Don't worry, Cruz; Tom DeLay's got your back
The shutdown crisis he by and large engineered may have done wonders for his support among Tea Party groupies, but among everyone else, Ted Cruz has been left with very few friends, even among his own...
View ArticleShorter Ted Cruz: Everyone's to blame but me
I got to be honest, I'm still in awe at Ted Cruz's awesome ability to make everyone else hate his guts. HisfellowRepublicanshate him, Democrats mock him and the public outside the Teabagger base...
View ArticleSore Loser Edition: Steve Lonegan claims he would have won Senate race if not...
You got to give Steve Lonegan this; he certainly is not afraid to make a complete horse's ass out of himself. Apparently, the old phrase "tis better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and...
View ArticleHouse GOP hastily picks random woman Rep for budget conference optics
I'm sure you folks remember this little stunt the House GOP tried to pull early in the shutdown crisis. You know, when the GOP chose eight House Reps as "negotiators," put them in a room opposite empty...
View ArticleAnother GOP Rep quits; Jon Runyan won't run again in 2014
Chris Christie's big night aside, last night wasn't a very good night for the New Jersey GOP. Despite his big win, Christie turned out to have zero coattails as the Dems easily kept control of both...
View ArticleArizona GOP censure John McCain for "associating with liberals"
You may have noticed John McCain seems exceptionally cranky these days, even by the standards of the U.S. Senate's version of Abraham Simpson. Recently, after all, there was his recent rant ranking...
View ArticlePhyllis Schlafly claims "mass exodus" to escape gay marriage
Sorry for two diaries at once, folks, but I've been busy and haven't had a chance to post recently and, well, this was too good to pass up. It concerns our favorite anti-feminist mummy Phyllis...
View ArticleGOP Rep calls fellow GOP Rep "Al Qaeda's best friend in Congress"
Normally, I have absolutely no problem with Republican infighting and sniping, but this time, Rep. David Nunes (R-CA) went too far. The source of his target, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) the Paulist...
View ArticleOld Man Yells At Clouds Update: McCain suggests Tom Coburn for VA Secretary
That John McCain has proven himself to be an extremely poor judge of others is well documented. There are the obvious choices of this brainless tundra-dwelling grifter and this pathetic has-bin...
View ArticleInmates of the Asylum #8: Marlin Stutzman, aka Mr. "I Want Something!!!"
Tomorrow, as you may well know, the House GOP will try to move on from Eric Cantor's downfall and elect new leaders. And while the race to replace Cantor is turning into a virtual Kevin McCarthy...
View ArticleSen. Jeff Flake's son involved in mass dog deaths
Warning to animal lovers, you are not going to like this one.
View ArticleWI GOP House candidate claims gay marriage leads to "sisters marrying"
The recent and much welcome court decision striking down Wisconsin's gay marriage ban has thrown Republicans in the state into a quandary about what to do. Some have been reduced to issuing cheap...
View ArticleFox News pundit thinks World Cup is Obama plot to "distract people"
I know, lot of diaries today, but I don't get much of a chance to do them and this is too priceless not to note. For some reason, some conservatives are not liking the World Cup much. (Why, too much...
View ArticleMS-SEN: McDaniel channels Dr. Evil, offers bounty for proof of voter fraud
Just when you think the Mississippi Senate race can't get any crazier, it does. It might be hard to top Thad Cochran's insane press conference on the crazy scale, but his never-say-die opponent Chris...
View ArticleRep. McCaul fears "threat" from immigrant teenagers at border
Ever since the ongoing immigration situation at the Texas border became national news, it seems the Texas Republicans (always ready with offensive material for every issue) have been trying to top each...
View ArticleRick Perry wants Federal government to pay for his border stunt
Those who have known Rick Perry know that he's not very keen on DC. This is, after all the governor who flirted with secession over the evil Obamacare a few years ago (and then promptly backpedled on...
View ArticleLatest Bachmann outrage: "Gay community" wants laws that will let adults...
Perhaps it's the increasing awareness that her tenure in Congress is drawing to a merciful close, but for whatever reason, Michelle Bachmann has been really outspoken even by her standards in recent...
View ArticleMore Mo Brooks racial wisdom: GOP outreach to Hispanics is "race-baiting"
I wonder, is Mo Brooks the political version of a time bomb? Did someone wire him up long ago to just completely explode at the worst possible time for his party, a mere three months before the...
View ArticleHannity: Cops are nice to me, what's everyone else's problem?
It should come as no surprise that when the utterly incompetent, Boss Hogish Ferguson police chief (but likely not for much longer) Thomas Jackson needed a sympathetic ear, he went running to the...
View ArticleO'Reilly knows who's to blame in Ferguson; "racial agitators"
Of the many Fox News pundits and talking gasbags, Bill O'Reilly is near the bottom on those who should be asked to comment on issues of race. O'Reilly, after all, has a, to put it mildly, questionable...
View ArticlePaul Ryan doesn't like "House of Cards" because of adultery
Sorry for two diaries so quickly, but in the wake of this week, I think we could all use a little humor. And who better to have a little humor with than at Paul Ryan's expense? Especially when the...
View ArticleVA-Sen: Ed Gillespie pulls plug on his own campaign
As a former RNC chairman and longtime GOP strategist, Ed Gillespie is no stranger to the art of pulling the plug on failing campaigns. I'm sure he's done it dozens, nay, hundreds of times in his...
View ArticleBobby Jindal's idiocy continues: now he wants a constitutional amendment...
Remember when, after the 2012 election ended in debacle for the GOP, Bobby Jindal told the GOP to "stop being the stupid party" if they ever wanted to win another national election? Well, that day...
View ArticleRoy Moore won't budge on gay marriage; claims SCOTUS can't change "God's law"...
If anyone held out a shred of hope that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, after his best George Wallace impersonation this past week on the icky sight of happy couples being joined in...
View ArticleThe Rudy Factor: More 2016 wannabes speak out, Walker continues his "Duh, I...
With Rudy Guiliani showing no sign of backing down in the wake of the furor over his comments over President Obama's supposed lack of red hot American love (and indeed, is making an even bigger horse's...
View ArticleMike Pence on the hot seat. Enjoy watching him squirm.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is, as well all know, in trouble. A lot of trouble. Ever since he signed the "religious freedom" bill that opens the door to discrimination against gay customers, he has been...
View ArticleAllen West sees "Sharia Law" lurking in the Wal-Mart liquor aisle.
I'd like an explanation as to why Wal-Mart of all companies suddenly became a target for crazy right-wing conspiracy theories. We all know the Jade Helm-15 craziness, where Wal-Mart actually had to...
View ArticleJeb Bush: "I interpreted the question wrong, I guess" on Iraq...
Quick one here, but someone should mention Jeb Bush's attempt at damage control after his "I would've invaded Iraq just like Georgie!" foot-in-mouth moment. (Likely because his surrogates were doing...
View ArticleJohn Bolton pulls plug on potential 2016 race; still thinks Iraq war was a...
Well, at least one member of the seemingly endless GOP Clown Car Cavalcade of Cuckoo Craziness is not going to do it. And that's too bad, because this one, if he ran, was going to guarantee hilarity:
View ArticleTed Cruz makes gun joke days after Charleston massacre
Ted Cruz should probably rethink any future plans he has as a stand-up comedian, because humor clearly is not his thing. You would think that the blowback after his extremely poorly timed joke about...
View ArticleLindsey Graham says SC racist killer displayed "Mideast hate."
Oh, Lindsey. You just couldn't do it, could you? You just couldn't keep your "those Mideastern terrorists are coming to kill us all" obsessions at bay for just a little while. Even when, you know, a...
View ArticleTrump to sue Univision for "hundreds of millions" (cue pinky to mouth) for...
You'd think Donald Trump might have realized that his shocking racist comments about Mexicans during the bad reality special that passed for his announcement speech might cause some blowback. But...
View ArticlePoll says 41% of Americans believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted
Quick one, but this is a real eye opener. It's just one poll, but if true, this is just fucking scary:
View ArticleDonald Trump refuses request to release his birth certificate.
Sometimes the headlines are enough.I know. It's been a good day. A great day. But I think we deserve another chuckle, because this is just too good:
View ArticleTed Cruz wants to be able to vote those gay-loving Supreme Court justices out...
Not that we needed more poof, but this day's momentous events have really shown what a colossal piece of shit Ted Cruz is. We're all well aware of his "darkest 24-hours in American history" garbage on...
View ArticleMississippi considering getting rid of all marriage licenses to keep those...
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this. You knew the die-hard opponents of gay marriage wouldn't go quietly into the night after yesterday's historic events. And you shouldn't be surprised to see...
View ArticleDavid Vitter makes Chick-Fil-A Twitter jokes on gay marriage, gets epic...
I'm not surprised that Sen. David Vitter would have something to say about gay marriage becoming the law of the land. This is a guy who, after all, once called banning gay marriage the most important...
View ArticleMike Huckabee predicts "MLK-style" resistance to gay marriage...
To say that Mike Huckabee is not taking the sight of happy couples being joined in wedded bliss very well is, well, an understatement, to say the least, given his poisonously homophobic views....
View ArticleRon Johnson humilates himself over Iran...twice...
I'm starting to get the feeling that the two most vulnerable incumbent Republican senators next year really, really don't want to be reelected, because their actions are reminiscent of folks who have...
View ArticleYet another one for the clown car; Jim Gilmore makes 17 GOP WH hopefuls
You might think that John Kasich's entry into the 2016 race means that the GOP clown car...I mean, presidential field is finally set at 16. But you'd be wrong, because still they keep trickling in....
View ArticlePeggy Noonan claims Hispanics like Trump because her "friend" who works the...
One of the most famous election ancedotes of recent history (although possibly apocryphal) was the reaction of astonishment from NY Times film critic Pauline Kael on Richard Nixon's reelection in 1972,...
View ArticleWalker campaign in disarray as donors try to oust campaign manager
To say Scott Walker's presidential campaign isn't going according to plan is like saying the Titanic's lasy voyage wasn't exactly smooth sailing. Indeed, by this point, I'd say his campaign has...
View ArticleHouse Speaker wannabe has close ties to extremist church group...oh, and the...
I know weirdness is the norm in the House GOP caucus, especially in the wake of the Drunk Weepy Oompa-Loompa's quick fade (oh, how I'm going to miss using that nickname!), but few things are weirder to...
View ArticleBobby Jindal blogs about the Oregon shooting, confirms that he is a horrible...
I'm not surpised no one's mentioned this yet, because really, who the hell cares about Bobby Jindal anymore, aside from the occasional source of mirth? After all, the one time GOP golden boy and Great...
View ArticleHouse Freedom Caucus spurns McCarthy, Chaffetz; supports Daniel Webster for...
Well, this is going to complicate the already rapidly burgeoning clusterfuck that is the race for Speaker of the House. It's already been known that the House Freedom Caucus (or, as I prefer to call...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich says he'd be cool with becoming Speaker again.
At this point, in the wake of Kevin McCarthy's spectacular bugout for the ages, the list of potential candidates bandied about as Speaker is becoming a mile long. Besides some absurd potential...
View ArticleGOP fears they may need Dems to bail out the Speaker mess are growing
The opening line of this Huffington Post piece makes it blunt:If Paul Ryan can't save the GOP, could Democrats?
View ArticleA sign of the Speaker fiasco: Freshman GOP Rep may run for Speaker, could be...
A quick break from the celebration over a most successful Democratic debate to give an update on another thing giving Democrats much pleasure; the ongoing clusterfuck in the House GOP caucus and their...
View ArticleBad news for JEB!: Mom and Dad want to have a talk with him
Today has brought more bad news for the floundering campaign of JEB! Bush. Right on the heels of the news that the campaign is undergoing a major cutback in staff and salaries, comes this rather...
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