Posts tagged "GOP"
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…
Red Menace
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Despite the majority of Americans being sick of war after a decade of the Bush Administration’s miserable failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, and despite the hundreds of thousands of pointless casualties those two conflicts have incurred, Mitt Romney seems eager to sacrifice even more American troops and foreign civilians to the Blood God.
Somebody Call The Whambulance
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Tags: bank, Chase, clown hammer, corporate deregulation, deregulation, Dr. GOP, elephant, giant mallet, GOP, GOP elephant, J.P. Morgan, Republican, Republicans