So a tiny fraction of neo-Confederate losers have directed the awesome power of their pork-rind-dust encrusted keyboards towards the White House citizen’s petition function as a way to express their great sadness at the ass kicking America gave them on Election Day. These simpletons have started petitions asking permission for their State to leave the Union. Once …
Briefings on the fiscal staircase of very gradual change…
Keven Drum over at Mother Jones has two good posts up about the latest manufactured deadline of scary fiscal doom. This one breaks down what the facts really are and this one points out that the tax solutions President Obama is offering are the same ones he put forth over a year ago–and made a …
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Hear Lee explain the core Conservative world view
Jimmy Carter IV (Jimmy Carter’s grandson) has found another bit of tape that explains how modern Conservatives/Wingnuts/Republicans view the world. This artifact dates back to the Reagan years. It is audio of the 42 minute interview with Lee Atwater where he explains how the Southern Strategy works and why it is the core of the …
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The answer is YES…
The National Journal has an article up about the massive FAIL of Republican pollsters. It ends with a question/statement from an unnamed GOPer: No matter what the answer is, the GOP knows it must come up with a more reliable method of measuring the electorate. It hurts to lose; it hurts more when a party …
Not buying it
<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/59124558@N06/8179109207/” title=”Scary_Count_Floyd_SCTV by dengre.bj, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8063/8179109207_7d4fb2d752.jpg” width=”352″ height=”500″ alt=”Scary_Count_Floyd_SCTV”></a> Back in the day, Count Floyd was a reoccurring character on SCTV. He was a teevee horror movie host trying to make very safe and mild films sound “scary”. It was funny, nice and silly. All the beltway talk about the so called “fiscal cliff” sounds …
How long before Grover and Rush make him walk it back…
Bill Kristol told Fox News today the the GOP should throw in the towel on taxes and give President Obama what he wants: “It won’t kill the country if we raise taxes a little bit on millionaires,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “It really won’t, I don’t think. I don’t really understand why Republicans …
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Good
<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/59124558@N06/8173453447/” title=”Dead_Confederat_GOP_Logo by dengre.bj, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8064/8173453447_27e38b867d.jpg” width=”311″ height=”276″ alt=”Dead_Confederat_GOP_Logo”></a> There are a lot of lessons one could take from the 2012 Election. One fills me with hope: the neo-Confederate ideology that has run the Republican Party since Nixon embraced the Southern Strategy is dead. It is still quite dangerous (as any viewer of …