Posts filed under “Religious Right / Extremists”
How To Fight The War On Christmas
There’s been much debate about President Obama’s decision to feature the First Dog, Bo, cozying up by the fireplace as the illustration in this year’s White House holiday card. Sarah Palin, enraged as usual, had this to say about it to Fox News: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told Fox News & Commentary that she found the [...]
The Do-Nothing Congress Does Something… That’s Already Been Done!
Greg Sargent at the Washington Post wrote a great summary today on the House Republicans frivolous insistence that the most important and pressing issue congress must vote on is reaffirming that “In God We Trust” be our national motto: Here’s how this works, whether it’s in the case of today’s vote or in the case of [...]
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 [...]
Shattering Illusions About Tea Party Freshmen
A few gee-whiz’s at Politico decided to chart the voting patterns of Tea Party freshmen against the voting patterns of veteran Republicans and found that the Tea Partiers aren’t as unkempt as they let on: On 100 key House votes, Republican freshmen rarely stand out, bucking the party line at almost the same rate as [...]
Pro-Life?
CNN/Tea Party Express Debate (9/12/2011): Blitzer: Let me ask you this hypothetical question. A healthy, 30-year-old man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, “You know what, I’m not going to spend $200 or $300 a month for health insurance because I’m healthy, I don’t need it.” Something terrible happens, all of [...]
Rick Perry, the anti-social security candidate
A major portion of the MSNBC/Politico Republican debate last night focused on where the Republican candidates stood on Social Security. The noise, of course, was started by Rick Perry who inaccurately called Social Security a Ponzi scheme in his book “Fed Up!”. When asked whether he stood by that statement during the debate, Perry amped [...]
Bringing Crazy Back
In one of those “so shockingly crazy that it can’t possibly be true” moments, the Pima County Republican Party in Arizona has decided to hold a fundraising raffle for a Glock 23 handgun – the same type of gun that Jared Loughner used in his attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which left six others [...]
Are they admitting that they are fake?
Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks has gone into crisis mode overnight. After cultivating the Tea Party’s “brand” over the past three years as an organically spawning libertarian movement, they now have to deal with Mitt Romney stepping on their (astro)turf. Romney plans on attending a Tea Party rally this weekend in New Hampshire to begin his new [...]
Michele Bachmann on Causality
It seems that it is all too common these days for conservative politicians to claim disparate events such as natural disasters as evidence to back up their political ideology. The latest offender was Michele Bachmann who decided to link weather patterns as the will of God affirming conservative economic policy. This weekend during a campaign [...]
There is no room for a moderate Republican candidate
I wondered earlier this week whether a Republican presidential candidate with culturally moderate views (a.k.a. Jon Huntsman) could feasibly shore up conservative support for the Republican 2012 popularity contest. I wondered whether there was room for a ‘moderate.’ However, being reminded of tidbits such as the ones that follow, I sobered up and realized that [...]