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Michelle Bachmann declares that some members of Congress are anti-American.
Chris Matthews actually tries to get her to answer. Of course she can’t/won’t. (H/t to Kos)

See the full 7 minutes of crazy after the flip.

Conservatives are already preparing a post-election narrative (no surprise here - as 2004 starting looking like Kerry couldn’t pull it off, progressives began preparing a post-election narrative).
By all indications - the presidential race aside - this is shaping up to be a bad year for Republicans and conservatives. Current polling suggest Dems could emerge [...]

Via Talking Points Memo: the Virginia Republican Party, headed by a guy who thinks there is no difference between Senator Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden, delves deep into the sleaze bucket. This has to be seen to be believed.
Republicans are desperate. Senator Obama is leading in Virginia among likely voters by a [...]

I’ve criticized Andrew Sullivan as a political commentator. He’s a very bright person but somehow it took him a long long time to realize that American conservatives are nothing like the British Tories he grew up admiring. George W. Bush is not Margaret Thatcher. Sullivan, however, is offering some of the most [...]

 
From fifty-thousand feet all the way down to pebbles on the beach, the distribution of this anti-Muslim DVD on behalf of the Republican candidate for President evokes the Nazi rise to power.
 

photo credit: Kier42

From Chris Rodda. On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam’s War [...]

I finally found what appears to be a thorough list of Republican indictments and convicted felons. Of course the list is huge.
There are so many corrupt and criminal Republicans, that people were becoming bored, or used to it.
Just wait till the Democrats control Justice. I imagine you will see the number [...]

There’s no bull like Wall Street bull…
It’s already being called “a financial PATRIOT Act,” and “cash for trash.” Read it and weep: Text of Draft Proposal for Bailout Plan.
It puts the power of the purse in the hands of the executive instead of the legislative branch. The dollar amount is not [...]

Originally published on OneUtah June 2007.
Morris Berman, a distinguished professor and writer is known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. His most recent book, Dark Ages America, is not pretty. I first saw him on C-Span book TV. It was interesting because even among the predictably liberal sympathetic crowd in attendance, some got [...]

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After the election of 2004, voting rights activists everywhere were wondering why the exit polls, which had been clearly favoring John Kerry all day, puzzlingly flipped 180 degrees, and ultimately reflected the official voting results. If you haven’t heard about this, you are definitely not alone. Although the organization that ran the exit polls still [...]

In the real world, every government policy is an experiment. We look to history to guide us but also ground ourselves in basic values.
Public education, supported by property taxes, open to everyone, is an experiment. Creating a progressive tax code is an experiment. Cutting taxes on the rich in hopes they will [...]

Almost unnoticed by the news media, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) chaired a Judiciary subcommittee hearing today on “Restoring the Rule of Law.”
The subcommittee heard more than two and a half hours of testimony from the witnesses, who came from all sides of the political spectrum and included former members of Congress, the military and [...]

As I right this, the Republicans are on the floor of the House yelling and screaming about offshore and drilling. How ironic. In the midst of the playing out of the disastrous Republican energy/economic policies and in the midst of the great American wakening…THAT REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS…they continue with their hysterical accusations against [...]