Republicans
Where will the revolution in the USA come from … assuming it will ever come?
Welcome to our first experimental episode of Probable Cause. Our first few podcast episodes will explore different ideas and formats in order to determine how we can make this new podcast series interactive and spontaneous.
On this episode, after a brief introduction and discussion of the objectives behind this new show, we will delve right into our first topic: the likelihood of a revolution here in the United States, identifying (or predicting) the political segment(s) of our population most likely to revolt.
Right-wingers Are Willfully Ignorant about “Black-on-Black” Crime
Former Speaker of the House and perennially failed Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Sunday that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are the real instigators and root causes of the current racial tension now evident and obvious throughout the US.
Is there anything besides crackpot ineptitude that can save us from a two-year nationwide Reign of Far-Right-Wing Terror?
This is a Washington Post map from November 5 of the partisan breakdown of state-legislature control following the 2014 election. [Click on it to enlarge.]by KenWhen I went to retrieve a washingtonpost.com piece that had sent chills through me over the weekend, I wasn't surprised to find that Greg Sargent had taken note of it too.
"For Republicans, the hard part is about to begin" (Dana Milbank). Plus, the Borowitz Report reads the exit polls
"Isn't this political ad wonderfully false and misleading?"" 'I really think it's time for a change,' said Carol Foyler, a memory-loss sufferer who cast her vote this morning in Iowa City. 'I just feel in my gut that if these people were in charge they'd do a really amazing job with the economy.' "Harland Dorrinson, who voted in Akron, Ohio, and who has no memory of anything that happened before 2013, said his main concern was a terrorist attack on American soil.
2013 in Review -- A Prayer to the Janitor of Lunacy, Part 1: Take a bow, Repugs!
No sooner do we finish rerunning Noah's 2012 "Year in Review" series than he's ready, having apparently chained himself to his computer, to tackle 2013! Herewith the initial installment.
"In a larger sense the Republicans have ben winning for the past three years, if not the past thirty" (George Packer)
What most "real" Americans "know," as they've "known" since the days of St. Ronald of Reagan, is that government is the enemy, and anything that's bad for the government is good for "real" Americans."The government shutdown is over. National default has been averted, for now. According to an estimate by Standard and Poor's, the Tea Party's brinkmanship cost the American economy twenty-four billion dollars -- more than half a percentage point of quarterly growth.
