by Terrance Heath | May 30, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Well, that didn’t take long. As Americans were still reeling from the latest gun massacre, right-wingers wasted no time blaming liberals, Hollywood, and gay marriage for all shooting rampages. As usually, the facts are decidedly against wingnuts. It’s been almost a...
by Terrance Heath | May 23, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week saw a number of right-wingers being pulled up short, one way or another, including some of the biggest names in wingnuttia. For each wingnut up to his tinfoil hat in trouble of his own making, I can only say, “It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.” It’s hard to...
by Dave Johnson | May 19, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Huffington Post has obtained secret texts from the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal. According to the Huffington Post, Europe wants the U.S. to "expand U.S. fracking, offshore oil drilling and natural gas...
by Terrance Heath | May 16, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, Karl Rove proved once again that his Bush-era nickname "Turd Blossom" was well-earned. Just when you thought he couldn't sink any lower, Rove launched a laughably desperate attack on Hillary Clinton. Karl "Bush's Brain" Rove said the Hillary Clinton may...
by Terrance Heath | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Hillary Clinton's all-but-inevitable presidential candidacy in 2016 and Monica Lewinsky's return to the spotlight have led to recurrence of the right's derangement disorder of the '90s. Monica Lewinsky, whose name became a verb in the late 1990s, broke her silence on...
by Terrance Heath | May 2, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Here’s a basic rule of thumb for wingnut rhetoric. If right-wingers have returned to flogging that dead horse called Benghazi, they’re fresh out of ideas again. This week, wingnuts weren’t just beating a dead horse. They were almost making glue. Maybe they got the...