With the inane clown posse Republican Iowa Caucus and State-wide primaries right around the corner, we can unequivocally expect a tsunami of phenomenally, breathtakingly moronic things to said (especially if Bachmann makes it through Iowa). But in the mean time, it’s important to look back and reflect on some of the phenomenally, breathtakingly moronic things that were already said.
Is the Tea Party a haven for uneducated, gone to seed, white racists? Watch the video and decide for yourself.
I’ve compiled a list of Addicting Info’s 25 most popular articles of 2011, as chosen by our readers. Each view is a vote, and each of these articles received between 50,000 and 300,000 views.
Throughout the year, each candidate made comments that proved just how out of touch, ignorant, and dangerous the right wing has truly become. It’s hard to choose which quotes to list but here are just 25, brought to you by Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich.
Well, kids, here it is: the first annual Idiots’ Delight year-end awards. Yes, I know it was hard waiting, but hopefully your patience will be rewarded. I held nothing back. If you had it coming, you got it.
2011 has been a banner year for the advancement of LGBT equality at the national, state, and local levels. Following are some of the highlights.
Too often the law of unintended consequences holds true because people haven’t fully thought through the potential repercussions of their ideas before putting them into action.
It’s hard these days to be a pragmatic progressive. We who would sacrifice perfection to get things done are left staring into the eyes of an opposition party that takes the word, opposition, so literally, they are even willing to oppose themselves.
The death penalty is clearly not a perfect method for exacting justice. So long as it is a human institution it will never be perfect and innocent men and women will inevitably become victims of it.
As 2011 comes to a close, conservatives are still trying to push failed policies. This is a list of 15 individual conservatives that pose a significant threat to American society as we move into 2012 and beyond.
The Republican debates on foreign policy and defense demonstrate how stale and narrowly focused the national discussion on these critical issues remain. The moderators and candidates alike are stuck in neutral. The issues they addressed are relevant, but there is literally a whole world that we need to engage.
So, W gets his Tax cuts and TWO WARS so he should have had gangbuster job growth right? After all Republicans tell us that FDR didn’t get us out of the Depression. It was WWII. Well hell, W had two wars with TRILLIONS being expended so it only follows that he would get that big war time economy boost like FDR.
Desperate to turn the political discussion away from economic issues they cannot win on, Republican Presidential candidates have latched onto the claim that Islamic Shariah law is somehow overtaking the US.
2011 made me weary, and I’ll be honest: During the past few days, I wondered if I’d ever regain my spark, ever be able to find the energy to continue to try to slay the dragons that are roaring and breathing fire over us. It all seemed too much.
It’s a defense mechanism known as the ‘gotcha’ question, and candidates like Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul have really taken this responsibility ducking mechanism to another level.
There is nothing wrong with the notion of ‘Happy Holidays’ as a proper holiday greeting.
The Congress hit a new high on the gridlock scale on how best to fund the extension. First, the GOP controlled House of Representatives passed legislation that would extend the payroll tax cut one year. However, Speaker Boehner and his crew did so by attaching a host of unrelated initiatives, including the 1700 mile Keystone pipeline.
Earlier this week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and some of the other thoughtful, objective, intelligent pundits on Fox News who have so meritoriously dedicated their lives to objectively informing Americans of just the facts and news they need to know, appropriately took President Barack Obama to task for sending out a Christmas card this year that included a picture of the family dog, Bo, sitting in front of a fireplace.
Forget all the ‘fighting the good fight’ bravado from the Speaker of the House. Forget all the denials from congressional Republicans that they caved on their principles to “do the right thing.” Forget all of it. This was the political equivalent of the Alamo.
