Guest Post by Morbo Some Religious Right activists are so intolerant of gays that they are advocating purging them from the party’s leadership and government posts. I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, why stop there? There should be no gays in the rank-and-file GOP either. Let’s face it, gay people have no business being in the […]
Guest Post by Morbo I don’t really want to eat a horseburger. Truly, I don’t. I’ll also pass on horse steak, horse barbeque and deep-fried horse nuggets. But at the same time, I’m not losing any sleep over the people in Europe and Japan who do want to eat horseburgers — and I can only […]
Guest Post by Morbo The Christian Coalition, a Religious Right group founded by TV preacher Pat Robertson in 1989, was a pretty big deal in the mid 1990s but has pretty much slipped into irrelevance these days. In a bid to regain some political traction, the organization, now run by Robertson associate Roberta Combs in […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings As if we needed yet more evidence that Iraq is falling apart — or, rather, that it is descending ever further into chaos with an impotent central government and rampant sectarianism — the city of Amara, located in the southeastern part of the country, fell today to Moqtada al-Sadr’s […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings (Updated below.) I was just sent this alert by The Brad Blog. According to The Washington Post, Diebold is once more at the center of the e-voting storm: The FBI is investigating the possible theft of software developed by the nation’s leading maker of electronic voting equipment, said a […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Hello, everyone. It’s great to be back at The Carpetbagger Report for another guest stint, and I’d like to thank the Carpetbagger himself for the opportunity. I’ll be posting regularly from now through Sunday, and I look forward to reading your comments (and joining in) on what I expect […]
Just to let readers know, I’m going to be stepping away from my desk for the next 48 hours. Never fear, I have back-up. I’ve recruited The Reaction‘s Michael J.W. Stickings to, once again, help out in my absence. As regular readers know, Michael has done some great work filling in for me a few […]
Matt Taibbi’s cover-story in Rolling Stone on the Republican Congress is even better than I thought it’d be. These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a […]
To reiterate a point I raised the other day, if the midterm elections go as badly for the GOP as they could, the Republican Party is going to spend quite a bit of time in the aftermath tearing each other apart. Tax-cutters are calling evangelicals bullies. Christian conservatives say Republicans in Congress have let them […]
The strategy is about as subtle as a sledgehammer: Vote Republican or you might die. I know this is supposed to be the devastating ad that saves the cycle for the GOP, but I’m not at convinced the Republicans’ “Daisy” ad is as effective as they think it is. The Republican Party will begin airing […]