That explains the unprecedented secrecy of the Bush regime, the disappearing White House visitors’ logs, the secret energy policy meetings, the spying without warrants, the ghost detainees, the insistence on not giving straight answers (and especially not sworn testimony), the secret memos, and the general desire to avoid investigation into all the crimes that took place behind their resolutely closed doors.

Conservative politicians love to talk about their “values,” but they also feel a need to hide the huge disconnect between their rhetoric and the reality of their actions in office. Hmm…I wonder why?

We nominated this guy. We also nominated Bill Clinton. And Jimmy Carter, for that matter.

What does it say about hardcore liberalism that it can’t seem to produce a similarly popular figure? What does it say about the Democratic Party that it doesn’t know how to help a liberal win? It’s a nominally liberal party that keeps making centrists President, who then become the public face of a party whose base is to their left; no wonder the whole spectacle gives the impression of a certain dishonesty. The winger fallacy is simply that all this is somehow intentional.

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=4137

this is a center right country . . .

No. No. No it is bloody well not. See, John, studies have shown that a decent number of Americans are “ideologically” right-of-center. This means that if you ask them, for instance, whether they want more government programs, or whether they think the government should spend less money, a lot of people will usually say “no” and “yes” respectively (this is where most wingnuts stop reading). BUT – if you then ask people whether Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid should be cut, the answer is a resounding no. Ideologically conservative, operationally liberal. Or, as Jon Henke put it, leave me alone vs gimme a hand. I realize that this is not a new insight, but wingnuts are real dumb.

But by all means, continue deluding yourself into thinking that you live in a conservative nation. Doing so will only ensure that you sink further into obscurity.

A Conservative would be just as bad about lying to others, however.

Because the bibble-thumping is just a facade; what they really get off on is authoritarianism and scapegoating.

Although the APP would still give ‘em the scapegoating, I concede.

But the possibility that an undeserving brown person may benefit from economic justice would make it a non-starter.

Will Obama’s Justice Department Prosecute Abbas for Murder? said,

May 14, 2009 at 19:31

By Edward Olshaker
Now that President Obama has opened the door to prosecuting Bush administration officials for legal opinions allowing waterboarding of al Qaeda leaders, it would be monumentally ironic and unjust if the door were not also open to prosecuting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for funding the murder of David Berger, the American-born member of the Israeli Olympic team slaughtered in Munich in 1972. [...] –Edited by the management. Surely a link would have been sufficient?

Holy crap. That’s brilliant.

You could sell it as the party of Faith. After all, Jesus teaches us that as we treat the least among us, so shall we treat Him, so the Bible thumpers will eat this up!

An da winnah kine say “Mana wanna leia”

Did you mean “highest” 1%? I can’t quite follow the logic in an otherwise great post.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Some have doubts about taking part in the endless cycle of competition and revenge.
Taboo or not taboo?

Big, heavy sticks, or those little Latte stir-sticks? Both of them scare me.
Look Marge! A new whacking stick!

When two Polynesians vie for prestige, it’s a mana a mana struggle.

Owlbear1 rolls 20, hugs for 2d6 extra damage.

thought he was someone with Downs Syndrome that Steele was using as a political prop…
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I didn’t get around to reading the post yet but wasn’t it nice of Michael Steele to take time to visit with the developmentally disabled. Is this only part of the Republican re-branding or will they be supporting increased funding?

This is a dispatch from the future, the Republican convention in which the Trig Palin/SteeleClone 2036 ticket is made official.

Big, heavy sticks, or those little Latte stir-sticks? Both of them scare me.

Another bravura performance, Gavin.