The Cult Of Grover: What Rot He’s Wrought
Have the Dems finally tired of being buggered by the mythical unicorn of bipartisanship?
Tag: George H.W. Bush
The Reagan-Palin Hybrid
Updating the ancient Greek myth of the Chimera The New York Times weighs in on presidential wannabe Sarah Palin‘s commemoration of what would have been the 100th birthday of conservative icon, Ronald Reagan: SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Sarah Palin opened a weekend centennial celebration to Ronald Reagan by declaring that the United States was lurching toward a “road to ruin,” …
Fruits Of Teh Crazy Tree
Mugshot of Jared Loughner after massacring six and wounding fourteen When asked if his daughter, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), currently in a medically induced coma after taking a bullet to the brain, had any political enemies, Spencer Giffords replied: “Yeah, the whole Tea Party.” While at present there is no direct line of evidence linking Jared Loughner to the Tea …
Teh Crazy Poll
From my Republican Dog Food post: Citing the public’s “. . .deep seeded antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures and, in some areas, the underlying cultural differences that continue to brand our party,” former Republican Party leader Rep. Tom Davis this week observed that “the Republican brand is in the trash can. . . if …
Animating Ayn Rand’s Rotting Corpse
Young Alan Greenspan posing for Atlas Shrugged in Ayn Rand’s apartment Digby explores the Bizzaroworld economic logic and the psychology of greed that inflicts the wingnut universe, rooted as it is in Ayn Rand‘s classic 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged here and here. Ronald Reagan, a key enabler of the Bush Depression, implicitly adopted Rand’s disdain for government’s role in fostering …
Jeb Bush Files For Legal Name Change
Jeb Bush stuck like glue to his brother’s catastrophic legacy TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA 1/6/09 [C.U. NEWS] In a tacit admission of the sulphurous stench that accompanies the name “Bush” in the political realm, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush filed a petition today with the state of Florida for a name change. Apparently Jeb was taking a hint from a television interview …
