The Midnight Ride of Palin’s Rear

History Prof Sarah Palin reveals real purpose of Paul Revere’s famous ride While crashing Mitt Romney‘s formal announcement of his bid for the Rethuglican presidential nomination, world class media whore Sarah Palin had this to say about the real purpose of Paul Revere‘s historic ride: “He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our …

The Undeclared GOPers Debate

  One of the best SNL ensemble pieces ever. And props to the set designer for Chump’s golden pillared podium.

The Newtie & Nancy Show

Oh, oh. If this two year old commercial paid for by the Alliance For Climate Protection gains currency among the Teabaggers, Newtie‘s presidential ambitions are in big doo doo. As political dynamite goes, it’s on a par with the Mittster‘s embrace of Obamacare”s individual mandate. What I like to call O-Romney Care. Perhaps the Newster figures that his promise to abolish the …

Republicans Eating Their Own

Gays and Muslims and Compromisers, oh my! Well, February is rapidly approaching and with it the next edition of the Conference of Conservative Political Action Committee, aka CPAC. We’ve enjoyed covering the Wingnut Woodstock conferences here at US.; see here, here, and here. But a dark undercurrent is roiling ‘neath the Winger Sea, a rip-tide that could rip this year’s …

Terrified Beyond The Capacity For Rational Thought (Updated)

Newt Gingrich as the avenging Sumerian god, Gozer the Traveler In their devastating November 4th defeat at the hands of an inexperienced, junior senator from Illinois, the Rethuglicans are in desperate search of a leader, someone that can match the intelligence, boldness, charm, and overwhelming popularity of Barack Hussein Obama. While their own humiliated presidential candidate, the anachronistic John McCain …

Republicans Eating Their Own, Update IV: The Aftermath

The Grand Oil Party slogging through the political wilderness Updating my initial compilation of the Obamacans (Republicans for Obama ) is becoming quite the task. Add endorsements from the likes of W’s former Secretary of State Colin Powell and press spokesman Scotty McClellan; former Reagan’s UN Secretary Kenneth Adleman; former McCain adviser Charles Fried; former Minnesota Republican Governor William Weld; …