Eric Cantor’s apostasy risks wrath of wingnuts

2 comments November 6th, 2009

 

 Uh-oh! Rep. Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, is DISSING the teabaggers and Rush Limbaugh.

 How soon will the loonies label him a RINO?

WorldNutDaily tries to tie Ft. Hood shooter to Obama

7 comments November 6th, 2009

THIS KIND OF THING was inevitable, I suppose.

Another example of government trampling our religious rights?

4 comments November 6th, 2009

 

 One of our semi-regular commenters here at Applesauce has opined, without any supporting evidence, that the tragedy at Ft. Hood is the result of the U.S. military infringing on the religious rights of its personnel.

 One wonders what this fellow might think of THIS CASE, in which it is alleged that government finger-printing requirements are a violation of religious freedom.

Jobless rate, poll numbers spell doom for Reagan, er, I mean Obama

15 comments November 6th, 2009

 

 Follow me on this:

 Unemployment figures released today are said in some quarters to portend a one-term presidency for Barack Obama.

 Another harbinger of tough-sledding for the president looms in the likelihood that his approval rating in the Gallup poll will soon slip below 50 percent. (It’s at 52 percent as this is written.)

 But before we write Obama’s political obituary, let’s put these numbers in historical perspective.

 First of all, we have the fact that the current rate of joblessness is the highest since 1983. If I recall correctly, that was the third year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. And in the following year, he was elected to a second term.

 Nor should we read too much into Obama’s approval rating falling below 50 percent (if, in fact, that happens). History shows that two out of the three presidents who won re-election in the past three decades (Reagan and Bill Clinton) both saw their Gallup approval numbers slip below 50 percent during their first year in office.

 Mind you, I’m not saying that Obama won’t face tough challenges in a re-election bid in 2012. Indeed, he might not make it. But let’s not forget how grim the situation looked for Reagan before he won a second term.

Homophobes are a dying breed

2 comments November 6th, 2009

 

 As we’ve pointed out here before, opposition to gay marriage is much more common among older Americans than younger folks.

 Eventually, then, most of the homophobes will just die off.

 HERE’s a chart that dramatizes the demographic gulf on the issue.

Opponents of government-run health care suddenly find need to avail themselves of same

9 comments November 6th, 2009

 

 While I don’t want to make light of people facing medical emergencies, I can’t help but note the delicious irony in THIS ACCOUNT of a teabagger rally staged yesterday at the Capitol in Washington:

 ”By the time it was over, medics had administered government-run health care to at least five people in the crowd who were stricken as they denounced government-run health care.”

 UPDATE: By the way, Michele Bachmann is FALSELY DECLARING that the aforementioned rally was completely spontaneous and “was nothing that we organized, nothing that we planned. We didn’t order one bus, one carload. Nothing. Complete word of mouth.”

Jon Stewart parodies Glenn Beck’s conspiratorialism

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THIS STUFF is hilarious. Be sure to watch the video, wherein Stewart perfectly mimics the Beck style.

Boehner mistakes Declaration for Constitution

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How embarrassing is this?

Good news and bad news for GOP

5 comments November 6th, 2009

 

 Eugene Robinson NAILS IT.

 An excerpt:

 The good news for the Republican Party is that its far-right conservative base is energized. The bad news is that the far-right conservative base isn’t big enough to elect national or even statewide candidates without help from moderate Republicans and independents. The two new Republican governors-elect, Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey, did just that. If the party is going to insist on ideological purity from every candidate in every state, it will cede the political center to the Democrats.

 Sensible Republicans get it. But any GOP officeholder up for re-election has to worry about a possible primary challenge from the right, with tea party fanatics yelling about revolution, Palin posting attacks on social networking sites and Beck shouting treason. I don’t expect to see many profiles in courage.