Posted 10:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

Posted 11:16 AM by Scoobie Davis

Posted 9:17 AM by Scoobie Davis

. . . This has been going on for decades. Republicans know that there are large parts of the middle and working class white population who would rather cut their own economic throats than share a piece of the American Pie with black or brown people. And even though their throats are cut and bleeding, these morons CONTINUE to vote Republican. They believe that White is Right and Republicans are the White Party. I think they would rather starve to death than see a single black mother get a few dollars worth of food stamps every month. This race war is not new. It has been going on since the founding of our country and EVERYONE is losing. These people can't die out fast enough for me.

Posted 9:12 AM by Scoobie Davis

Posted 9:50 AM by Scoobie Davis

[T]his story is all about the G.O.P. First came the southern strategy, in which the Republican elite cynically exploited racial backlash to promote economic goals, mainly low taxes for rich people and deregulation. Over time, this gradually morphed into what we might call the crazy strategy, in which the elite turned to exploiting the paranoia that has always been a factor in American politics — Hillary killed Vince Foster! Obama was born in Kenya! Death panels! — to promote the same goals.  

But now we’re in a third stage, where the elite has lost control of the Frankenstein-like monster it created. 

So now we get to witness the hilarious spectacle of Karl Rove in The Wall Street Journal, pleading with Republicans to recognize the reality that Obamacare can’t be defunded. Why hilarious? Because Mr. Rove and his colleagues have spent decades trying to ensure that the Republican base lives in an alternate reality defined by Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Can we say “hoist with their own petard”?

Posted 8:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

The problem with that theory is that right-wing, apocalypse-obsessed Christians are not marginal characters who have little power in the world. They constitute a huge percentage of Americans, and just as disturbingly, they have influence over another huge number of Americans. They actually don’t want attention drawn to their wacky beliefs a good deal of the time. On the contrary, the preferred fundamentalist right-wing communication strategy is to use their own spaces—spaces that are often far from the prying eyes of the larger world—to talk about their lurid fantasies, and they prefer to show a more sensible, moderate face to the larger world.

Posted 9:34 AM by Scoobie Davis