GOP: The Peasants' Problems Are So Droll

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Friday February 27, 2009 · 3:14 PM PST

2009/02/27 · 15:14

Has anyone noticed that a sizable number of the so-called "Earmarks" that the Republicans and their media stooges are mocking are agriculture-related? Doesn't this strike you as a little, I dunno...elitist?

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Friday March 09, 2007 · 7:43 PM PST

2007/03/09 · 19:43

The abysmal Charles Krauthammer sets out the wingnut position on Libbygate in in today's Washington Post. He says, and I quote:

This is a case that never should have been brought, originating in the scandal that never was, in search of a crime -- violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act -- that even the prosecutor never alleged. That's the basis for a presidential pardon. It should have been granted long before this egregious case came to trial. It should be granted now without any further delay.

Now, while I disagree with Krauthammer about whether the case should have "ever been brought", I will agree that the Preznit should pardon Libby,and do it soon.

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 10:49 AM PST

2006/11/01 · 10:49

Because of Kerry's recent bobble of the punch line of a joke about President Bush, I regret to announce that I will not be voting for John Kerry on November 7th, 2006.

I won't be voting for him for Congress. I won't be voting for him for Senate. I won't be voting for him for Governor.

That'll show him. Read More

9/11 +5

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 9:27 AM PDT

2006/09/10 · 09:27

Published today in The Pilot newspaper, Southern Pines, North Carolina. This is the expanded version, the "director's cut", so to speak. Read More

John Conyers: No "Rush to Impeachment"

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 5:52 AM PDT

2006/05/18 · 05:52

While I realize this is a minority view here, I think Michigan Representative Conyers gets it right in this editorial in the Washington Post. The money quotes are after the jump: Read More

Adventures in Republicanism: Tommy, We Hardly Knew Ye

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Thursday April 13, 2006 · 10:13 AM PDT

2006/04/13 · 10:13

As some of you remember, I recently caved in and decided to join up with the GOP. That story's here:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

So imagine my feelings when one of the party heroes fell like a star from the very firmament...

My latest column on the subject is below, from The Southern Pines, NC Pilot.
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Why I'm Joining the Republican Party

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Wednesday April 05, 2006 · 3:24 PM PDT

2006/04/05 · 15:24

It suddenly occurs to me that I've been going about this all wrong. As I wrote in a recent newspaper column, life could be a lot easier for me if I were to join the GOP. Read More

DOJ Purges Anti-UAE Information From Website

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Sunday March 05, 2006 · 11:37 AM PST

2006/03/05 · 11:37

This past week, I was writing a column about the DPW ports deal. While doing some Googling, I came across this tidbit from the Website of the US Department of Justice's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training:

The Government of the UAE has formally stated that it will no longer provide judicial assistance in criminal matters, absent both extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties. Since March, the UAE has released seven U.S. fugitives. The UAE has not responded to a request for documentary evidence since 2003.

This is our supposed ally in the War on Terra.

The report was at http://www.usdoj.gov/...

Now it's gone.

Interesting, no?

NEW MEME (with blogwhoring)

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Monday January 30, 2006 · 10:36 AM PST

2006/01/30 · 10:36

New meme: Republicans=pussies.

Thin skinned little girls who get a case of the vapors over any criticism.

A column on this subject (without the P word, since it was written for a family newspaper) after the jump. Read More

The Good Americans

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Wednesday August 24, 2005 · 6:19 PM PDT

2005/08/24 · 18:19

From the heart of a Red county in a Red state, here's another column written by your Humble Narrator and published in my local paper: Read More

Oh, Good, I'm Not a Terrorist

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Monday July 25, 2005 · 6:53 AM PDT

2005/07/25 · 06:53

My little county in North Carolina is staunchly Republican, despite being the county where John Edwards grew up. I consider the column that I write on a freelance basis for the local paper to be moderate. Most of the county, of course, regards it as as screaming moonbat liberalism.
Recently, one particularly hysterical letter claimed that when Dubbya said "terrorists never stop thinking of ways to hurt America, and neither do we" he was talking about people like me. It was gratifying to see some people come forward in the letters page and state that, while they still didn't like me, they thought it was unfair to label me as a terrorist. Hey, you take what faint praise you cn get.
Finally, the original writer wrote back and said, no, no, they'd been misunderstood. They weren't saying that I was a terrorist. They were just saying I was out to hurt America. My response is below the fold. Read More

Take Back These Words

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 8:07 AM PST

2004/11/19 · 08:07

You know how the Right has turned "politically correct" into a sneer? "Of course we oppose [insert wedge issue here]! We don't bow to what's 'politically correct'! "

And the sort of smug little way the faux-Christians say things like "I know it's not 'fashionable' to pray every day, but my family does..."

It makes the Right seem like they're somehow daring and edgy.

Well, with the Republicans claiming a popular mandate, it's time to reclaim those words.

Example: "I know it's not 'fashionable' to claim Bush lied about WMD's but I'm not a slave to what's fashionable,.."

And when someone quotes some empty-headed rightist talking point just give that smug little smile they're so good at and say "aren't you the 'politically correct' one!'

They say we've been pushed to the margins...let's reclaim it as the cutting edge.

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