Uh-oh! NFL joins in Obama plot to indoctrinate kids! Alert Glenn Beck!
2 comments November 20th, 2009 04:42pm Pat Cunningham
The Party of Noooooo!
3 comments November 20th, 2009 02:31pm Pat Cunningham
 
 Eric Zorn NAILS IT.
 An excerpt:
 A veritable caravan of terrorist sympathizers trooping across the heartland to visit their al-Qaida brethren imprisoned near the small Illinois town of Thomson!
 Jihadist guerrillas, attempting to spring their buddies with a raid on the remote supermax prison, deciding, while they’re in the neighborhood, to attack a nuclear power plant 22 miles away and bomb skyscrapers in Chicago 150 miles away!
 Followers of Osama bin Laden recruiting American prisoners to their evil cause!
 Radical Islamists attacking local jurors and prosecutors involved in the effort to bring their soldiers to justice!
 Key leaders acquitted and taking up residence in our towns!
 [Mark] Kirk, the North Shore Republican congressman now seeking his party’s nomination for U.S. Senate, has been peddling such hysteria since the news broke last week that the Obama administration hopes to transfer some detainees now held at Guantanamo to the now largely unused Thomson Correctional Center.
Signs of the times
3 comments November 20th, 2009 01:52pm Pat Cunningham
 The Lafayette County (Missouri) Republican Central Committee appears to be itching for a violent revolution against the U.S. government:
 The billboard above is a replacement for this show of paranoia:
The strange wingnut obsession with rape
4 comments November 20th, 2009 01:15pm Pat Cunningham
There’s enough wacko stuff in this video to keep a whole team of Viennese shrinks busy producing studies for years:
If Repubs think Medicare is socialized medicine, why not try to repeal it?
8 comments November 20th, 2009 08:51am Pat Cunningham
 
 Nicholas Kristof REMINDS US that the arguments advanced by congressional Republicans in opposition to health-care reform are echoes of the rhetoric their political forebears used against Medicare in the 1960s.
 Which raises the question: Why don’t today’s Republicans try to repeal Medicare (as the teabaggers in the photo above demand)? The answer, of course, has to do with political cowardice, as I suggested in THIS POST of four months ago.
Gallup defends itself against Limbaugh slur
7 comments November 20th, 2009 08:11am Pat Cunningham
 
 With no evidence to support his charge, radio blabber Rush Limbaugh says the Gallup polling organization is cooking its numbers to keep President Obama’s approval ratings above 50 percent.
 Gallup’s Frank Newport (above) SAYS that’s bunk.
 Indeed, three of six recent polls, each conducted by an independent firm, have Obama’s rating higher than Gallup has it, as we see HERE. Notice, too, that each of those three polls measures opinions of American adults in general, while the others cover only registered voters or so-called likely voters.
 UPDATE: A Gallup Daily Tracking Poll released today SHOWS Obama’s approval rating slipping below 5o percent for the first time.
Mass insanity: Poll says most Repubs think ACORN stole election for Obama
10 comments November 19th, 2009 12:14pm Pat Cunningham
 
 Have you heard that ACORN stole more than 9.5 million votes in last year’s presidential election?
 A crazy notion, right? Well, a new poll SHOWS that most Republicans actually believe that nonsense — further evidence that the GOP is in deep, deep trouble.
 These people are completely bonkers.
One WaPo writer smacks down another WaPo writer
Add comment November 19th, 2009 10:47am Pat Cunningham
 
 In a battle of Washington Post columnists, Ruth Marcus THRASHES Michael Gerson — but good!
 Gerson, if you don’t know, is a sanctimonious evangelical who used to write speeches for George W. Bush, in which role he infamously took credit for the work of his colleagues.
This is not satire
1 comment November 19th, 2009 09:35am Pat Cunningham
 This video is one in a series promoting the congressional candidacy of Republican Terri McCormick, who’s running in a district that includes Green Bay and Appleton, Wis.
 The best part of the laughably contrived and poorly acted dialogue is where the bartender refers to something he thinks John Wayne said at the Alamo.
 Notice, too, that the crowd in the bar greets Terri before she’s even visible coming through the doorway.
 This is funny stuff:
When did fear-mongering become patriotic?
21 comments November 19th, 2009 08:33am Pat Cunningham
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 Joe Conason NAILS IT.
 An excerpt:
The loudest voices on the right never tire of telling us that they are the truest patriots. They claim to be the deepest believers in our system, the strongest defenders of our Constitution, the most upbeat, bold and courageous Americans anywhere. But now that the government is finally prepared to put the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on trial, these same patriots are the first to spread doubt, instigate anxiety and abandon constitutional principles.
When did fear-mongering in a time of war become an act of patriotism?
