Posts filed under “Religious Right / Extremists”
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 [...]
Is there room for a moderate Republican?
This question has been baffling the political scene since John McCain ended his campaign as a fringe right-winger, claiming that Obama had ties to terrorists and America-haters, and refused to temper outbursts of “Kill Him!” at McCain-Palin rallies. We all know the story after that – the Republican Party erupted with a new wave of [...]
Depends on the Definition of Submission
Michele Bachmann (10/15/2006): …My husband said, “now you need to get a post-doctorate degree in Tax law.” Tax law? I hate taxes. Why would I do something like that? But the Lord says, “Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands.” Michele Bachmann (8/11/2011): “I’m in love with him. I’m so proud [...]
Rand Paul, Man Of Principles
(1) The gloss on Rand Paul has been that he is one of those lunatic libertarians who allow themselves to be hypnotized by their least-government-is-always-best principles into embracing some truly ridiculous and even some clearly reprehensible positions. The most glaring example of this is his view that America would be better off if businesses were [...]
Miller-time In Alaska
If there are three things we know that Tea Partiers solemnly believe in, it’s freedom, liberty and fiscal responsibility. Okay, so that’s really two things. But freedom/liberty is really, really important. That’s why it’s best to put it first, and count it twice. The dedication to fiscal responsibility is upheld by their full-throated support for [...]
Some Crazy Possibilities And Probabilities
The weather I have this morning is cold and wet and dreary, so here’s a post to match that mood. Let’s pick, pretty much at random, four of this year’s crop of truly lunatic Republican Senate candidates. And let’s look at how likely they are to be making a complete fool of themselves on Capitol [...]
The Politics Of Masturbation
(1) Democrats are apparently, not the only ones who regard Christine O’Donnell’s primary victory as good news. Today, CNBC aired a segment titled “When it comes to the market, is the Tea Party good news or bad news?” Hugh Johnson of the investment firm Hugh Johnson Advisors and Andy Busch of BMO Capital Markets joined [...]
Adding Unemployment Insult To Unemployment Injury
Steve Benen writes today: Nevada’s Angle believes unemployment benefits doesn’t help anyone; Alaska’s Joe Miller believes unemployment benefits are unconstitutional; Kentucky’s Rand Paul thinks it’s time to cut the jobless off before we’re worse than Europe; and a wide variety of Republican lawmakers have said the aid to the unemployed is encouraging laziness. It’s ironic, [...]
The Glenn Beck Rally: Hype Versus Reality
CNN had this headline Saturday morning, before Glenn Beck’s thoroughly misguided rally at the Lincoln Memorial: “Glenn Beck rally plans cause a stir“. Nobody was saying afterward that the rally itself had caused much of a stir. This, incidentally, was the modest prediction made by the rally’s low-key (and entirely sane) architect-in-chief: What’s going to [...]
The Height Of Political Assholery
Did you know that some of the central tenets of Islam are economic beliefs? For example, Muslims believe that the government can generate jobs. (Whereas the asshole contingent of the Republican Party, the largest contingent by far these days, believes that the government has never created one single job. Yes, whether you realized it or [...]