2012 archive
Re-Imagining the Brand 0
You can’t hit a political website or a website that discusses politics without seeing an article wondering whether the Republican Party will reconsider their tactics in view of the fate of Mitt the Flip.
I am certain they will, with the full support of their rank-and-file:
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
It will shake you to the core.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Hoist on their own petard. Delicious details at the link.
They found out that it wasn’t so easy. Both of them may be charged with felonies.
Perhaps this will help them separate fact from reality in the future.
Twits on Twitter 0
Twits with Trump cards.
ROI 0
Daniel Ruth considers the tremendous amounts of right-wing money expended on the recent election and the stunning lack of ROI for the rich guys who expended it. A nugget:
And Donald Trump, the Lord of the Lies? Can we all agree that the Great Pumpkin of Puffery has retired the title of the nation’s village buffoon?
As for talk radio’s conservative fringe — Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Todd Schnitt — in the run-up to Election Day, there was more foaming spittle flying through the speakers than Old Yeller in his death throes.
Certainly a case can be made election night was a triumph over the politics of stupid.
Read the rest. It’s a gem.
It’s Not Even Veterans’ Day . . . 0
. . . and Santa is already descending on local malls to sell photographs.
At MacArthur Center
The magic words to explain Santa’s early arrival are these:
$21 to $55
Also, movie sales.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Meanwhile, on the White Wing . . . 0
The SPLC rounds up reaction amongst the mongers of hate:
The reaction to the re-election of our first black president from the radical right — and that seemed clearly to include some University of Mississippi students — ranged from sputtering rage and name-calling to calls for a new Southern secession, mass emigration to Europe, or even the break-up of the United States. There was one thing large numbers seemed clearly to agree on: The changing racial demographics of our country, expected to lose its white majority by 2050, was key to the result.
Read the rest. Then help them out with a donation.
Heeeee’s Back 0
Alan Grayson is going back to Congress. An excerpt:
If we go back to the principle that a dollar is a dollar and just because you’re rich, and you get it through capital gains, doesn’t mean you get some sort of special tax break,” he said. “If we go back to the sense that a dollar is a dollar, they’re all green, let’s tax them equally, that itself will go substantially to reduce the deficit.
Via Raw Story.
It’s the Economy, Stupid! It’s the Stupid, Economy!
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Update: John Cole thinks this story is a hoax.
(snip)
“I don’t need the labor force coming down saying I laid people off because they are Hispanic, I don’t need the headache. We are in a right-to-work state, but I did inform people that I would possibly had to be making layoffs. I did make the notification 30 days ago. I followed the laws.”
He claims that he won’t be able to afford employees after the coming regulatory Apocalypse. (More details and audio at the link.)
Also, he didn’t like that some of them wore Obama shirts on election day.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Maybe turning into a trend. Maybe not.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, rose by 3,250 to 370,500.
An Avalanch of Arithmetic 0
“Politics Ain’t Beanbag” 3
Kathleen Parker has a sad.
Her sad does not extend to the role of the punditocracy in embracing ontheonehand/ontheotherhand and what Driftglass calls “But the Democrats” over fact.
2016 0
The Onion identifies the GOP frontrunner (short but obnoxious commercial at the beginning):
Via Delaware Liberal.
Salmon Sky 0
From my brother, Sunday’s sunset this weekend on Virginia’s Northern Neck:
