Author - SK Ashby

Open Thread

The Tea Party Tumble

Artist - Adam Zyglis In other news, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has chosen Senators Jon Kyl, Pat Toomey, and Rob Portman for the "super committee", while Speaker Boehner chose...

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Open Thread

The Market Reacts

Artist - David Fitzsimmons In other news, Rep. Joe Walsh may face an ethics investigation for failing to report the $117,000 he owes in child support on his financial disclosure forms, and the Tea...

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Poll

GOP Now Rated AA-

A new CNN poll out today shows the Republicans' have achieved the highest disapproval rating in twenty years. The Democratic Party is getting a split on approval/disapproval at 47 - 47, but the...

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Wingnuts

Those Darn Raccoons

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, who is running to replace Senator Ben Nelson, has a big problem with poor people. In a speech this week, Nebraska AG Jon Bruning (R) compared welfare recipients...

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Open Thread

Standards Are Poor

Artist - Adam Zyglis In other news, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today that a lawsuit against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for the torture of American civilians in...

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Economy

The $2 Trillion Mistake

As has been widely reported, S&P briefly reconsidered their plans to downgrade the credit rating of the United States after the treasury pointed out to them that they miscalculated the nation's...

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Election 2012

Rick Perry Is Running

Is everyone ready for George Bush 2.0? According to Politico, Rick Perry is almost certainly getting into the Republican presidential race, and his plans for next week would seem to corroborate the...

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Open Thread

Pastor Rick Perry

Artist - Taylor Jones In other news, Columbia County Wisconsin Republican Party chair Amber Hahn resigned on Friday after she drunkenly crashed her car with her three children inside. She's also a...

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Sarah Palin

An Hallucination

A quick clip of one of my favorite comedians, Lewis Black, covering the topic of Sarah Palin. “I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person."

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Wingnuts

Paul Ryan is a Lying Liar

Republican budget front-man, Paul Ryan (R-WI), apparently didn't even read the press release where in S&P spelled out their reasoning for downgrading the credit rating of the U.S. from AAA+ to...

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Wingnuts

Moment of Derp

Breaking News -- Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is a raging idiot! Huckabee made an appearance on Fox and Friends yesterday morning to give his expert opinion on who should...

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Open Thread

Starve The Beast

Artist - Bill Day In other news, the man behind the $1 million donation to Team Romney has been revealed to be Ed Conrad, a former executive at Bain Capital, the investment firm Romney helped found...

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Ethics

Leave Mica Alone!

The man at the center of the FAA shutdown, which persisted for two weeks prior to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama reaching a deal to temporarily extend the FAA's authority, was...

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Open Thread

Happy 50th Economy

Artist - John Darkow In other news, a new CBS/New York Times poll shows that public support for the Tea Party is currently at 18 percent, down from 30 percent at the time of the 2010 elections...

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Economy

Out Of Control Spending!

Well, not really. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal deficit has already been reduced by a significant margin for fiscal 2011 which ends two months from now. (Reuters) - The U...

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Open Thread

How The Party Ends

Artist - RJ Matson In other news, NASA presented photographic evidence of liquid water on the surface of mars today, and Mitt Romney has some explaining to do after it was revealed that a sock-puppet...

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