Bobo in tomorrow morning’s Times: You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation. We support health care reform …
First as tragedy, then as farce
There’s been a lot of discussion on many of the internets about Republicans’ increasing use of the word “socialism”. Mark Leibovitch writes: It seems that “socialist” has supplanted “liberal” as the go-to slur among much of a conservative world confronting a one-two-three punch of bank bailouts, budget blowouts and stimulus bills. Right-leaning bloggers and talk …
Socratic debate
Another nugget of greatness from the Breitbart piece John just wrote about: Anonymous liberal commentators, the rabid pests of the new media, sought out the most popular conservative blogs to flood the zone with familiar Rush Limbaugh slanders. Their goal: To demoralize the right with layer upon layer of media domination. Only talk radio with …
Rush will tear us apart
Like Tim F, I think it is smart for Democrats to make Rush Limbaugh the face of the Republican party. It’s smart because Rush is an unBurkean cancer on the Republican party, or whatever it is Brooks likes to say, because disliking Rush is one of those 80/20 propositions Patrick Ruffini likes so much, and …
My name is Newt, I build governing majorities
God help us: “If you said to me that I could only consult with one individual, and my job was to bring the party back, Newt Gingrich would be the guy,” says Frank Luntz, the pollster who has worked with Gingrich going back to the 1994 Contract With America, the 10-point agenda that Republicans waved …
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Hateful
Charles Erwin Wilson, a GM exec who eventually became Eisenhower’s Secretary of Defense, once told Congress “I thought what was good for the country good for General Motors and vice versa” (this is the source of the famous “What’s good for General Motors is good for the USA” expression). I’m no corporatist, but I’ve always …
FUBO
Suck on this, libtards. C-list wingnut yakker Bob Lonsberry has unleashed an avant-garde gamechanger on the struggling Obama administration: a word came to me. A newly coined word. Four letters. Pronounced “foo-bow.” Like in “food” and “bow and arrow” – “foo-bow.” [….] Then the phones lit up. Dozens and dozens of people called. They wanted …