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That’s what a lot of pundits say. But let’s examine the assertion a little more closely. There is a reason why the Republican Party, and leading politicians in the Republican Party, and the bosses of the Republican Party (such as Limbaugh, Rove, Norquist etc.) take the positions they do. They believe in those positions: They believe [...]
Archive for the ‘Republican Party’ Category
November 8th, 2012
November 2nd, 2012
Category: Clash of Civilizations, Climate change, Religion and Politics, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
As Mark notes just below, GOP climate denial is coming to bite Willard in the behind. But this still begs the fundamental question: of all the issues in the world, why has the Republican Party developed such an incredible antipathy to doing anything about or even acknowledging the reality of anthrpogenic climate change? After all, [...]
September 30th, 2012
When I was a child, “Zingers” were a kind of packaged pastry made by Dolly Madison. They weren’t very good, but because they sponsored Peanuts specials, they had Charlie Brown, or Snoopy, or Lucy, or (my favorite) Linus on them. I desperately wanted to eat them more often. Mom was smarter than that. “They really [...]
September 23rd, 2012
Inquiring minds want to know — what happened to Mitt Romney’s supposed financial edge? Wasn’t that supposed to be his ace in the hole? Wasn’t he going to “carpet bomb” swing states with advertisements? Now, as it turns out, President Obama has tens of millions of dollars more in his campaign account than Willard. What [...]
September 18th, 2012
Perhaps the most outrageous part of Romney’s deservedly-infamous speech to the $50,000-a-plate dinner was his assertion that he inherited nothing from his upbringing. After all, he was only the son of the CEO of American Motors and then the Governor of Michigan, who went to one of the country’s best prep schools and then to [...]
September 11th, 2012
This weekend I posted some reflections on the remarkable reversal of our soi-disant conservatives from, um, conserving stuff to a program that puts widespread waste front and center. It occurs to me that another equally striking new Republican theme is a truly bizarre attitude to time, specifically that we should live as though it stops [...]
September 6th, 2012
Why is there no Republican who can explain policy as well as Bill Clinton does? Jonathan Bernstein knows the answer: if there were, Republicans wouldn’t want to hear it. And this explains a lot about Romney.
September 2nd, 2012
Or at least he did in his speech in Iowa today, when he commented on the Republican convention: “What they offered over those three days was more often than not an agenda that was better-suited for the last century,” Obama said. “We might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.” Wrong. The last [...]