The Curse of the Status Quo
So how has not making an argument against Movement Conservatism, but appearing reasonable by comparison as an alternative to partisanship, worked out so far for the Democratic Party as a tactic?Nobody...
View ArticleMovement Conservatism, Triumphant
"Washington DC is broken.""Our system of Government is broken.""Our politics are broken."Bullshit. All of it total utter bullshit. There isn't a hippy punch big enough to spin this away.Lots of things...
View ArticleWasting Precious Liberal Air Time
We, as moderates and liberals alike, are not in a debate with Movement Conservatism. We are no more in a debate with the Right than a mugging victim is in a debate with his or her mugger.There is...
View ArticleRepublican Extremism Saves the Democrats from Themselves
The great Super Committee is dead, it just basically hasn't stopped squirming and kicking on the floor. Thank God. All that needs to be suffered through is the non-stop wanking to come of bad faith...
View ArticleRep. Joe Heck's Letter to my Elderly Parents
Recently a rare offering from the Desk of House Rep. Joe Heck ([R] NV-3) showed up in the mail at my folk's place in Henderson Nevada. I know this, because my parents called me after they'd noticed it...
View ArticleThe Lesson I Learned In Seachlight
This is the lesson that I learned in Searchlight Nevada a couple of years back now:It began with the Tea Party. The Tea Party when they were all widely fawned over by our wise beltway press like a mob...
View ArticleNot Pro-Choice On Anti-Choice Terms
I am Pro-Choice. I believe in, and fully support, a woman's right to fully control her own reproductive destiny. I believe that any woman should be able to obtain, or to opt of her own free will not...
View ArticleAll the Things the Right Despises...
-exist because of the bad politics, failed policies, stupid practices, and shameless principles of the Right and their greedy, moneyed, and too much catered to masters all coming to a head.Every big...
View ArticleSnowe's Obama Jeer Should be a Democratic Party Breaking Point
Soon-to-be Ex-Senator Olympia Snowe, being interviewed by ABC News about President Barack Obama and why she was leaving the US Senate, gave him a near "F" for failure when it came to bipartisan...
View ArticleMovement Conservatives Against Pinko Commie Lefty Movement Conservatism
As a non-Movement Conservative lost in a political era in American history that has largely been dominated by the Movement Conservative Right, I find watching what I see as Conservative on Conservative...
View ArticleI'm Damned Proud of Our VP Joe Biden
I've found another log to toss on the great pile or reasons to loathe the Very Serious People of DC and the traditional media. The perpetual eye-rolling to outright sneering directed at our VP.I see it...
View ArticleA Democrat in PolitiFact Nation
Mitt Romney is the most blatant and openly brazen liar that I've ever seen run for US President as the standard bearer of the Republican Party in the post 1964 Movement Conservative era.That's not...
View ArticleCNN is Dying Because CNN is Awful
CNN was born at 5:00 p.m. EST on Sunday June 1, 1980.Today, thirty two years later, it has gone from it's glory days as a revolutionary new cable news channel to an utter embarassment. A slowly dying...
View ArticleWhat the OverClass Fails to Understand
What the American OverClass fails to understand is that the more they get their way, the more they lose in the longterm. They are, quite literally, destroying the middle class in proportion to how much...
View ArticleNot Pro-Choice on Anti-Choice Terms II
Michelle Goldberg said it best: Sex-selective abortion is a problem worldwide, but not in our country.Sex-selective abortion is odious. But banning it means allowing the government to decide what...
View ArticleThere is No Reason for the Media to Stop or Change
I am about to suggest something wildly unreasonable, completely uncivil, and borderline insane.'When the lazy conventional wisdom pimps of the traditional media smear the Democratic Party or Democratic...
View ArticleIf Scalito Destroys the ACA
If the Movement Conservative Justices on the Supreme Court kill the ACA, and do so out of raw ideological zealotry to hurt President Obama, they are even bigger buffoons than many imagine.There is a...
View ArticleInquisitor Issa's Witchhunts
Darrell Issa.“Issa has become the chief antagonist to Barack Obama,” brags spokesman Kurt Bardella. “He has the best job in Republican politics right now. When he puts an inquiry out there, that...
View ArticleDear Congressional Teahadi, Blame AEI and Heritage for ACA Not Marx
Hey Paul Ryan and company, it must truly suck to be you right now. I'm not talking about the whole 'John Roberts... he... he just... he fucked us, man' business. (Although your rage-gasm has been very...
View ArticleThe Darker Side of Romney Fail
The post-Republican primary Romney campaign against President Obama has been full of weakness and weirdness on the Governor's part, but something he does gives me extra pause. It's a disturbing pattern...
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