Blatant bigot drops bid for GOP chairmanship
1 comment January 29th, 2009
I TOLD YOU about Chip Saltsman (above) about a month ago.
Now, I’m glad to tell you THIS.
POSTSCRIPT: And then there’s THIS.
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“Is that the door out of here?”
4 comments January 29th, 2009
By unanimous vote, the Illinois Senate has OUSTED Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office.
POSTSCRIPT: Here’s a cool Blago montage:
If you’re thinking of giving me a Valentine gift, a copy of this book would be nice
4 comments January 29th, 2009
This one looks like a must-read.
HERE’s a brief excerpt.
When are you ill-educated conservatives going to learn that “Democrat” is a noun, not an adjective?
6 comments January 29th, 2009
The current debate over economic stimulus legislation has given rise to a rash of rhetoric among conservative Republicans in which they almost invariably indulge one of my linguistic pet peeves — the ungrammatical use of the word “Democrat” as an adjective.
There is no such thing as “the Democrat Party,” or “Democrat leadership,” or “Democrat agenda” or any other construction in which “Democrat” is used to modify a word or phrase. In such cases, the correct usage is “Democratic.”
I am a Democrat (noun), which means I belong to the Democratic (adjective) Party.
Rabid rightists seem to think that “Democrat” as an adjective somehow sounds less euphonious, less respectable and more pejorative than “Democratic.” So, grammatical considerations notwithstanding, they misuse the one word and shun the other. And when they hear any Republican use these words correctly, it grates on them.
The genesis of this Democrat-as-an-adjective silliness is not entirely clear. According to one theory, it all started with Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the infamous red-baiter and witch-hunter of a half-century ago. Others say it can be traced to the late 1950s when a man named Meade Alcorn, chairman of the Republican National Committee, issued a directive to his minions to thereafter avoid use of the word “Democratic.”
McCarthy’s example or Alcorn’s admonition, whichever it was, has been heeded to this day among the party’s more zealous elements. And woe to he or she who dares stray from this orthodoxy.
Jay Nordlinger, managing editor of the conservative National Review Online, has written of the guff he gets from some readers for his refusal to misuse “Democrat.” John L. Perry of the even more rightist NewsMax.com also refuses to go along with those who “abuse consciously or misuse ignorantly” the D-word.
The late Sen. Sam Ervin once said: “I have been trying to reform Republicans all my life and have had virtually no success, but I would like for them to adopt good grammar and quit using the noun ‘Democrat’ in lieu of the adjective ‘Democratic.’ If I can teach the Republicans that much grammar, I will feel that my effort to educate them has not been entirely in vain.”
Myths and lies about the stimulus bill
1 comment January 29th, 2009
If B.S. was music, Republicans and their media enablers would be a symphony orchestra.
To wit, check THIS.
Manzullo spars with Maddow on stimulus bill
3 comments January 29th, 2009
Blago pleads his case to the Illinois Senate
3 comments January 29th, 2009
Frankly, I don’t care about any of THIS.
I think they should convict him simply because of his hair.
Oh, and his cursing, too. I’ve never been one to use profanity.
Dems running TV ads pressuring GOP senators on economic stimulus bill
2 comments January 29th, 2009
Here’s the ad targeting Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa:
Broder says Blago’s no lovable scamp
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David Broder, dean of American political reporters (and a native of Illinois), takes a few of his colleagues to task for their reactions to Rod Blagojevich’s WEIRD CLAIMS claims of innocence.
