Month: April 2011

A Small Measure of Hope

The fact that the Republican Party was basically evil dawned on me very slowly. I mean, I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life. Wait. No, that’s not true. The first time I voted, I cast a ballot for a friend of...

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A Sickening Class War Assault

You know? I’m basically ready for a sickening class war assault against Republicans. Where can I sign up for that? I wonder if the Republicans really understand what a class war would look like. Maybe we could have them...

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It’s Not a Bug…

David Frum tries to pass for reasonable, but he’s got no solutions either. The question he should be trying to answer is not how to defeat Donald Trump, but why any of the other candidates are less crazy, or why their...

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Negotiation Strategies

Maybe someone can translate these two negotiating positions into NFL terms. Republicans are floating a wide range of major structural reforms that could be attached to the debt limit vote, including statutory spending caps, a...

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How They Got So Vicious

I still think one of the most important factors in why the Republican Party is the way it is today is because they spent so much time during the 20th-Century in the minority. From 1931 to 1995, the Republicans had control of the...

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