What if James Carville isn’t distorting what conservatives believe as a rhetorical trick, but …

… because he actually believes that’s what we believe? Last night I had the pure joy and honor to meet Mary Matalin and chat with her at the fundraiser she held in her home for GOProud. Whenever I’ve seen her on television she’s always been under enemy fire, so while I knew about her brilliance, …

Clarification: when I go after social conservatism, I mean Newt Gingrich and his ilk

Ever since the Republican election victories in November when people who ran as fiscal conservatives burning to save the American economy turned out to be social conservatives whose real top priority has to do with burning all right, but actually is that gay people should all die in a fire, I have been perplexed about …

10 more reasons for a truce on social issues so we can handle the fiscal ones

Dear Little Miss Attila links a post with 10 charts showing why DOOM for the U.S. economy is upon us RIGHT NOW. While there are social conservatives who claim they can handle social and fiscal policies at the same time, so far it looks to me like doing the hard work of administering the remedies …

New troll policy courtesy of The Bloggess

I am instituting a new troll policy, which is inspired by my dear friend Jennifer Lawson, The Bloggess: … sadly, there are always assholes in the world. In fact, some of them have computers and use them to troll the Internet and viciously attack people they’ve never even met. When I first started blogging, I …

Why victory in 2012 requires a truce on social issues

Jay Cost at The Weekly Standard uses the election of William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan to explain why the presidential election in 2012 is a once-in-many-generations contest that Republicans are unlikely to win if social issues continue to trump fiscal ones and prevent the creation of a coalition that will beat Obama: As we …

Cleta Mitchell tells Samantha Bee how to use a 527 to go negative

The Daily Show – So You Want to Bee a…? – 527 Organization Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook I came across this video when I was Googling to learn more about her and it won’t play from Comedy Central’s site so I’m embedding it here to see …

Andrew Breitbart is NOT gay

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Although, for the dear innocent and guileless straight people who are asserting that you can tell our beloved Andrew is straight because he is married and has four children, claims like that just make gays and lesbians helpless with mirth. Really. That is ROFLOL, pants-wettingly funny. That’s because …