Barton for his apology to BP, but Barton will be the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee if the Republicans take back the house. [Read More]
Republican hypocrite of the day
The administration, they were hands off. They didn’t do anything. Where were the boats that could have been commandeered by the government to be sent into this region to deal with that oil plume as it was coming up in the water and destroying marine life? Nowhere to be [Read More]
Republican Hypocrite of the Day
And I’m not going for the easy one, who is Rep. Souder, the pro-abstinence, family-values-spewing congressman who just resigned for having an affair with his aide. I saw this quote from Rep. John Mica of Florida: I’m not going to point fingers at BP, the private [Read More]
This week in Antichrist news
Percentages of Republicans who, according to a new Harris Poll, believe: 67% – Obama is a socialist 57% – Obama is a Muslim 45% – Obama was “not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president” 38% – Obama is “doing many of the [Read More]
