Tag Archives: Republican

“Republicans make you work for your money, and try to let you keep it.”

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Santi Tafarella

This was in The New York Times this past week: “Democrats are for a bunch of freeloaders in this world as far as I’m concerned,” said Gari Day, 63, an Avis bus driver from suburban Detroit. “Republicans make you work … Continue reading →

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Three Agency Debate Flub: Watch Rick Perry’s Poll Numbers Rise in Response

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

You can’t change your mind in a liberal direction if you can’t keep a line of argumentation straight in your head. Thus is Rick Perry’s conservative purity guaranteed. His rational faculties impaired, he’ll always “think” with his gut. Therefore, score a big … Continue reading →

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Ask the Whale Question of the Republican Presidential Field!

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

For the 2012 primaries, I’d like to see the following question asked of the Republican presidential candidate field (during a debate): Do you believe that, five days after the universe began, there were whales in it? Genesis 1 says that there … Continue reading →

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Will Albert Mohler Be Tapped by Sarah Palin as One of Her Science Advisors?

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

With regard to the universe’s appearance of vast age, Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, offers this curious argument: The universe looks old because the creator made it whole. When he made Adam,  Adam was … Continue reading →

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Half-term Governor Sarah Palin gets a half-term “Palin for President” bumper sticker

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Santi Tafarella

I think this is clever:

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Is Glenn Beck a Gateway Drug to White Racial Consciousness?

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Is Glenn Beck conservative marijuana? A gateway drug? Baby steps? The first free hit? According to a Salon survey of racist website discussion groups, these are some of the analogies that white power enthusiasts are using for Glenn Beck. Here, … Continue reading →

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Galt’s Gulch: As Neoliberalism and Barack Obama Ascend, Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” Sees a Dramatic Increase in Sales

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

A sign of anxiety and nostalgia? Conservatives in a time of advancing liberalism are escaping into the “Galt’s Gulch” of Ayn Rand’s fiction. This at the Ayn Rand Institute website: “The spike in sales of Atlas Shrugged more than a … Continue reading →

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Jon Stewart Deconstructs Fox News

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Brilliantly and thoroughly here. And here’s a cherry on top:

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Glenn Beck Provides the Gasoline, then Waits for the Match?

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

John Santore of Media Matters calls out Glenn Beck for helping to spawn a right wing cultural climate of hysteria and paranoia that is now poised to spill over into very real and serious violence: How many times can Beck portray Obama as … Continue reading →

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Red State Update on the Birther Movement and the Republican Party’s Drift to the Far Right

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Santi Tafarella
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Health Care Reform: By Saying No, Is This Where the Republican Party Has Gone to Die?

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

At AlterNet.com today, Adele Stan makes the health care debate stakes crystal clear: If President Barack Obama succeeds in signing a major health care reform bill into law — one that provides a public plan for people currently priced out … Continue reading →

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On Sarah Palin, Liz Trotta Speaks the Truth Directly and Beautifully

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

God, this was so refreshing. So non-Orwellian. And on Fox News!

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Quotes of the Day

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white . . .” —Richard M Nixon. —————————- And Andrew Sullivan observes: “So the 37th president would have aborted the 44th.”

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The Soul of Islam is at Stake in Iran

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

And hence so is global peace. Andrew Sullivan said something today that completely blew me away: [T]he use of the Koran in resisting oppression of this kind, now confirmed all over the place, strikes me as a vital gesture. It … Continue reading →

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Hot Links for a Sunday

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

  Histiophryne psychedelica, the weirdest fish ever . . . more  Power boobs from the Paleolithic . . . more To win back Hispanic voters, silver-haired white male Republican politicians will have to do more than just have photo-shoots of themselves “eating tacos alongside … Continue reading →

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Obama Conspiracy Theories “live within the computer and they fester in people’s minds”: After the Abortion Doctor and Holocaust Museum Shootings, Shepard Smith Worries About Obama’s Assassination by Far-Right Crazies in a Discussion with Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Is the authoritarian right on its way to a noxious repeat of the militia movement culture that culminated, in the 1990s, in the Oklahoma City bombing—only this time with the target being our first African American president? After the U.S. Holocaust … Continue reading →

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After the Abortion Doctor and Holocaust Museum Shootings: Contemporary Right Wing Racism—and the Threat It Poses to President Obama

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Shepard Smith basically said aloud what I’ve been thinking for awhile. The hyper-amped far-right in this country is ginning up an atmosphere that makes Obama’s assassination ever more likely. Last week it was the murder of an abortion clinic doctor … Continue reading →

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American Shout Radio and the Soul of Conservatism: Tory David Cameron v. Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh?

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Jacob Weisberg suggests British Tory politician David Cameron as a model for how the Republicans can claw their way back into the national electoral game: [An] encouraging model for the right is the British Conservative Party, poised to return to … Continue reading →

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Somehow I Missed This Last Year

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

A bit of a flashback:

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Father Absent at an Early Age, Raised by a Strong Mother, Ivy League School, Law Journal Editor: Judge Sonia Sotomayor Has Curiously Similar Life Experiences to Barack Obama’s

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

President Obama’s first Supreme Court pick is a Puerto Rican woman who rose from poverty. Judge Sonia Sotomayor grew up in the Bronx housing projects, and has curiously similar life experiences to Obama. But it will be ugly watching the … Continue reading →

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