Political Theatre category archive

Via BartBlog.

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I remember once reading that you know that world events are getting dicy when newspapers replace the pictures on their front pages with maps.

Atrios has another nugget to understanding the news:

You know we’ve broken up with our former BFFs when the press starts to refer to their governments as “regimes.”

It is curious how persons who call themselves “Christian” so frequently use the name of Jesus to justify social cruelties.

Savitri Hensman, writing at the Guardian, considers the Tory “austerity” moves in the UK and Tory attempts to cloak them behind the robes of Jesus, then asks, in all seriousness, “What Would Jesus Cut”?

Her answer is quite instructive.

Three strikes and you’re forced labor:

The Booman:

The president’s decision to loan money to the auto industry was the most unpopular part of his recovery efforts, but he continues to be vindicated. Chrysler has paid off its $6.7 billion in loans from our government and Canada’s, and that includes the full interest payments. And it paid back the money six full years ahead of schedule.

Our feature presentation:

Much fun is being had at the prospects of the new docu-adulation-mentary about Sarah Palin.

I don’t have anything to say about it, for it mocks itself. John Cole, though, has compiled a list of suggested titles from the commenters at Balloon Juice.

Follow the link to Balloon Juice. You will be glad you did.

Andy Borowitz gives Eric Cantor (R–Embarrassing Virginia) the raspberry. A nugget:

One day after Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) stirred controversy by withholding funds for tornado relief, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took the extraordinary step of declaring Rep. Cantor a disaster area.

Within hours of the declaration, FEMA officials were dispatched to assess the damage to Mr. Cantor’s status as a human being capable of empathy.

Afterthought:

The Republican Party slogan pretty much appears to be, “I’ve got mine.”

At Comically Vintage.

Her boyfriend beat her, so the cops arrested her.

After all, being brown is a crime in and of itself here in the land of “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free”?

See Dick Destiny for related commentary.

Warning: Mild language.

Jennifer Abel tells a horrifying story.

It should be unbelievable.

It isn’t.

Jay Leno:

Well, the presidential race is getting interesting. In an effort to clear up his reputation as a flip-flopper, Mitt Romney will give a speech on health care. And then, right afterward, he’ll give a five-minute rebuttal.

With apologies to Peter Bergman, from whom I stole the title. He doesn’t think T-Paw has a prayer with the teabaggers. His reasoning:

The kooks in the tri-corner hats wrote Mitt off long ago, and Huntsman may be fatally flawed because he heeded the call of our crypto Muslim President to placate the communists in far off Cathay.

That leaves T-Paw, who’s done his damnedest to kiss the Tea Party’s ring. He’s performed his mea culpas for protecting the environment, and is parroting the cant of draconian budget cuts and tax relief for the rich. But it won’t be enough. Pawlenty, bless his beige, Minnesota persona, isn’t crazy enough for the Tea Party. If they can’t convince Bachmann or Palin to lead a third party, they’ll write them in, or do whatever they can to spoil the GOP’s chances in 2012, and perhaps for decades thereafter.

Via DelawareLiberal.

The Shockoe Literary Messenger, in an attempt to explain their disappearance, theorizes that Gingrinch supporters appear to have been raptured.

More at the link.