Month: August 2011
Gaddafi Likes Condi
When the rebs entered Gaddafi’s compound,
You’ll never believe what they found:
A photo album of Condoleeza Rice
Looking real nice —
Who says Muammar’s mind is unsound?
Rove Speculates About Speculating About Palin
It is a sign of enormous, thin skin that if we speculate about her, she gets upset, and I suspect if we didn’t speculate about her, she’d be upset and trying to find a way to get us to speculate about it … it’s weird, very odd.
— Political wonk Karl Rove, on FOX News, speculating about speculating about Sarah Palin and whether she will run for president.
Rick Perry Is the ‘Hangin’ Governor’
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Number of executions Texas Gov. Rick Perry has overseen in nearly 11 years as chief executive — more than any governor in modern history. That’s more than the combined total in the next two states — Oklahoma and Virginia — since the death penalty was restored 35 years ago.
Shapiro: Perry Gives Liberals the Heebie-Jeebies
Indeed, Perry is not only a presidential candidate, but also a cowboy-booted sociological experiment. It is almost as if Perry’s political persona was constructed by bundling together all the fears and phantoms in the left-wing anxiety closet. Since the hysteria of the 1950s Red Scare, no Republican figure has matched Perry in his God-given ability to give liberals the heebie-jeebies. Others can rival the governor’s disdain for academic achievement (Palin), his cross-on-the-sleeve religiosity (Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee), and his antipathy to Social Security and Medicare (Paul Ryan and Barry Goldwater). But never before has a top-tier presidential candidate embodied the whole lethal package.
— Walter Shapiro, writing in the New Republic, says that what sets Texas Gov. Rick Perry apart from other prominent conservatives of the modern political era “has nothing to do with the gyrations of the 2012 campaign.”
Huntsman Views Rivals as ‘Characters’
You stand up on stage in the debate like we did the other night and look around and say, Whoa, where’d these folks come from? What an interesting assortment of characters!
— Jon Huntsman, quoted by the Salt Lake Tribune, describing his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
Not Bushwacked Again!
We would have been fine with just one.
We had two, we should be done.
But mis-leading the nation
Has become a Bush family tradition,
And now both Georges want the Jebster to run!
God Smites GOP Leader Eric Cantor’s District with 5.8 Earthquake
Last summer, as a public service to our right-wing Christian friends, particularly those who live in the South, we asked, “Why is God Smiting the Deep South?”
Kudzu, which destroys 125,000 acres of the old Confederate states every year, was introduced in 1876, the same year that Southern conservatives overturned Reconstruction in favor of Jim Crow segregation
The article was intended as a wake-up call, because Republicans need to realize that God is punishing them for their hatefulness, warmongering, prideful ignorance and selfishness. He wants them to turn away from their hatred and fear of blacks, Latinos, gays, Arabs, Muslims and the billions of other people on the planet who are not old white Republicans. He wants them to renounce their evil ways and put their time and their tithes toward good works — like feeding the hungry, healing the sick and housing the homeless.
Last summer, the South was being punished in the form of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which primarily affected red and purple states along the Gulf Coast — a region that was still struggling to recover from the wrath of hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. We also pointed to the Exxon Valdez spill that smited red queen Sarah Palin’s Alaska in 1989.
