Political Theatre category archive

Via C&L.

The usual warnings.

Here.

“OilGunnia.”

These are folks who don’t realize that The Quick and the Dead was a movie.

A damned good movie, aside from being about 30 minutes too long, but still a movie.

When some are speculating that the Republican Party will go the way of the Whigs, who disappeared in the 1850s, the Whig Party is reborn:

Robert Bucholz, who Rhawnhurst voters chose as Judge of Election for the 5th Division in the 56th Ward, became the first Whig elected in Philadelphia in 157 years. He beat out Democratic candidate Loretta Probasco, who received 24 votes to Bucholz’s 36.

“As neither a Republican nor Democrat, in a city with a reputation for electoral dishonesty, I am an honest broker in administering elections,” Bucholz said Wednesday in an email.

By the way, those who think the Republicans will follow the path of the Whigs are quite wrong.

They have already chosen to follow the path of the Know-Nothings.

Heh.

VOTE

Can’t hurt, might help.

Chris Honore summarizes the takeover of the Republican Party by the Secesh–the ultimate outcome of Richard Nixon’s odious southern strategy–and asks a question:

Going forward, the question raised is: Will the GOP allow this minority of reactionary ideologues to take over their party while referring to the moderate wing of the GOP as outliers, compromisers, lacking ideological commitment to the reframed conservative movement?

My answer is, “You’re damned right they will, because Obama.”

Follow the link for his answer.

Republicans demand, “Say ‘thank you, master, do it again.'”

People woke up Friday in unknown territory, having to figure how the loss of $5 billion in benefits – the equivalent of 1.9 billion meals nationwide in fiscal 2014 alone – will play out on the kitchen tables of the 47 million Americans who get food stamps.

“This is nothing short of catastrophic,” said Bill Clark, executive director of Philabundance, the largest hunger-relief agency in the region. “We’re looking at a whole lot of hurt.”

Because nothin’ says lovin’ like nothin’ in the oven.

Pah!

in the Roanoke Times, F. D. Bloss is fed up:

The teapublican party has become a Fifth Column, a term from Spain’s mid-1930s civil war when four columns of fascist soldiers of Gen. Francisco Franco converged on Madrid to overthrow the people’s recently elected progressive government. Franco sympathizers within Madrid became “the Fifth Column,” which now defines a group of people who undermine a larger group (nation) by any means at their disposal.

(snip)

The tea party-dominated GOP, now a Fifth Column, will continue to provoke government shutdowns unless we defeat tea party candidates at the ballot box.

Remember, voting is not a right, it’s a duty.

Do read the rest.

Although it’s got a distinctly English spin to it, the categories travel well.

Via Mr. Feastingonroadkill.

David Stockman and the Laffable Curve:

Forgetting, of course, that he was one of the propagators of the myth of the magic napkin.

(“Magic napkin.” I love it.)

Via C&L.

The Bangor Daily News considers Republicans’ proposed cuts to Maine’s Head Start and notices something:

It seems each time government proposes cuts, it takes aim at toddlers.

Because they can’t fight back . . .