Monday, November 18, 2013
Well, if they aren’t racist, then the only other possibility is that they are incredibly naive and stupid.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
New York magazine reports on a story in the Wall Street Journal (which is unfortunately protected behind a pay-wall). Republican Congressman Doug Collins states that “Congress should do everything in its power to tackle deficits.” Except that deficits are, by definition, the difference between revenue and spending, so a reporter asks him whether Republicans should […]
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
© Stuart Carlson This is one I’ve been wondering about. Why are Republicans suddenly so concerned about problems with the healthcare.gov website? A few weeks ago they were willing to shutdown the government in order to delay Obamacare. If Obamacare is having problems that are delaying the rollout, shouldn’t they be happy?
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You know who else closed parks… © Matt Bors Godwin’s Law states that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” But this is an especially interesting and hypocritical example, since Conservatives were attacking Obama for closing parks — especially when war veterans were unable to […]
Thursday, October 24, 2013
As Jon Stewart hilariously points out, the same Republican masterminds who fostered and encouraged the Tea Party to take control of the Republican party are now complaining about the monster they created. So, how short is our attention span? Unfortunately, their strategy might just work.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
© Tom Toles People who point out the hypocrisy of Republicans: claiming Obama should not be president because he was born in Kenya (even though he wasn’t), and yet don’t seem bothered by the fact that John McCain was born in Panama, or Ted Cruz was born in Canada, screaming about Obamacare being an invasion […]
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Eric Stern wondered if the accusations by Fox News that Obamacare is a “train wreck” have any basis in reality. So he was very interested when Sean Hannity last week had three couples on his show, each of which had an Obamacare “horror story” to tell. But their stories often didn’t make sense, so he […]
First the Republicans insisted that they were shutting down the government to save us from Obamacare, which they claim will ruin our wonderful health insurance system. Cough. Then the Republicans changed their minds, and decided that it wasn’t about Obamacare after all, but instead it is about the deficit (even though Obama has been lowering […]
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Carl Bernstein slams the media coverage of the shutdown. He also compares the tactics used by some conservatives against Obama to those of Joe McCarthy.
© David Horsey David Horsey has written some very good commentary to go with his comic. I just want to pass it on: The government shutdown has revealed the impressive skill of tea party Republicans to say untrue things with sincerity so convincing that they almost sound as if they believe what they are saying. […]
I have to hand it to the Republicans. They definitely know how to repeat something enough times that people start to believe it. Their latest talking point is that the Democrats are refusing to negotiate with them about the shutdown. What’s hypocritical about their claim is that it is only true since the shutdown started. […]
© Tom Tomorrow Yesterday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner gave his first and only interview since the shutdown began. Interviewer George Stephanopoulos actually asked some tough questions, and Boehner got angry and almost lost it: Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. If you think killer robots is an unfair analogy, one of the departments […]
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Now, less than two days after the government was shut down, more than 17 Republicans have said that they are ready to pass a “clean” funding bill — that is, one with no strings attached (in particular, no defunding of Obamacare, or other changes to health care reform). Yes, that means that if Speaker John […]
Monday, September 30, 2013
The conservative propaganda machine is going full tilt trying to turn the American people against health care reform before it goes into effect on Tuesday and people have a chance to actually benefit from it. How desperate are they? Pretty freaking desperate I’d say. This week, conservatives keep repeating the lie that Warren Buffett just […]
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Monday, September 30, 2013
Just a few months ago, in July, the Republican Deputy Whip in the House said the following: It seems to me there’s appropriate ways to deal with the law, but shutting down the government to get your way over an unrelated piece of legislation is the political equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum, it is […]
