Republicans

Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana: Is there a rash of armed robberies during the Doxology that I’m not aware of…?

Jul 8th, 2010 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Guns, Louisiana, Politics, Republicans

This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of:
Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one of the more controversial bills from the recent legislative session, one allowing guns to be carried into houses of worship….[The] bill would authorize persons who qualified to carry concealed weapons having passed the training and background checks to [...]



Government of, by, and for the shareholders? No way, baby!

Jun 30th, 2010 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Economics, Jobs, Politics, Republicans

Once upon a time, we actually had government by the shareholders. That’s basically what our country was back in 1789: white property owners had the right to vote. No one else did. That was wrong and, over time, we extended the vote to most everyone else. Now they want to turn back the clock to 1789.



Wait. What? GLEN Beck? I thought you said JEFF Beck. Oh, crap. (VIDEO)

Jun 24th, 2010 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Humor, Republicans, Video

Father Guido Sarducci everybody!



Haley Barbour’s Circle-Jerkular Logic (VIDEO)

Jun 23rd, 2010 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Politics, Republicans, Video

Old and busted: Making BP pay for the Gulf of Mexico…New hotness: Putting the Gulf of Mexico on layaway.



“George Bush created a lot of jobs. I’m almost confident about that.” — Michael Steele, RNC Chair

Jun 23rd, 2010 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Republicans

One, or maybe none, of those statements is true.
Michael Steele: The gift that keeps on giving.



How you know we’re headed for hell in a handbasket: McCain tells Snooki, “I won’t tax your tanning bed.”

Jun 11th, 2010 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: 2010 Elections, John McCain, Politics, Republicans

As if Joe the Plumber weren’t enough to drag McCain into the abyss…



Reagan Sucked. Deal With It.

Mar 30th, 2010 | By Mark | Category: Republicans

…and another thing, the Berlin Wall didn’t fall until a full year after Bush The Elder was elected… thanks in no small part to Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms, Lech Wałęsa’s Solidarity, The Pope’s moral focus and the people of Easter Europe desire to make a better world for their children … well after Ronny Ray Gun [...]



Undying Shame Indeed

Mar 25th, 2010 | By shep | Category: Republicans

Josh says:
” Everything that’s happened over the last five days has grown from a pattern of incitement going back almost a year…”
Really, I don’t think that he’s giving Republicans and the “conservative” movement nearly enough credit. This is the culmination of at least thirty years of fanning anti-government, anti-liberal and anti-Democrat sentiments since Ronald Reagan [...]



Newt Twit

Mar 23rd, 2010 | By Mark | Category: Republicans

Not only is one of the heroes of the teabagger right racially insensitive (as evident by the quote below) but he’s just plain wrong on the history — a subject The Editors point out he got paid to teach.
Krugman:  
[H]ere’s what Newt Gingrich, the Republican former
speaker of the House — a man celebrated by many [...]



Who Does This? Really?

Feb 8th, 2010 | By Mark | Category: Republicans

The last politician to quote Pat Buchanan was Richard Nixon. Now we’ve got Sarah Palin.