hmm

I personally find it amazing that a party which works so hard to deny evolution can believe so strongly in the Market. Or do they believe in an Authority with a Design there also?

pronoun trouble

4 races yesterday. In one of them, a Tea-partier beat out the mainstream GOP candidate. In another, the Tea Partier tied. Another race had a former GOPper loosing to an actual Democrat. And in a fourth, the Democrat won a district that was anti-Obama two years ago. The message that the MSM seems to get from this? That the mood amongst voters is "anti-Washington establishment". It doesnt seem to occur to them that it might instead be a mood that is anti-Republican establishment.

Or at least not one that the gatekeepers of the news are willing to admit.

hmmmm

I'm surprised that Republicans like Christianity. I mean, you can work hard to be good for all your life, and then somebody who has lived a wicked, dissolute life of debauchery can get the exact same reward simply by saying, right at the end, "I'm really sorry Jesus, you're my Lord and Savior".
Boom!
Bobby Godlover is sharing a cloud with Sammy (Ex-) Sinner. Sounds like socialism to me.

Or, maybe, considering some of the scandals, maybe Republicans like it precisely because you can be a twisted, perverse, lying hypocrite and still get a last minute pass.

quote for the day

A few years back, millions of people across this nation and across the globe marched for peace. George Bush ignored us and we had to endure his lazy ass being in the White House for eight years.

So now a black man named Barack Obama, elected by the will of the people, has decided to fight for the poor, and work for world peace… and a bunch of white guys who think Fox really is News just can’t stand it.

Well, they can kiss my ass because I am tired of their belly aching.

This is exactly how our political system works. Sometimes your party is in and sometimes it is out. Your party is currently out. So shut the hell up and deal with it.

I still dont know if it's a "real" site (though the odds go up the longer it exists). And when you come right down to it, the truth about Helen is irrelevant, the truth contained in her words is more important.

I question the reality of Margaret and Helen mainly because of the excellence of the writing and the timeliness of it's appearance on the scene during the election. That's probably paranoid on my part. Does it really matter if the words were written by a old lady or a twenty-something?
Here's more good stuff:

The Republican Party of yesteryear was respectable. You were all about a small government that carried a big stick. Now you are just despicable. You used to be the Party of Lincoln and now – honest to God – you make Archie Bunker look progressive.

If it wasn’t for Fox News you would be irrelevent. That’s right. You have become a party that owes its entire existence to a cable news channel owned by an Aussie. Your mascot should be a kangaroo instead of an elephant. After all, the last guy you sent to the White House arrived there thanks to a kangaroo court ruling rather than an election. He then spent the next 8 years bringing our nation to its knees. How about sitting down and shutting your damn pie holes long enough to see if the guy in office now can actually clean up your mess. Honestly, you are embarrassing yourself.

Look. My party has problems too. It’s biggest problem might be in attempting to please everyone, the Democratic Party seems to please no one. But diversity of opinions is something I am willing to work through. Bigotry and ignorance is not. I mean it. Really.

Seriously, how awesome is that?

Do you know one reason I hate the Republican Party? Because back in the "Contract With America" days, Republicans led the attack to de-fund Public Broadcasting for being "too liberally biased", while giving Faux News a tax-break (speaking of which) worth several hundred million*. And Murdoch, however much he might like being an American, didnt actually become one until he had to in order to buy a TV network.



* Talk about an investment.

quote for the day

I'm stealing this, just simply stealing it, because it's the best description of the Republican Party that I've seen. It pretty much covers it all, from the root of the problem, rather than the surface symptoms.

from steve, commenting on greg sargent's blog:

a functioning political party in a democracy is one that is a good faith participant in the project of governance, regardless of whether it is in or out of power. the repubicans have long since ceased to be such a party. since the 90s, they’ve degenerated into a band of circus clowns and nihilists. they’ve long since lost the capacity to lead, rather than be led by, the most ignorant, hateful segment of their rank and file.

the modern republican has no actual understanding of policy, no desire to understand policy and, indeed, believes that attempting to understand policy is proof of treason to the sacred principles of clown nihilism.

they are no longer serious people with serious opinions that deserve to be taken seriously. the fact that they are no longer serious people is a grave threat to the republic. and yet, our imbecilic msm persists in treating them like they’re still the party of eisenhower and howard baker. they don’t even percieve the problem. for people like stephenopolis or tapper, it’s because they’ve never known anything but the clown nihilists and they assume thus was it was and always will be. it’s less forgivable from the surviving old hands, people like cokie roberts or sam donaldson who should recall days when there were still republicans who believed government should govern and the point of dispute between the parties was merely “how much” rather than “whether.” for them, i think, the problem is the old one of the frog in the pot whose temperature is brought to a boil so slowly, they don’t ever see the need to jump out of the pot.

Newt Gingrich has actually pledged that if the GOP regains control in 2010, that he will basically shut down the government. Now, I wasnt aware that Newt actually will be in office (though his confidence in his ability to call shots makes one wonder about the power structure of the GOP, doesnt it?), but he ought to recall the last time he tried this back in 1996, when Bill Clinton handed the GOP their collective asses.
Of course, back then his base didnt consist of the Tea-partiers, and they were up against Clinton the Lying Adulterer rather than Obama the Kenyan-born Nazi Socialist Anti-Christ, so maybe his confidence level is higher this time around.