Search PYM:
Subscribe via Reader
Subscribe via RSS
-
Sponsors
Recent Comments
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- December 2010
- June 2010
Tags!
2012 abortion baseball centrism conservatism debt deficit democrats economics Faux News Foreign Policy Fox News gay marriage GOP health care history hockey israel journalism libya medicare michele bachmann mitt romney new jersey newt gingrich New York Giants new york times nhl obama Osama Bin Laden paul krugman paul ryan politics polling President Obama public opinion racism republicans rick perry romney sarah palin taxation Taxes tea party tmitartnSearch the web:
Tag Archives: republicans
All In
When you play poker, and you’re not very good, there invariably comes a time when your chips are getting low, the blinds are getting higher, and you need to go all in with a bad hand. That seems to be what … Continue reading
Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
Paul Ryan has come out with a new budget process reform plan. Budget process expert Stan Collender is nonplussed: This would be funny if it weren’t so sad in so many ways: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has proposed … Continue reading
Richard Lugar’s Lack Of Patriotism
In James Fallows’ series on the Republican Party’s assault on the democratic institutions set up by our Constitution, occasioned by the scathing indictment of a disgusted longtime Republican Hill staffer, he ran a series of responses from readers, including this … Continue reading
The Higher You Fly The Deeper You Go
So, Herman Cain just had too much to hide, and is “suspending” his faltering campaign. In the grandly conceived farce that is the Republican primary, the apparent beneficiary of a candidate’s implosion due to womanizing is high-flying, thrice-married Newt Gingrich: If Herman … Continue reading
The Decline And Fall Of American Conservatism, Or, “The Career Of George Will”
Scott Galupo pointed out a little while back that once upon a time, George Will was capable of engaging in rational thought. There are plenty of amazing sane quotes from three decades ago in that post; here’s one: [A]ll government … Continue reading
Posted in News and Current Events
Tagged conservatism, conservatives, george will, republicans
1 Comment
“Platitudes In Lieu Of Programs”
So we’ve noted, a time or two or so, that the media in the US isn’t very good at reporting the news. Happily, we let some foreigners in here at some point, and Der Speigel is able to call a … Continue reading
Conservatism As It Exists Today
Just a back story that everyone knows, here, but seems worth documenting.
“I’m Every Bit As Crazy As You Guys! Honest!”
Mitt Romney is plagued in the GOP primary by his modest record of sane, moderate governance, and his series of contradictory stances on every major issue facing the country. Here, former Romney adviser Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist, points out … Continue reading
Supercommittee Dems Tried To Compromise; Republicans Are Too Irrational
Jared Bernstein points out: The D’s on the committee went much further onto the R’s side of the field, offering plans that were to the right of Simpson-Bowles or Gang of Six in terms of balancing spending cuts and revenue increases. The … Continue reading
“I Don’t Care What The Polls Say. I Don’t.”
I am sticking to my statement that Romney’s the frontrunner and that I expect him to win. But, just as it was with Trump, Perry, and Cain, Newtmentum is for real, for now: In Pennsylvania Gingrich has 32% to 15% … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Politics
Tagged how much the republican party hates mitt romney, newt gingrich, republicans
1 Comment
Seen Them Leaving When The Party’s Over
David Frum writes a lengthy essay (via), worth reading in full, about why he has found himself on the outs in the GOP. There’s plenty to respond to in there, but I’m going to focus on this: I can’t shrug off … Continue reading
They All End Up In A Ditch In This World Of Fools And Knaves
Paul Krugman, on This Week, explaining the ascent of Newt in the wake of the series of short-lived GOP frontrunners Trump, Perry, and Cain: “I have a structural hypothesis here,” Krugman told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour Sunday. “You have a Republican ideology, which … Continue reading
Newt Gingrich Quacks Like A Liberal
… according to some spectral, loathsome beast styling itself “Iowans for Christian Leaders in Government”:
The Three-Wived Man Is King
Sometimes people try to claim that, among the Republican presidential candidates, the latest flash-in-the-pan, soon-to-be-ex-frontrunner Newt Gingrich stands out as an intellectual “ideas man.” Linguist John McWhorter sets the record straight: Gingrich’s patterns of speech are largely analytically acute, and sometimes … Continue reading
David Brooks, Dick Cheney, And Moral Degeneracy
DougJ at Balloon Juice flagged this uncommonly silly David Brooks comment: I don’t think it was just a Penn State problem. You know, you spend 30 or 40 years muddying the moral waters here. We have lost our clear sense … Continue reading
It’s Not About Reality, It’s All About A Salary
The one panelist on the aforementioned Chris Matthews debacle who distinguished himself was Major Garrett. Garrett, a former White House correspondent for Fox News now writing for National Journal, stressed that television gives a “false intimacy”, that we don’t know … Continue reading
Hope For The Future
So, at last night’s 973rd Republican debate, we found out that Rick Perry doesn’t know anything about anything and can’t speak English very well: Via David Frum, a reason for optimism: we were pretty dumb in the past, too:
How The Right Will React To Cain
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: Herman Cain has spent the past year peddling a thin tax policy, fumbling the names of foreign countries, and extolling his love of cornbread. Now, today, he stands accused of crudely fondling a white woman. Surely this … Continue reading
