With the midterms looming, the GOP is getting cute,
They’re playing to the Tea Party to bring in the loot.
But the Party of No
Has nowhere to go,
If the best they can offer is a Newt.

ere’s a note from a Beckerhead who happened upon our story mocking Glenn Beck for misspelling the word “oligarch” in one of his blackboard rants about liberals or whatever. If it’s for real, the note is sad, really, and posting it is mean — but what the heck. Here it is, unedited by me and [...]

Score one for the Obama administration; zero for Republicans, Tea Baggers, and FOX News. A newly released study by two esteemed economists (yes, I know that’s an oxymoron) shows that Obama’s fiscal policies did indeed pull the country back from the brink of a depression brought about by Bush-Cheney mismanagement.
…the economists argue that without the [...]

I love number 2, and of course, number 1.

From Mark Karlin, editor of BuzzFlash:
Andrew Bretbart may smell like bad ass, but he knows how to grab center stage as the corporate media breathlessly latches on to his bigoted scams and lies and — thus — making the Democrats in D.C. looking like they just took a bath in watered down cow dung. [...]

I think they should name it something better. The top ends up flatter, but we’re not talking about Mount Everest. We’re talking about these
little knobby hills that are everywhere out here.

— Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul (R), in an interview with Details magazine, on mountain top removal coal mining, noting many people “would say the land is of enhanced value, because now you can build on it.”

Maybe there is a lesson we can learn from the BP oil spill.
Something that will energize the electorate’s political will.
When it comes to Republicans,
Maybe there’s something we can
Take away from the concept of “top kill.”

You could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion or is it a nationality, way of life or cult, whatever you want to call it.

— Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (R), quoted by NBC News.

“Sometimes you step off the pavement and get hit by a bus.”
So said Tony Hayward, BP’s unlovable cuss.
But indeed he was the bus driver,
And it’s we “small people” who suffer.
Just for once, Tony, could you think about us?

This is a very sad day for me personally. Whether it is fair or unfair is not the point. I became the public face [of the disaster] and was demonized and vilified. BP cannot move on in the US with me as its leader … Life isn’t fair. Sometimes you step off the pavement and get hit by a bus.

— Demonized and vilified Tony Hayward, announcing his resignation as BP’s CEO with the kind of cringe-making quotes we’ve come to love him for.