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...and the Moderate, worse than any of them
d r i f t g l a s s —
... they were toys kicking brown ass on teevee, and then sneer "Well, they volunteered" after your Dear Leader screwed them, broke them, got them killed or brought them from your Excellent Iraqi Adventure as shattered humans? Did you cope with being a degenerate failure of a citizen by Turning Rush Up Louder? Did you cope with being a travesty of a Christian by praying to your little gold-plated .45 caliber Savior to see your enemies burn? Then The Shrill One is talking about you: Bigger Than ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Friday at last... serious winter stuff ahead. Paul Krugman: The Daddy party runs away from responsibility. I'm shocked. The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision... ...
Free at Last
N/A —
Shorter Krugman: If you think government is the problem, you might have a few problems governing well.
If you are against government, you are against its solutions. So now we are left with free market economy in free fall. But it’s not George Bush’s fault. He just had the bad luck to be president when bad things were happening. The whole notion of Bush’s Freedom Agenda falls as Bush stumbles upon his lack of apparent free agency.
Get the picture? The pic of Bush is somewhat cubist. Ask ...
“Those People”
David E's Fablog —
by David E | (Visited 20 times) obama As usual Paul Krugman gets it right. “Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision.” He trusts we all remember . . .“In 1981 Lee Atwater, the famed Republican political consultant, explained the evolution of the G.O.P.’s “Southern strategy,” which originally focused on ...
Krgthulu
Eschaton —
Presents the novel argument that Republicans suck ass. As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners. Some of the whining almost defies belief. Did Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, really say, “I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror”? Did Rush Limbaugh really suggest that the financial crisis was the result of a conspiracy, masterminded by that evil genius Chuck Schumer? But most of the whining takes the form of claims ...
The Party of Lincoln is now the Party of McConnell, Coburn, DeMint and Vitter
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... Paul Krugman took a look at the Republican Party of 2008, which is still using the same tactics it has used for 40 years. But, the country is different and the GOP is basically a clique of right wing Southerners: ...
A Nation of Republican Whiners
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
... Here is the link to Paul Krugman"s latest editorial post, the gist is that the Republican Party has become a nation of whiners. ...
Is your dog getting enough cheese?
The Sideshow —
"Pillaging as they Depart: The crash and burn nature of its leavetaking may be a large part of the 'legacy' the worst administration ever is amassing. The blows against the environment, the attempts to perpetuate oil companies' gains against this country, and now another slam at workers and salaries, add more dimension to the hostile takeover nature of the occupied White House." Which kind of dovetails for me with Krugman's discussion of how it all started with how the GOP decided to be the party of racism, because the whole philosophy was about how people needed to understand that good government helps Those People, and we ...
Republicans and race
Political Animal —
REPUBLICANS AND RACE.... More than three years ago, at the annual meeting of the NAACP, then-RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman made an appearance and made an interesting acknowledgement : it was a mistake for his party to exploit racism for partisan gain. Mehlman conceded that Republicans, for decades, tried to "benefit politically from racial polarization," adding, "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong." The speech was supposed to signify a new beginning with regards to the Republican Party and race. It wasn't. In fact, recent events suggest the party is slipping backwards . As minority voters abandoned the GOP ...
US Political News Blog —
Must Read David Sirota on the meme being pushed by the right that FDR prolonged the Great Depression. It's nothing new. I've read this in National Review. Limbaugh and Rush-clone Mark Levin have been spreading this meme in recent weeks. UPDATE: Another must-read item is Paul Krugman's column on the GOP.
The culture of victimhood
The Reaction —
By Mustang Bobby One of my favorite episodes from the late and lamented comic strip Calvin and Hobbes shows Calvin, the six-year-old Everyman, exclaiming, "Nothing that happens is my fault! My family is dysfunctional and my parents won't empower me! Consequently, I'm not self-actualized! My behavior is addictive functioning in a disease process of toxic codependency! I need holistic healing and wellness before I'll accept any responsibility for my actions!" Hobbes replies, "One of us needs to stick his head in a bucket of ice water." Calvin marches on, proclaiming, "I love the culture of ...
Waving the bloody race flag
The Next Right —
The Right needs to do much, much more to condemn bigotry and purge itself of the bigots. However, Paul Krugman's attempt to smear the Republican Party and opposition to big government is simply callous race-baiting, and we shouldn't tolerate that sort of smear. Krugman's article isn't about real racism - the only example he cites is a satire that was popularized by lefties, Spike Lee and David Ehrenstein; it was tone deaf and poorly concieved for an RNC candidate to pass it on, yes, but that is categorically different than the virulent racism to which Krugman refers.
Krugman's op-ed is about a narrative ...
Is the Conservative Backlash Over in California Too?
Open Left - Front Page —
Today's Paul Krugman column exploring the apparent end of Republican racial backlash politics has been getting some excellent commentary across the blogosphere, including thereisnospoon's excellent take at Daily Kos:
For the longest time, the progressive economic agenda was held hostage to vaguely economically progressive but socially retrograde racist Dixiecrats in the South. When truly progressive economics required that all our nation's people have equal opportunity to share in the nation's wealth, those erstwhile allies became strained or broken. But today Democrats are no longer dependent on the likes of ...
Krugged Again
The American Spectator —
You could probably spend your whole life arguing with Paul
Krugman but every once in a while the great Nobel Prize Winner
comes up with a doozy that can't be ignored. (He won the prize
for international trade, not political analysis.)
Last week Krugman announced
the Republicans have become a permanent minority and it's their
own fault. The reason is that the only issue Republicans have
going for them is race:
Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself
the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened
in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the ...
Why Do Republicans Hate The Public Good?
Firedoglake —
Buried in an Al Kamen Washington Post column is the following:
A Lavish Bathroom at Interior
If Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is confirmed this month as interior secretary, he'll have a snappy, scarcely used bathroom in his fifth-floor office, thanks to Dirk ...
Change Please
The Latest on Air America —
[image] Advertisement Blog Change Please By SEDER [ January 09, 2009 · 10:02am ] Change happens When the Dems had no power in congress Harry may have sufficed, but now it's time for someone who can control the caucus and actually win a battle to become majority leader. Ried has never looked so in over his head as now that the Dems have some real power. Commentary [0] Login Register About BRL Past Shows BRL Blog Clip Museum Guests Subscribe Facebook Audio Only MVS Showtime Countdown 0 4 5 0 5 0 Today: Break Room Live Stream Weekdays from 3-4 ...
Everybody Doesn’t Know about Mississippi, Goddam!
Firedoglake —
Newspapers may be dying, but everybody with a TV or a radio knew all about the icky corrupt Democrats in icky corrupt Louisiana, post-Katrina. They know all about William Jefferson and his freezer money—and that he was a black (gasp!) Democrat (double gasp!). But what they probably don't know about, if all their news comes from the radio and the teevee, is the hellacious corruptness of the Republican-dominated state next door, Mississippi, whose governor is former RNC Chair (and midnight Hong Kong yacht rider) Haley Barbour. Hell, I pride myself on following current events, and the only reason I know about ...
Fairly Aggresive Jews
The Latest on Air America —
[image] Advertisement Blog Fairly Aggresive Jews By SEDER [ February 11, 2009 · 12:26pm ] wherein Maron and I are reported upon . Log in to Add Your Comment Commentary [0] Login Register About BRL Past Shows BRL Blog Clip Museum Guests Subscribe Facebook Audio Only MVS Showtime Countdown 0 2 3 0 3 2 Today: Break Room Live Stream Weekdays from 3-4 PM EST Sign up for alerts! Recently on the Show: See video 02.10.09 Full Show, Tuesday [ EMBED ] x Embed this clip: [ SHARE ] x Bookmark/Search this post ...
BreakRoomsortofLive
The Latest on Air America —
[image] Advertisement Blog BreakRoomsortofLive By SEDER [ February 26, 2009 · 2:17pm ] Show is live to tape today- in other words I recorded it about an hour ago and we are uploading to blip. They are working on some internal connectivity issues at Air America that is screwing up our upload speeds. Short story, today's show will be rock solid but there wil be no post show today... Log in to Add Your Comment Commentary [0] Login Register About BRL Past Shows BRL Blog Clip Museum Guests Subscribe Facebook Audio Only MVS Showtime Countdown 0 0 4 0 2 2 ...
