“I will go to the NAACP convention and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.” Yes, that’s what Newt Gingrich told the white folks in New Hampshire he would do, but he, obviously, didn’t tell the white folks in New Hampshire that they should demand paychecks instead of food…
Tag: Republican idiots
2011—Freedom rising abroad, declining at home
2011! What a terrible year! In the U.S., at least. I can’t judge the long-term results of the “Arab Spring”—but then neither can anyone else. An end to autocracy, or another version of 1848, with hope first breaking out everywhere and then disappearing just as fast? Who knows? But if the forecast for the Muslim…
The dangers of writing a headline while drunk: “Mitt Romney is wild like a stallion”
So you won’t have to read the article (by Roger Simon for Politico), Mitt did not beat an Iowa citizen’s face into mummy with his flint-like hooves. Too bad!
Ron Paul: I’m not a bigot, I just pretended to be one to manipulate the masses and cash in on their stupidity
No, that’s not Ron talking, but, from all accounts, if he bothered to tell the truth about the Ron Paul Freedom Report, that’s what he’d say. I refer you to knowledgeable libertarian blogging heads like Shikha Dalmia, Steve Horwitz, and David Wiegel. Dalmia summarizes Horwitz as follows: “Horwitz recounts chapter and verse demonstrating that comments…
For the children, goddamnit, for the children
In a recent posting in the NYT, bible thumpin’ Ross Douthat warns the Christian right to stay the fuck away from Newt Gingrich: “It isn’t just that he’s a master of selective moral outrage whose newfound piety has been turned to consistently partisan ends. It’s that his personal history — not only the two divorces,…
The Republican Party, getting awfully tired of black poor people
Let them clean toilets? Hey, it’s catchy. And if Diamond Newt Gingrich has anything to do with it, that’s what “really poor children” will be doing. You see, those kids, they simply have no work ethic, no respect for the value of the dollar. Now, rich kids, they know the value of the dollar. And…
The Newtator-in-Chief Lord Spare Us
Over at the New York Times, Republican truth-teller Bruce Bartlett has a column headed “Gingrich and the Destruction of Congressional Expertise,” explaining how, as Speaker, Newt “did everything in his power to dismantle Congressional institutions that employed people with the knowledge, training and experience to know a harebrained idea when they saw it,” said harebrained…
What does the future hold? More of the same
When I was a little boy, I liked to take baths. And when I was taking a bath, I liked to rock back and forth, causing the water to swish back and forth, my ultimate goal being to cause the water to swish back and forth so violently that at one point all of the…
Ho, ho, ho, Ho, ho, ho. Gingrich got $1.6 million from Freddie Mac
No wonder the dude could stand straight at Tiffany’s.
Super Committee, last seen discarding genitals
When you’re a Super Committee, you can do whatever you damn please, right? Anything! And anything includes nothing, right? The null set! Which is just what the super committee set up by Congress a few months in a fit of “this time we mean business” fury seems ready to do. Over at Politico, which takes…