Posts tagged "GOP"
The Plan Backfires
Monday, October 21, 2013
The conspiracy by House Republicans to force the President either to make further concessions on the Affordable Care Act, or risk the kind of global economic catastrophe that could result from the US government going into default, seems to have mostly blown up in their big, dumb faces…
Get Rid of the Seaward
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Tags: anchor, Arrested Development, Barack Obama, boat, Congress, Do-nothing Congress, drowning, GOP, Lucille Bluth, Obama, ocean, President Obama, Republican, Republican obstructionism, Republican Party, swimming, Uncle Sam, water
Something Old, Something New
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Comparing the present state of Marriages vs. Civil Unions to the “separate but equal” policies of Jim Crow and Racial Segregation is far from a new idea… I was searching for a novel way of addressing the concept when I was reminded of Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With, which depicts Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. Marshals, as the first black student at a previously all-white school.
Bridging the Gap
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Tags: Barack Obama, blowtorch, Bridge, Economy, fiscal cliff, foreman, GOP, infrastructure, Obama, Paul Ryan, Republican, revenue, suspension bridge, tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the wealthy, taxes
Big Gulp
Saturday, February 16, 2013
The two highest-profile events in American politics this week were the President’s State of the Union address, followed by the State of Marco Rubio’s Throat address, which was apparently “Dry. So very, very dry…”
Cut It Out
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Tags: Democrats, dive, diving, entitlement cuts, entitlements, fire helmet, fire rescue, firefighter, firemen, fiscal cliff, GOP, GOP elephant, House of Representatives, Republicans, rescue, scissors, spending cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the wealthy
A Leg Up
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Republicans in the Senate voted to reject the UN Treaty on the rights of the disabled, a move so cartoonishly evil and idiotic, I felt I ought to address it.
The Ol’ Mourdock Place
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Tags: abortion, candy, Cheney, costumes, Dark Lord of the Withered Heath, Dick Cheney, fairy princess, ghost, GOP, Halloween, haunted house, Klan, Ku Klux Klan, Mitt Romney, morning sickness, Mourdock, Paul Ryan, pirate, pregnancy, rape, Reagan Ghost, Republican, Richard Mourdock, Sarah Palin, shotgun, skull, trick or treat, witch, women, women's issues, women's rights, zipper
Rational Actor
Friday, August 31, 2012
Aside from the lying, one of the major themes of the Republican National Convention was trying to humanize Mitt Romney to the American public, which worked out like an alchemist attempting to transmute lead into gold. There were several reasons for this, not all of them tied to Romney’s being a soulless, private-equity golem powered by tax fraud, diet Coke, and skinless turkey…
You Can’t Spell ‘Grope’ Without G-O-P!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
The Republican Party has made forcing its skewed “morality” on women’s bodies a central plank of its 2012 electoral agenda…