Tag: Republicans
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Going ‘Round . . .
Martin Schilde, my friend in the Northwest, sent the following passage in an e-mail. I guess it’s making the round but I don’t know what to make of it, other than it is charming: A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a…
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Rush Limbaugh for The Progressive
This is an illustration for an article in this month’s Progressive, Conservatives in Crisis by Ruth Conniff, about how conservatives are facing an ideological crisis after eight years of Bush and their trouncing in the election. From the article: “While Obama is declaring the argument between big-government liberals and free-market-fundamentalist conservatives over, Rush Limbaugh is …
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Newt Gingrich for Mother Jones
Here’s an illustration in this month’s issue of Mother Jones, to accompany a story on Newt Gingrich written by their DC bureau chief. The article is about how Newt is the only Republican to come out of 2008 looking good, and that the face he’s presenting is a kinder, gentler Newt, all “tri-partisan” and Kumbaya.…
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Enough, already, about Palin’s clothes!
I’ve got no love for Sarah Palin. I think she’s awful on many levels. But I’ve about had it with stories about how much her clothes cost. The most recent revelation appears to be that the RNC spent $165,000 on three stylists to give the Alaska governor a wardrobe makeover. So what? Yes, it sounds…
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Editorials: President Barack Obama
The New York Times: This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing and reflecting on the basic facts: An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power…
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Strength of our faiths
Among the photographs taken by the photog Platon of hundreds of men and women who volunteered to serve in the military and were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan was this striking one of Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Gen. Colin Powell mentioned the photograph in denouncing the…
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NYT Editorial-The Acorn Story
In Wednesday night’s debate, John McCain warned that a group called Acorn is “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history” and “may be destroying the fabric of democracy.” Viewers may have been wondering what Mr. McCain was talking about. So were we. Acorn is a nonprofit group that…
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‘Joe the Liar’
(Photo: Jim Young/Reuters) Wurzelbacher speaking to Sen. Barack Obama about taxes while the candidate campaigned near Toledo, Ohio, last week. And so “Joe the Plumber” dies a swift, ignominious death. In so doing, he enters the pantheon of fictitious Republican agitprop–such as Reagan’s apocryphal Cadillac-driving welfare queens–that have no basis in reality. “Joe the Plumber,”…
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A liberal in the U.S. Senate
The Agonist is one of my favorite stops when I’m inclined to read other blogs. It is simply one of the best out there. I stopped reading for a while because I felt their vociferous support of Senator John Edwards blinded them to the good points of other candidates. In any case, I stayed away…