Even Conservative @EWErickson is becoming the new Even The Liberal New Republic http://t.co/geGp4w0JLb — daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 18, 2015 Now that Erick “Voice of the GOP Gated Community” Erickson is studying up for his preacher’s license, he wants the established old-school Baptist shouter to STFU with the penny-ante “miracle cure” snake-oil peddling already. Per Media …
Grifters Gonna Grift
Trash Even a Man Who Lies With Goats (allegedly) Won’t Touch
This is funny: The blogger Mickey Kaus has quit his job at The Daily Caller after the conservative site’s editor-in-chief, Tucker Carlson, pulled a critical column about Fox News from the site, Kaus told the On Media blog on Tuesday. “It’s pretty simple,” Kaus said in an interview, “I wrote a piece attacking Fox for …
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Later-Night Open Thread: Speaking of Low-Rent Grifters…
On the one hand, it’s the New York Post; on the other hand, it sounds like exactly the sort of kack-handed stunt for which James O’Keefe III is notorious… A controversial conservative activist is being accused of trying to incite anti-police protesters by saying, “I wish I could kill some of these cops,” to provoke …
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Late Night Open Thread: GOP Grifter Busted for Two-Bit Overbilling
So does whoever wins the special election move into the Downton Abbey red rooms? Or does a more senior member get that suite? — Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 17, 2015 Aaron Schock making a lot of friends on the way out the door by stepping on the GOP’s budget news cycle. — daveweigel (@daveweigel) March …
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The St. Patrick’s Day Mass-Schock-er
And Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Downton Abbey) is resigning from the House. The 33-year-old Republican has been dogged by questions about his spending of taxpayer and campaign dollars. On Monday afternoon, POLITICO posed a lengthy set of questions about charging the government and his campaign tens of thousands of dollars in questionable mileage reimbursements. “Today, I …
Monday Evening Open Thread: Always with the Grift, GOP
Former Club for Growth spox –> RT @barneykeller: Mike Huckabee is a total fraud, Part 156,732: http://t.co/h8d6grceAy — daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 16, 2015 Mike Huckabee is a stone Repub grifter, top-level marketing leader in the Downhome Godly Heartland Folks(tm) branch of the Party. Tweeter Barney Keller, per the Google… During his tenure at the Club, …
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Default Mode Is Completely Broken
Our 2014 elections have assured me that our Republican leaders in Congress will learn to govern any time now. I mean, what could possibly go wr…OH WAIT. The Hill reports this morning that another “tense standoff,” one similar to the chaos that erupted around Department of Homeland Security funding, is likely to unfold around the …