Big Bad John? Ah, jeez … now I’m actually a little embarassed for him

No way am I going to embed a John Cornyn video here, so you’ll have to visit Pink Lady to see just how ludicrous his new ad is.
The condensed version (with apologies to Gary Larson): I’m a cowboy! Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!
This is what happens when a chickenhawk Republican who’s never been in harm’s [...]

Tonight, in the fullness of spring

I was thinking about this in the Crack Van last night, so trust me, it is not that profound. That said, if we notice them at all, it’s usually the simplest things that we resist the most, or that we dismiss.
Just because something is simple doesn’t mean it’s easy for us.
You are the young [...]

Christian family values on parade

Isn’t Mike Huckabee supposed to be some kind of big pious Christian? What part of the Bible says it’s okay for a politician to joke about the assassination of another politician?
I wonder what kind of “no harm, no foul” bullshit excuse/explanation/apology is going to be given for this?
During a speech before the National Rifle [...]

Five years and thousands of coiled springs later

As I’ve posted before, I live with a parrot, have done so for almost four years now. Like most animals, parrots pick up on the emotions and energy of the people with whom they live. At least in my experience, they do so to a much greater extent and in a very different way than [...]

The Mystery of the Republican Plagiarist

Big happenings over at NancyNall.com this a.m. It appears that detective Nancy (who is, btw, one of the crew over at NuPac) has reeled in a big ol’ plagiarist. A really big one, with some seemingly impressive bona fides:

My, my, my. Tim Goeglein, director of the White House office of public liaison, [...]

Nope, Sen. Cornyn, I’m still single

FYI to Texas Senator John Cornyn, I am a gay person, more specifically a lesbian. Also FYI, there was a very handsome box turtle in my yard for several days this week. Thirdly, be aware that during that entire time, neither myself or the box turtle were moved to set up housekeeping with [...]

I … what’s your point?

Holden serves up some Friday gaggle, wherein Helen defenestrates third-stringer Scott Stanzel on FISA. And rightly so.
Q What right does the President have to tell any company or any person in this country to break the law?
MR. STANZEL: I — what’s your point?
Q No warrants and so forth; that they can go and spy on [...]

Hey, where’d everybody go….

No, this isn’t turning into a Rachel Maddow fansite. However, this one is too good not to post. Rachel goes Nancy Drew and ponders the fascinating mystery of the Missing Republican Voters….

…and I had a romantic candle-lit dinner with Rachel Maddow. In my mind.

TPM has been having fun with Mitt Romney’s “literary” memory faux pas.  Romney’s handlers really should make him just STFU before he digs himself even deeper into this hole.
“Mitt X.” hee

Mitt Romney went a step further in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald. Talking about the Mormon Church and racial discrimination, he said: “My [...]

Huckabee was concerned for “the general population”

Huckabee “clarified” his 1992 statement calling for an AIDS quarantine:
We now know that the virus that causes AIDS is spread differently, with a lower level of contact than with TB. But looking back almost 20 years, my concern was the uncertain risk to the general population – if we got it wrong, many people would [...]