I can look at it three or four times and laugh each time. I am not sure what that says about my lack of compassion as I like to have a lot, but it is always funny.

I never get tired of it.

The confident swagger followed by the crash into the water! He's a penguin, so that's no biggie!

...Repubes first to the lifeboats? We'd have to sink those lifeboats!

Seriously.

Reports of the death of the Republican Party are greatly exaggerated. Almost one in four Americans meets the definition of "right wing authoritarians," people who cling heavily to religion, racism, nationalism and conservative politics, and who are motivated primarily by fear.

RWAs turn out to vote in much higher numbers than most other voters--probably including the elderly because a high percentage of the elderly have been RWAs all their lives and should be included in that voting group rather than among non-RWA elderly voters.

Since fewer than half of all Americans turn out to vote at all, RWAs have spelled the difference between defeat and close-enough-to-steal-it for the past fifteen years. They were the bedrock of W. Bush's "hicktory" in 2000 and backed him and his party until death. That death part is a tricky problem for the GOP, because GOP policies tend to shorten the lives of the vulnerable--especially those who are not well equipped to think for themselves, like RWAs--but the demographics of that die-off have yet to make a solid imprint on American politics, staved off primarily through vote suppression, gerrymandering, and massive campaign spending.

The 23% figure for right-wing authoritarians in the US is traceable backward in time for decades, and similar population estimates show up in virtually every other country that succumbed to fascism, as we have. This suggests to me that there may be some genetic basis for right-wing authoritarianism--it appears to be directly related to stupidity, and no I am not kidding about that at all.

by proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare?

From the article at the link:

Did everybody see this?

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-25/obamas-top-economic-adviser-tells-democrats-theyre-going-to-have-to-swallow-entitlement-cuts

There's nothing the GOP can do now to reverse the trend. Every card they hold is negative and depressing.

I think we're witnessing an actual-factual death spiral.

Hillbilly truckers and billionaires?

My dad always went back and forth, yet in 2008 he declared that he would be voting for Barack Obama.

Sad to say he was unable to vote in 2012. At 91 he is in a nursing home with Alzheimers.

It thrills me to see that the GOP/TP have lost seniors. I guess they fully understand just who is trying to push them over the cliff.

Thanks, PS. This is good news.

come to realize that furloughed employees have mothers and grandmothers.

And, as usual, the crazy wing of the GOP will declare it a smashing victory for the Tea Party!

And sadly, they get a heavy assist from some pretty specious liberal outlets, and Mr. Greenwald. It's no accident. Liberals, many of whom are not Democrats, can't help but shoot themselves in the foot. They know better than anyone how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

On to 2014! Let's kick some GOP ass!

Republicans get everything they want.

I have a relative who learned a phrase, long ago. She doesn't really care about politics. She cares about time spent with her family. Her husband is a free-market capitalist.

So, for more than two decades, when ever any issue has been broached between us (which isn't often), she says "We tried some things and they didn't work." As if this is a blanket explanation for every backward social policy stance toward females, children, the working poor, the uninsured, etc. etc. that ever existed.

She's an idiot, iow. I love her, but she's an idiot about these things.

I have a hard time finding any respect for any woman that can't take the time to figure out that the Republican Party has worked to harm women for decades.

But as long as she doesn't feel it, it's not worth bothering her head to find out if her pat remark is a waste of air.

Flunkies and public mouths, like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Beck, etc.

For seniors!

this time.

DON'T FUCK IT UP THIS TIME!

Pushing job killing trade deals

Cutting Social Security with the Chained CPI

Compromising with repuke fascists in Congress

Extending Bush tax cuts for the rich

Continuing the dumb ass wars for five years

Placing Monsanto trash in key USDA positions


Just a few examples

as senior Democratic authorities stack the deck against us once again.

"Phew, that was close. Without our hard work, we might've won this time."

...with some backwards thinking seniors.

The GOP has done so much evil in my lifetime -- an absolute collapse would be just what they deserve.

help the Repubs find a way to reduce future Social Security and Medicare benefits!

They are shooting themselves in the foot, so there is no good reason for the Democrats to try to stick OUR foot in between theirs and the bullet.

The Repukes will play the "Democrats did it first" card, which will cut into our gains.

the chopping block!

After all, SS does not add one nickel to the deficit!

We younger retirees will feel the effect of the compounded 0.3% rate cut, not the current seniors.

...and the GOP platform makes perfect sense.

out of town.

What's up with the other 35%?