Republicanisms

Maha has this perfect insight of the republican party.

But now the body politic is infested with some sort of social pathology called “movement conservatism,” which is neither responsible nor rational and exists, like a virus, merely to replicate itself. Although there are many vested interests pulling its strings, ultimately movement conservatism is a brainless organism that is killing its host.

Wolverines

Unfortunately this is what the republicans are arguing.

Bipartisanship

Republican style.

I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.

The Party of Racists

Paul Krugman does not actually say the republicans are racist. But it is hard for me to believe otherwise.

The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision.

Also, they do not value competence. Here is not how to govern.

“make appointments based on loyalty first and expertise second.”

I seem to remember the republican cold warriors saying the USSR would collapse because they valued party loyalty over competence. I guess they figured IOKIYAR.

Oil Companies In Bed With The Government

It would be funny if this was from the Onion. Republican government is all about corporate profit, and the path of least resistance. But remember, the path of least resistance is why a river is crooked.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Department employees who oversaw oil drilling on federal lands had sex and used illegal drugs with workers at energy companies where they were conducting official business, an internal government report said on Wednesday.

Employees at the department's Minerals Management Service "socialized with, and received a wide array of gifts and gratuities from, oil and gas companies," according to the department's inspector general, Earl Devaney.

It is really sad to watch republicans give this great country to their corporate masters profits.

We Are Number One!

Bush at the climate summit.

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

How do such tasteless spoiled children get elected? It must be with the help of their friends in the media.

19%

No president in modern history has dropped below 20%. Not Nixon, during impeachment hearings. Not Carter, when GHW Bush was conspiring with the Iranians to keep Americans hostage in Tehran.

Bushed

Just so you do not forget all of Bush's scandals. Via Hoffmania

It Is Hard To Respect Republicans

I see things like this and I do not laugh. It would be funny, if the republican tool was just running for office. The president should be able to speak the language, the American language. Yes, I know it is English. The media foisted this Nimrod on the American public because they wanted to please their republican masters.
Via Maru, whose co blogger Undeniable Liberal just one a Monkeyfister award.

Feeling Safer Yet?

Do you remember the government howling about the terrorists going to blow up the Sears Tower? Well one was aquited and six ended in mistrials.