Andymatic

Category: 2008 Elections

  • Obama Defuses Right-Wing Attacks

    No screaming, no shouting, just plain common sense: He’s not on the defensive at all. Instead, he’s swatting away these slurs with the dismissive contempt they deserve, and then eagerly and aggressively engaging the debate on offense because he’s confident, rather than insecure, about his position: “A party that presided over a war in which […]

  • Too Many Debates

    I mean really. Do we have to hear from these guys this many times? These aren’t debates. These are moderated discussions. They’ve cut out Kucinich so they look like they are from the left. Bill Clinton wasn’t the first black president. He was the maybe first modern ‘born poor’ president. Many have perhaps forgotten about […]

  • Peggy Noonan is an Idiot

    Glen G: On behalf of the throngs for whom she fantasizes she speaks, Noonan proclaims: “We are grown-ups . . . We’d like knowledge, judgment, a prudent understanding of the world and of the ways and histories of the men and women in it.” This grown-up then proceeds to pronounce that Romney, McCain, Giuliani, Thompson […]

  • Ron Paul

    I am so goddamned sick hearing about Ron Paul. I think his fans are doing a dis-service to his campaign by excreting his name on every forum and bookmarking site you can find.

  • Pelosi Derides the Protest

    From our spineless Speaker: “Look,” she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. “I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things — Buddhas? I don’t know what they were — couches, sofas, chairs, […]

  • Ron Paul's Pro-Life Stance

    Tucking this away for reference: I am also the prime sponsor of HR 300, which would negate the effect of Roe v Wade by removing the ability of federal courts to interfere with state legislation to protect life. This is a practical, direct approach to ending federal court tyranny which threatens our constitutional republic and […]

  • Jeopardy! The Giuliani Edition

    Where the answer and the question is always 9-11. No matter what the question is, Rudy says 9/11

  • Fundie Christians Consider Third Political Party

    If you’d read American Theocracy, this won’t surprise you at all: Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him. The group making […]

  • National Debt: You Owe $30,000

    That’s okay, Hillary’s baby-bond will save us. Yeah right. $5k towards a college tuition in 2026? Pshaw, y’all. Suck it, ‘fiscal’ conservatives: For the fifth time since 2001, Congress is raising the debt limit, increasing it by $850 billion to $9.815 trillion. The Senate approved the plan on a 53-42 vote Thursday. That’s $9,815,000,000,000.00. The […]

  • A Brief History of the Republican Majority

    Jonathan Chait with an excerpt of his book The Big Con: I have this problem. Whenever I try to explain what’s happening in American politics-I mean, what’s really happening-I wind up sounding a bit like an unhinged conspiracy theorist. … So please give let me a chance to explain myself when I tell you the […]