Category: Republicans

  • Remember Republicans?

    Kung Fu Monkey writes I miss Republicans and I pretty much agree. We liberals have our work cut out for us reforming the Democratic Party but is there anybody even left to try to straighten out the supposedly conservative party?

  • A Mockingbird for our times

    Hush little baby don’t you cry, Daddy’s gonna buy you an alibi. If that alibi don’t work, Daddy’s gonna bribe the county clerk. If that county clerk don’t bribe, Daddy’s got Congress on his side. If that Congress still don’t budge, Daddy’s in tight with a Supreme Court Judge. – The Mammals, “The Bush Boys”

  • Why I read the Poor Man religiously

    It’s simple, really: Even his throwaway lines are 10 x teh funny of just about any other blog out there. For example, in Hugh Hewitt is the stupidest man alive, he locates the source of the Happy Talk Virus in “the right-wing Prozacosphere.”

  • Red-baiting the AARP

    So this astroturf Linkletterish front group claiming to represent the elderly, “USA Next,” is now trying to paint the AARP pink in order to cram Social Security reform deconstruction down our collective throats. Steve Soto at The Left Coaster thinks we shouldn’t let the GOP get away with it and has some ideas about how…

  • Secrets and lies

    I’m starting to get a queasy feeling about Jeff “so-called” Gannon‘s access to sensitive information in the White House. Is Jim-Jeff Guckert-Gannon gonna be Monica Lewinsky this time around? Whose ox is gored now, whose cover has been blown?

  • Republicans against torture

    I’ve been wondering when we’d hear an actual conservative take a principled position against torture instead of the subject-changing, excuse-making, or moral relativism we’ve mostly seen from the right on this issue. Sebastian Holsclaw, who described himself as a conservative blogger with a mostly liberal audience (he used to be a regular commentator on a…