While almost every election seems decisive and symptomatic of permanent changes, that is rarely the case. In recent elections, Democrats were thought to be dead after the 2004 election only to come roaring back to life in 2006 and 2008. It was the Republicans who were then thought to be dead and then the Tea Party brought them back in 2010. [Read more…]
In the wake of the approval on election day of three referenda in the US approving same-sex marriage and the defeat of one measure that would have banned it, and with Spain upholding its same-sex marriage law and France and the UK poised to introduce legislation to do the same, the pope has dug in his Prada heels and vowed to never stop insisting that marriage is only between a man and a woman, with a Vatican spokesman arguing, “If not, then why not contemplate freely chosen polygamy, and naturally so as to not discriminate, polyandry?” [Read more…]
I said that it became clear early on Tuesday evening that Barack Obama was going to win the election, from the way that certain states that were thought to be close (like Pennsylvania) were called early for Obama and those that were thought to be possibly trending to Romney were not called. [Read more…]
Even those people who treat speed limits as merely suggestions and stop signs as saying ‘slow down and look before you go’ tend to take stopped school buses with flashing lights seriously. You simply know that there’ll be hell to pay if you don’t stop and if some school child gets hit as a result. [Read more…]
Joe the Plumber, the Republican working class hero whose name is not really Joe and who is not really a plumber, managed to get 24% of the votes in his run for a seat in the US House of Representatives from Ohio. [Read more…]
You may recall that I had some posts in the past about The Thinking Housewife, that curious website of deep nostalgia for Christian patriarchy, when a woman stayed at home looking after her children and the needs of her husband, and colored people knew their place, which was the kitchen and the garden. [Read more…]
One of the most satisfying features of Tuesday’s election was the thorough discrediting of Republican strategist Karl Rove. Rove was this supposed political genius, the one-time boy wonder who was credited with engineering George W. Bush’s two successful runs for the presidency and was known as ‘Bush’s brain’, as if that were a compliment. Rove’s mystique was such that mainstream media figures would fawn over him. [Read more…]
Fox News had a terrible night on Tuesday, as the realization slowly sank in that the hermetically sealed world in which they lived, where everyone hated Barack Obama and were just waiting for the chance to throw him and his Muslim-socialist ways out the door, had been breached, and the harsh winds of reality entered and chilled them to the bone. Needless to say, The Daily Show was not going to let them forget it. [Read more…]