Oops!  I heard it again this morning.  Some shill for the Republican Party appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program and uttered what has become the Republican mantra these days: The economy may be recovering from the Great Recession, but if we raise taxes, we won&… Read full post »

Bo-ring….

Honestly.   I don’t know how long this has been going on.  Six months?  Eight months?  The truth is, all I hear on television cable news stations has to do with the repugnant “horserace”.  Why? 

Probably… Read full post »

Remember during the movie, “The Wizard of Oz”, that when it became apparent to the Wicked Witch of the West that the game was pretty much over, she released a bevy of flying monkeys?

Many Americans who grew up with that movie as a life-changing event… Read full post »

Christ!  Rick Santorum, the frothy one, is at it again.  Yesterday in Troy, Michigan, the uber-Catholic airhead claimed President Obama is a “snob” because he wants everyone to go to college. 

What?  Is this idiot serious?  I’ve been watchi/… Read full post »

There’s no telling how many Americans are sick and tired of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s sanctimonious and cardinally-sinful pride regarding his obsession with sex—during a presidential campaign season of all things. 

Yesterday, for exampl… Read full post »

There’s no telling how many Americans are sick and tired of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s sanctimonious and cardinally-sinful pride regarding his obsession with sex—during a presidential campaign season of all things. 

Yesterday, for exampl… Read full post »

Witness the attempted takeover of America by the Catholic hierarchy. 

After all, everyone listening to the news or watching it on television knows full well that the Catholic hierarchy is fighting mad over President Obama’s order that Catholic hospitals provide contraceptive care… Read full post »

Actually, if my opinion was worth a crap, right and good people would grab Nancy Brinker, head of the Susan B. Komen Foundation, the one that just put-down an important breast cancer support organization called Planned Parenthood, take her to downtown Dallas’ City Hall Plaza and horsewh… Read full post »

You know what makes me sick?  It makes me sick to see the hunched-over, back-broken stumbling of my two, elderly and Latino neighbors.  They’re married.  They have a beautiful granddaughter who happens to be blonde and as cute as a little pickle.  But it’s clea/… Read full post »

Newtie Patootie wants to fly us to the moon.  The famous song also happens to be his “Florida campaign song”, and it’s interesting to note that NASA under George W. Bush was practically defunded in order to make way for war. 

That probably means “war”… Read full post »

I remember in the late 1980s when working as a Federal Express package tracker for a huge, prominent law firm that word got around the shareholders were working on a neat scheme: opening Grand Cayman Island for companies and other commercial outfits to avoid paying US taxes. … Read full post »

Lots of high-flown language, plenty of appeals to patriotism, a bow and a nod to fairness.  But what really happened last night?  Anything? 

For everything President Obama said, bespoke, intoned, whatever—I’m game.  The only problem is this: It’s all abo/… Read full post »

President Barack Obama will be typically “chipper and coltish” on stage tonight, but I’m going to be yawning and yawning and yawning. 

Why?  Because we the American people have been here before: glued to the television as everyone in the audience stands up for ev/… Read full post »

Hate to break it to you fellow poor people, but the rich are furious that we have anything at all.  Look at the applause, the uproarious applause, when Newtie Patootie, a multimillionaire, gets when he expresses outrage over the press having the gaul to ask him about his ex-wife’s a/… Read full post »

Geez.  South Carolina, the first state to secede from the union in 1860, has spoken: Newt Gingrich is their new Beauregard.  Beauregard wore the gray. 

This comes on top of news that, yes, Mitt Romney is going to release some of his 2010 tax returns on Tuesday. … Read full post »

Jon Huntsman: Quits Because He’s Not Angry Enough

The only Republican candidate I seriously would consider voting for has just quit his race due to lack of interest among Republicans who have been conditioned by the hate-radio propaganda machine to look… Read full post »

The filmed footage of Republican presidential wannabe Rick Santorum hunting deer in the snowy fields of Iowa had me laughing.  Hard. 

For one, Santorum the deer-killer had so much orange on he looked like a traffic cone.  For two, it looked like Santorum had never held a/… Read full post »

Yeah buddy.  Blame your own, miserable incompetence in not getting into the Virginia primaries on the Japanese.  Newtie?  You really do think you are a war hero, don’t you?  If so, why did you get so many deferments when the Americans were fighting for their lives du/… Read full post »

Perhaps we should explain the problem here.  Us Texans, having suffered through 10 years of Perryism and Perryisms, know one thing is true: Rick Perry isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. 

If so, how’d he become governor of Texas?  That’s easy to answer: Th/… Read full post »

As long as we’re playing “Dixie” with the Republican presidential candidates, it’s simply not fair to leave li’l Ricky Sanitarium out of the mix.  Readers?  Don’t you think Sanitarium should be called to the carpet like a little dog barking his ju/… Read full post »

Considering that I link my Open Salon blogs to folks like Karl Rove and the Tepid Party megalomaniac leadership, the reason I’ve been so caustic lately is this:

How’s it feel to be the target of folks like Rush, the Bay City Madman, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly—among many,… Read full post »

Now that everyone is looking right at him, Ron Paul seems to feel just a tad terrorized.  According to Rachel Maddow, Paul has long known of the accusations that he wrote racist statements for newsletters bearing his byline. 

But suddenly, Paul doesn’t seem quite as self-promotion… Read full post »

Whether or not Libertarian Party Republican Ron Paul actually wrote those racist comments everyone’s talking about, the fact they exist spells trouble for a Pollyanna who attracts young, politically-naïve “victims”. 

As Paul illustrates just about any time he&rsq… Read full post »

Sheesh!  I am just totally awed.  Eric Cantor (Is that how you spell his name?  Could it be Erich instead?) has spoken. 

This morning on MSNBC, Eric Cantor, defending a hijacked-by-Tea-Party Republican Congress, urged the president of the United States to find some commo… Read full post »

Knock on wood: Mitt Romney might feel “somethin’ happenin’” on his skull. 

Need it be said, in other words, that Mitt Romney, currently in a tie with another megalomaniac for the Republican nomination for the presidency, is about as cool as Justin Beiber?

Just… Read full post »