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True Colors

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Fairly incredible. A hoaxster from the Daily Beast poses as David Koch and calls Scott Walker. There are two parts. The youtube is titled Koch Whore: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and that pretty much says it all. The hoaxster, we must hope, did his research to get a Koch sounding voice and mannerisms, because otherwise […]

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Heads they win, tails we lose

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

I understand that Jon Stewart has compared the Wisconsin situation to the Bizarro World in Superman, with the protestors being the Bizarro World equivalent of the tea party folks. Superficial, but ultimately wrong, beginning with the fact that the folks in Wisconsin have reality based grievances. But there is a kernel of truth in his […]

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Gud Wryting at the Dey

Friday, February 18, 2011

Punditry can be a demanding avocation. Today, for instance, I tried to pen something about Glenn Beck, Wisconsin, the Koch Brothers, and the infinite capacity of American’s to be deluded into voting for their own oppressors, but it just didn’t come together. All that work, and nothing to show. The article will remain forever embedded […]

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Bringing back Paradise

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Life was good for the plutocrats at the turn of the last century, and the Republicans are working their butts off to bring back the good times. Missouri State Sen. Jane Cunningham is no slacker. Here’s her official summary for a bill she’s recently introduced in the Missouri State Senate to bring back our second […]

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Paul Ryan

Monday, January 31, 2011

This is rather personal for me. From Crooks and Liars: In Paul Ryan’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union address last week, he fretted over our social safety nets becoming hammocks. Ryan is the guy, as you probably know, who is hell bent on destroying Social Security and Medicare. But in turns out, […]

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What’s with Enfield?

Sunday, January 23, 2011

It would appear that the Republicans that are running Enfield have a secret agenda: enriching the ACLU, which is entitled to attorneys fees from losing defendants when it vindicates the constitution. After handing the ACLU a slam dunk victory when they insisted on having the high school graduation in a church, the Enfielders decided to […]

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An interesting dynamic

Thursday, January 20, 2011

It is an interesting fact of political life in this country that Democrats tend to elect people who either more or less reflect their values or are more conservative than Democrats as a whole, while Republicans tend to elect people that are not just more conservative than Republicans as a whole, but far more conservative […]

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Supergrifters

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Christine O’Donnell has started a PAC, called ChristinePAC, the purpose of which appears to be to provide for the support and maintenance of Christine O’Donnell. The PAC will be operating out of her home, presumably to legitimize the use of PAC funds to pay her bills. This is one bright side of the Citizens United […]

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It’s a topsy turvy world

Monday, December 13, 2010

It’s hard to believe that it’s not yet three years since Hillary Clinton proved she was incapable of being president by choking up a bit when she made the point that elections and their consequences actually mattered to real people. The fact that she came close to-might even have-shedding a few tears was all we […]

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For this we can give thanks

Friday, November 26, 2010

It’s been dismal lately, but just before Thanksgiving we got a bit of news that gave us a little in the way of political good cheer. Tom Delay was convicted of money laundering by a Texas jury, in a case that seemed to defy the constitutional mandate for a speedy trial. Seems like he was […]

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