Plunderbund

John H. McConnell died today.
John’s life is really the classic American story: son of a steel worker, joined the navy, went to college on the G.I. Bill, had a good idea, started a company, got rich and turned into a Republican.
He founded Worthington Industries, help start the Columbus Clippers and the Blue Jackets and, since […]

This:

Made me think of this:
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oh, and this too:
“John Kerry is a close friend of mine. We have been friends for years,” McCain said Wednesday when pressed to squelch speculation about a Kerry-McCain ticket. “Obviously I would entertain it.”
How much fun is this gonna be? Hillary, come on. Step aside already so we can […]

It may have flown under the radar with all of the election hullabaloo, but William F. Buckley Jr. died last week. He’s often been viewed as a paragon of conservative thought. And to some extent, this is true - this is half of an interesting debate he had with Noam Chomsky in 1969, […]

Huck’s got a little Old Testament in him.
“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press.
“In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what […]

Unreal.
When Congress sent an energy bill to President Bush for his signature, it arrived in a Japanese-built Toyota Prius hybrid — a move that rubbed two Michigan Republicans the wrong way.
“It is a huge slap in the face, calculated I believe, just to demonstrate their complete disregard for the domestic auto industry,” said Rep. Candice […]

It’s official - the Republican minority in the Senate has surpassed the all-time record for obstructionism in the Senate in just half a session of Congress by blocking more bills via filibuster than any Congress before them.
A new report released today by the Campaign for America’s Future details the 62 times conservatives have used the […]

And you think liberals are mounting a War on Christmas? Watch this monstrosity… if you dare. It’s bad enough to make you want to drown yourself in the eggnog bowl. After stopping the bleeding from your ears, first.

So, what’s a bigger attack on Christmas? Desiring that government not meddle with it […]

Three years ago, the GOP was threatening to “nuke” the filibuster. Trent Lott had this to say:
[Filibustering] is wrong. It’s not supportable under the Constitution. And if they insist on persisting with these filibusters, I’m perfectly prepared to blow the place up.
Mitch McConnell’s spokesman said this:
Senator McConnell always has and continues to fully support […]

Yeah, no joke.
If you’re planning to vote in Virginia’s February Republican presidential primary, be prepared to sign an oath swearing your Republican loyalty.
The State Board of Elections on Monday approved a state Republican Party request to require all who apply for a GOP primary ballot first vow in writing that they’ll vote for the party’s […]

TPM has put together a 3.5 minute summary of what the GOP candidates have to offer, in their own words. For the busy working class hero who doesn’t have time to read all the position papers.

Rudy “9/11″ Giuliani’s new advert puts forth a horribly false meme: that the Iranian hostages were released within an hour of Reagan’s inauguration (true) because Reagan was “tough on terror” (false).

Unfortunately for Rudy’s version of history, what actually happened was the release agreement was signed the day before the inaugural… and was negotiated by the […]

I guess I’m not that surprised: some folks are using some underhanded push-polling to promote Huckabee.
A newly-formed group claiming to support Mike Huckabee hit the phones of Iowa Republicans tonight with an automated push-poll attacking Huckabee’s GOP opponents and praising the former Arkansas governor.
Officials representing the Iowa campaigns of Fred Thompson, John McCain and Rudy […]

This is really a very insightful Venn diagram:

If you aren’t familiar with Venn diagrams, they are typically used in set theory to explain relationships between different sets (groups of things).

So, the “famously liberal” (if you listen to rightwingers) cable news network CNN aired a “YouTube” debate last night. Except one of the questions selected wasn’t from a normal everyday citizen, like the spirit of the debate is supposed to be.
It was from Grover Frickin’ Norquist.
Are you kidding me? They reject FL Gov […]

The implosion of the GOP is the fruits of their own labor. They worked so hard to court the far-wingnut-right, especially the “Values Voters”, that those hardline evangelical groups feel entitled to get their ideal GOP candidate. They aren’t very happy.
In June, [Focus on the Family’s James Dobson] said: “I cannot, and […]