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WilliamPitt's JournalAndrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a DoucheMatt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
March 1, 2012
So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Heres what I have to say to that, and Im sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldnt be happier that hes dead.
I say this in the nicest possible way. I actually kind of liked Andrew Breitbart. Not in the sense that I would ever have wanted to hang out with him, or even be caught within a hundred yards of him without a Haz-Mat suit on, but I respected the shamelessness. Breitbart didnt do anything by halves, and even his most ardent detractors had to admit that he had a highly developed, if not always funny, sense of humor.
For instance, it would be dishonest not to tip a hat to him for that famous scene when he hijacked Anthony Weiners own self-immolating "apology" press conference, and held up the entire event by standing at the lectern and congratulating himself at length, before Weiner could let the humiliating healing begin.
For that one, brief, shining moment still one of the most painful-to-watch YouTube spectacles of all time, right there with Mitt Romneys priceless attempt at singing "Who Let the Dogs Out?" with a group of black voters in Florida in 2008 Breitbart could legitimately claim to have the biggest, hairiest balls on earth.
The rest: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301
President Obama sez OM NOM NOM NOM to GOP. Watch this.
&feature=player_embedded2012 or Never
...look at these faces...Newt Gingrich supporters listen to his stump speech at a campaign event in South Carolina.
(Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine)
2012 or Never
Republicans are worried this election could be their last chance to stop history. This is fear talking. But not paranoia.
By Jonathan Chait
New York Magazine
Feb. 26 2012
Of the various expressions of right-wing hysteria that have flowered over the past three yearsgoldbuggery, birtherism, death panels at home and imaginary apology tours by President Obama abroadperhaps the strain that has taken deepest root within mainstream Republican circles is the terror that the achievements of the Obama administration may be irreversible, and that the time remaining to stop permanent nightfall is dwindling away.
America is approaching a tipping point beyond which the Nation will be unable to change course, announces the dark, old-timey preamble to Paul Ryans The Roadmap Plan, a statement of fiscal principles that shaped the budget outline approved last spring by 98 percent of the House Republican caucus. Rick Santorum warns his audiences, We are reaching a tipping point, folks, when those who pay are the minority and those who receive are the majority. Even such a sober figure as Mitt Romney regularly says things like We are only inches away from no longer being a free economy, and that this election could be our last chance.
The Republican Party is in the grips of many fever dreams. But this is not one of them. To be sure, the apocalyptic ideological analysisthat freedom is incompatible with Clinton-era tax rates and Massachusetts-style health careis pure crazy. But the panicked strategic analysis, and the sense of urgency it gives rise to, is actually quite sound. The modern GOPthe party of Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushesis staring down its own demographic extinction. Right-wing warnings of impending tyranny express, in hyperbolic form, well-grounded dread: that conservative America will soon come to be dominated, in a semi-permanent fashion, by an ascendant Democratic coalition hostile to its outlook and interests. And this impending doom has colored the partys frantic, fearful response to the Obama presidency.
The GOP has reason to be scared. Obamas election was the vindication of a prediction made several years before by journalist John Judis and political scientist Ruy Teixeira in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. Despite the fact that George W. Bush then occupied the White House, Judis and Teixeira argued that demographic and political trends were converging in such a way as to form a natural-majority coalition for Democrats.
The rest: http://nymag.com/news/features/gop-primary-chait-2012-3/
"Equal Time with Bob Boudelang"
I'm sure some of you still remember.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020604012326/http://democraticunderground.com/bob/index.html
Boudelang from June of 2001 through May of 2002.
Feast.
The Men Who Own The GOP (incredibly important article)
Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, Peter Thiel or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. Theyre running for the Republican nomination for president.
I know, I know. You think Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are running. They are but only because the people listed in the first paragraph have given them huge sums of money to do so. In a sense, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul and Romney are the fronts. Dore et al. are the real investors.
According to Januarys Federal Election Commission report, William Dore and Foster Friess supplied more than three-fourths of the $2.1 million raked in by Rick Santorums super PAC in January. Dore, president of the Dore Energy Corp. in Lake Charles, La., gave $1 million; Freiss, a fund manager based in Jackson Hole, Wyo., gave $669,000 (he had given the Santorum super PAC $331,000 last year, bringing Freiss total to $1 million).
Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, provided $10 million of the $11 million that went into Gingrichs super PAC in January. Adelson is chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. Texas billionaire Harold Simmons donated $500,000. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, provided $1.7 million of the $2.4 million raised by Ron Pauls super PAC in January.
The rest: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/21/the_men_who_own_the_gop/
"If you want a Constutional Amendment banning 'gay marriage'...
Woop.
There it is.
An excellent response to Rick Santorum re: this Government vs. Faith argument
...waiting for my check, too...
Fifteen Differences Between Democrats And Republicans
Fifteen Differences Between Democrats And RepublicansIve noticed over the years, there are some fundamental differences in the way Republican and Democratic politicians think. Here are just 15 examples.
Republicans fear that the government has too much control over corporations. Democrats fear that corporations have too much control over our government.
Democrats believe it benefits all of us to help the weakest and the poorest among us. Republicans believe it benefits all of us to help the wealthiest and most powerful among us.
Republicans believe large corporations will always do what is best for the American people if the government stays out of the way. Democrats believe large corporations would disembowel you and sell your organs to the highest bidder if the government didnt stop them.
The rest: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/08/fifteen-differences/
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