A moderately liberal Democraticly-themed blog
It’s a rather sad state of affairs when one can barely write snark anymore, because there is a real possibility that what you write will actually come true. The latest example of that was the release of the better than expected job numbers on Friday. Republicans can see where this is going. By election day, [...]
I hate to link to Huff Po for anything, but one of their stories on the House passing the worse-than-idiotic REINS Act has a hilarious quote from Texas Republican Representative Ted Poe: “Who do the regulators answer to? No one,” said Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) in debate on the House floor. “When the regulators go [...]
According to a new PPP poll released today, birthers now make up a majority of likely GOP voters in 2012. According to the poll, 51% say they believe Obama was not born in the United States. Only 28% say they think he was, 21% are unsure. That means nearly 3/4 – 72% – of GOP [...]
Apparently Palin was the first high-profile politician (that I’ve seen) to use the unfortunate acronym that goes along with Obama’s “Win the Future” theme. She said this on Fox News yesterday: His theme last night in the State of the Union was the “WTF,” you know, “Winning the Future.” And I thought, “OK, that acronym, [...]
Yes…that evil of evil…that program that everyone is rioting on the streets about. The program that democrats and republicans are united in gnashing teeth over! The one! The only!… Presidential Election Campaign Fund: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell introduced legislation Wednesday to save taxpayers $617 million over 10 years by ending taxpayer funding of the [...]
I’ve been having a hard time distinguishing between the behavior of Tea Baggers and Progressives (notably, netroots progressives) lately. Let’s look at how many ways these people appear to be similar: Belief that Obama’s policies are destroying America Instinct that, when something happens to their disliking, to blame Democrats, and specifically Obama, first, regardless of [...]
This set of numbers from PolitiFact should scare off even the new Tea Partiers in the House from that notion: Bachmann’s Statements by Ruling: True: 0 Mostly True: 0 Half True: 0 Barely True: 0 False: 7 Pants on Fire: 5 That’s right. Twelve different fact checks of Bachmann, and she couldn’t even muster a [...]
