by Terrance Heath | Aug 8, 2014 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Sen. Rand Paul turned tail and ran away when confronted by undocumented DREAMers. But the GOP has a “Latino problem” it can’t run from, and right-wingers seem determined to make it worse. Sen. Paul was with fellow-Republican Rep. Steve King in Iowa when undocumented...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
House Speaker John Boehner called Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's idea for passing immigration reform "Nutso." Maybe Boehner hasn't taken a good look at his own party. Then again, who can blame him? No doubt Boehner was stinging from his latest humiliating defeat....
by Terrance Heath | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Right-wing reaction to issues in the news this week brought to mind a classic 1980s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups commercial, but with a wingnut spin on the famous line: “Hey, you got your Malaysian airliner in my Benghazi!” Across the wingnut-o-sphere, right-wingers...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Thank heaven for American wingnuts’ short attention span. The apparent shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over the Ukraine gave us a respite from the usual sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic rantings. A brief one, but a respite nonetheless. Fox News...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Remember Elian Gonzales? He was the little Cuban boy found clinging to an inner tube of the coast of Florida, on Thanksgiving Day in 1999. He’d been rescued by fishermen after his mother and 11 others drowned in an attempt to reach the U.S. from Cuba. His fate sparked...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Just in time for mid-term election campaigning, the Supreme Court handed conservatives the perfect opportunity to remind Americans that their number one obsession is policing women’s sex lives by any means necessary. Wingnuts rejoiced. If anyone has forgotten how...
