Tag Archives: the collapse of the Republican party

Obama’s fiery response to the Republican budget

By Mark | April 5, 2012

President Obama delivered an uncharacteristically fiery speech the other day, at an Associated Press luncheon. You’ll find the video below, but, first, here’s a clip from an editorial about the speech that ran in yesterday’s New York Times. President Obama’s fruitless three-year search for compromise with the Republicans ended in a thunderclap of a speech […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Rail, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bush tax cuts, class warfare, Contract with America, defunding public schools, Eisenhower, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal budget, Franklin Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, George Bush, Head Start, Henry Ford, infrastructure, John Boehner, land grant colleges, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, National Academy of Sciences, New Deal, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Paul Ryan, prosperity, research funding, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, safety net, Social Darwinism, social security, standing up to the Republicans, tax the rich, taxing the poor, the conservative agenda, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to the middle class, trickle down economics | 4 Comments

CPAC and Occupy…. Anything that makes Andrew Breitbart go this fucking nuts, has to be good

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, Conservative Political Action Conference, 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 sad state of journalism | 13 Comments

Watch these two videos and tell me if Republicans have gotten a) better, or b) worse, over the past 50 years

By Mark | January 17, 2011

Today not only marks what would have been Martin Luther King’s 82nd birthday, but it’s also the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation – the one in which he warned of the growing influence of the military industrial complex. I was just watching it, and reflecting yet again on how far […]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged Battle Hymn of the Republic, Eisenhower, Gary Mcvay, Martin Luther King, military industrial complex, sane Republicans, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Battle Hymn, songs about demagogues, Tom Dempsey, war | 16 Comments

Arizona Republicans leaving office in fear of fellow Republicans

By Mark | January 12, 2011

Saying, “I love the Republican Party but I don’t want to take a bullet for anyone,” Arizona Legislative District 20 Republican Chairman Anthony Miller tendered his resignation this weekend. The following clip comes from Think Progress: Just hours after 22-year-old gunman Jared Loughner launched a shooting spree at a Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) constituent event […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Miller, Arizona, blood libel, Gabrielle Giffords, hypocrisy watch, J.D. Hayworth, Jared Loughner, John McCain, Keith Olbermann, McCain's boy, potential for violence, Republicans terrified by other Republicans, Sarah Palin, tea party, threats of violence, tweet, violence on the extreme right | 36 Comments

Voting out the sane Republicans

By Mark | October 24, 2010

It’s good to be reminded on occasion that there are sane, responsible Republicans… We were in the car last night, on our way to have dinner with friends in Detroit, when we caught an NPR report on how the upcoming elections are likely to affect climate change legislation, and I was really struck by how […]