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Re-branding

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Stephen Colbert on Republican rebranding: Speaking of rebranding, not content with making a mess of their own brand, the Republicans are about to pass a resolution demanding that the Democrats re-brand themselves, by changing their name to the “Democrat Socialist” party. (The just can’t get enough of dropping the “ic” on the end of the […]

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Not to be trusted

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Arlen Specter is becoming a Democrat. Having concluded that he cannot win the Republican primary, he has done the “principled” thing and once again become a Democrat. This is a man who only recently opined that investigating torture is something they do only in banana republics and who, also recently, did a 180 turn on […]

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Susan Collins shows what a moderate can do

Monday, April 27, 2009

Sometimes things just don’t break your way. Susan Collins, intellectually challenged Maine “moderate” Senator, must be wanting to share a drink with Bobby Jindal these days. Why it seems like only yesterday (because it was) that her website proudly reprinted an article from the Wall Street Journal, in which she trashed the idea of using […]

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Hillary states the obvious

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Hillary Clinton has turned out to be a brilliant pick for Secretary of State. Here she is pointing out the obvious to a Republican spouting a Drudge inspired talking point. We’ve come to a sorry point when the Secretary of State has to defend the president for not acting like a jackass when he meets […]

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Puzzling

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Now that Obama is inching ever so slowly toward prosecuting the torturers in chief, Dick Cheney’s bizarre behavior grows ever more perplexing. One would think that a potential criminal defendant might keep his mouth shut, rather than admitting all the elements of the crime with which he may be charged. Perhaps he should consult with […]

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Another insane Republican

Monday, April 20, 2009

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Perhaps one doesn’t qualify as insane if one repeats what others have already done, but if you expect different results when you repeat the actions of others your mental health is still in question. What to make of the parade […]

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A reasonable request

Thursday, April 9, 2009

My intellectual batteries, or at least the cells that are capable of writing, are pretty tapped out today. I spent six hours doing a rush job writing a brief, and to be frank, I’m just not that into it tonight. But I thought I would pass this on (via Huffington Post)to anyone who might have […]

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