A few years ago, I wrote an extended piece bearing the title The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party?. Recently, in response to a couple of engaging (relatively) meas culpas—Matthew Continetti’s The Right The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism and Tim Miller’s Why We Did It—I began preparing an update. I originally planned to…
Tag: Rush Limbaugh
Sad death of a thrice-divorced pillhead
Rush Limbaugh’s death from lung cancer was surely sad and painful, and one I wouldn’t wish on anyone, but I had thought to let it go without comment. Why waste a pixel on a guy who was, until Donald Trump came along, the greatest Know-Nothing in American politics? Sure, it was “funny” watching “conscience conservatives”—anti-Trumpers…
Yo, “Conservatives”! You had a 30-year preview of Donald Trump! It was called “The Rush Limbaugh Show”!
I have been following, with a curious compulsion, the comings and goings of anti-Trump conservatives, who frequently hold forth at newly formed sites like The Bulwark and The Dispatch. The recent announcement of Rush Limbaugh that he was suffering from lung cancer brought forth an affectionate reminiscence from James Swift, one of the leaders of…
Republicans: Even when they come clean, they still aren’t clean.
I don’t know a hell of a lot about Robert Tracinski. According to the to all accounts pretty gosh darn Trumpy Federalist, to which Bob used to contribute, “Robert studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and for more than 20 years has written about politics, markets, and foreign policy. He has been published in…
Shorter Ann Coulter: Wah, wah, wah
UPDATE: Humiliated by Ann’s rap, detailed below, Donald Trump is now saying he will fight for like forever to build the wall that Ann so desires, and, yeah, I know Donald Trump always keeps his promises. But somehow I don’t think Ann will ever feel quite the same way about Donnie, aka Cap’n Disaster, ever…
The fluke of Fluke
It would be easy to criticize the recent testimony of Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke.* Is it really true that “Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially” because the school’s health insurance doesn’t cover birth control? I guess she means, 40 percent say it costs them money. Does birth…
Motor Trend goes wild!
Over at Motor Trend, apparently a haven for latte-sippin’ tree huggers these days, a dude named Tom Lassa delivers a stunningly well-informed and downright high-larious beat-down to Rush “Fat Ass” Limbaugh and provides a few well-directed bitch-slaps to George “Prissy Bitch” Will along the way, all on the unlikely subject of that modern marvel, the…