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The Soapbox: Politics and Rants

Paul Wellstone’s Legacy, 10 Years Later

by kara on December 3, 2012

Written by Al Franken via the Atlantic My friend and hero Paul Wellstone died 10 years ago this week. I miss him. And so does pretty much anyone who cares about economic and social justice. Paul was the kind of progressive many of us strive to be — feisty, fearless, and energetic. When today’s progressives remember […]

from Marmel.com (VIA BUZZFEED) WASHINGTON, DC — Before Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham went after Susan Rice for claiming that the attack in Benghazi was the result of an anti-Islamic video, the pair defended then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from charges that she was a “liar” over her testimony claiming there were WMDs in […]

by kara on August 23, 2012

from Gawker, by Jim Cook Mitt Romney’s $250 million fortune is largely a black hole: Aside from the meager and vague disclosures he has filed under federal and Massachusetts laws, and the two years of partial tax returns (one filed and another provisional) he has released, there is almost no data on precisely what his […]

Blowtorch Bain.

by kara on August 10, 2012

Here is an unphotoshopped, completely legal photograph of Romney and pals waving around blood-soaked-death-squad-dollars in celebration of Bain’s initial funding via Salvadoran war criminals. When asked about the picture,  Mitt responded that it was just a bunch of guys having fun and he remembered it “fondly.” Mitt  fondly remembers all his Latin American death squad friends […]

by kara on August 4, 2012

Singer Pat Boone picks up some food from the Hollywood, Calif., Chick-fil-A on Wednesday. David Livingston/Getty Images Photos of the Chick-fil-A eat away the gay day remind me of the sad sameness of every commercial strip in every white exurb hell in America. That these humans are  feasting on tortured chicken meat in order to […]

You can tell Obama “didn’t bake this”, because it’s a stupid, hideous piece of shit GOP mess. (cake was part of Romney’s campaign, therefore: tax deduction)

by kara on July 26, 2012

Somewhere in hell, Oliver Cromwell is thinking “Hey, I like this guy.” I’ve been snickering at my desk all day thinking about Mitt Romney, his creepy family, his advisors and the dressage team, barnstorming across London in an Astin Martin with royal Corgis strapped to the roof, driving on the wrong side of the street, […]

Yes, precisely, they make a fetish, an idol, of the bible, it is merely a symbol to them of some vague ideas, a symbol just like a carved piece of rock, even if it is a book, to them it is a magical symbol, literally, an idol.  Gunnuts are pretty satisfied with their “interpretation” of […]

by kara on July 19, 2012

Ann Romney: ‘We’ve Given All You People Need To Know’ About Family Finances   “You People” aka “Americans” aka “earthlings” aka “humanoids”.  Simply put, Ann. it’s not your call. If you want to be the President of the United States of America,  you give what is asked of you, to elucidate to the electorate who […]