Monthly Archives: September 2010

hundreds of millions of dollars are slushing into this from ghod knows where. We know that Karl Rove raised $52 million at one point, and the Republican Governors’ Association has $40 million in its warchest. That’s almost a hundred million on one side from just TWO organizations. “Hundreds of millions” is no exaggeration or literary trope. It is the literal truth. Continue reading →

Democratic presidents have been in office for twelve years out of the past forty. Of those twelve years, SIX were squandered by Democratic congresses refusing, mulishly, to cooperate in the elephantine task of national governance. Continue reading →

And, it turns out that Jason Miller just contributed (as Treasurer of “Concerned Taxpayers of America”) $86,000 to HIS OWN EMPLOYER, Jamestown Associates: Continue reading →

And yet, without any sense of shame whatsoever, they claim that President Obama is the next Stalin, or Hitler — and hint at revolution — while carefully distancing themselves from the Bush Administration of a mere 18 months ago, AS IF they had not aided, abetted been strident cheerleaders FOR it. Continue reading →

You wanna know WHAT the Founding Fathers hated MORE than ANY OTHER THING THAT TYRANT GEORGE DID? What they considered his Number One transgression against the American colonists? Continue reading →

But the rights of the ‘minority’ of Republicans to obstruct the majority of the American people in both houses of Congress is a MORE important “minority” right than the actual minority right Continue reading →

Oh, and there is one more North By Northwest scene that springs to mind when, last week, Karl Rove was “adamantly against” Tea Party Express candidate Christine O’Donnell, and was then “taken to the woodshed” by Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin Continue reading →

… falsehoods and lies and masquerades are to the body politic precisely what the Red Death was to the physical body, a deadly plague. And while we dance our “Tea Party” narrative, those selfsame shady money men and their political money launderers are purchasing the last vestiges of our free election system…. Continue reading →

the Rilly Big News seems to be that the Delaware GOP has nominated a candidate foursquare against wanking off…. Continue reading →

And I thought of all the evil done in our name. And the lies, the deceit, the coverup that continues to this day over the shameful war crimes that continue to this day in the Middle East, and I was morally nauseated — the actual physical sensation of nausea. These were MY tax dollars torturing this man. Continue reading →