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Obama wins Nobel: Conservatives lose… their minds.

Glenn Beck wants to give it to members of the Tea Party? I dunno – maybe if there’s some sort of lesser version of the prize – like the kind they hand out at T-ball where everybody gets a medal – for the intellectual conversational skills of a three-year old. Otherwise, probably not.

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If Obama’s numbers are about to hit rock bottom, the GOP is already there to cushion the fall.

So, if you’ve been following the MSM of late, you’d get the feeling that Obama’s popularity is in free fall. That it’s some sort of death spiral that no president can pull out of. While I’m sure he’s losing some support – who wants to be pals with somebody who gets screamed at all the time? It’d be like having to hang around with one of those eunuchs on Hollywood Husbands – there’s a point that seems to have been completely ignored.

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Cheney in 2012? Oh, Dear God. Yes, please.

There’s speculation that Dick Cheney is turning into the leading candidate for the obligatory caucasian presidential candidate in 2012.  As someone who would love to be able to write about this, every day, I say “yes.”

From HUFFPO
At first, it seemed like a joke. Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto opined on Monday that — if the 2012 [...]

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I miss innocent stupid.

As dim as the statement was – nobody in their right mind can possibly believe that this Conservative House (of representatives) Frau was actually making a race-based statement using early 1900’s boxing history. It’s just not possible. It would be both too historically and culturally smart, and too politically dumb, to actually happen.

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Faith and Values take a hike with Governor Mark Sanford

Something about this stinks, a lot, and I’m guessing it’s not the last we’ll hear of this.

Oh, arrogance and perceived invulnerability… is there NO politician you can’t knee-cap?

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Sotomayor nomination gives the GOP just enough rope to hang themselves. And they will.

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In this, like in all cases, if the right could just sit down, relax, and not desperately flail around for “the killing blow” that will get people to look their way again, the left might have actually started picking this choice apart for the littlest and dumbest reasons.
Luckily, for a party that likes to blather [...]

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Wither California?

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I don’t really have an opinion on this.  I like this piece a lot, and wanted to share.  Worthy discussion… and more than certainly, something to be afraid of.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: May 24, 2009 in the NY Times
California, it has long been claimed, is where the future happens first. But is that still true? If [...]

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Somebody passed out the Ritalin: Republicans calm down about Supreme Court Replacement

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So, maybe the idea that they lost, and because they lost, they’re gonna have to stop being petulant little whine-bags is starting to seep in.  At least, it has in one group of Republicans… and that’s a good first step.
 
Shocking news from the New York Times.
Somebody got the memo.

WASHINGTON — While there is growing anticipation [...]

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GOP turning into a party of Foldmonkeys.

You can tell I’m talking – I’m clucking.
FROM HUFFINGTON POST:
Rep. Eric Cantor led a much-publicized GOP listening tour this past weekend — or so we all thought.
And so it was on Wednesday morning, when Eric Cantor appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, that he cleared the matter up. “You know, Joe, really, this is not a [...]

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Remember the Last Time The South Complained About State’s Rights?

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John Oxendine: GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Joins Perry States’ Rights Stance
For the second time in as many weeks, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in the South is lamenting the spending priorities of the Obama administration and stressing the need to reaffirm states’ rights in light of the “oppressive” growth of the federal government.
The latest salvo comes [...]

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