by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week Rep. Paul Ryan took the cake. After debuting his embarrassing copy-and-paste job on the war on poverty last week, only to get his knuckles rapped by the very scholars whose work he cribbed, Ryan outdid himself with a clumsy bit of dog whistle politics...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2014 | Conservatism
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has become the latest right-winger to blame black poverty on “culture” and character. Just as he got it backwards on families and poverty, Paul Ryan gets it twisted on poverty and black men. Ryan went on William Bennett’s “Morning in America”...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 13, 2014 | Conservatism
For two hours last Wednesday, New Jersey governor Chris Christie took reporters’ questions about “Bridgegate" — in which Christie's senior aides closed the George Washington Bridge to punish the mayor of Fort Lee, for not endorsing Christie’s re-election bid...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 12, 2014 | Conservatism
In her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Sarah Palin ripped off an old chain email, mangled Doctor Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham," and declared that “Yes, we can” has become “No, we can’t” under Obamacare. “This is the guy who promised to provide...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, the world watched as Ukrainians threw out their Russian-puppet president, and Russian president Vladimir Putin prepared to invade. Conservatives, naturally, have decided that it’s all President Obama’s fault. Sen. Lindsay Graham (R, SC) summed it all up...
