Political Theatre category archive

Via Delaware Liberal.

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:

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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:

They (the Koch brothers–ed.) had plenty of disciples to keep them company on their Cirque du Soliel of stump chicanery. Las Vegas mogul Sheldon Adelson, the Daddy Warbucks of blackjack, also tried to buy an election and wound up holding an inside flush of jokers.

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.

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.

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.

The Onion identifies the GOP frontrunner (short but obnoxious commercial at the beginning):

Via Delaware Liberal.

Unskewered no more. Delaware Dem delivers the take-down.

Chauncey Devega asks

Will the Republican Party mature, reach out, and bring in the old guard centrists who were/are the adult voices in the room so that they can be competitive and work for the Common Good?

Answer of the day:

No.

Via Dick Destiny.

And, from Delaware Liberal, a grace note.

H/T Andrew for the image.

Warning: Some language.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome BLog.

If you wonder which newspapers have endorsed which Presidential candidate, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune has been maintaining a running list.

I am curious about endorsements and the reasons papers give for favoring one candidate over another. Nevertheless, I think they carry little weight, if, indeed, they ever did (perhaps they did when newspapers and wire services were the only sources of news, but, even then, each town or county often had multiple papers; folks would read the one they preferred).

Via Bartcop.

Congressman Bobby Scott:

Let me tell you, Hurricane Sandy made a whole lot of people part of the 47 percent who didn’t think they were part of the 47 percent.

H/T Susan for the catch.

Via Bartcop.

Dick Polman imagines an American attempting to explain the Electoral College to a visitor from another planet. A snippet:

(American) “Wrong question. It doesn’t matter who gets the most votes. It’s who gets the most electoral votes. See, we have 50 states, and each state gets electoral votes based on how many members of Congress it has, and that’s based on population, but not entirely, because each state gets two senators whether it’s big or small. We call this our ‘Electoral College.’ ”

(Alien) “Your college is not very intelligent. It is simpler to choose a leader by counting populace votes and calculating who has received more – as it is done in most zones on your planet.”

(American) “Don’t you dare dis America! We reserve the right to choose the person who gets fewer votes. We’ve done it four times already. We even did it 12 years ago – wait, why are your heads glowing?”

. . . leading one to wonder, just who is the strange creature in this conversation?