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The War on Women Continues
By Michael Hayne on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
It seems the Mommy War was just a short-lived skirmish, as the GOP War on Women is back in full force. Think of the Mommy War as the Football Conflict of meaningless hyperbolic distractions. The War on Women, however, is one the GOP cannot win even if it decides to outsource the fighting to private contractors. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who was previously against the war on women before he was for it, delivered a rousing speech on ...
Reaction to Nugent Showcases Manufactured Outrage On The Right
By Michael Hayne on Thursday, April 19th, 2012
A few days after proudly pandering to washed up, mediocre rocker Ted Nugent and securing the crack-pot vote of gun club conspiracy theorists, Mitt Romney was given the very unenviable task of actually confronting his shameless salt-of-the-earth pandering and hypocritical acts by condemning the deranged and violent rhetoric of Ted Nugent. The only problem, of course, was that wasn’t really a condemnation at all. After the fusillade of feigned outrage tossed at Democrats by conservatives over the ...
Twenty-somethings Living at Home Labeled Spoiled, Lazy
By Michael Hayne on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
So you remember how a small group of oligarchs, banksters, and politicians collectively allowed their blind avarice and risky financial measures (or “casino capitalism”) to bring the entire world’s economy to its very knees, begging for sweeping bailouts from the unbeknownst unwashed masses in order to return to the very same greedy and risky ways that caused the economic abortion in the first place? And certainly you remember (it’s still going on) how these same monied interests bought their own personal teabagger Republicans to ...
Sarah Palin’s Deluded Ego Never Ends
By Michael Hayne on Monday, March 19th, 2012
Pretend human being and professional winking quitter, Sarah Palin, is back in the news this week to remind us that, much like herpes, she will never go away and any period of halcyon dormancy will eventually result in the horrid disease making a comeback. One would think following the premier of HBO’s “Game Change,” the dramatic film  about how America was a broken hip away from the vindictive Avon lady controlling America’s nukes, Sarah Palin would leave our minds forever. Like ...
Is Limbaugh’s Only Hope a Sugar Daddy?
By Michael Hayne on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
America’s most impotent man and radio host, Rush Limbaugh, has been tortuously treading dangerous water following his seemingly slanderous attack on Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke. As many as 141 advertisers have left Limbaugh and many more are considering dropping the rotund host faster than Sarah Palin drops a gaffe. Even Premiere Networks, which syndicates the Rush Limbaugh show, told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks. But it looks like the mountainous misogynist maybe have found some equally scumbaggy ...
Staples Co-Founder: Allowing Breastfeeding At Work Will ‘Kill Jobs’
By Michael Hayne on Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Staunch Republican donor and co-founder of Staples, Tom Stemberg, has a grave concern that might just throw the fragile economic recovery into the into a precipitous tailspin: breastfeeding. Indeed, the ever-so menacing and communist practice of a new mother providing natural enrichment and bonding with her newborn child (maybe because she doesn’t charge the kid a fee for service?) will hurt businesses. Not surprisingly, Stemberg is a longtime supporter of policies of Republicans like Mitt ...
Gingrich Compares Gay Marriage To ‘Paganism’
By Michael Hayne on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
It’s becoming a widely accepted fact that Newt Gingrich is a vile, putrid gas-bag (no offense to bags) who sanctimoniously adorns himself in the Big & Tall cloak of old testament Christianity. Mitt Romney’s primary opponent is so utterly obsessed with happy and content gay couples seeking the inevitable misery of marriage that he overlooks his own complete and utter lack of marital commitment, as stipulated in the bible he so keenly thumps in order ...
Gingrich Continues Southern Strategy
By Michael Hayne on Monday, January 23rd, 2012
The race to convince god and guns, conservative white voters to buy the poison and vote against their economic self-interests is alive and well. With his ever-so immaculate family values credentials, Newt Gingrich certainly cannot exploit the evangelical vote. So he has no other choice to bring out Nixon’s Southern Strategy from storage if he wishes to remain competitive with Romney. Newt was the focus of controversy earlier this month when the former speaker (and husband, and husband) made the rather offensive ...
Small Government Candidates Pledge Strict Enforcement of Obscenity Laws
By Michael Hayne on Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Major GOP Candidates All Pledge To Be ‘Hard On’ Porn - A headline surely Onion-worthy but sadly all too true. In October, right as then Republican front runner Herman Cain was showing his superior morality by denying he had extra-marital affairs or sexually harassed women, Morality In Media (MIM), the “leading national organization opposing pornography and indecency through public education and the application of the law (hateful, sanctimonious, self-loathing prudes who hate the idea of anyone ...
Gingrich Compares Not Getting On Virginia Ballot To Pearl Harbor
By Michael Hayne on Friday, December 30th, 2011
Newt Gingrich is angry, and this time his misguided rage isn’t being directed at Tiffany cashiers, gays, muslims, lazy poor children, child labor laws, and the middle class. Rather, the ornery erstwhile Republican presidential frontrunner has likened his complete and utter ignorance of the democratic process to that little watershed event in American military history that’s better known as Pearl Harbor. Since apparently running for president on Television and hawking books is more important to ...