TagsTagsPlagiarist Ben Domenech, inexplicably published by CBS News despite being forced to resign in disgrace from the Washington Post in 2006, promptly turns in a sleazy post smearing possible Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan — and the Obama administration pushes back, hard: White House complains about CBS News blog post ...
Republican Party, GOP, Ben Domenech, Plagiarism, Homophobia, smears
So now we have Republicans in the Oklahoma state legislature (state Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, a Republican candidate for governor, and state Rep. Charles Key, R-Oklahoma City) who think it’s a great idea to set up a heavily armed state militia: Okla. Tea Parties And Lawmakers Envision Militia. Frustrated by ...
Oklahoma, Militia, Far Right, Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Government, Cranks, Bad Craziness
Senior editor for The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates puts it all in a nice neat package: Proud Of Being Ignorant. A lot of you have e-mailed me to note that Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has decided to honor those who fought to preserve, and extend, white supremacy. I don’t really have much to ...
Virginia, Republican Party, Extremism, Neo-Confederate, Bob McDonnell, GOP, Anti-Science
The creep who spread the “Mark Kirk is gay” rumor in Illinois, Jack Roeser, has been promoted to the finance co-chair of the Illinois Republican party: Illinois GOP Rewards Anti-Gay Bigotry. Portrait of a political party gone insanely off the rails.
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Homophobia, Anti-Gay
The latest chapter in the long-running saga of a political party gone off the rails: How the GOP Purged Me.
In 2001, Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins gave a speech to the openly white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens. And when Perkins worked for Senator Woody Jenkins, he purchased a phone-bank list from former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. Today he’s angry at the Republican Party over recent revelations that ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Family Values, Bondage, Michael Steele, Sarah Palin, Tony Perkins
The party of family values. The latest scandal to dog the Republican National Committee—a $1,946 tab at the Los Angeles club Voyeur in February, first reported Monday by the Daily Caller—is tame by Washington standards and far from the electoral fodder some Democrats are making it out to be. Even ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Family Values, Bondage, Michael Steele
A lot of people seem to believe that because I parted ways with the GOP and the right wing, that automatically makes me a left winger or a Democrat now. So here’s an article that shows why I concluded long ago that both parties are full of opportunistic weasels: RNC rejects ...
Politico’s Mike Allen has an interesting post about David Frum’s excommunication from the American Enterprise Institute; apparently Frum’s departure was ordered by the AEI’s deep pockets donors, who cannot stand criticism as the right wing slides ever deeper into an abyss of powerless rage and negativity. EXCLUSIVE: David Frum told ...
Republican Party, GOP, David Frum, American Enterprise Institute
Quote of the week so far, a painfully accurate observation from David Frum: “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we’re discovering we work for Fox. And the balance here has been completely reversed. The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines ...
Republican Party, GOP, Bad Craziness, Birthers, Populism, Fox News, David Frum
John Avlon says this new Harris poll is scary, and that’s probably an understatement. Bad craziness has taken over the right to an appalling degree. Obama Derangement Syndrome—pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism—has infected the Republican Party. Here’s new data to prove it: [Item List] These numbers all come from ...
Republican Party, GOP, Bad Craziness, Birthers, Antichrist, Godwin's Law, Insanity
At a closed meeting yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner told GOP legislators to “behave like grown-ups.” Now, why would he think it was necessary to tell them that? House Minority Leader John Boehner told his conference to “behave like grown-ups” if the healthcare bill is passed by the House on ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, GOP, Republican Party
Amazing. Oh, don’t get me wrong; it’s not amazing that people like Tom Delay think like this. It’s amazing that he actually said it in public: Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be. “You know,” Delay said, “there is an argument to be made that these extensions, the ...
Good. Grief. Exclusive: RNC document mocks donors, plays on ‘fear’. The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Barack Obama and a promise to “save the country from trending toward socialism.” The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising ...
Nativist former Rep. Tom Tancredo is bashing Sarah Palin — he says she only wants to sell books. Which is odd, because Tancredo’s in favor of reinstating literacy tests, so you’d think he’d be in favor of books. Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) ripped into fellow Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin ...
Republican political consultant Rick Wilson, about the Florida GOP Senate primary: “I expect a scorched earth, smoking, radioactive wasteland, a postapocalypic Mad Max hellscape.”
The craziest Birther of them all, Orly Taitz, has posted an attack on John McCain at her blog, raging about McCain’s advertisement playing the Birther card against J. D. Hayworth. Taitz called the ad — which she misspelled as “add” throughout the post — “despicable” and “appalling.” She went on to challenge the ...
Birthers, Nirthers, GOP, Republican Party, Arizona, John McCain, J. D. Hayworth, Conspiracy Theories
South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money. South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way. Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens, introduced legislation earlier this month that would ban what he calls “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal ...
South Carolina, GOP, Republican Party, social conservatism, Gold Standard, Money
The South Carolina Republican Party apparently feels that they aren’t conservative enough yet, so they’ll be uniting with tea party groups. That ought to do it. The South Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that it’s uniting with tea party groups in the state to share resources, coordinate messaging and push ...
South Carolina, GOP, Republican Party, Tea Parties, Populism, social conservatism
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said today that there is no difference in beliefs between the GOP and tea partiers. “There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the tea party activists believe in,” Boehner said during an appearance on the conservative Mike Gallagher’s radio ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Bad Craziness, Extremism, John Boehner, GOP, Republican Party
Imagine my surprise that linking to a piece about a disturbing Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans prompted several hyper-emotional meltdowns in our comments, and three hate mails so far today. Apart from the insult-spewers, though, many readers wanted to know exactly which questions were asked, and where the samples came ...
Poll, Republicans, GOP, Birthers, Sarah Palin, Homophobia, Bad Craziness, Creationism
A new poll conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republicans by Daily Kos and Research 2000 shows that the Republican base is possibly even crazier than I previously thought: Poll: Republicans Think Obama Is A Socialist, And Palin More Qualified To Be President. [Item List] Oh brother.
Poll, Republicans, GOP, Birthers, Sarah Palin, Homophobia, Bad Craziness
Dale Robertson is in the Washington Times again, described as a “leading figure” in the tea party movement: ‘Tea party’ activists feel slighted by GOP. Leading figures in the burgeoning “tea party” movement complain they are being ignored by the Republican National Committee, despite having already shown their clout in ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Houston, Racism, Bad Craziness, GOP
RNC chairman Michael Steele apparently believes that the best way to get young people and minorities to take another look at the Republican Party is to praise a raving freakazoid nut sandwich who gets his talking points from the John Birch Society and calls President Obama a “racist with a ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck
The far right creationist wing of the Republican Party is a step closer to taking control of the party in Florida tonight: Florida GOP Chairman Resigns. The resignation of Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer today — a decision that came after weeks of calls for his head from conservatives ...
Florida, Evolution, Creationism, Marc Rubio, Charlie Crist, GOP, Far Right, Extremism