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Posts Tagged ‘GOP

THE BULLSHIT SCANDALS

May 27, 2013

    Republicans believe that God loves them again. Having lost all foothold on their anti-Obama attacks since his re-election, and staring at the chance of a mid-term electoral disaster, along came some red meat not even of their making.     Well, the Benghazi smear is their creation, given that it was all they had–before the […]

America the Moderate Again, At Last

November 16, 2011

    In recent weeks I have cautiously observed a  morphing towards change-for-the-better that trumps my prior heightened sense of alarm at the political direction of this country. And of late I have heard this echoed by other observers of the national scene. Let me explain.     Not to say that there won’t be disappointments and […]

Current Looks Are Deceiving

September 15, 2011

“Americans will flirt with and hear out any voice or opinion but will at last tend toward moderation.        My last post told why Romney, at campaign’s end, will be the Republican nominee, and I stick with that prediction.     Just a little over a month ago, Michelle Bachmann was the flavor of the […]

Why It’ll Be Obama and Romney in 2012

August 20, 2011

    With all the pointy-headed intellectuals in Washington and their supposedly prissy ways, thank god for a cowboy to freshen up the political dialogue.     For that, of course, we need a real cowboy, and they typically have little interest in politics. The laconic speech of strong, silent types makes for poor rhetoric, as in: […]

ABOARD THE GOP BANDWAGON

June 21, 2011

    Did you see the Great Candidates’ Debate? Aw, well, it’s not like you missed anything.     Republicans in the guise of “debating” is no longer (if it ever was) an opportunity to discern issues. No, it’s a red-meat party: throw it out raw to the crowd, and hear them roar. It’s a great […]

Big, Bad Taxes

October 9, 2010

Sometimes when I get Up To Here with all the blah-blah about taxes, I drive down to Newport, RI–the mecca for all who dream of a world devoid of taxation. It is there and among yesteryear’s houses of the poor smothered rich that I can smell, as well as understand, why some people today wish […]