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By Michael J.W. Stickings Utah State Sen. Chris Buttars -- a Republican, of course -- claims to support gay rights. He may even support gay rights legislation. But the struggle for gay rights in Utah is still at an early stage. Forget same-sex marriage or adoption, or anything that like ...
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By Creature I understand why liberals want Geithner to go ( Robert Reich for Treasury, anyone), but for Republicans to be after him is ludicrous. If Wall Street was tanking then maybe I see a reason for their bluster . Absent that, they should just shut the fuck up about him. He's our ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings We all know Foxx
is crazy. Apparently, she's also incredibly stupid. Consider a
couple of things she said yesterday: -- "Actually, the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this country." ...
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Craziest Republican of the Day: Virginia Foxx
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Guest post by J.F. Murphy J.F. Murphy is a former Marine infantry officer and Iraq veteran who graduated from the U.S. Navy's SERE program. He is a fellow of the Truman National Security Project . Ed. note : This is Jim's second guest post at The Reaction . You can find his first (from ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings Rudy Giuliani has apparently decided not to run for governor of New York and may instead seek the GOP nomination to run against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand next year. (Giuliani's people are denying this .) Rudy Giuliani, shameless exploiter of 9/11 , ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings Just a quick note to say that we passed 8,000 posts at The Reaction today. (#8,000 was Capt. Fogg's this afternoon .) Some blogs have done more, of course, but that's a lot, and I think back to that first post I wrote way back on March 29, 2005. At the time, I ...
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By Carl It's kind of funny, I suppose, the reaction that the naysayers of the right wing have expressed with regards to the now-concluded trip to the Far East by President Obama : The result was a trip more dominated by imagery -- some positive, some controversial -- than substance. A ...
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By Capt. Fogg And he said unto them that stood by, Take away from him the pound, and give it unto him that hath the ten pounds. -Luke 19:24- _____________________________________ Once upon a time there were people who would lend you money at high rates of interest. We called them loan ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings Think Progress : [Yesterday] afternoon, Fox News host Gregg Jarrett proudly announced that Sarah Palin is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand new book. Take a look at — these are some of the pictures just coming into us." But the ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings TPM's Brian Beutler : At a special evening meeting of the Democratic caucus [last night], Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid outlined, in broad strokes, the details of his health care bill, which the CBO has found, in a preliminary analysis , will expand coverage ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings Understandably, John McCain is pushing back against Sarah Palin's vindictive criticism of the McCain team in her memoir, Going Rogue : There's been a lot of dust flying around in the last few days and I just wanted to mention that I have the highest regard for ...
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By Carl To: GOP SUBEJCT: Wooing New Voters If u r selling fear, u r doing it rong. This week has seen some pretty spectacular fear-mongering amongst the GOP, and I suspect it will spell the eventual downfall of the party as a whole. Item 1: Palin on Nidal Hasan: "Profile Away" ...
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By Capt. Fogg Rush Limbaugh may get his wish and what used to be a viable, if flawed democracy may just disappear into the kind of thing that used to go on in Michael Vick's back yard. Barking, snarling bared tooth and bloody clawed madness is everywhere, in the wild, outraged e-mail I got ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings Sarah Palin has said
a lot of stupid things since entering the national
stage last year, but this , from her interview with Barbara Walters, is right up there with the stupidest of them all: I disagree with the Obama ...
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Stupidity incarnate: Sarah Palin on Obama and the ...
By Michael J.W. Stickings Politico 's Ben Smith has posted a clip of Nixon bowing to Mao -- see below. (It's more of a head bow, with the shoulders, but it's still a bow, and it was to a brutal totalitarian dictator.) Please, can we all just shut the fuck up about Obama's bow to Japanese ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings Sometimes Andrew Sullivan is
simply on fire -- as he is here, getting
to the root cause of the whole Palin phenomenon : The WSJ and TWS have long ago lost any intellectual credibility. They use sophism to maintain ...
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When it comes to Sarah Palin, blame John McCain
By J. Thomas Duffy News Item: Bill Belichick enters another elite club 10: Was trying to remember how much change he had in his pocket 9. Thinking that, maybe, he should have jumped into the NY-23 race 8. Feared many will "Unfriend" him on Facebook if he blows the call 7. ...
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By Capt. Fogg Have we become a nation of skateboard and spray can street brats who live just to piss off the adults and piss on everything we can just for the fun of it; laughing with idiot glee while impressing our idiot friends? Maybe not all of us, but certainly the Tea Baggers and the ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings So, with Democrat Bill Owens's margin of victory narrowing upon recanvassing in NY-23 (from 5,335 to 3,026), and with over 10,000 absentee ballots being counted, Conservative-Republican insurgent Doug Hoffman has unconceded . And where did he unconcede? Or, ...
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By Michael J.W. Stickings By the way, it's awfully rich of Sarah Palin to criticize Levi Johnston for "aspiring" to "porn" -- he's apparently going to pose for Playgirl -- given her own beauty pageant past. She made the comments on Oprah yesterday -- for more on that, see my long post from ...
