Respectability politics is like treading water and waiting for conservatives to toss you a life jacket. They will never toss it. And when you give up and drown they’ll blame you for giving up. Clearly you didn’t want it enough.
Category: Repulsicans
Catch 1/6 is the new Catch 22
If you take the GOP at it’s word, you can not investigate Trump for anything he did before he became president-that’s a witch hunt. You can’t investigate Trump for anything he did while in office because that is subverting the will of the voters. You also can’t take action once he leaves office, it’s too… Continue reading Catch 1/6 is the new Catch 22
How the GOP could push millions of kids back into poverty and blame Biden
It’s a Republican version of win-win. Destroy a social program that works while blaming Biden for the consequences.
How Republicans made themselves undateable
I want you to imagine an early-20 something young woman in prime dating age. Her formative years start after 2010. Ask yourself, what would she have noticed about the Republican party in her formative years?
Orwellian Conservatism
The term for this kind of conservatism is Orwellian.
Abuse of national security for partisan politics is just something Republicans do
From: cnn.com last Nov 2020. “A second official tells CNN their goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out.It’s a strategy that radically breaks with past practice, could raise national security risks and will surely compound challenges for the Biden team —… Continue reading Abuse of national security for partisan politics is just something Republicans do
The real CIA disinformation campaign is the friends we made along the way.
The Q crowd will not snap to reality because of this Michael Flynn leak. They will respond to it like they respond to everything else-inventing new and bigger conspiracies.
Does Howard Kurtz know the Republican party exists?
For much of America, Joe Biden is the president-elect, going about the business of assembling an administration, giving a speech yesterday to announce the creation of a coronavirus task force. World leaders are calling to congratulate him. But other parts of America believe President Trump that the “lamestream media” are trying to hijack the election… Continue reading Does Howard Kurtz know the Republican party exists?
Mitch McConnell was the biggest winner on election day
In Jan 2021 the following statements will all be true: The Senate will be in the hands of the GOP The SCOTUS will have a 6-3 Republican majority The President will not be Trump He can redirect his party’s hatred to the president Mitch McConnell will not have to face voters until 2026. A huge… Continue reading Mitch McConnell was the biggest winner on election day
AEI’s Danielle Pletka pens a cover version of Goldwater’s 1975 editorial on Jimmy Carter
Danielle Pletka want you to know she doesn’t like Trump. She has no interesting in defending Trump. But she may be “forced” to vote for him because the Democrats haven’t done enough to convince her that they aren’t crazy socialists. Crazy socialists who nominated -checks notes- Joe Biden. Danielle Pletka is practicing Chickenshit Conservatism; a… Continue reading AEI’s Danielle Pletka pens a cover version of Goldwater’s 1975 editorial on Jimmy Carter