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Bachmann for President?

Excellent. But one thing about the rally proved sparklingly clear: Michele Bachmann is a major star. When she stepped up to the podium on the Capitol steps, the crowd went wild. It wasn’t too hard to imagine the event as a warm up for the 2010 presidential election, where Bachmann might prove a far more viable [...]

Like all things Republican, low turnout in NY-23 mutates reality

When I was deciding how to specialize my political work, I decided to focus on GOTV (get out the vote).  As a field guy, this was natural – most field guys end up being GOTV guys, too.  But turnout decides the story, every time, and that’s where I wanted to be – able to effect [...]

NY-23 in a nutshell – Republican base gets used again, then is shown the door. What a surprise.

My dear teabaggers – how’s it feel to be bent over like a bunch of cheap whores for the 10 zillionth time by the Republican Party?   Do tell us. There’s a reason why August recess was so….how should I put it……well packaged.  It was paid for.  All that “grassrootsy” excitability was the result of tens [...]

Stan Greenberg’s conclusions don’t add up. And Carville? You should know better.

The recent Carville-Greenberg study of the teabagger Republican base had two big headlines.  The first is that the Republican base lives in a bizarro world of paranoia. The report concludes that the extreme GOP voters are not simply at the far end of a standard political continuum that runs left-center-right, but rather they stand fully apart. The [...]

Still on the road, but had time for this

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Youtube teabagger comment fun

Seeing Mean Jean go down the rabbit hole today made me check my Youtube account for the daily dose of hilarity.  The comments just keep pouring into the McCain Palin Mob Youtube.  Comment #43,896, referencing, of course, the star of the video. Hey, obnoxious, loud-mouth, ann coulter-wanna-be chic, how about you quit hogging the shot and [...]

Tide turns?

Here comes the blood – Republicans, prepare to reap the whirlwind

Writing for so long as I have , almost 2 years now, about the gathering storm clouds of racist driven political violence in this country, I often get depressed, as I’ve been this week.  I hate this side of my country’s history, and my country’s tendency to repeat that history. But I decided a while ago [...]

Anthony captures the joy

Anthony and I tag teamed a couple of dumb as rocks teabaggers yesterday, and his video captures the essence of this practice.  Just ask them questions.  Then they lie.  Then you have entertainment.  It shouldn’t be this fun to deal with lunatics, but there you are. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this [...]

KUMBAYA – Teabaggers unite with me and Anthony to denounce Larouchies

I’ve seen it all now.  Anthony and I (here’s Anthony’s video of the same event) were at the Marcia Fudge (OH-11) State of the District/Town Hall in Cleveland today, and Larouchies showed up with the infamous Obama Hitler mustache sign.  One of the people who was holding the sign was a young black man, which [...]