DEAD MEAT.

GOP presidential wanna-be Michele Bachmann ruminates before hundreds of dead animal carcasses: “Our campaign is alive and well.” The irony. . .  it burns  :-O DES MOINES, IOWA — You simply can’t make this stuff up.  As a new USA Today/Gallup poll rolls out showing her gasping along at 5 percent and way behind rivals like Texas Governor Lil’ Ricky …

Rethugs Eating Their Own

Texas Gov. Rick Perry supports nation building abroad but not at home The Teabaggers’ latest flavor of the month, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, has enjoyed a meteoric rise to frontrunner status in the Grand Obstructionist Party‘s pursuit of the White House. But as his positions on issues like immigration, where he supports a state version of the ‘Dream Act’ …

Obama Grabs His Ankles Once Again (Update)

Whatever You Say! To the people who really care about him, who wish him well and want to see him re-elected next year, President Obama is such a disappointment, if not a downright embarrassment. Seriously, given his track record of capitulation, would you want to share a foxhole with this guy covering your six? While you were busy scrambling to …

For Whom The Bell Trolls

    Whenever I find myself holding hands with political Pollyannas, and someone foolishly yells “Red Rover Red Rover, send Chris Hedges right over,” I cringe, close my eyes, and wait for the impact of the Tasmanian Devil himself.  Seriously, this guy’s columns should come with a warning label: “Not to be read by anyone displaying signs of clinical depression or …

Teabaggers Prepare For Alien Invasion

Aliens tipped off by climate change begin their hostile takeover of earth With both houses of Congress and the President away on summer vacation, it’s been a slow news week. Unless of course you count the number of gaffs that regularly proceed from the lips of various GOP presidential candidates as they try to out-crazy each other for the wingnut …

Soylent Green & Corporations Are People Too: Romney Edition

Mittens the Missing emerged from his fortress of solitude Thursday to participate in Friday’s Iowa Republican presidential candidates’ debate. Figuring that as long as he was going to be in Iowa anyway, he deigned to grace the commoners with his royal presence. (Didn’t help much, given his coming in seventh in yesterday’s straw poll, which he won in 2007). Artfully …

The Witless Mittness Protection Program

Is Mittens hiding out in Cheney’s old bunker? BEN SMITH at Politico writes that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been missing in action: Call it the Mittness Protection Program. Through the hot summer of 2011, the front-runner for the Republican nomination has been in hiding. Romney was hit repeatedly by his opponents and the Democrats for refusing to offer …