According to the most recent Los Angeles Times Poll, the California Republican Party is in such a sorry state that:

While GOP Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s approval rating has rebounded from the low 30s after his disastrous special elections last year to about 44 percent, only 32 percent of registered voters say they will probably or definitely […]

Lord, Brother Pat Roberston is bragging about the miracles you have bestowed on him:
The leg press record for football players at Florida State is 1,335 pounds.
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds, but some say he’d be in a pretty tough spot if he tried.
The “700 Club” host’s feat of […]

West Points cadets heard a quick, empty commencement address from Pres. Bush Saturday.
I finally concluded that like that third guy, I don’t know who we’re at war with. I suspect no one — including our leaders — does.
“The war began on my watch — but it’s going to end on your watch,” he said […]

November 1978: Jackie Speier and her boss, Rep. Leo Ryan, arrive at the airstrip at Port Kaituma near Jonestown in Guyana. Two days later, as they attempted to rescue defectors from the People’s Temple, the delegation was attacked at the airstrip by gunmen from the cult. Ryan was killed and Speier was shot five times […]

Last week the New York Times had an above-the-fold, front-page article that seemed to suggest that one of the Clintons is being unfaithful. Following the NYT’s lead, now the Globe has a cover story speculating about trouble in the Bush marriage.
It makes sense. George Bush is a spoiled, weak aristocrat who’s used to lying with […]

This is as plausible as Jewish retirees in Palm Beach turning out in droves for a fascist-empathizer like Pat Buchanan:
Rocker Marilyn Manson feels partly responsible for George W Bush winning the US presidential election in 2000.
In an interview with US talk show host Tucker Carlson at the time, the controversial rocker sarcastically condemned Democrat candidate […]

Somewhere in hell, Nixon is laughing his ass off.
In the 1970s, George Bush I was one of the few Republican politicians of any consequence in Texas, if you can believe that. And the state was so heavily weighted to the Dems that the transplanted Connecticut Yankee couldn’t get elected to save his life. But in […]

When the power’s out, the power grab’s on: Tucked away in an obscure article on GovExec.com today was a disturbing little aside that bodes ill for state and local officials trying to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane. As if it weren’t bad enough that the National Secret Agency is spying on American citizens […]

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most impractical. It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap and demagogy. Yet democracy is the only form of social order admissable because it is the only one consistent with justice.
— Robert Briffault (1876-1948), […]