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Monthly Archives: February 2012

Catholic Bishops running interference for Republicans

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

 This is must reading. The folks at Hullabaloo make a compelling case that all the moaning and groaning from the Catholic Bishops is just anti-Obama politics. The Catholics have been paying for birth control and even abortions in several states under similar insurance mandates for years. Somehow, they’ve found a way to mollify their tender […]

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Feingold to Obama: Join me in exile and let the country suck it

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Umm, Fuck Russ Feingold. His unilateral disarmament purity position is, in part, responsible for the fact that the Senator from his old seat in Wisconsin is a Republican. Elections have consequences that we all have to live with. Russ may not mind a country firmly anchored in the Middle Ages, but I do.  I don’t […]

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The foreign workers Republicans never attack

Monday, February 6, 2012

 I saw a butchered version of the exchange referenced in this article on the Daily Show. Stewart was trying to play it for laughs, or course, so he cut off the portion about the H-1B visa issue. The basic story is that a woman asked Obama why her husband had to compete with holders of […]

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Yet more grifting

Monday, February 6, 2012

 A few days ago I wrote about Jan Brewer’s book buying scam. Here’s how it works. Start a PAC. Have the PAC buy multiple copies of your own book at full price. Repeat until you run out of suckers. Apparently, it’s a common scam. Christine O’Donnell, the woman who is not a witch, gave her […]

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Brooks runs interference for racist scum

Monday, February 6, 2012

Not being able to stomach David Brooks, I was unaware that he was touting a book by racist pseudo-social scientist Charles Murray. Apparently Murray has discovered that the white working class is also genetically inferior-hence income inequality. A blogger named Peter, at Ph.D. Octopus (disclosure: he shares half my genes) says all that need be […]

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Fox Coming Around to Romney?

Saturday, February 4, 2012

I came upon this post at Politics USA via Angry Black Lady Chronicles. It’s about a Fox News contributor defending Romney’s “I don’t care about the poor remark” by basically arguing that the poor never had it so good because some of them get gout. This is standard Fox stuff, but what I find interesting […]

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Republicans attack the Fed

Saturday, February 4, 2012

 From the Times: Republicans Sharply Question Bernanke for Fed’s Focus on Job Market Summary:   Why are you trying to block our attempts to tank the economy? Don’t you know we have an election to win?

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Friday Night Music-with Commentary

Friday, February 3, 2012

The furor over the Susan Komen situation has gotten a lot of people upset and has raised a lot of questions. It got me thinking of the ACORN fiasco a few years ago. Recall that ACORN then, like Planned Parenthood now, had, for reasons having no rational basis, become the whipping boy for the right […]

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The Death of Satire

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Take this, Stephen Colbert: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) launched a special fundraising political action committee in October, pledging to use the money to fight illegal immigration and take on other issues she believes in. But based on financial disclosures filed this week, she has so far used it to do little more than buy […]

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Newt defends the poor

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Newt’s still in it. Sarah says that a vote for Newt will annoy a liberal and all I can say is that I’ve never enjoyed being annoyed so much. You have to love the guy. He lives in the eternal present, totally lacking in self awareness or shame. Today he lectured Mitt Romney for saying […]

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