Pundits in good standing have been expected to make calls for bipartisanship that involve pretending that Republican politicians are actually the kind of statesmen the party used to contain, but no longer does. Looking Back With Shrillness – NYTimes.com
Category: politics
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Not sure what’s worse, Santorum’s sincere insanity or Romney’s sane insincerity.
Rick Santorum Rejects Catholic Church Teaching on Evolution
Rick Santorum Rejects Catholic Church Teaching on Evolution
I’m a little weary of Rick Santorum prancing around as the “Catholic candidate” when he stands in direct opposition to the Church on a whole host of issues, including torture, the death penalty, pre-emptive war, the welfare state and global warming – just to name a few.
In a nutshell, he only agrees with the church when it comes to gays being icky and women being unable to control their sexuality without the paternal influence of men.
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I’m putting the odds that Santorum will make a public comment about the immodesty of women’s clothing before the general election at 5/2.
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Rick Santorum uses the word theology the way the rest of the GOP uses the word socialism. Constantly and incorrectly.
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Less than 1 percent of registered voters turned out for Maine’s caucus. In Nevada, where Republican turnout was down 25 percent from 2008, only 3 percent of total registered voters participated. This is not majority rule by any measure; it barely qualifies as participatory democracy. The Electoral Wasteland – NYTimes.com
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Most of Western Europe today is both more equal in incomes and more economically mobile than the United States. And it isn’t just Western Europe. Countries as varied as Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and Pakistan all have higher degrees of income mobility than we do. A nation that prides itself on its lack of class… Continue reading Untitled
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on average, conservative states feature more “dependency” on federal programs than do liberal ones. You can slice this kind of data in a variety of ways, but you always end up with the same aggregate pattern. (via How Blue America Subsidizes Red America)
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( A Lack of a Culture War Truce In One Graph | Rortybomb) You remember that whole thing about the Tea Party being all about fiscal conservatism? Yeah, turns out that was BS.
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When you hear some talk sympathetically about the rights of sovereign citizens; ask them if they are OK with undocumented sovereign citizens coming over the border from Mexico.