...i.e the Kochs, etc.

You almost got Bachman & "think" into the same sentence.

She can be programmed to say anything.

She is the WORST example of both a lawmaker, and a woman.

She is merely female. Big difference there

They've got to take a REAL whooping in an election, as in, losing control of Congress and defeating r. paul at least in the Senate. We can hope for this to occur sooner rather than later, and we have to work our a***s off to get it done.

if there truly were a "liberally-biased media", the Repugs would probably have faded away after Nixon was run out of town ...

2010 taught me a lesson.

I knew it would not be easy after 06 and 08.

But, there was NO reason to give the republican's any amount of power in DC.

Somehow, for no reason other than them throwing a bit fit over 08, this country saw fit to give them one of the biggest congressional gains in modern history, giving them a BIG margin in the House and darn near giving them the Senate.

I was just becoming politically aware in the 90s when they were acting like jackasses with Clinton, and was just stunned that this country saw fit to elect Bush II, a literal moron, over Gore, an intelligent and competent man. Not even a choice, but somehow this country saw fit to vote for "the guy you would have a beer with.'

If you look around now, they have control of more governorships and state legislatures than Ds do, and this is after a pretty rough stretch of a few years of blatant and EXTREME neo-liberal economic run outs at the state level and pushing the most extreme right wing social agendas.

It seems that it has only been through extraordinary, gross incompetence and political over reaching they suffer a bit nationally, but as I have reached my middle aged years, my sad conclusion is that this country will NEVER tire of finding reason to eat the shit the republicans dish out.

And, this whole "liberal media" meme is a joke.

What is bizarre is that the whores who bow to the republicans at every turn somehow are not the least bit fazed by the derogatory manner the republicans treat them.

. . .they always turn up.

They never change their views and goals or tactics. They only change their name.

Back in the 1960 - 70's, the John Birch Society assholes had only mimeograph machines and newsletters to keep in contact. They used to put up a booth at my rural county fair, and that was about the only time they'd be seen all year.

Now they have a worldwide megaphone with no off switch.

We'll never be rid of them.

It's when they open their mouths and spew their ridiculous nonsense that good people get to hear that silly crap ...

The more people hear them, the more they turn away from them ...

I say: Give them that megaphone, and turn it up ... then provide a narrative ....

Today's Quiz
See if you can find the two words 'tea' and 'party' in the picture below:

Someone from DU supplied this picture elsewhere, whomever it was, thanks a mill!

I had first registered in 1975 so I have seen a lot of politics. One thing is very true, we are apt to repeat and perfect our mistakes. Thus every thing runs in cycles. What we are seeming is the inevitable flame out of an idealogical extreme.
In the 1960's and 70's the incoherent radicals were lefties. Thus I registered GOP, volunteered to work John Anderson's 1980 campaign, the visceral hatred the right wingers had for moderates in the party gagged me and I left in the first purge.
By Clinton's first term it was clear which party was more welcoming and i again shifted from independent to Democrat
Now the GOP is in the position the Democrats were in in the 60's and '70's ruled by the extreme.
The Democrats reward for nurturing their extreme was to win only one Presidential term between 1968 and 1992.
They will thus be rewarded.

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Our lives are full of smoke ring days, when the wind blows.

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After the tea party won BIG today by having the sequestration cuts go into effect, they've proven they are a very viable force within the Republican Party. They scared Boehner & McConnell into not even negotiating with Pres. Obama.

Where was their convention?
There is no party called tea. It is a beverage. These people, like Bachmann are republicans and they hate the people.

And that's a good thing. The Republicans will keep embracing the extreme right paving an easy win for Hillary.

Seems more like they are running the show.

Sure, they are a minority, but apparently minority rules now.

I believe we are pretty much fucked.