Triumph of the Wrong - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/opinion/paul-krugman-triumph-of-the-wrong.html?smid=fb-share
But the biggest secret of the Republican triumph surely lies in the discovery that obstructionism bordering on sabotage is a winning political strategy. From Day 1 of the Obama administration, Mr. McConnell and his colleagues have done everything they could to undermine effective policy, in particular blocking every effort to do the obvious thing — boost infrastructure spending — in a time of low interest rates and high unemployment.
In the House, a Refusal to Govern - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/opinion/in-the-house-a-refusal-to-govern.html?_r=4&
A refusal to even to sit at a bargaining table is another way of refusing to govern. The nation’s founders created two chambers for a reason, but Republicans, in their blind fury to harm the least fortunate, are forgetting even those fundamental national values.
In the House, a Refusal to Govern - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/opinion/in-the-house-a-refusal-to-govern.html?_r=4
A refusal to even to sit at a bargaining table is another way of refusing to govern. The nation’s founders created two chambers for a reason, but Republicans, in their blind fury to harm the least fortunate, are forgetting even those fundamental national values.
The Big Budget Mumble - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/opinion/krugman-the-big-budget-mumble.html?_r=0
Now Republicans find themselves boxed in. With taxes scheduled to rise on Jan. 1 in the absence of an agreement, they can’t play their usual game of just saying no to tax increases and pretending that they have a deficit reduction plan. And the president, by refusing to help them out by proposing G.O.P.-friendly spending cuts, has deprived them of political cover. If Republicans really want to slash popular programs, they will have to propose those cuts themselves.
Marty Kaplan: GOP Smart on Copyright for 24 Hours
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/gop-smart-on-copyright-fo_b_2155931.html
It is delicious to watch a young conservative apply conservative principles to demolish oligopolistic claptrap, even if those industries finance the campaigns of the members of Congress who pay his salary. It is sad to watch his bosses -- who never tire of railing against political correctness - place fealty to corporate elites above the spirit of intellectual inquiry.
Republicans skip Benghazi hearing; complain about lack of information on Benghazi | The Cable
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/11/15/republicans_skip_benghazi_hearing_complain_about_lack_of_information_on_benghazi
But although McCain had time to speak on the Senate floor and on television about the lack of information provided to Congress about the attack, he didn't attend the classified briefing for senators Wednesday given to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, of which he is a member.
Now That's What I Call Gerrymandering! | Mother Jones
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/republicans-gerrymandering-house-representatives-election-chart
Americans didn't intend to elect a Republican majority to the House of Representatives. Thanks to GOP-engineered redistricting, they did.
How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement.html
The reality is that so-called pro-life movement is not about saving babies. It’s about regulating sex. That’s why they oppose birth control. That’s why they want to ban abortion even though doing so will simply drive women to have dangerous back alley abortions. That’s why they want to penalize women who take public assistance and then dare to have sex, leaving an exemption for those who become pregnant from rape. It’s not about babies. If it were about babies, they would be making access to birth control widespread and free and creating a comprehensive social safety net so that no woman finds herself with a pregnancy she can’t afford. They would be raising money for research on why half of all zygotes fail to implant and working to prevent miscarriages. It’s not about babies. It’s about controlling women. It’s about making sure they have consequences for having unapproved sex.
The GOP can no longer avoid its Rush Limbaugh problem - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-can-no-longer-avoid-its-rush-limbaugh-problem/2012/03/02/gIQA1xvVnR_story.html
What we are saying is that Mr. Limbaugh has abused his unique position within the conservative media to smear and vilify a citizen engaged in the exercise of her First Amendment rights, and in the process he debased a national political discourse that needs no further debasing. This is not the way a decent citizen behaves, much less a citizen who wields significant de facto power in a major political party. While Republican leaders owe no apology for Mr. Limbaugh’s comments, they do have a responsibility to repudiate them — and him.
Rick Santorum On Opposition To Abortion In Cases Of Rape: 'Make The Best Out Of A Bad Situation'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/rick-santorum-abortion-rape_n_1224624.html?ref=politics
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum explained his opposition to abortion even in cases of rape during an interview Friday, saying that women who face such circumstances should "make the best out of a bad situation."
Michele Bachmann, America's Perfect Monster | The Awl
http://www.theawl.com/2012/01/michele-bachmann-americas-perfect-monster
Bachmann is a national clown and a global embarrassment, an extremist so foul that she poses nearly as much of a threat to Republican legislators as to Democratic ones. She's a Republican bomb-thrower who forgets the throwing part. Both parties will certainly be glad to be rid of her. But Bachmann's repose only means the absence of the messenger, not the absence of those who paid for the message.
Daily Kos: John McCain is worried House Republicans are making the entire Republican Party look bad
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/21/1047366/-John-McCain-is-worried-House-Republicans-are-making-the-entire-Republican-Party-look-bad?via=blog_1
But whether John McCain or House Republicans have done or are doing more damage to the Republican Party isn't something that most people care about. What they care about is making sure that Congress doesn't raise their taxes while the economy is still in recovery. And if Republicans cared more about that, we wouldn't be facing this stalemate now. The American public would be better off, and so would the GOP.
MinnPost - Latest Amy Koch developments complicate GOP plans across the board
http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2011/12/16/33912/latest_amy_koch_developments_complicate_gop_plans_across_the_board
If allegations surrounding Koch, who is married, are true, she would become in the eyes of many a prime example of the double standard surrounding the heated marriage amendment battle.
Boehner On Whether Letting The Payroll Tax Cut Expire Hurts The Economy: 'I'm Not An Economist' | ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/01/379915/boehner-not-an-economist
Later, Boehner came around to admit that an extension would help boost the economy. To help Boehner out, several actual economists have said that letting the cut expire would, in fact, hurt growth and destroy jobs. According to Macroeconomic Advisers, allowing it to lapse “would reduce GDP growth by 0.5 percent and cost the economy 400,000 jobs.” An analyst at Barclay’s estimated that letting the cut expire would knock 1.5 percent off of first quarter growth next year.
How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-being-taught-talk-occupy-wall-street-133707949.html
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about Occupy Wall Street?
18 Newt Gingrich Quotes That Disqualify Him From Ever Being President | Addicting Info
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/11/26/18-newt-gingrich-quotes-that-disqualify-him-from-ever-being-president
Newt Gingrich is currently the leader of the Republican field of presidential candidates. So it’s only fitting that the quotes come out of the skeleton closet. Here are more than a dozen quotes from Newt Gingrich that reveal his lies, his arrogance, his hatred, and his hypocrisy and disqualify him from ever being President.
Daily Kos: Super Congress failed because of Republican allegiance to Grover Norquist
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/22/1039050/-Super-Congress-failed-because-of-Republican-allegiance-to-GroverNorquist
No, both sides aren't to blame for failure. That goes entirely to the Republicans. Maybe we should actually be giving credit to them for their refusal to accept the gutted sacred cows Democrats offered up on a silver platter. At this point you almost have to be grateful to Grover Norquist for keeping the Republicans in line and saving entitlement programs, this round.
Christian theocracy: How Newt Gingrich and the GOP would abolish courts and legislate morality. - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/human_nature/2011/11/christian_theocracy_how_newt_gingrich_and_the_gop_would_abolish_courts_and_legislate_morality_.html
Is the United States sliding toward theocracy? That’s what Republican presidential candidates have told us for more than a year. Radical Islam, they’ve argued, is on the verge of taking over our country through Sharia law. But this weekend, at an Iowa forum sparsely covered by the press, the candidates made clear that they don’t mind theocracy—in fact, they’d like to impose it—as long as it’s Christian.
John Boehner’s Lobbyists Plan A Massive Hit Job On Occupy Wall Street
http://www.politicususa.com/en/ows-hit-job
In short, they are going to run a smear campaign that would use the same Fox News talking points that haven’t worked so far. They are going to claim that George Soros is funding Occupy Wall Street, and that the movement is being run by the Democratic Party. Most troubling is their plan to carry surveillance on social media. They are going to monitor the social media used by OWS and what they intend to do that the memo didn’t directly state was spam social media with anti-Occupy Wall Street propaganda.
Political Animal - House readies vote on Balanced Budget Amend.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_11/house_readies_vote_on_balanced033574.php
House Republicans don’t have time to address the jobs crisis, but they do have time for proposed constitutional amendments that would make the jobs crisis worse.
Daily Kos: House readies vote on Balanced Budget Amendment, another bill that's not about jobs
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/18/1037788/-House-readies-vote-on-Balanced-Budget-Amendment,-another-bill-thats-notaboutjobs
This afternoon the House will vote on another pointless, partisan, finger-pointing bill, but at least this one doesn't directly attack women, so there's that. Today it's the Balanced Budget Amendment, just about the worst idea for the economy as a whole they could come up with. Really.
The Other Problem With Perry's 'Oops' Moment - NYTimes.com
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/the-other-problem-with-perrys-oops-moment
There’s really no arguing with the consensus view that, after repeatedly courting calamity in prior debates, Rick Perry did grave damage to his presidential campaign Wednesday night. First the guy says that anyone who disagrees with him on illegal immigration must not have a heart, then he gets all twisted up while trying to attack Mitt Romney, and finally comes this new gaffe about … um … hang on a second … wait, it’ll come to me.
Rep. Joe Walsh Explains His 'Don't Blame Banks' Rant: I 'Was Working On An Empty Stomach' | ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/09/365349/walsh-rant-dont-blame-banks
After our story, the Capitol Fax, an Illinois political website, contacted Walsh for a response. Walsh wrote in an e-mail that he was “working on an empty stomach and had a quicker fuse than normal.” Despite the fact Walsh’s biggest campaign benefactors come from the banking industry — $132,329 in campaign contributions from the finance industry and $18,400 from bank employees — the freshman congressman claims that he’s “no pal of the big banks.”
I guess along with his government healthcare, we need to make sure he has handlers that keep his blood sugar level up.
How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich | Politics News | Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-the-rich-20111109
After taking office, Clinton immediately seized the mantle of fiscal discipline from Republicans. Rather than simply trimming the federal deficit, as his GOP predecessors had done, he set out to balance the budget and begin paying down the national debt. To do so, he hiked the top tax bracket to nearly 40 percent and boosted the corporate tax rate to 35 percent. "It cost him both houses of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections," says Chafee, the former GOP senator. "But taming the deficit led to the best economy America's ever had." Following the tax hikes of 1993, the economy grew at a brisk clip of 3.2 percent, creating more than 11 million jobs. Average wages ticked up, and stocks soared by 78 percent. By the spring of 1997, the federal budget was headed into the black.
Watch Rick Perry's Campaign Explode in an Excruciating Brain Fart
http://gawker.com/5858109/watch-rick-perrys-campaign-explode-in-an-excruciating-brain-fart
Daily Kos: Mitch McConnell: Obama jobs bill was designed to make Republicans look bad for rejecting it
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/08/1034347/-Mitch-McConnell:-Obama-jobs-bill-was-designed-to-make-Republicans-look-bad-for-rejecting-it
You know what, Mitch? If you don't want to look "intransigent" ... then don't be intransigent! If you don't want to look like you're sabotaging the economy ... then don't sabotage the economy! And if you think rejecting the jobs bill makes you look bad ... then don't reject it!
Fox News successfully creates climate confusion, but only among conservatives
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/fox-news-successfully-creates-climate-confusion-but-only-among-conservatives.ars
A while back, a memo surfaced that reportedly came from a Fox News executive, in which he directed his staff to always present opposing views on something we can essentially regard as a fact: our planet has been getting warmer. There has been plenty of anecdotal indications that this strategy has been carried out, including a truly bizarre incident in which Bill Nye, on the channel in order to discuss volcanic activity on the Moon, was asked if these volcanoes raised doubts about climate change.
GOP leader dons flak jacket after friendly fire on spending bills - TheHill.com
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/192003-senate-gop-leader-dons-flak-jacket-after-friendly-fire-on-spending
The debate over spending among Republicans in Congress has become so intense that one Senate Republican leader has started wearing a flak jacket to meetings.
Iowa Poll: Many think Cain’s 9-9-9 plan would help them | Iowa Caucuses
http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/11/04/iowa-poll-many-think-cains-9-9-9-plan-would-help-them
The bottom line: A family with an income level of $40,000 to $50,000 would pay $3,407 more a year in taxes, while families making $500,000 to $1 million a year would pay on average $80,315 less, according to the Tax Policy Center.
Senator Gretchen Whitmer Responds to Pro-Bullying Legislation - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDK-ja8PLgg
Favorite: Senator Gretchen Whitmer Responds to Pro-Bullying Legislation, by MISenDems Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer responded to Republicans gutting an anti-bullying bill by inserting language that specifically allows bullying to occur based on religious or moral reasons. This legisla...
Daily Kos: Rick Perry steals joke from President Obama that he once condemned
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/03/1032809/-Rick-Perry-steals-joke-from-President-Obama-that-he-oncecondemned
Remember when President Obama made the same alligator moat joke? Rick Perry called it reprehensible back then. Rick Perry yesterday, mocking the idea of building a fence along the border: HANNITY: You don't need a fence, in your view? PERRY: Oh, I think there's places that strategic fencing.....
memeorandum: Boehner: Debt deal will include new tax revenues (Nancy Cordes/CBS News)
http://www.memeorandum.com/111103/p134#a111103p134
Nancy Cordes / CBS News:Boehner: Debt deal will include new tax revenues — House Speaker John Boehner addressed one of the biggest sticking points for the 12 member Congressional “supercommittee” today, acknowledging that any bipartisan agreement will need to include some new tax revenue.
Daily Kos: John Boehner: 'Nobody' wants to pay for infrastructure
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/02/1032554/-John-Boehner:-Nobody-wants-to-pay-forinfrastructure
"Everybody believes we have infrastructure deficiencies and more needs to be spent to repair, replace and in some cases build new infrastructure," Boehner said in a speech. "The problem is nobody wants to pay for it."
Daily Kos: Senate Republicans united in obstructing job creation, infrastructure repair
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/02/1032490/-Senate-Republicans-united-in-obstructing-job-creation,-infrastructurerepair
Today, the Senate is talking about whether they should vote to debate a jobs bill. Another Republican filibuster looms, in which the Republican Senate won't even vote to allow the Senate to debate and vote on doing a little something to try to save this economy. In this madness, Democratic leadership hopes to at the very least shame Republicans and possibly get a few of them to peel off from the Republican agenda of wrecking everything in sight and stealing all the rest.
Perry blames editing for viral 'drunk' video, said it was a 'good speech' - The Hill's Video
http://thehill.com/video/campaign/191317-perry-says-he-felt-great-during-speech-that-went-viral-
I still think he was high as a kite
Rick Perry’s giddy speech raises eyebrows, questions - BostonHerald.com
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20111102rick_perrys_giddy_speech_raises_eyebrows_questions/srvc=home&position=recent
The governor was high as a kite.
Republicans Shift Focus From Jobs to God : Roll Call
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_51/Republicans-Shift-Focus-From-Jobs-to-God-209903-1.html?zkMobileView=true
Republicans may be trying to focus their messaging on jobs and the economy — and hammering President Barack Obama for campaigning — but they still have time for some red meat base-baiting on the House floor.
Democrats vow to block spending riders - Seung Min Kim - POLITICO.com
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67350.html
In a letter to Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and 182 other House Democrats signaled that including controversial policy provisions known as riders could again risk a government shutdown, and the lawmakers demanded that those measures be removed.
Jon Stewart Lashes Out at Republicans for Opposing Iraq Withdrawal [Video]
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/DqvHqdmc66k/jon-stewart-lashes-out-at-republicans-for-opposing-iraq-withdrawal
Political Animal - The ‘thank America last’ crowd
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_08/the_thank_america_last_crowd031702.php
Protesters Scare Eric Cantor Into Canceling His Income Inequality Speech [The Economy]
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/T3i5cTm-rlM/protesters-scare-eric-cantor-into-canceling-his-income-inequality-speech
Jon Stewart On GOP Reaction To Gaddafi's Death: 'What The F*ck Is Wrong With You?' (Alex Alvarez/Mediaite)
http://www.memeorandum.com/111021/p32#a111021p32
Eric Cantor Will Address Income Inequality From Billionaire Shrine [The Economy]
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/doCz2YCG0o8/eric-cantor-will-address-income-inequality-from-billionaire-shrine
Mitt Romney Will Physically Explode Any Moment Now [Video]
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/_b5RrHJljnw/mitt-romney-will-physically-explode-any-moment-now
GOP Rep. Asked Paper To Keep Town Hall Secret, Selected Residents Who Were Invited (Alex Seitz-Wald/ThinkProgress)
http://www.memeorandum.com/111019/p86#a111019p86
White House to Republicans: Don't like the president campaigning for his jobs bill? Well, too bad.
http://rss.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/N2Z1KJCgCwo/-White-House-to-Republicans:-Dont-like-the-president-campaigning-for-his-jobs-bill-Well,-too-bad
On GOP jobs plan, an epic media fail (Greg Sargent/Washington Post)
http://www.memeorandum.com/111018/p67#a111018p67
Republicans lay groundwork for healthcare repeal (Noam N. Levey/Los Angeles Times)
http://www.memeorandum.com/111018/p59#a111018p59
No GOP Senator Supports Bill to Protect Cloud E-Mail Privacy
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/lg0l0/no_gop_senator_supports_bill_to_protect_cloud
Cantor's income disparity speech: 'How we make sure the people at the top stay there'
http://rss.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/ZHxlu9b6FHQ/-Cantors-income-disparity-speech:-How-we-make-sure-the-people-at-the-top-staythere
Jeff Schweitzer: Dow Hovers Near 11,000: This is Obama's Market
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/dow-hovers-near-11000-thi_b_545800.html
"With jaw-dropping, surreal, outrageous, unbelievable hypocrisy probably never before matched in scope and breadth, by the first week of March 2009, just over one month into the Obama presidency, Republicans were blaming Obama for the dire economic news. For eight years under Bush any bad news was Clinton's fault; just one month into Obama's presidency, Bush was innocent of all blame. We do not have a vocabulary that can capture the deep absurdity of this assault on reason."
An open letter to conservatives « Russ' Filtered News
http://filterednews.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/an-open-letter-to-conservatives
"Your party — the GOP — and the conservative end of the American political spectrum has become irresponsible and irrational. Worse, it’s tolerating, promoting and celebrating prejudice and hatred. Let me provide some examples – by no means an exhaustive list — of where the Right as gotten itself stuck in a swamp of hypocrisy, hyperbole, historical inaccuracy and hatred."
Op-Ed Columnist - Going to Extreme - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/opinion/26krugman.html?emc=rss&partner=rssnyt
"For today’s G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan — not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side — Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions — are mainstream. And, as a result, it’s a party that fundamentally doesn’t accept anyone else’s right to govern. "
Op-Ed Columnist - An Absence of Class in the G.O.P. - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/opinion/23herbert.html
"For decades the G.O.P. has been the party of fear, ignorance and divisiveness. All you have to do is look around to see what it has done to the country. The greatest economic inequality since the Gilded Age was followed by a near-total collapse of the overall economy. As a country, we have a monumental mess on our hands and still the Republicans have nothing to offer in the way of a remedy except more tax cuts for the rich."
Waterloo | FrumForum
http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo
"Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s."
Op-Ed Columnist - America Is Not Yet Lost - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/opinion/08krugman.html
"The truth is that given the state of American politics, the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government. Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or at least limiting the filibuster. This is something they could and should do, by majority vote, on the first day of the next Senate session.
Don’t hold your breath. As it is, Democrats don’t even seem able to score political points by highlighting their opponents’ obstructionism.
Well, America is not yet lost. But the Senate is working on it. "
Dems taunt GOP: Where's your health care plan? - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091002/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_republicans
"Republican leaders chose not to draft their own comprehensive bill, focusing instead on attacking Democrats' plans as too costly and bureaucratic. Some prominent Republicans now fear they are getting tagged as the "party of no," and they want the GOP to offer more solutions to the nation's health care problems."
Op-Ed Columnist - They Got Some ’Splainin’ to Do - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19rich.html?_r=1
"It’s the American way that we judge people as individuals, not as groups. And by that standard we can say unequivocally that this particular wise Latina, with the richness of her experiences, would far more often than not reach a better conclusion than the individual white males she faced in that Senate hearing room. Even those viewers who watched the Sotomayor show for only a few minutes could see that her America is our future and theirs is the rapidly receding past. "
GOP Fighting For Money From Stimulus They Opposed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/gop-fighting-for-money-fr_n_167914.html
"House Republicans, as a group, may take great pride in the goose egg they offered President Obama's stimulus package. But now the unanimous opposition is struggling to bring that money home. "
Commentary: If you oppose stimulus, don't take the money - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/16/begala.carolina/index.html
Op-Ed Columnist - The Republican Rump - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03krugman.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Mark Maynard - it’s the company you keep
http://markmaynard.com/index.php/2008/11/04/it_s_the_company_you_keep
"I know a lot of you out there don’t plan to vote for Barack Obama. I can accept that. As much as I think America desperately needs the hope for a better future that he embodies, I can admit that he’s deficient in certain areas. And, I can see how his charisma and celebrity status might put some people off. I get all that. And I don’t want to change your mind. What I would like to convince you of, however, is that you shouldn’t reward McCain and Palin, who have, over the course of this campaign, appealed to the basest elements in our nature, with your vote. They have lied, engaged in race baiting, and even gone so far as to infer that their opponent - a United States Senator - is a terrorist, and a threat to our nation. I have to think that a majority of Republicans find that kind of behavior reprehensible. ... It is no longer a party of ideas. It has become the last refuge of anti-intellectuals, and fear mongers. It is the party of Sarah Palin."
The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for science and learning. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2203120
"This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."
McCain's attacks fuel dangerous hatred -- baltimoresun.com
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.mccain10oct10,0,7557571.story
TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Palin's Attack On Obama's Patriotism Legitimizes Questions About The Palins' Association With Group Founded By America-Hating Secessionist
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/palins_attack_on_obamas_patrio.php
The death of a taboo - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/the_death_of_a.html
Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/story/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check
You know what? I really wish the media would just say "these are lies" rather than dance around euphemisms like "stretched truth" or whatnot. "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth."
Wolf Blitzer interviews Ron Paul (Scripting News)
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/17/wolfBlitzerInterviewsRonPa.html
"Paul is right, of course -- and Blitzer is wrong. Paul is the only candidate of either party with the guts to cut through the nonsense and say what's obviously true. And Blitzer is the one that owes us an apology, for carrying the lies for so long. He's
The Daily Dish: Coulter In Her Element
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/03/coulter_in_her_.html
"When you see her in such a context, you realize that she truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism, especially among the young."
BobGeiger.com: Kennedy to Republicans: "What is it about working men and women that you find so offensive?"
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2007/01/kennedy-to-republicans-what-is-it-about.html
"But Massachusetts' Senior Senator -- who has seen his efforts to increase the minimum wage shot down in the Senate three times in the last two years -- really unloaded on his Republican colleagues for their utter contempt for working people in this count
Republicans Halt Ethics Legislation - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/17/AR2007011702443.html
"Whatever they're saying, Republican votes tonight were votes to prevent the Senate from enacting major lobbying and ethics reforms to deal with corruption scandals in Congress"
Dana Milbank - In the House, Suddenly Righteous Republicans - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301611.html
"Anne Kornblut of the New York Times asked McHenry if his complaint might come across as whining. "I'm not whining," he whined."
TPMmuckraker January 2, 2007 11:48 AM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002257.php
"Republicans "have taken every one of the techniques that Democrats employed when they were in the majority, and ratcheted them up to another level," said the American Enterprise Institute scholar."
Hey! Don't be a Dick, Governor Rounds!
http://heydontbeadick.blogspot.com
"The home of the movement to encourage Governor Mike Rounds (R-SD) to not be a dick. If Senator Johnson passes away or resigns due to his health problems, we advocate he appoint an experienced Democrat to replace him. Dude, seriously, don't be a dick."
Some Republicans Take a Scorched-Hill Tack - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116537033474441872-cPFTnuPnOq5O8ZJmEfdfVC8Fg4U_20071206.html?mod=blogs
"Like a retreating army, Republicans are tearing up railroad track and planting legislative land mines to make it harder for Democrats to govern when they take power in Congress next month."
Daily Kos: San Francisco Values
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/28/15421/031
"Since O'Reilly boycotts everything he hates, I look forward to his boycott of all Bay Area-origin products. Same with every conservative who bashes San Francisco and the Bay Area."
The Moderate Voice - Bush Meets To Keep Talk Radio Hosts In Line
http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1161096893.shtml
"We're in an age where partisans can be mentally programmed to look approvingly on events, job performances and position changes that they would not normally accept and to look away at some untidy matters that may occur, or openly rationalize them away."
The Unsolved Case Of Anthrax - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101301417.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
"It's been five years since the anthrax attacks shook our country and took the lives of five Americans. We cannot permit another five to pass before we close this chapter and prepare for the next one."
Republicans Want to Turn Over a New Page (Harpers.org)
http://www.harpers.org/sb-republicans-1160492797.html
"In seeking to malign the parties who sought to expose his conduct, top Republicans reveal that they are far more outraged by the possibility that the scandal might harm their party’s prospects in November than they are by Foley's behavior."
TIME.com: The End of a Revolution -- Oct. 16, 2006 -- Page 1
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1543943,00.html
"holding on to power has become not just the means but also the end for the onetime reformers who in 1994 unseated a calcified and corrupted Democratic majority."
YouTube - C-Span - Nancy Pelosi sets a resolution!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IJ7d7cWsVWI
"They acted like such children when Pelosi tried to get a recorded vote, which is what should have been done in the first place!"
Web site says liberals beat student GOP leader; police say no
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-19/115959860215660.xml=&coll=2
"Police: Student picked fight with friends at party, got punched"
War Room - Salon.com - Revisiting GOP attacks on President Clinton
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/09/25/clinton_2/index.html
"The claim that Clinton paid insufficient attention to terrorism was one that virtually no Republicans made during the Clinton presidency."
The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Bill Clinton's Bipartisan Love-In Blows Up in His Face | The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-clintons-bipartisan_b_30141.html
"Taking the "high-road" has a nice sound to it, but Clinton shouldn't fool himself -- and insult the rest of us -- by thinking that the time he's spent traveling that elevated path has made the world a better place."
Legalizing Marijuana - A New Republican Strategy? : Indybay
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/03/18294421.php
"It involves luring people to sign a LEGALIZE MARIJUANA petition and then re-registering them as Republicans."
G.O.P. Agenda in House Has Moderates Unhappy - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/washington/08elect.html?ei=5088&emc=rss&en=cf366584ee3be8be&ex=1310011200&partner=rssnyt
"the leadership's new American Values Agenda, a list of initiatives heavy on ideological themes, seems short-sighted and ill-timed considering that few conservatives are at serious risk in November."
Virginity or Death!
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/pollitt
"What is it with these right-wing Christians? Faced with a choice between sex and death, they choose death every time."
Neo-cons question Bush's democratisation strategy - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20060529/bs_ft/fto052920061706060912
"Neo-conservative commentators at the American Enterprise Institute wrote last week what amounted to an obituary of the Bush freedom doctrine."
Pharyngula: Sex and guns!
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/04/sex_and_guns.php
"If Republicans taught gun safety like they do sex education"
Daily Kos: Judge Alito Sees Dead People
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/31/164250/11
"...why is it that when a far-right Republican wants to make a good impression, they do it by standing in front of, on top of, or in the shadow of dead Americans?"
Why the Right Was Wrong - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/opinion/28hewitt.html?ei=5088&emc=rss&en=b8a30523f6872872&ex=1288152000&pagewanted=print&partner=rssnyt
"The right's embrace in the Miers nomination of tactics previously exclusive to the left ... will make it immeasurably harder to denounce and deflect such assaults when the Democrats make them the next time around."
One nation, under FSM | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45114#1045909
"One consequence was that the wealthy parasites known as the American Right, desperate to find a convincing argument against communism, seized on religion. Up to that point, the American Government had been devoutly secular, as specified by the Constituti
Katrina ends Bush's vacation early - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9132021
I thought he wasn't actually supposed to be on vacation...?
Regret The Error: Fox pundit's mistake terrorizes family
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/08/fox_pundits_mis.html
"Both have issued apologies Fox in a one-line statement to the Los Angeles Times and Loftus in an e-mail to the family after being contacted by the newspaper. The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction."
Guest Viewpoint: The party's over for betrayed Republican - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/26/ed.col.chaney.0626.html
"My problem is this: I believe in principles and ideals which my party has systematically discarded in the last 10 years."
Backup Brain - Right-wingers want to steal your (potential) babies
http://www.backupbrain.com/2005_05_29_archive.html#a004565
"They think that the state has the perfect right to take your embryos away from you and implant them in another mother. And they think that they have the right and obligation to do this, even over your objections."