This Mark Sanford saga combines, oddly, with a comment from one of my most loyal readers, to get me thinking. i dunno. i’m becoming an active supporter of the green party. i paid my $36 and now anxiously await the arrival of my membership card, button, bumpersticker and newspaper, although i’m trying to find a way [...]
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Watched it, loved it. Nice push back on health care, and perfect pitch, again, on Iran. All of which will, of course, enrage Republicans. I don’t know what more Republicans want from the president on Iran other than something George W. Bush would do, which Americans decided last November they do not want anymore. So John [...]
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Andrew today called my recent applause of CNN coverage a “strange new respect” today, quoting this emailer. You’re reader is right: constant attempts to wedge the Iran story into a U.S.-political frame. The narcissism was stunning. This is not really CNN’s fault, although it is regrettable. Every cable news channel is doing it now, and I don’t think [...]
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Another week, another known right wing domestic terrorist – no different in ideology from a conservative blogger in Ohio – shoots and kills someone. Only this time, it’s racially motivated, occurs at the Holocaust museum, and there are voluminous screeds from the shooter of the type that appear every single day on Republican blogs, everywhere. On [...]
Monday, June 8, 2009
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It would have been difficult for Kevin Coughlin to win a primary for governor in 2010 even if he weren’t exposed as a philandering, threat issuing, puke of a human being, who is now a defendant in a First Amendment case. But winning that primary wasn’t Coughlin’s goal – his goal was to make enough [...]
Friday, May 29, 2009
Too little, too late. One prominent Hispanic GOP strategist, who asked not to be identified discussing the topic, said the blistering attacks on Sotomayor were “suicidal” for the party, especially as it attempts to counter the broad support for Obama among Hispanics. “What’s this going to look like on Telemundo? What’s it going to look like on [...]
Friday, May 29, 2009
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As expected, the GOP base raced to the gutter on the Sotomayor nomination in a matter of hours. Not as expected, the Republican leadership is pushing back. In the last 24 hours or so, some big-name Republican voices — including people who are actually responsible for the day-in and day-out tasks of rebuilding a broken party [...]
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Hard to believe, but I do have some Republican friends – or should I say, used to have them. They’ve disappeared recently. Quietly. I don’t think it had anything really to do with the election, the disappearing act has occurred since then. In fact, some Republican friends even expressed great pride in Barack Obama’s inauguration. [...]
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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The famous Henry Fonda movie, 12 Angry Men, featured a jury of aging, angry white males. Arlen Specter today decided that such a jury is no longer that of his peers. “I’m not prepared to have my 29-year record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate,” said Specter, “not prepared to have [...]
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
PD reporter Joe Wagner reports on the April 15 Cleveland Tea Party Gathering Of Insane Republicans, and quotes one of the most insane Republicans of them all. Ralph King, a self-described working stiff from Bedford, said his group is overjoyed that the 4 to 6 p.m. Cleveland gathering will be on Mall C, somewhat between [...]
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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