Posts filed under “Republican Clown Show”
New Hampshire Primary Live Blog
All day today I’ll be semi live blogging about the New Hampshire Primary and the GOP 2012 nomination in general. All times are EST. 11:25 – Another night, another claim that Obama is going to somehow fundamentally change the American way of life. Mitt Romney said this in his victory speech: Our campaign is about more [...]
Reality TV: Republican Debate Schedule
It’s undeniable that the Republican Primary Debates of the 2012 election have devolved into one large trainwreck that gives NBC’s Fear Factor or Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club a run for its money. Whether it’s the wild accusations, the physical altercations, the lack of facts, the sitcom “boo track” that makes up the audience, the contestants who forget their lines, or [...]
Updating The Pearl Harbor Analogy
There’s two major messages that have come from the Gingrich campaign since the news broke that he was unable to get onto the Virginia Republican Primary ballot. On Saturday, Gingrich’s Campaign Director, Michael Krull, released a statement that pinned the blame on the ballot process itself, saying, “Only a failed system excludes four out of [...]
Promises Made, Promises Forgotten
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones makes a good point when talking about the GOP’s unfulfilled 2010 election mantra to “repeal and replace” Obamacare: I consider this a highly metaphysical question. Is something really a lie if no one was intended to believe it in the first place? Consider the various audiences. The Republican base certainly [...]
Who’s Afraid Of The Dark?
House Republicans. (12/19/2011 – in the wee hours of the night): The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on extending an expiring payroll tax cut tomorrow, delaying a plan to hold a vote on a two-month extension tonight. “The plan is for us to meet in the morning and do this in the light of [...]
How Many House Republicans Does It Take To Screw Over The Light Bulb Industry?
The House GOP’s inclusion of a policy rider in the $1 trillion “omnibus” spending bill that prevents the Department of Energy from phasing out Incandescent light bulbs is not sitting well with the light bulb industry: Big companies like General Electric, Philips and Osram Sylvania spent big bucks preparing for the standards, and the industry [...]
Serving The Interests Of An Imaginary Group
There’s nothing more indicative of obstructionism than when a political party protects the interests of a group that doesn’t exist. NPR had an excellent segment on Morning Edition today where the delved into the Republicans claims that the millionaire surtax provision in the Payroll Taxcut Extension would hamper the ability of small business owners to [...]
The Gingrinch
Only two weeks ago, Newt Gingrich excitedly told an audience at Harvard that, “Most of these [failing] schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they would have pride in [...]
Depends on the definition of tax cuts, maybe?
Jon Kyl (7/11/2010): “You should never raise taxes in order to cut taxes. Surely congress has the authority and it would be right, if we decide we want to cut taxes to spur the economy, not to have to raise taxes in order to offset those costs. You do need to offset the cost of [...]
Newt Gingrich Vs. Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich on President Obama’s job policies (11/2/11): “This country has been maniacally anti-jobs. Obama is a left-wing radical who believes in class warfare and then he’s surprised that everybody who he’s attacking doesn’t create jobs. Newt Gingrich on Occupy Wall Street demonstrators (11/19/11): “That is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has [...]