But the family who basically helped start the Bircher movement and kick started the tea party movement with Americans for Prosperity,has spent decades funding Republican groups, and throws token cash at glibertarians (but plenty enough to fund wayfayers and leather jackets), aren’t really libertarians. They self-identify as Republicans: Despite a wave of scrutiny from the …
Archives for August 2012
Your Modern GOP in Three Clips
In reverse chronological order: Deranged: Delusional: Dyspeptic: OPTICS? WTF ARE THEY? Is John Waters in charge of the Republican party messaging machine?
RNC Elder Abuse: Clint Eastwood
__ Well, it’s certainly going to be talked about, probably more than the sorry dishonest boilerplate Romney dribbled out afterwards. As you can see from the still, Mr. Eastwood looked every one of his 82 hard-lived years, and he sounded even worse. If you squirmed at the scenes in Bowling for Columbine where Michael Moore …
Is Invisible Obama drinking Mitt’s milkshake?
I have to agree with John. This is the weirdest stuff I’ve ever heard at a GOP convention. I listened to it on NPR and when the clock struck 11 pm our local station just ran the 11 o’clock news update concurrently with Mitt’s word salad. And to answer Mitt, I felt pretty fucking glad I voted for …
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This Really Happened, Didn’t It?
I know I swore not to watch any of the RNC, but I had to walk down the street and take my parent’s dogs home and put them to bed (I was watching them while my folks were at the game), and when I came back my local CBS network had broken away from the …
Thursday Recipe Exchange: SPAM! (Challenge Accepted)
JeffreyW’s Spam Fried Rice __ Because mechanically extruded spiced meat product is waaay healthier than whatever the GOP nominee will squeeze out this evening. From our Food Goddess, TaMara: Before there was Bennifer, before there was Bradgelina, before anyone thought about using a portmanteau to create romantic links ad nauseam, there was the original. The …
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Rolling Stone: Mitt Romney, Gubmint Welfare Moocher Leech
(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) __ Tim Dickinson gets the cover for “The Federal Bailout That Saved Mitt Romney“: Mitt Romney likes to say he won’t “apologize” for his success in business. But what he never says is “thank you” – to the American people – for the federal bailout of Bain & Company that made …
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