Political Theatre category archive
Jerk of the Year? 0
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Cruzin’ to the Top 0
Rex Huppke reviews Senator Ted Cruz’s rise to media success and decides to harness the method for himself.
To that end, I took to my Twitter account and sent the following: “America is great, Obamacare is evil, Benghazi was a coverup, please re-tweet this a billion times and make me famous. #StandWithHuppke.”
Follow the link for the outcome.
Awards Season Begins 0
TPM announces the winners of this year’s Golden Dukes!
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It’s political strategy.
Republican Economics 0
Steve Shepard has found the rules for Republican Musical Chairs. After summarizing the rules for musical chairs, explaining how, at the end of each round, one child is left standing, he gets to the Republican variants.
We’ll pick up the story there.
As you can see, one child misses out each round until one wins.
Republicans would say the standing child was too lazy, too unmotivated, too reliant on their parents for food and clothing, therefore deserving of this ouster.
Sen. Rand Paul goes a step further. He believes that after two rounds of playing, all chairs should be removed and the children should be left on their own to go into the woods, ax and hammer in hand, to build their own chairs.
Ideologue-cracy 2
The column is about Maine’s teabagger Governor LePage, but it could be about the entire Republican Party. A nugget:
The ideologue’s approach to policy is like the man who drops his keys in the road and looks for them under the streetlight. Pragmatic policymakers are like those who search the street, using a flashlight to really investigate.
And, natch, when teabaggery doesn’t produce the desired results, teabaggers just teabag harder.
Read the rest, which discusses how self-fulfilling prophecies get self-fulfilled.