How can our country function when one half of the ruling political class bases its strategies and policies on nothing but the phantom voices in their heads? — Gary Legum
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I agreed when Bobby Jindal said the Republicans need to stop being the stupid party, and I was disappointed when I learned he wasn’t sincere.
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You’ve said a lot of stupid and repellent things, Mr. Trump, but your comments about Carly Fiorina in the course of your Rolling Stone interview were intolerably crass. You’ve no business in the White House, and you’ve no business at the dinner table in the home of decent people.
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Kim Davis is not Joan of Arc or, even, Gomer Pyle. She is a grievously troubled person being cynically exploited by amoral predators with deeply un-American ambitions.
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To demand that America lives up to the secular ideals of its founding does not constitute an attack on religious freedom; it is the only workable, not-bloody defense of religious freedom.
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We need to stop indulging morons and pretending that creationism is intellectually respectable, and initiate a Sputnik-like focus on STEM education.
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America’s middle-class was built by the unions who, at often terrible personal cost, made living wages and health care available to almost everyone.
Governor Walker, explain yourself.
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The Affordable Care Act advances the unions’ work and makes health care available to the working poor, and we have disgraced ourselves by our relentless opposition and expressed determination to end it. It will probably need a generation of legislative tinkering to make our implementation of universal health care a smooth-running machine, and we shouldn’t hesitate to make the needed improvements. But it is here to stay, and all sane and decent people should be glad for that.
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For almost 8-years we have single-mindedly devoted ourselves to frustrating the operation of government, at times actually abandoning our stated position and changing course when President Obama offered to meet us halfway — as if we had no aim but to destroy him personally, as if we had no policy but hatred of the president, and our recklessness has irrevocably changed the lives of millions of Americans for the worse. Seriously: We need to stop being assholes.
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Throughout the history of this party, there has always been a faction of radical right-wing ideologues tugging at us. They opposed Reconstruction, favoring punishment of the South following the Civil War; have we forgotten who demanded the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and why? They opposed Teddy Roosevelt when he built the National Park System, they considered Dwight Eisenhower a communist, they considered Richard Nixon a traitor for opening a relationship with China, they considered George Bush-I a traitor because Desert Storm stopped before reaching Baghdad.
They run around spouting pieties, but are animated by nothing but feverish malice. For almost 150-years we kept them out and on the fringes, but Karl Rove and Bush-II gave them the key to the front door. We need to take it away and change the locks. Woe is us if we don’t.