Funambulist In Chief

Despite receiving a thumbs up from a number of conservative foreign policy observers, and the public at large, for his handling of the current Iranian domestic turmoil, the wingers seem to have settled on a narrative that President Obama has been too timid in his response to same. It was a theme dutifully picked up by the MSM at Tuesday’s …

The Rocky Rethuglican Horror Show

Socialized Medicine. Takeover. Bureaucrat. Rationing. Frank Luntz is certainly earning his money these days, focus group testing emotionally reactive words like these for distribution by the Medical Mafia and their mostly Rethuglican hit men and women on Capitol Hill. As one vet wrote Senator Sanders this week: “I’m active duty military. I have served in the Air Force for almost …

Listening Tour? What Listening Tour?

Well, that didn’t take long. Just last weekend the Rethugs were falling all over themselves promoting their “listening tour.” Then their master, the insidious Darth “Rush” Limpbot laid down the law. So bright and early yesterday morning, Rethug Whip Eric Cantor crawled onto the set of Morning Joe and denied that the listening tour is, well, a listening tour. SCARBOROUGH: …

Hump? What hump?

In a desperate attempt to re-brand themselves as somehow relevant to America’s political future, a number of Rethuglican leaders have taken to the road on a “listening tour,” eager to convince voters that they aren’t the Party of No Ideas, that they have something to offer than just their eternal agenda of tax cuts for the very wealthiest 5%. Not …

Obama Nominates Satan To Supreme Court

Or so the Rethugs would have you believe. Obama hasn’t even compiled a list of nominees to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Souter yet, let alone chosen someone to replace him. Doesn’t matter, though. On Wingnut Island, the die has been cast. [Image from photobucket.com] UPDATE: Here’s what Orrin Hatch had to say on This Week: Well, it’s a matter …

Prosecuting Bush War Crimes (Updated)

Bushie war criminals having an out of body, out of time experience Left wing extremist and commie sympathizer,  former General Barry McCaffrey weighs in on the implications of the torture memos the Obama Administration released April 16: Nora O’Donnell: General McCaffrey, let me start with you. The President’s speech was largely a pep rally. How do you think it went? …

Rethuglican Hallucinations

From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale. In trying to account for the experience of color, neurobiologist Humberto Maturana decided to treat the nervous system as a closed system, depriving it of external sensory inputs. Incidentally, he found that deprived of such inputs, the nervous system can’t …