Default aint just an actor in war movies

It seems the Senate came up with a plan of sorts to save the nation from economic Armageddon. Naturally, a few dozen members of the House of Teaparty wax dummies had to be placated less their fee-fees be hurt and it fell apart. Which leaves one day to get it together and maybe one weekend before things really start approaching irreversible. The scariest thing is, the same denial that’s been nurtured and developed for everything from evolution to climate science is not being being brought to bear on this issue and against Republicans who do not show proper fealty for the crazy caucus: [Read more…]

More bad data for Cruz & shutters

Who could have predicted that shutting down the country would be an unpopular move? Well, pretty much everyone, including Teaparty Republicans who publicly maintain it was a gallant and possibly brilliant move, otherwise they would not have spent so much time trying to saddle their critics with the blame. A new poll shows that that strategy isn’t working out very well: [Read more…]

John McCain thinks we should be magnanimous with the Teaparty

I’m not crazy abut McCain, but I don’t hold the man in contempt like I do his Teaparty cohorts. His former campaign manager, Steve Irwin Schmidt who you often see on MSNBC, is about the best GOP contributor on any cable news outlet in my opinion. It’s good to have a sane Senator like McCain and it’s great to hear from an honest GOP strategist like Schmidt. That being said, what reason is there to be magnanimous to people who ran on disinformation and racist hatred, who campaigned on shutting down the government, then shut down the government and found it was terribly unpopular, and who are now doing their level best to blame the shutdown on Democrats while calling us traitors and terrorists along the way?

Dozens turn out for Teaparty hyped “million vet” march

It wasn’t quite the million vets Teaparty activists bragged about. In full a media managed performance art circle of absurd, dozens of arch conservative and neo-confederates did stomp through DC demanding democrats reopened government sites closed down by Teaparty Republicans, who were in turn purportedly pandering to the same ugly grassroots element yelling about the closures. But among the couple of hundred that attended were clowns like Larry Klayman, Ted Cruz, and Sarah Palin. And supporters did manage to proudly wave around a confederate flag. Watch.

Unskewed polls make a comeback to support Cruz

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I’m still stoked that nature put a gun to my head, pulled the trigger, and the hammer fell on an empty chamber.

But, back to the world at large … remember when polling started to show the race slipping away from Romney a year ago? And wingnut sites sprung up claiming the polls were skewed, illustrating the one thing wingnuts excel at, denial of widely-observed empirical facts? Now that polls have swung against the GOP on the shutdown and debt ceiling, they’re back: [Read more…]

Polls trend hard against GOP, Koch Brothers distance themselves

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Slate has a couple of new polls showing a precipitous drop for the GOP, click the image for that article. At this point, the number of people who approve of the GOP roughly match only those who identify with the Teaparty. The rest are gone. Although dems showed a very slight down tick in the same category, dems ticked  up slightly toward the good on another, related question while Republicans saw a near identical delta in the opposite direction.

Data like this shows the issue is solidly against the Republicans in the minds of the public. Which may help explain why the Kochwhores, under attack for this NYT piece reporting they enabled the shutdown strategy, sent out a tepid release distancing themselves from the shutdown: [Read more…]

If you’re gonna take a hostage, better be willing to shoot them

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Chris Matthews, who we in the netroots affectionately call Tweety after the bulbous-head little yellow bird of cartoon fame, had a good analogy for what the Teaparty has done. They’ve taken the money and are demanding the baby as ransom. They got it backwards and have convinced themselves of what geniuses they are.

In the real world no one’s going to pay that ransom. And no matter what kind of hostage is taken, the takers better be willing to shoot it, or at least make the victims believe they’re willing to. And we all know the Republicans won’t light the money on fire and Obama won’t hand over the baby even if they did. [Read more…]