Just at the moment the Republican coalition is showing strain over Katrina recovery and Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, a Colorado ballot measure is threatening more harm. Though it’s a “purple” state with notable blue and red streaks, Colorado now has a chance to roll back a program long supported by the anti-government movement. In […]
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Fafblog! Declares War on Poverty
Perfect: Giblets has so much compassion he has decided to declare war on poverty and destroy it forever! Behold his three-step plan – NO! – his three-compassion plan – to hunt down poverty and kill it where it lives! COMPASSION THE FIRST: FREEDOM! Poverty hates our our way of life: that is why it is […]
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The Seduction of James
It’s becoming perfectly clear that James Dobson has been coopted by the Bush administration. Far from being the angry, independent-minded, endlessly skeptical Christian Right watchdog he sold himself as, he’s now getting “secret information” from Karl Rove, carrying water for the administration, and attempting to smooth all those feathers mussed by the pick. And now, […]
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CanAmerica
Whenever the subject of health care reform pops up, there are a couple uninformed souls who dash forward armed, they believe, with the silver bullet of anti-scoailist arguments. Canadian waiting lists. Hoo boy do they shout, scream and caterwaul, the depth of their sorrow for these poor people being forced to wait on optional procedures […]
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What Torture Statute?
So Republican senators have finally stood up to President Bush. At least, that’s what people said when Senator John McCain and 45 of his fellow Republicans approved a McCain-sponsored amendment intended to eliminate the abuse of detainees. The legislation, which passed in a 90-9 vote on October 6, even drew the support of former Secretary […]
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Worst. Word. Ever.
Daniel Radosh says: I think that if 42,000 people hadn’t been killed in Pakistan on the samed day, this would have been just about the worst news I’d heard all weekend, and even so, it was close: “The world’s first literary prize for books based on blogs or websites – known for short as ‘blooks’ […]
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Flat Tax?
Brad Plumer’s got a very strong post poking holes n the supposed magic of “The Flat Tax”. Read it. And remember this — there’s nothing complicated about taxation. You make X dollars a year, you multiply that by the percentage you should pay, and you mail off a check. See? Easy as pie. It’s not […]
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Thanks Pops!
I’ve been puzzling over exactly what it is in Harriet Miers’ e-mails that gives me the heebie-jeebies. The answer, close as I can come, is that they’re not just sycophantic, but childish. It’s one thing to advance your buddy, it’s another thing to promote the Court Jester. I’m not gonna jump on her for liberal […]
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Honest Conservatives Awaken
Some of you are going to think the dog spiked my cactus juice when you read this, but I have to say I actually admire some of the conservative dissent on Harriet Miers. Yes, the vast majority of the criticism centers on the fact that Miers doesn’t appear (to them, anyway) to be a reliable […]
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Vote Your Absence
The nomination of a nobody like Harriet Miers has now vaulted the process of naming a Supreme Court justice onto the Feydeau plateau of farce. Does Miers, who has never judged anything, not even the liposuctioned rumps of Arabian horses, deserve the appointment? No one really believe she does, including the president, who had to […]
