http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, "All politics is applesauce." Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:31:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHtdiTnUXh4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/21/gil-smart-says-palin-will-get-gop-nod-in-2012/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ESY__Ldhw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/21/president-obamas-weekly-youtube-address-36/    I wasn't going to write anything about this silly controversy, but now I can't resist.  On his recent trip to Asia, President Obama politely bowed (above) to the emperor of Japan -- a gesture that immediately rendered American right-wingers downright apoplectic.  The wingnut blogosphere went ballistic over the shame of it all. The ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/21/two-thirds-of-americans-have-no-problem-with-obama-bowing-to-japanese-emperor/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXsoDx9s0j0&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/20/uh-oh-nfl-joins-in-obama-plot-to-indoctrinate-kids-alert-glenn-beck/    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 ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/20/the-party-of-noooooo/  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: http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/20/signs-of-the-times-2/ There's enough wacko stuff in this video to keep a whole team of Viennese shrinks busy producing studies for years: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCY23hWWgRI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/20/the-strange-wingnut-obsession-with-rape/    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, ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/20/if-repubs-think-medicare-is-socialized-medicine-why-not-try-to-repeal-it/    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 ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/20/gallup-defends-itself-against-limbaugh-slur/    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. http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/19/mass-insanity-poll-says-most-repubs-think-acorn-stole-election-for-obama/