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Word for the day: Sphexishness

Saturday, June 6, 2015

If you’re a Paul Krugman fan, you have no doubt read more than one column or blog post about the fact that the right refuses to learn from experience. I think the latest example he cited is the failure of Sam Brownback’s Kansas “experiment”. That experiment has decidedly failed, but Sam and the rest of […]

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Cal Thomas catches us in the act

Monday, April 6, 2015

Cal Thomas has caught us out. We manipulated the Indiana Republican Party into passing a law encouraging bigotry, and then took advantage of them when they fell into our clever trap: The uproar about Indiana’s law was political theater. It is also a trap set by the Left, which Republicans risk falling into. It works […]

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Don’t play that card!

Monday, February 16, 2015

The Republicans are slow walking the confirmation hearings for Eric Holder's replacement. According to reputed moderate Chuck Grassley, she must show that she is not Eric Holder. This is a curious thing, because if not for the fact that he is Obama's attorney general and/or that he is black, Holder is a guy that ordinarily […]

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Schiavo redux

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

It has been great fun watching Republicans try to deal with the vaccination issue. The natural reaction of a Republican politician is to go with the crazy. If you are perceived as a moderate, like Chris Christie, you may literally embrace the chance to establish your insane bona fides, which is, of course, exactly what […]

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Republican Logic

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

United States Senator (yes, let that sink in) Thom Tillis, believes that we should not have regulations requiring restaurant workers to wash their hands after using the bathroom, but we should have regulations requiring their employers to let the public know that their employees are not required to wash their hands after using the bathroom. […]

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David Duke’s empty threat

Friday, January 2, 2015

This is sort of a follow up to yesterday's post. Seems David Duke doesn't realize how successful he's been: Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke issued a warning to Republicans who have criticized House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) for speaking to a white nationalist group in 2002, saying they “better be looking over […]

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Nothing new to see here

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Just read this, which was a shame as I had been considering writing something to the same effect, but now I feel like a bit of a cheater. Anyway, I too have been watching the Steve Scalise “controversy” with some amused bemusement, as I really can't see how retaining a racist in a leadership position […]

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Dubious Achievement Awards

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

If, like me, you make at least a daily pilgrimage to Daily Kos, you are aware that David Perdue, Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, is having some problems. He's a businessman, you see, with the kind of background that we are told we need in our legislatures. He proudly specialized, according to his own […]

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Hoist ’em high

Friday, October 3, 2014

One of the more evil things the Republicans do is suppress the vote. Unfortunately for them, they cannot yet explicitly restrict the electorate to Republicans (they're working on that), so, every once in a while a Republican is bound to get swept up in the net. And, it was bound to happen, sooner or later, […]

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Be afraid, be very afraid

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Scott Brown, the New Hampshire carpetbagger, is attacking Jeanne Shaheen for failing to understand the existential threat posed by a relative handful of religious nut-jobs half a world away: >“Radical Islamic terrorists are threatening to cause the collapse of our country,” Mr. Brown says. “President Obama and Senator Shaheen seem confused about the nature of […]

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