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Truth in Comics
By CreatureIf it's Sunday, it's Truth in Comics....
Craziest Republican of the Day: Jim DeMint
By Michael J.W. StickingsThe right-wing senator from South Carolina isn't happy with the direction of the GOP:The problem in the Republican Party is that the leadership has gone to the left. I need some new Republicans.Really? To the left? Well, perh...
Truth in Comics
By CreatureIf it's Sunday, it's Truth in Comics....
Bolshevism at the GOP
By Michael J.W. StickingsAnd so the Great Republican Purge of 2009, soon to be 2010, continues to narrow the party down to a right-wing fringe, now reaching a new level of Bolshevik fervor. The Caucus's Adam Nagourney has the details:Republican leade...
More Glenn Beck!
By Michael J.W. StickingsPolitico:Glenn Beck, the controversial Fox News television host, is planning on becoming more active in the populist conservative movement he spawned, according to sources familiar with his thinking.What must it be like to be...
Don\'t steal my lamb
By CreatureI understand why liberals want Geithner to go (Robert Reich for Treasury, anyone), but for Republicans to be after him is ludicrous. If Wall Street was tanking then maybe I see a reason for their bluster. Absent that, they should just sh...
Memorandum
By CarlTo: GOPSUBEJCT: Wooing New VotersIf u r selling fear, u r doing it rong.This week has seen some pretty spectacular fear-mongering amongst the GOP, and I suspect it will spell the eventual downfall of the party as a whole.Item ...
The GOP purification police, on the hunt in South Carolina
By Michael J.W. StickingsHow hilarious is it that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has been censured by his own party?U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham -- in the name of bipartisanship -- continues to weaken the Republican brand and tarnish the ideals of fre...
Quote of the Day: Lindsey Graham on conservatism and the GOP
By Michael J.W. StickingsEvery once in a while, the somewhat eccentric Republican senator from South Carolina says something that makes a lot of sense. Like this: To those people who are pursuing purity, you'll become a club not a party. Those people...
Scozzafava pulls out of NY-23 House race, GOP\'s extremist right scores another major victory
By Michael J.W. StickingsOn this All Hallows' Eve 2009, Dede Scozzafava, the (official) Republican candidate in the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District, has suspended her campaign just days before the vote, giving up in the fac...
A walk in the park
By CarlLeave it to Republicans to shoot themselves in the foot:Reporting from Washington - Silvan Johnson adores Sarah Palin, belongs to a conservative discussion group and fumes at President Obama's spending policies. But when it comes to picking a ...
Kristol: It\'s a good time to be a wingnut
By Mustang BobbyWilliam Kristol rules out the chances for a more moderate, temperate, and sophisticated GOP in the years to come. And he thinks that's a good thing.The Gallup poll released Monday shows the public's conservatism at a high-water mark....
Nothing too shameful
By Capt. FoggThere are a lot of Facebook and web pages and blogs from all kinds of people and organizations and it's nothing all that unusual to find something racist, something disturbing something shameful in all the vastness: the enormity amongst ...
