Stupid Rethug Mediscare Tricks

The Grand Obstructionist Party has known ever since it voted for the Paul Ryan economic plans in 2011, The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America’s Promise; and again in March of this year, The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal, that the provision calling for the voucherization of Medicare would present the single greatest obstacle to their success in …

GOP VP Hot Potato

Don’t be surprised to see this guy standing on a street corner near you With today’s primaries in Pennsylvania, New York, Deleware, Connecticut, and Rhode Island packing all the dramatic punch of a Sarah Palin reality show rerun, much of the punditariat has chosen to turn their sights on the GOP Veepstakes instead. With Willard Romney firmly in the nomination …

Herman Cain: Bizarro World’s Robbin’ Hood (Koch Bros Update)

  The Teabagger’ search for the anti-Romney has been a long and frustrating one. First came Michelle Bachmann. After winning the way overrated Ames Iowa Straw Poll in the same week she was featured on the cover of Newsweek as “The Queen of Rage,” staring into the camera like the batshit crazy religious zealot she is. In near record time she plummeted …

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 …

The Great Glenn Beck Train Wreck

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 …

Frankenly Speaking

Well, Norm, the jokes on you Just want to congratulate Al Franken not only for his hard won victory per today’s MN Supreme Court ruling; but for the political class he has showed during the whole sorry-ass, post-election ordeal. Hard to think of another US senator, let alone a rookie, who has been the target of so much Rethuglican obstructionism, …