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This week, the convention of Latino leaders got one GOP 2016er. The meeting of religious conservatives is getting 13. http://t.co/FFngbSwNdd — Rebecca Sinderbrand (@sinderbrand) June 17, 2015 While the normal people were busy with more important matters last weekend, the GOP candidates did some high-decibel pandering at Ralph Reed’s annual “Faith & Freedom Conference” — not …
Late Night Open Thread: Among the Whited SepulchersPost + Comments (42)
by Zandar| 122 Comments
This post is in: Election 2016, Getting The Band Back Together, IOKIYAR, DC Press Corpse, hoocoodanode, Nobody could have predicted
Like, zoiks, Scoob! Jeb Bush is talking about d-d-d-d-death panels! Jeb Bush, defending his efforts to keep alive Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman, when he was governor of Florida, suggested on Friday that patients on Medicare should be required to sign advance directives dictating their care if they become incapacitated. A similar proposal by President …
by Betty Cracker| 268 Comments
This post is in: Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, General Stupidity, Our Failed Media Experiment
I hate Politico as much as everyone else, but kudos to that nest of vapid hacks for doing a cover story on Jeb Bush’s ghoulish grandstanding in the Terri Schiavo case. The story opens, as it should, with the perspective of Ms. Schiavo’s husband: CLEARWATER, Fla.—Sitting recently on his brick back patio here, Michael Schiavo …
This post is in: Election 2016, Assholes, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Someone else has some not so kind words for him: In his announcement Tuesday that he would explore a 2016 presidential bid, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) promised to focus on “ideas and policies that will expand opportunity and prosperity for all Americans.” But he made no mention of his most controversial act during his …
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President Obama’s decision to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba undermines America’s credibility: https://t.co/Gg2m6T4oku. — Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 17, 2014 Jeb to the President: MY PARADE, STOP RAINING ON IT!!!… And it’s not like there weren’t plenty of Republicans ready to shiv “the Smart Bush Brother”. Bloomberg Politics looks to be a rich source for …
Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Sucks to Be Jeb (As Usual)Post + Comments (81)
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(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) . At a time where everything seems to have fallen into the hands of idiots, crooks, and crooked idiots, I give thanks for Mr. Charles P. Pierce and his pigbladdering of the latest Politico “competence” blather: … Given the choice between “competence” and a guy who promises to protect them from …
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: The RebrandingPost + Comments (93)
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The continued popularity of this tweet among both liberals and wing nuts/gun nuts continues to impress me. pic.twitter.com/f5XpdrQXWx — billmon (@billmon1) April 14, 2014 In the Guardian‘s scrupulously fairminded reporting: … Cliven Bundy, the last remaining cattleman in southern Nevada, mobilized hundreds of sympathizers on Saturday to his “range war” in Bunkerville, Nevada, after the …
The Attempted Self-Martyrdom of A Welfare RancherPost + Comments (88)