Ouch.  The GOP lost ground in 25 or 26 demographics polled in a new Gallup poll on political party identification.  Tracing party ID from 2001 to 2009 (i.e., the Bush years), the GOP managed to stay even in only one category; weekly church goers.  Here’s the data

Yessiree, this strategy of having Dick Cheney, Karl Rove [...]

If it’s not Hannity and Gingrich, it’s O’Reilly and Gingrich. If it’s not O’Reilly and Gingrich, it’s O’Reilly and Rove or Hannity and Rove.
If it’s not those combinations it’s Beck sitting behind a big desk looking Presidential while the screen behind him flashes movies of the 30’s Munich Rallies and parading Nazis.
If it’s not teary [...]

As we have reached day 63 of the wingnuttery of the Republican party I had to stop and give some real thought about what the hell are they doing?  Week after week it is a new accusation about what President Obama has caused or done (most of it beyond true).  The Republicans seem to have [...]

There can be no question that the wing nut fringe has reached the pinnacles of stupidity by quoting Ayn Rand’s book of Atlas Shrugged as the basis for their new belief system and their chosen weapon to protect the nation against the new “Liberal President.”
I can only wonder if any one in the fringe’s circle [...]

Just over a month ago, I was (perhaps, unrealistically) optimistic the Obama inauguration would bring wholesale change to the way the next Executive Branch would do business.  Not just abandoned, but repudiated, would be the gross overreach of the Bush Administration; the efforts to curtail civil liberties, the endorsement of torture, the warrantless surveillance, the [...]