Meet Joseph Cao

For the National Republican Congressional Committee, Anh “Joseph” Cao was a diamond in a shitpile.  The 41-year old Vietnamese lawyer, (pronounced “Gow”), knocked off scandal-plagued Democratic incumbent William “Dollar Bill” Jefferson in a bright blue, majority black district.  Cao’s three point victory made him the first Vietnamese-American in Congress, and the NRCC immediately trumpeted his [...]

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The right stays classy

This is how National Review describes a completely voluntary call to national service:

Friday, November 07, 2008
Arbeit Macht Frei [John Derbyshire]
Corvée labor, a/k/a “community service.”
Those of us over 55 are not excluded, I see. Shall we have to build our own camps, I wonder, like zeks?
11/07 01:26 PM

For those of you who don’t get the [...]

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I’m staying with Aunt Sally / But you know she’s not really my aunt

I read the news today, oh boy:
CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he didn’t know that one of his relatives was living in the United States illegally and believes the appropriate laws should be followed.
The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by [...]

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Need better wingnuts

This is a difficult, difficult read.  It took me four tries to get through it.  I think, repeat “think,” she’s arguing that Malcolm X is Barack Obama’s father; before doing a 180 and backing away from it right at the end.
You really should read it.  Pamela Geller isn’t a nobody, she isn’t writing from her [...]

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Eagles, take flight!

Stephen Colbert is legitimately running the GOP.  Witness:

“The next generation of the Republican Party. The Young Eagles provide the GOP with the financial resources to compete in national, state, and local elections, while affording members the opportunity to interact and network with Republican Party officials, pundits, enthusiasts, and donors as well as business leaders and [...]

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Making the candidate

Where’d Palin come from?  Lost in the bad press, McCathyism, and populist chicanery is the fascinating story of how Little Miss Wasilla charmed the pants off the Republican intellectual establishment*
*(Take the phrase under advisement when this fool is allowed onto the reservation.)
Jane Mayer of the New Yorker magazine, (now with more racism!) uncovers the gory [...]

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Machination math

Congressman Barney Frank is a witty guy. When California Republican David Dreier was passed over for a House leadership position, the openly gay Frank was asked whether he thought this was because Dreier was “too moderate” or because of persistant rumors about Dreier sexual preferences. His reply?
“[Dreier] didn’t get it because he was [...]

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Plus ca change

The Republican Party traffics in racism.  This is not to say every Republican is racist.  Nor to suggest that a good-faith argument about affirmative action is impossible.  Nor to absolve fool-ass Democrats and our theoretical allies.  However.  (And it’s a big “however:”)  The Republican Party is populated by an impressive cast of racist politicians, staffers, [...]

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Tuesday tidbits

Kos catches this winner in the 2008 Republican Party convention platform:
“We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself.”
GOP is splintering.  Guess only some Republicans are socialists above $100 billion.
And this letter to the [...]

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When your day is done / And you wanna run

Hit up the Department of the Interior:
WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.
Best [...]

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