This past weekend, Talking Points memo reported that Louisiana governor Bobby “Howdy Doody” Jindal’s took action to cut all state funding to ACORN in his state. His executive order effectively cuts off imaginary funds as the Times-Picayune noted. According to the state’s Division of Administration, no state agencies have existing contracts with ACORN. They also reported that Tim Pawlenty, governor […]

Former speechwriter for George W. Bush. Editor of the National Review. Editor for the Wall Street Journal. Resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. David Frum is a thinking person’s conservative if such a thing can be said to exist. And the right has lost him, it appears. In a column the Los Angeles Times yesterday, Frum had this to […]

I’m sure you’ve seen it by now but, in case you haven’t, this has to be one of the most over-the-top conservative Republican scandals to come along in awhile forever. Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California. While waiting for the start of a legislative hearing in July, the 54-year-old married father of two and […]

The Tea Party Express rolled its malevolent way through Michigan today. Noon: Jackson!3:30: Brighton!6:00: Troy! I was invited by Organizing for America to join a few of my closest Livingston County Democratic, pro-health reform friends to attend the Great D-Bag Tea Bag Extravaganza in Brighton. Why can’t they ever have these things when I don’t have to take fucking vacation […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. This is a follow-up to my diary on Tuesday regarding defeated former U.S. Representative Tim Walberg holding town halls in Michigan in an apparent crass use of the health care debate to launch his 2010 bid to regain his House seat. Walberg listens to a supporter condemn health care reform Last […]

You just can’t make this shit up. Via Windy City Watch: llinois Republicans are a patriotic bunch. They start their meetings with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the nation’s unofficial loyalty oath. And so it was last week when Republican Party leaders met at a Springfield hotel prior to attending Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair. Republican […]

For your reading pleasure: County Commissioner Brings Swastika Sign To US Rep. Schauer Health Care Rally I think I made this guy’s life rather difficult starting a bit before lunch today. Good. I’m just sayin’…

You’ll love this. Yesterday Glenn Beck interviewed Michael Scheuer, the former head of the Osama bin Laden unit under Clinton and Bush II. He’s so distraught over the final domino tumbling (60 Democratic Senators in Congress, Yippee!!!) that he wishes the terrorists would attack the USA. “The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin […]

As you’re probably aware by now, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled in the RICCI ET AL. v. DESTEFANO ET AL case, overturning a decision by Sonia Sotomayor. I’ll leave it to others to debate the pros and cons, goods and bads of this decision – I don’t have enough knowledge of the law in this area to express an opinion. […]

I came across a press release put out today by the Republican Study Commission. It’s titled “10 Questions for the President on Health Care” and in it is a list of questions for President Obama on his plans to reform the healthcare system. I expected them to dumb. That’s what the Goposaurs are best at these days. And they were, […]

First it was tire gauges. Then it was tea bags. And now it’s candles. Really, the Republicans desperately need to hire some good PR people because their messaging lately has been positively comical. Cap-and-Trade Candles? Really? Cap-and-Trade Candles. Really. …the RNC sent a candle to House members this morning with a note attached. “If Democrats pass ‘Cap and Tax,’ this […]