By Mark | February 24, 2017
Yesterday, there was a lot of talk online about how Betsy DeVos, our controversial new Secretary of Education, had taken a principled stand on behalf of transgender students, pushing back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump, both of whom had apparently urged her to support the rollback of protections extended by the Obama […]
By Mark | February 12, 2012
The big Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just wrapped up in DC. After a few days of speeches, in which each of the Republican presidential candidates tried to prove that he, and not his rivals, was the rightful heir to the sainted Reagan mantle, Romney end up on top, with 38 percent of the straw […]
Posted in Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged allegations of rape, Andrew Breitbart, angry Republicans and their ideas, anti gay Republicans caught doing gay stuff, asshole Republicans, Bob Dole, closet case, CPAC, gay sex, George Bush, James O'Keefe, James O'Keefe school of journalism, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, republican primary, RIck Santorum, Ron Paul, the collapse of the Republican party, the sad state of journalism |
By Mark | January 17, 2010
Frank Rich, in today’s New York Times, suggests that the Tea Party movement is being fostered because it allows ready access easy marks. Here’s a clip: …Both Steele and Palin claim to be devotees of the tea party movement. “I’m a tea partier, I’m a town-haller, I’m a grass-roots-er” is how Steele put it in […]
Posted in Media, Politics | Also tagged American revolution, bejeweled tea bag, Betsy Ross, Bill O’Reilly, Burberry, Erick Erickson, flags, Frank Rich, Glenn Beck, Jeffery McQueen, Michael Steele, movements co-opted by hucksters, Nashville, National Public Radio, On Point, Opryland, RedState.com, Sarah Palin, swindles, tea party, Tea Party Convention, Tea Party Emporium, Tea Partyfication, the exploitation of the stupid, the straw that brought the camels back, Tom Ashbrook |
Over the past few weeks, several men have been jockeying for control of the putrid little tidal pool of inbred mutation that was once the Republican party. The two men at the moment who seem to have the most momentum are wife-with-cancer-leaving former House Speaker Newt Gignrich, and rotund radio personality Rush Limbaugh. With Ronald […]
