Every time I start to worry about Republicans’ embarrassing overconfidence in their imminent “resurgence,” along comes Michele Bachmann, and I take heart.
Bachmann thoroughly rejected the idea of a social guarantee of health care, saying that the rights guaranteed in America’s founding ideals affirm “your right to own property, not necessarily the right or a guarantee [...]
The GOP strategy for achieving its already media-trumpeted 2010 landslide is shaping up, and it has to be admired for its sheer audacity, as well as its desperate but hardly unwarranted reliance on the media continuing to be as stupid as it was throughout the Bush years. Richard Cohen, David Broder, and David Gregory are [...]
Listening to the Ed Schultz Show today on the radio at work, I was enjoying the discussion brought forth by substitute host Norman Goldman, when he opened the show by asking listeners, “What do you want from your government, and how would you like to pay for it?” The question was drawn from the debate [...]
The unusually naked racism pouring forth from the GOP lately, greatly amplified by the gasbags on television, and still led by Pat Buchanan, who has been feeding America this revolting Southern Strategy hate speech for 40 years, seems to have brought Republicans to their final cul-de-sac. As they’ve coddled the fears and hatreds of white [...]
UPDATED BELOW: CHNN research department steps in….
Thus spake Sarah Palin today as she unexpectedly resigned as Governor of Alaska. Demographically, she may be onto something. If, say, 51% of the world had Down Syndrome, it’s entirely possible she could be elected Queen. Moreso than under the current situation, anyway. But such a demographic switch seems [...]