Political Theatre category archive
A Saucerful of Secrets 0
No, not on your music player; down at town hall:
The Daily Press reports (http://bit.ly/1jrucBD ) that the newspapers found that more than half of the police or sheriff’s departments wouldn’t provide information about felony incidents, which the law considers public records.
The newspaper says that about 1/4 of local government and school board officers surveyed wouldn’t release the salaries and allowances of administrators, as required by the law.
Much, much more at the link.
Both Sides Not 0
The Booman takes down Kathleen Parker’s latest foray into both-siderism.
Baby Elephant Walk 0
Aside:
No Republican will ever admit that the Republican Party created the conditions from whence sprang Donald Trump. But it did.
Via Michael in Norfolk.
Tales from the Hustings 0
David Farmer details (yet another) Republican effort to gut out the vote, this time in Lewiston, Maine.
Base Ideas 0
The Booman surveys the field of Republican candidates and their hate-full, bigoted positions and points out that the rhetoric is not so much cause as effect:
Trump is doing great in the polls for a reason, and it’s not because he’s out there explaining Ronald Reagan Republicanism to the masses.
Republican insiders created the appetite for this rhetoric. They’re to blame for the fact that there is now a massive constituency who wants their candidates to deliver on it.
As I’ve noted before, Richard Nixon’s odious Southern strategy has come full circle. Nixon believed that the Republican Party could use bigots and racists to its political advantage; the bigots and racists now use–indeed, one can argue that they are–the Republican Party.
Thoughtlessness 0
If there is one thing the United States of America has done well, from internment camps for Americans of Japanese descent to HUAC to demonizing ladies named after an ancient Egyptian goddess to cowering at the sight of a child, it is to violate its stated ideals when it’s a-skeert, even when what it’s a-skeert of is based on a hoax.
Just look around. It’s the Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave.
I am ashamed of my country.
Send in the Clowns 0
Yet another night at the improv.
“This Is a Test, and It’s Pledged Work . . . .” 0
Jill McCorkle thinks she has found a better way to vet our candidates. A nugget:
Then each candidate’s statement will be published just as it appears in all newspapers across the country. The statements will also be read aloud by unbiased parties on the radio and television at appointed times. Period.
Spend a few minutes toying with notions of the essays that the Republican hopefuls might produce . . . .
Big Box State 0
John Romano has a realization:
Turns out, the similarities have been staring us in the face for years.
Price cuts = tax cuts.
Uninsured employees = uninsured residents.
No-frills merchandise = no-frills infrastructure.
Low wages = well, low wages.
Cheerful store greeter = Gov. Rick Scott.
It’s obvious, isn’t it? Florida is the Walmart of states.
Follow the link for the bargains.
