Existential Fret
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Megan McArdle has a useful summary of the reasons that terrorism is not an “existential threat” to the United States. My call-out:
Archive for the ‘GOP morons’ Category
If Dennis Prager is Not a Self-hating Jew, He is Simply Insane
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Sen. John McCain finally threw Rev. John Hagee and Hagee’s endorsement under the bus when it was revealed by a number of sources, including Sam Stein at HuffPo, that Hagee sermonized in the 90s about Hitler as God’s glorious tool of righteousness (Stein has the audio, so one may listen for oneself): (more…)
Ignore those Election Results: Let’s Discuss Dirty, Fucking, Bomb-throwing Hippies
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Entertainment! That is, watching the neocons whistling past the graveyard as Americans continue to reject their movement and the GOP (tho at least one Cornerite admits after a Dem won a traditionally Republican seat on Tuesday in Mississippi, that they and their party are “frakked.”) For example, “neo-libertarian” Jeff Goldstein sees fit to post a lengthy “analysis” of the New Left’s fascist tendencies, a perspective he leaps to via approving reference to Jonah Goldberg’s trenchant opus, Liberal Fascism. Is Goldstein really unaware that the New Left is in fact a geriatric ideology, and nearly obsolete? Goldstein also advances the notion that there is some significant connection between the 60s radicals and those who today — you know, 2008, not 1968 — identify as “progressives.”
Picture this
Monday, May 12th, 2008Absolutely true, as Brad of Sadly, No! sez: “…pictures speak more than a trillion-kabillion words, so I’ll let them speak for me. Ladies and gentlemen, the Bush Legacy.” And good golly Miss Molly!, has Brad compiled an awesome — if horrifying — “legacy” photo album. (Brad’s very charitable contribution to Jonah Goldberg’s scholarly crisis.)
(Update) Gentlemen: Shred those Playboys to Build a Bright Economic Future; Hitler Would
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008In the Second District of Indiana (in which I have lived on and off for the past almost 20 years), GOP congressional candidate, Tony Zirkle, shoves old Playboys into the shredder to solve the foreclosure and gas price problems. Zirkle: (more…)
And Remember, Buchanan is a Paleocon Who Opposed the Iraq War
Monday, April 14th, 2008McCain’s Economic Advisor
Saturday, April 12th, 2008Economics, John McCain says, is “not his strong suit.” So it’s nice to know he’s being tutored on the subject by one of the best. His new economic adviser, Carly Fiorina, is the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
During her stint in that company, she was a classic textbook case of MBA Disease: stripping assets, gutting human capital, downsizing, piling work on the survivors–and getting a big, fat pay package for herself.
Michael Ledeen: Grunts in Iraq are Fakers — And Living the Life of Riley
Saturday, April 12th, 2008ABC News recently reported a lot of support for Obama (and some for Hilary) coming from our troops in Iraq. Neocon warmongers undergo neurological synapse disconnects with such news, so they must rhetorically destroy such “wrong” military opinions.
If only Scalia had been right
Friday, April 4th, 2008In an article this week for TNR entitled Legal Bondage, Jeffrey Rosin gives moral legislation in the US a clean bill of health, despite Justice Scalia’s alarmist dissent five years ago in Lawrence v. Texas warning that the majority’s decision to decriminalize sodomy would send the country down the “slippery slope” of unchecked moral degeneration: (more…)
(Update) Great American Hypocrites — A Book
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Glenn Greenwald’s latest book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, release date 4/15, is available now for pre-ordering at Amazon:
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Ingloriousness of a Terrible Swift Insanity
Thursday, March 27th, 2008With a h/t to Gavin M. at Sadly, No!, I simply pass along obscene scribblings from the devout Catholic, “pro-life” Mark Noonan — formerly of Blogs for Bush: (more…)
In the Department of War = Peace
Thursday, March 27th, 2008The headline says it all: Pentagon says new Iraq fighting arises from surge’s success
Federalism for Me, But not for Thee — Liberals and Conservatives Both Disappoint, But Overall the GOP is Jurisprudentially Worse
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Mulling over Kevin Carson’s superb post below, I’ve been contemplating why it was that I tilted conservative/GOP in the 80s, and even supported the Robert Bork nomination to SCOTUS. For me, it came down to federalism, and a complete aversion to the manner in which the High Court and liberals had been abusing the Commerce Clause to intrude the federal government into matters that were at least Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon’s Commerce. FDR’s court-packing threat (which enabled the jurisprudence of the Commerce-Clause-means-any-area-in-which Congress-legislates) was not, to my mind, something cute to be winked at — if George W. Bush suggested such a measure his critics would rightly decry it as outrageous.
Entrepreneurs leave the Republican party
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Inc magazine is the bible of entrepreneurs in the U.S. When it was starting out in the 1980s, its readership was a monolithic Republican block. But now, everything has changed: (more…)
If I Maliciously and With No Basis in Fact Publicly Labeled a Jewish Man as a Nazi Who Sent other Jews to Hitler’s Death Trains, Do You Think it Would Harm My Rep?
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Michelle Malkin is saddened — nay, grief-stricken — that wingnut hate-radio host Melanie Morgan has been fired from Citadel Radio’s San Francisco Bay-area KSFO radio station. Of course, Ms. Morgan traffics in unusually reprehensible views, even for the right, my emphasis: (more…)
Banns from Bushland
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008RedState’s Michael Krempasky has wunnerful news. He is engaged to Monica Gooodling, the former senior counsel to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. A graduate of Messiah College, Ms. Goodling then earned J.D. and M.A. degrees from Pat Robertson’s Regent University.
Greenwald takes on CNN
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Glenn Greenwald, of salon.com , criticizes CNN for inviting Bush’s Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Michael McConnell, to be interviewed by John King, despite King’s self-proclaimed ignorance of the surveillance debate. Rather than using the interview as an opportunity to pose tough questions to a controversial figure, the session, according to Greenwald, deteriorated into a platform for government propaganda reminiscent of Pravda: (more…)
Hannity, Limbaugh etc…A Nation Turns Its Hurting Soul to You — And Snickers
Friday, February 8th, 2008K-Lo collects herself and genuflects to the following on behalf of a grateful nation: “Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Andy McCarthy, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.”