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If this is failure, give me some

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Dick Armey’s attempt to take control of FreedomWorks is being portrayed as a failed coup attempt, but, personally, if I could get someone to pay me $400,000.00 a year to just stay away, I’d consider myself a success. Still, we on the left can take some satisfaction in knowing that so much of that right […]

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A can’t miss prediction

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

There are some behind the scenes, “bi-partisan” negotiations about filibuster reform going on in the Senate, featuring the usual suspects: “I think we’re having hopeful discussions,” Sen. John McCain told TPM. “We’re doing everything we can, but I don’t know if we’ll succeed. … I can’t tell you the back and forth but we are […]

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Truly disgusting

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

When I was in high school I used to amuse myself reading the paranoiac articles in the John Bircher’s magazine and a few other extreme-right rags, which for reasons I can’t fathom, were available in the high school library. This should have been odd anywhere, but particularly in a high school which even then had […]

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Shaping Reality

Monday, November 26, 2012

It has been endlessly noted that the Republican party appears to have lost touch with reality. It denies science and shouts down, rather than engages with, those who question its articles of faith. Witness, for example, its recent suppression of a Congressional Research Office report, which reached the unsurprising conclusion that low tax rates on […]

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Counting Chickens

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Nate Silver has Obama’s chances at greater than 75%, so I am going to indulge myself a bit here. Back in 1960, John F. Kennedy said “Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. ” I remember reading that quote long ago, and sure […]

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Get ready for the post election battle

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Paul Krugman notes that the Republicans appear to be stealing signs in Princeton: If you drive around Princeton right now, you may notice a curious thing: there are a lot of Romney/Ryan signs, very few Obama/Biden signs. Now, Princeton does have a fair number of investment bankers in residence, but it’s nonetheless a pretty liberal […]

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Heal yourselves

Saturday, September 29, 2012

We’ve been hearing a lot about voter fraud from the Republicans, but it is little noted nor long remembered that what few examples we have of the practice have been committed by Republican operatives. In person voter fraud is almost unknown, except when committed by little Republican criminals trying to prove it could be done. […]

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Where do they find these people?

Thursday, September 27, 2012

No comment needed: Mia Love has made her Haitian immigrant family’s bootstraps story the centerpiece of her campaign to become the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. But on Monday, Mother Jones raised some serious questions about the Utah congressional candidate’s public statements about her family’s immigration story, which she’s used to justify a […]

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I should have gotten a copyright

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Okay, so I went here today, and find to my surprise, that Jon Stewart has introduced a new segment entitled “Barack Obama is the luckiest dude on the planet” or something to that effect. Here’s the video: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Democalypse 2012 – Every Which Way […]

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Is that all she’s got?

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Linda McMahon says that she is talking about the issues. Make that issue. No need for that troublesome “s”. And what is the issue? The fact that Chris Murphy got a mortgage with which only Linda McMahon has been able to perceive a problem. This is emblematic of the ideological bankruptcy of the modern Republican […]

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