Flipping their wings furiously like chickens about to be slaughtered, Sarah Palin, Dick FAT Morris, Michele Bachmann and Maha Rushie (Rush Limbaugh) — the “Mortician of Democracy” and “Defender of Motherhood” threw a last minute DEATH PANEL hail Mary hoping to stick it into the Democratic end-zone. Needless to say, they failed miserably. The Senate [...]

Matt Osborne of osborneink.com writes: Parker Griffith, my representative, is switching from the Democratic Party to the Republicans. This is not shocking news, as rumors have been swirling for months and Griffith has been reciting right-wing memes for a very long time. For example: at an August town hall in Florence, Alabama, Griffith pandered to [...]

When she talks it is impossible to detect whether she holds a Ph.D. in international affairs from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Political Science from Colgate University. All I see and hear is a mean-spirited Republican bitch who reminds me of the testicle-crushing Brits in colonial Kenya. Her stupid high-pitched “Brit accent” doesn’t help [...]

Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. “Death panels.” — Politifact. Seniors and the disabled “will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they [...]

New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd wonders: Is There a Real McCain? — John McCain is no longer the media’s delight and his party’s burr, bucking convention with infectious relish. The man used to be such a constructive independent that some of his Republican Senate colleagues called him a traitor. Now he’s such a predictable [...]