Republicans have a problem. The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected. And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private. Enough. It’s time for the GOP to man up.

— Talk show host Joe Scarborough.

It’s apparent now that the corporate media has chosen to ignore the fact that that the Family Research Center, a group that is openly affiliated with the mainstream Republican Party, has been named to the official list of U.S. hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for some ace [...]

Oh, the revelations of the Wikileaks!
Putin’s a bully! Berlusconi’s a freak!
But apparently banal insults
Is just the language of consuls,
Get over it already — turn the other cheek!

28%

Share of Americans who believe Sarah Palin could win a presidential campaign, while 60% think she would lose and 12% aren’t sure. More troubling for Palin: Just 48% of Republicans think she could win, while 37% think she would not and 15% have no opinion, according to a Public Policy Polling survey.

15%

Share of the 94 incoming members of the House of Representatives will sleep in their congressional offices, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The 2010 War on the War on Christmas is looking to be a shattering success for the American Family Association. On the heels of its addition to the list of hate groups published annually by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Christianist group is spreading its message of holiday — whoops– Christmas joy through an [...]

ere’s how George Skelton, the Los Angeles Times columnist who covers Sacramento, opened his piece last Monday on the November 2 election in California:
Go ahead: Accuse me of shooting the wounded. But it may be that the body already is dead.
I’m referring to the California Republican Party.
How alive could the state GOP be after suffering [...]

Now Obama’s a competitive fellow,
On the court he bullies and bellows.
Besides the ‘Bipartisan Shove,’
He’s developed a new move —
They’re calling it ‘Kissing the Elbow.’

You keep asking these presentist questions Bob. As the immortal Marisa Tomei said in My Cousin Vinny, ‘that’s a bullshit question!’ because you cannot pluck people out of the past and expect them to comment on what’s happening today.

— “Colonel Roosevelt” author Edmund Morris, in an interview on Face the Nation, when asked what he thought Theodore Roosevelt would make of today’s politics.

h3 style=”margin-top: -10px; padding-top: 0px”>Apologists Demand Govt Stop Funding SPLC – But Quick Check Confirms SPLC Accepts No Govt Funding
You may have missed it in the pre-holiday buzz last week but the Southern Poverty Law Center has added some of the Republican Party’s most prominent interest groups — all of which promote anti-gay agendas — [...]