Archive for September, 2011
Measuring Class Warfare
I’m a little bit perplexed by the wording used by the Washington Post and The Pew Research Center in a recent poll that asked “Who (the Obama Administration or the Republicans in Congress) is helping the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots?’.” In such dire economic and political times, as unemployment continues to stall and governing-by-crisis becomes [...]
Straw Polls: Food For Pundits
Now that we are well into the GOP primary it is completely expected that there will be gross overanalysis on the part of major news organizations and pundits. Small events and non-events will be poured over by all, in attempts to find larger significances in instances which lack precisely that. Those not paying attention wont miss anything, [...]
Rick Perry, not good enough for the conservative base
As the Republican presidential race drags on into the fall, the Perry campaign is beginning to lose support among the conservative base. I say this mostly because of poor reception Rick Perry received during the Fox News/Google Debate after he displayed a seemingly tolerant, un-hawkish posture during a question about illegal immigration. Responding to a [...]
$16 dollar muffin controversy? Lets stop wasting time.
The government is wasteful. This is an axiom of conservative politics that is hard to disagree with. The evidence comes in droves. Stories of bridges to nowhere, billions of unaccounted for military spending and the endless accusations that government agencies are overpaying for this or that, quickly turn abstract claims into real outrage. Wasteful spending is [...]
Breaking: The Muffin Man No Longer Lives On Drury Lane
According to Republican Rep. Ted Poe of Texas this morning: Madam Speaker, do you know the Muffin Man, the Muffin Man, the Muffin Man? Yes, I know the Muffin Man but he doesn’t live on Drury Lane. He lives at the Department of Justice, and is growing rich on selling 16 dollar muffins to the [...]
Obama goes to Ohio
President Obama has decided to foray onto House Speaker John Boehner’s home turf in order to bring his jobs proposal directly to the American people. The Obama Administration isn’t being shy about it either: President Barack Obama is marketing his massive jobs proposal from an outdated bridge that links the home states of his two [...]
Movie Trailer’s Are Usually Deceptive
Rick Perry came out with a terrifyingly scary “shock and awe” style campaign video earlier today that casts President Obama as some fascist ruler who led us into nuclear apocalypse with the motto of hope. In a previous post, jay mentioned that the frightening audio track is actually the theme music from the SAW films. [...]
Intense Rick Perry Ad: Proven Leadership
This ad literally utilizes the stuff of horror movies. You probably recognize that intro music. Yes, its the theme music from the SAW films. I don’t know what else to call this ad but terrifyingly effective. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
When Policy Is Based Off Of Kool-Aid Drinking
HuffingtonPost (9/20/2011): South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has admitted that she has no evidence backing her claim that half of job applicants at a local government facility flunked a drug test. She’d used the claim to push for requiring the jobless to pass a drug test to be eligible for benefits. “I’ve never felt [...]
Rigging the Vote 2012
In case you haven’t heard yet, many conservative-leaning state legislatures are doing whatever they can to disenfranchise as many citizens as possible from voting in the upcoming 2012 Presidential elections. In their effort to prevent Obama from being a two-term president, they have resorted to passing all types of new laws that tweak the election [...]