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Category Archives: Republican Corruption

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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There but for the grassroots..

Monday, March 30, 2009

This blog started year ago partly in reaction to George Bush’s attempt to “privatize” (read “destroy”) Social Security after he received a mandate to do so by never mentioning the subject during his 2004 campaign. Luckily, that didn’t work out so well, at least for George, and Social Security escaped his tender ministrations. There were […]

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Dirty tricks, a Republican tradition since the 60s

Monday, November 3, 2008

Well, I am far too nervous and stressed to do any serious thinking, so I’m going to do a little serious ranting. This morning the Day ran an AP article about the dirty tricks that are as inevitable at this point in the election cycle as sunrise in the morning. (The Inevitable Onslaught Of Dirty […]

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Stealing signs

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

I have been more or less involved in nuts and bolts politics since 1980, when I was a last minute volunteer for Jimmy Carter. My job was to put up signs on election day. Apparently I had a Republican counterpart whose job was to take them down, because, wherever we put them, they were gone […]

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I must be dreaming

Monday, October 27, 2008

Despite what seemed like the Justice Department’s best effort to screw up the case against him, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens went down today, convicted by a jury of his peers on seven counts of violating ethics laws. This is too much good news, and makes me suspect anew that I am being set up.

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Scam on the right

Thursday, July 24, 2008

It is a truism that a sucker is born every minute. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it doesn’t matter to scam artists as long as a reasonably high number of people are reliably gullible. It appears that the right wing suckers among us are getting fleeced with regularity. Here’s the facts: […]

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Another White House crime. Will the pundits yawn again?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Remember Travelgate? It was a big scandal in the Clinton years. The Clinton’s were accused of having done something to members of the White House travel office. It was never quite clear what they had done, but it provided endless grist for the media mill and a thorough Congressional investigation. What a difference a few […]

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Good news

Friday, November 30, 2007

The move to steal about half of California’s electoral votes has been quashed for now. The folks with the deep pockets behind the campaign apparently weren’t willing to collect legitimate signatures for their ballot initiative, preferring, in time honored Republican fashion, to do it by fraud. Unfortunately for them, they were caught, so they had […]

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Mr. 9/11 is having a tough few days

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Looks like Mr. 9/11 is in for some stormy weather. Even the New York Times covered the story about Rudy paying the security costs for his Long Island adulterous trysts out of the budgets of obscure city agencies. (It should be pointed out, however, that the Times obligingly buried the story in the back pages […]

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Reagan, Republicans and race

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Over the course of the last few weeks Paul Krugman and David Brooks, both columnists for the New York Times, have been trading blows about Ronald Reagan. The general charge is that Reagan made coded appeals to white racism as part of his campaign strategy, consistent with the overall Republican electoral stategy since 1968. The […]

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