Category Archives: Republicans shooting themseves in the foot

This fucking week…

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

So, let’s review… MONDAY: The Boston Marathon gets hit. Death, Blood, gore, sadness. TUESDAY: The Senate The GOP minority in The Senate plus four Red State Dems totally fucks all of us on Gun Control via the Filibuster. And while Sharron … Continue reading →

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Obama, Chained CPI and the War of Attrition.

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

Via Alex Seitz-Wald at Salon… Today may mark a nadir in the often strained relations between President Obama and the “professional left,” as Robert Gibbs derisively called the progressive movement, which has been pushing for months to prevent Obama from … Continue reading →

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Karl Rove Vs. The Tea Party.

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

Via The Christian Science Monitor: Over the weekend, The New York Times‘s Jeff Zeleny reported that the Republican establishment is taking quick strides – via a new political group created by strategist Karl Rove – to fix what they’ve taken to calling their “Todd Akin problem.” … Continue reading →

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Greg Walden wants to cock-block the trillion dollar coin.

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Via MSNBC’s “Last Word” blog. What if a single coin could solve the debt ceiling? The premise is kooky, yet simple: The Treasury would print a $1 trillion dollar platinum coin and deposit it at the Federal Reserve, and boom, … Continue reading →

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Off the fiscal cliff. (And into the fire?)

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

Okay, the bill passed. Via MSNBC. Updated at 2:30 a.m. ET: An agreement to stave off the harshest and most immediate consequences of the fiscal cliff won approval in the House late Tuesday. President Barack Obama said he would sign the … Continue reading →

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I don’t want to to write about the Gun Tragedy in Newton, Connecticut…

Posted on December 15, 2012 by

Seriously. I really don’t want to. By all means, I must express our condolences to the victim’s families.  This is yet another heartbreaking tragedy, that’s just part of an unbreakable string of tragedies that has happened in the past several … Continue reading →

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SKETCH: Karl Rove, Dick Morris and the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Posted on December 8, 2012 by

Via New York Magazine: According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a … Continue reading →

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BROWNIE!: A Fantasia in one act on the subject of Michael Brown’s balls.

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

According to Brown, who famously dubbed “Brownie” by President Bush, it’s unlikely that Hurricane Sandy will dramatically impact the presidential race and news coverage in the final week of the election. However, he has some words of advice for the president … Continue reading →

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Obama Vs Romney: Round II.

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

Let’s get the most obvious comment out of the way.  Where the hell did this Obama come from and where the hell was he two weeks ago? My working theory is that someone managed to extract Bone Marrow from Joe Biden, … Continue reading →

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Paul Ryan, The Soup Kitchen and not acting the objective.

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

From the Washington Times: The head of a northeast Ohio charity says that the Romney campaign last week “ramrodded their way” into the group’s Youngstown soup kitchen so that GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan could get his picture taken washing dishes in … Continue reading →

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