It’s easy to be a coward as a New York Republican. You’re badly outnumbered and, unless you are willing to get yelled at frequently, it’s more painless to acquiesce to the general opinions of the day in polite society — to murmur tacit agreement — than to pull the pin on the hand grenade by […]
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Quote of the Day, Mike Huckabee
“…if the trend continues over the weekend that we’ve started to see with Romney, sort of, bringing people together as people are saying, ‘Okay, look, if he’s going to win, let’s go ahead and get behind him.’ That’s what I think is starting to happen.” — Mike Huckabee on Mitt Romney
Read the rest of this entry »Election’s Over? Poppycock!
It’s incredible how quickly we jump to conclusions in politics. I do it all the time, and then prove myself an ass. Just read some back entries of this blog and that will be made clear. The latest meme is that the 2012 election is but a foregone conclusion — that an admittedly strange Republican […]
Read the rest of this entry »Anti-Obamacare Film Ad Goes Too Far
A print ad running in the Washington, DC metro goes too far. Republicans, Democrats, and independents should speak out loudly and clearly on it, and its sponsor should voluntarily take it down. The billboard spot for an upcoming anti-Obamacare film (I have no problem with that sentiment) ends “Go to hell, Barack.” Like Mr. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, Hudson Hinkley
“Five-year-olds, are you better off than you were five years ago?” — Hudson Hinkley 02-12 (Please see below.)
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Needed this one.
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http://youtu.be/_6z5zC8W2Mk If you haven’t heard — and I hadn’t until reading Liz Benjamin’s State of Politics blog tonight — a cat named Hank is running for the United States Senate from Virginia. His first TV spot is embedded above. Cute. Right? Wrong! Cats are: Aloof; Disloyal; People hating; Stinky; Asthma Causing, and Sneaky. They […]
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