"Republican Party Dead at Age 156:  Party of Lincoln Succumbs to Palinitis After Lengthy Battle for Soul"

After last night's primary results, a part of me truly expected to see a headline of this sort in this morning's newspaper.  For those of you who haven't yet heard the news, Tea Party activist Christine O'Donnell has apparently won the ( Read more... )

Another day, another example of right wing craziness, this one out of North Carolina:

Bill Randall is a Tea Party candidate seeking the GOP nomination for the 13th district Congressional seat currently held by Democrat Brad Miller.  The other day Randall offered a new theory for the cause of the Gulf oil spill:  The Obama Administration and BP ( Read more... )

Rachel Maddow's excellent interview of Kentucky GOP/Tea Party Senate Candidate Rand Paul was far more illuminating than Paul would like us to think.  (I would refer you as well to Bob Cesca's excellent article on the matter.)  Paul says that he opposes racial discrimination, that he abhors racism.  His objections to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he ( Read more... )

This was classic.  Last night, The Daily Show lampooned this past weekend's Tea Party Convention, and it did so brilliantly.  Watch the first segment, if you don't believe me.

This is especially cool, because the convention so richly deserved to be lampooned, whether because of Tom Tancredo's xenophobic rant, or Sarah Palin's mindless keynote in ( Read more... )