My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]
Welcome once again to our year-end wrap-up and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group, from whom I have stolen all these award categories.
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Steele's Deals
We need to cut Michael Steele some slack.. If someone is willing to pay him big bucks to make a speech, he'd be a fool to say no. True, he has gotten...
Parker Griffith's Christmas Present To Alabama Democrats
Griffith was always a Republican. That someone who boasts an astoundingly low seven percent progressive rating versus a 33% conservative rating has turned coat should be shocking only to a few cave-dwellers.
State of Love and Trust: Pearl Jam's Backspacer, Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize
Obama's best quality might be that he's not Bush, reviving optimism among those who had lost faith in the US. This sentiment is especially evident throughout Pearl Jam's latest album, Backspacer.
Operation Steele/Armey: GOP, Tea Party Movement Co-Opt Each Other
Today Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and Dick Armey, head of FreedomWorks, held a joint conference call expressing their willingness to work together.
Lieberman, Republicans and Why Change Still Means Something
Lieberman is too egotistic (and from too blue of a state) to come out and admit that his sole purpose is to block reform from happening. But Michael Steele isn't.
The New Old Face of Racism
Rush Limbaugh, in discussing "the black frame of mind," is using Tiger Woods as an Obama surrogate, using Tiger as a way to say that these men cannot be trusted.
Zombie Reagan Fails The Reagan Test
As you most likely have heard, the RNC is proposing a Ronald Reagan Republican purity test. And if a Republican politician were to fail that test, th...
The GOP "Comeback" is Really a Throwback
American voters will reward the party that optimistically puts forth a concrete plan to return prosperity. And while the jury on the new administration is still out, the case against the GOP has long been closed.
The Confidence Gap Between Democrats And Republicans
Republicans have a well-oiled propaganda machine to facilitate the fantasy of strength and popularity. The message is always the same -- whether the GOP wins or loses, it always wins.
If You Have Donated To The RNC Since 1991, You Have Funded Abortion
Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.
Hold the Hofstadter: Why the GOP Is Winning 2010
Over the last few months, a number of prominent political columnists have pointed to historian and social critic Richard Hofstadter to explain what is happening to the Republican Party. Here's why they shouldn't.
Top-Down Blowback; The GOP Discovers That the Grassroots Bites Back
Limbaugh, Beck and Palin tap the energy and emotions of the masses and flame their biases and bigotry. The web and the media have changed the rules. The grassroots are connected like never before.
You Are Not a "Great American," Sean Hannity
If Sean Hannity truly wants to be the "great American" he claims to be, he can start by being truthful to his listeners and by not rooting for his supposedly beloved America to fail under the current leadership.
How Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers Are Blowing Up the GOP
When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.
Why Women's Orgs Must Become Non-Partisan
The days of women's organizations being an appendage of the DNC must end immediately. Women have been taken for granted and speaking to one political party has led to defeat after defeat for causes important to women.
A "Republican Renaissance?" Yeah, and I Hear the Mullet's Coming Back Too
The real picture is anything but rosy for the GOP. The truly big race, in upstate New York, handed them a humiliating defeat in a solidly red district, where a Democrat hasn't won the House seat in over 100 years.
One Spin You Won't Hear From Republicans About Tuesday's Election
What you won't hear the spinners crowing about is the shocking punch to the gut the GOP took in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District, where a Democrat won for the first time in over 100 years.
ReThink Review: Outrage -- One Reason Why the Bird/Shepard Hate Crimes Act Took So Long
And the main reason is because hatred/fear of gays is running neck-and-neck with hatred/fear of government for the most defining, unifying characteristic of the "modern" republican party.
Downplaying the Uninsured: Michael Steele and the Ongoing Republican Propaganda Campaign to Derail Health-Care Reform
One of the key components of Republican opposition to reform involves claiming there are fewer uninsured Americans than people think. So it isn't 40 million, it's more like 12 to 15 million -- as if this makes reform unnecessary.
New GOP Website Functions Much Like The Party: It Doesn't!
RNC Chairman Michael Steele promised to "take this party to the streets" and God damn it, he wasn't messin' around!
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