eschatonblog.com - 2/25/2009
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I've written before that I think part of the problem that conservatives/Republicans face is that their mythology has become a bit too complex for mere mortals (people who don't listen to Limbaugh and read The Corner obsessively) to comprehend. They reference rogues' gallery of enemies and ...
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Losing the thread
Balloon Juice —
Atrios makes a point about wingnut mythology that’s along the lines of what I’ve been thinking for a while:
I’ve written before that I think part of the problem that conservatives/Republicans face is that their mythology has become a bit too complex for mere mortals (people who don’t listen to Limbaugh and read The Corner obsessively) to comprehend. They reference rogues’ gallery of enemies and various “bad things” that most people have never heard of. Simply trying to navigate through the various wingnutty ...
Snapshots in wingnut psychology
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... , but Atrios said something similar, so I thought I’d flesh it out a bit. (Just a bit; taking off to do some book-writing tonight.) ...
BREAKING: Same old stuff, I think.
Whiskey Fire —
... all duplicitous. Yes, Republicans sure were nothing but substantive and issue-driven in the offshore drilling "energy debate" of 2008: Sarah Palin addressing the electorate, consolidating public opinion, no one questioning anyone's sanity, making Barack Obama change rhetorical course by half a degree, and if I remember correctly, congressional Republicans spent the 2008 summer recess barking into the void about offshore drilling, hanging out alone in the Capitol demanding things which have not happened. Republican WIN! Politically speaking, ...
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