Life in foster care is the fate of far too many foster children in this country, and the Republicans in the Tennessee legislature are determined to sentence even more foster children to that sentence. Why? It’s fear of the gay that moves them, surely. Here’s a bit from the article in the...

The Republicans simply can’t get enough of the whackjobbery, can they? This weekend is the annual CPAC conference at the Omni Shoreham in Washington. They’ve got the usual suspects speaking, and last night the big stars were John Bolton and Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media. Bolton joke...

In last fall’s election campaign the GOP used an ad in Ohio that ripped off the Jackson Browne golden oldie, “Running on Empty.” The point they were trying to get across was that the Obama campaign energy policy would leave us without gas, or something like that. Jackson Browne was...

Barack Obama made a well-received speech to Congress last night. He appealed directly to the American people, whether they are hurt directly by the recession or know people who are. And Obama was positive about the character of the American people and how that character, with leadership by governmen...

I just can’t get over this New York Times poll this morning. Obama is getting the backing of the people of America in far higher numbers than just those who voted for him, and by far they are optimistic about the stimulus. How do they favor the Repubs and their “do nothing” and ...

Delaware County, Pa has been reliably Republican for a long time, but that’s been shifting of late. Curt Weldon fell to a scandal and Joe Sestak, and the county even elected a Democrat to the PA House in Bryan Lentz. But the Republicans have still held a tight grip on local offices, such as th...

Every once in a while you’ve got to stop and smell the manure the Republicans are spreading and just wonder if anyone on their side believes any of their crap. It’s insane. Here’s a party that has fought for every single tax cut since Reagan was in office. We’re talking just ...

Pete Sessions is a a Representative from Texas. Waco. Maybe that explains it. He’s also Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. The other day he likened the House resistance to the stimulus plan to Taliban insurgency. I’m thinking there are no lessons one wants to learn...

Had to make that the Feb. 5th edtion because I know there will be some GOP racism tomorrow, or the next tomorrow after that. They just can’t help the feelings of their membership, and that membership listens far too much to Rush to understand what can be said in public. Well, or even private. ...

David Vitter is the current Senator from Louisiana, a man caught with a prostitution problem that involved, well, diapers. It seems there are people out there who are trying to draft a challenger, a porn star challenger, so at least there’d be some sexual honesty, I suppose. They’ve come...