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 …
Keith Olbermann performs a post-mortem on the Teabaggers’ latest political triumph
Teabaggers threaten to burn down the House in order to save it With the dreaded Aug 2 debt celing deadline approaching fast, Speaker of the House John Bohener rounded up enough Teabaggers to barely pass the Rethugs’ latest debt ransom demand. Even with all the backroom arm twisting, made more difficult by the Teabaggers’ earlier victory in eliminating earmarks that …
What do Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan, the Teabaggers, and Lucifer have in common? (If you want to feel the backward, you must click it.) In Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel and current movie, Atlas Shrugged, the ideological template for those wishing to usher in a new Gilded Age run by billionaire plutocrats like the Koch Brothers, Atlas is meant to symbolize …
The Daily Show – Ryan’s Private Savings – Republican Deficit Plan Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Jon Stewart explores Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposal to cut the deficit President Obama delivered his own promised deficit reduction plan yesterday. In a speech titled “The Country We Believe In,” he replaced his Corporate Appeaser in Chief hat …
Engineer Glenn runs off the rails In a post titled The Nutty Professor: The Rise & Fall of Glenn Beck, published a couple of days before Fux News announced that they were dumping his show, it might have appeared that we had jumped the Beckian shark a bit soon by asserting his demise as a fate accompli. But it wasn’t …
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 …
