TagsTags(Credit: Gus 802.)At LGF we've been following the career of Texas Governor Rick Perry for years, often focusing on one of his "achievements" that has so far mostly eluded the mainstream media: Perry is undoubtedly the most determined, persistent, and outrageously overt creationist in the Republican Party, and arguably one ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Rick Perry, Texas
Of all the absurd and disturbing moments in last night's Republican debate, this may have been the most revealing: when Bret Baier asked the candidates, "Say you had a deal, a real spending cuts deal, 10 to 1, as Byron said, spending cuts to tax increases. Who on this stage ...
Here's another thread for the GOP's Iowa debate, since the previous thread is filling up fast...
Eight Republicans -- yes, even Newt Gingrich and His Amazing Collapsing Campaign! -- will square off tonight in Ames, Iowa, so here's a thread for the occasion. The Kook Quotient will be soaring, because in addition to the other right wing candidates, Crazy Uncle Ron Paul will be present. I'm ...
The Tea Party's activists in Congress aren't finished with America yet; their next target for destruction is the Environmental Protection Agency. Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann doesn't want to wait for extinction, she advocates abolishing the EPA as soon as God puts the Tea Party in charge. She blames ...
Tea Party, Republican Party, GOP, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Anti-Science
One of the latest front groups organized by the Koch Brothers has the lofty-yet-innocuous sounding name, "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)," and Think Progress has a photo of the ugly anti-scientific literature they're distributing: At Koch’s ALEC Conference: ‘The Many Benefits Of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment’. Also see: VIDEO: Security Guards At ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Koch Brothers
From AAA to AA+. Regardless of what you think about S&P, this is a disgrace. Maybe S&P are jumping the gun, maybe they're making a political statement, but the fact is that the Tea Party right takes ALL the blame for this. S&P would not have even thought of taking such ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, President Obama
OK, this is bad. Dow down more than 400 points as market plunge continues.
Economy, Dow, Stock Market, GOP, Republican Party, Obstructionism
Republican Colorado Rep. Doug Lamborn went on the Caplis and Silverman radio show last Friday, and called President Obama a tar baby. LAMBORN: Even if some people say 'well, the Republicans should have done this, or should have done that,' they will hold the President responsible. Now, I don't even ...
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, Colorado, Racism, President Obama
Here we go, folks. The final stretch of the GOP's hostage strategy. WASHINGTON -- Defying a veto threat, the Republican-controlled House passed legislation Tuesday night to slice federal spending by $6 trillion and require a constitutional balanced budget amendment to be sent to the states in exchange for averting a ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, President Obama
According to a new CBS News poll, the American public doesn't like the way any of our politicians are handling the debt crisis -- but they're especially, overwhelmingly unhappy with the Republican Party: Poll: 71% shun GOP handling of debt crisis. Seventy-one percent is a hell of a number for the ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, President Obama, Poll
Teabaggers in Florida have a new target for their rage -- a gentle aquatic mammal that's not listed in the Bible. This is not a joke. A Citrus County tea party group has announced that it's fighting new restrictions on boating and other human activities in Kings Bay that have been ...
Tea Party, Republican Party, GOP, Bad Craziness, Florida, Insanity, Manatees, Dinosaurs
If you think the James Webb Space Telescope is exactly the kind of cutting-edge science the US government needs to support, here's a page where you can add your authenticated signature to an open letter to Save the James Webb Space Telescope from the depredations of the anti-science right wing. ...
Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Science, Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
In today's News of the Boehner, the Speaker of the House has hit on yet another strange way to shift the blame for holding America's economy hostage, away from Republicans and onto the eternal object of right wing rage: Boehner Says The Debt Limit Increase Is Obama's Problem. Speaker of ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, President Obama
You've got to be kidding me. One of America's greatest, grandest scientific successes -- and possibly one of the biggest scientific successes of all time -- has been the Hubble Space Telescope. It has expanded our knowledge of the universe in ways that no one could ever have imagined. NASA has been ...
Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Science, Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
One of the most dim-witted right wing causes on the current political scene is their jihad against compact fluorescent lightbulbs. And just to drive the point home, one of the dimmest Republican congressmen, Texas Rep. Joe Barton (infamous for apologizing to BP after their gigantic Gulf oil spill), has introduced ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Lightbulbs, Idiocy, Environment
It's been a third rail of US politics to accuse Republicans of deliberately sabotaging the economy to advance their political agenda, but Sen. Jim DeMint made this intention absolutely explicit today. “We're at the point where there would have to be some, you know, some serious disruptions in order not ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Jim DeMint, Dominionism
Lately, the right wing Power Line blog has been angling for a position as one of the prime sources of climate change denial in the blogosphere. They have a lot of competition, because denying the science of climate change is absolutely universal in the right wing blogosphere. But today they make ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science, Monty Python
Pseudo-libertarian kook Rand Paul has announced that he's planning a filibuster over the debt ceiling. On Newsmakers, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will hold up the Senate’s business next week to force a debate on the debt limit. The Senate canceled its Fourth of July break to ensure discussions ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Rand Paul
In the past couple of weeks, right wing media and blogs have been gleefully trumpeting the latest absurd climate change denial claim -- that the Sun is entering a period of low activity, and this will trigger a "mini-ice age." I haven't checked all of them, but every right wing ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Denial, Anti-Science
Most of the GOP presidential contenders appeared at the annual National Right to Life convention today, to assure the religious fundamentalist base that the best way to create jobs is to make sure women don't have the right to choose an abortion. Magical thinking writ large, hyped by the highest ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, GOP, National Right to Life, NRL
The Republican Party doesn't just use fear as a manipulative tactic on voters -- it's also the tool they use to keep fellow GOP politicians in line: Senator Jim DeMint Warns Republicans on Debt Ceiling Vote: They Will Be 'Gone'. Conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint has a message to fellow ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Jim DeMint
Somehow, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell let the truth slip out yesterday: McConnell: GOP Would Not Voice Opposition To Libya Campaign If Obama Was A Republican. MCCONNELL: The only thing I can tell you at this point is that there are differences. I’m not sure that these kind of ...
Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism, Libya, President Obama, Mitch McConnell
In Indiana, one of the nation's most restrictive and backward anti-abortion laws has just been signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels, and a provision of the law that took effect this week also blocks Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. Note that Planned Parenthood is already prohibited from using federal funds for ...
Abortion, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, GOP, Indiana, Planned Parenthood