Newt, of course, has to mouth the standard theocra...

2012-01-26T14:27:32.980-06:00

Newt, of course, has to mouth the standard theocratic platitudes. However, I take comfort from the fact that the only God Newt worships is Newt. in fact, playing the religious right for suckers is an old, old game with Republicans. Ronald Reagan was a master of the craft. On the campaign trail he made creationist noises and rhetorically aligned himself with the "pro family" and "pro life" crowd. In office he basically did squat for them.

George W. Bush, though certainly not the brightest candle on the cake, could also play that game. Early in his first term he established an Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. Don Willett was appointed head of the Faith-Based Initiatives, and was expected to have an up-and-running program though the Bush Administration gave him basically no support or resources. According to David Kuo's tell-all account, Willett objected to Karl Rove that his office was being required to make bricks without straw, and Rove replied, "Look. Just get me a fucking faith-based thing, OK?"

With friends like that the religious right hardly needs us. I only hope the Republicans keep stiffing them.

When you think about it, the fact that the US gove...

2012-01-25T15:28:48.903-06:00

When you think about it, the fact that the US government is now more than $15 trillion dollars in hock, largely to unfriendly countries, is not all that funny. Nor is it funny that the said liberal media asks questions of other triviality, while we hit the gas going over the waterfall.

That's $200,000 in debt for a family of four. We can't afford our share. I've been trying to find someone on the Left, maybe one of those evil 1%s, or even 20%s, who would be willing to pay their own share, and our share, too. No luck, yet.

As for all this other junk, trivia.

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