© Clay Bennett Even though Michele Bachmann won the straw poll in Iowa, she has been trailing badly since then, and is struggling now in fourth place behind Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and Ron Paul. Perry is currently the Tea Party flavor of the month, but it will be interesting to see how he does […]
© Stuart Carlson So, is Perry just the latest flash in the pan, brought on by a not-too-stellar line up of candidates, or will he burn out once people actually listen to what he is saying?
© Stuart Carlson The GOP wants you to think that they are against raising taxes, so much that they claim that letting a tax cut expire counts as raising taxes (for example, in the case of the Bush tax cuts for the rich). So why are the Republicans trying to stop Obama from extending the […]
© Tom Toles This would explain much about the Republican strategy.
Presidential candidate Rick Perry is so against federal regulations that he is campaigning against regulations that don’t even exist! According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, at two different speeches in Iowa this last week, Perry claimed “If you’re a tractor driver, if you drive your tractor across a public road, you’re gonna […]
© Tom Tomorrow I think the Republican primary is going to be very interesting. Can the Republicans wrest control back from not only the Tea Party they helped create, but also from Fox News?
© Clay Bennett The GOP cure seems to be far worse than the problem.
© Ben Sargent Or is it more like watching a train wreck in slow motion?
© Tom Tomorrow According to Tom Tomorrow, a reader of his says that this cartoon was reported as “offensive content” and blocked on Facebook.
© Drew Sheneman I’m really curious whether the Republicans will give in and raise the debt ceiling, or if they really will force the government to shut down.
© John Sherffius Conservative David Brooks has an interesting column on the current state of the Republican Party that pits the “practical conservatives” against a host of groups that are more interested in the expression of political power than in actually governing. He divides this latter group into “The Beltway Bandits”, “The Big Government Blowhards”, […]
© Ed Stein Once again Ed Stein has good commentary to go along with his comic: Well, it’s come to this. The forces of evil, in the name of ideological purity, are threatening to destroy what’s left of the nation’s economy. The good guys are powerless in the face of the unrelenting assault on sanity. […]
© Lee Judge Message received, loud and clear. UPDATE: © Mike Keefe
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