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By gollies, when the economic going gets tough for America's workaday people, you can always count on our tough-minded political leaders to get going! Get going, as in: rush like hell to find some gimmick to make it look like they're doing something without actually, you know, doing anything.
SEE NEWT RUN
Friday, August 13, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Oh, please, Santa Clause, please! Please give us the political gift that keeps giving: Newt Gingrich.
The Newt says he is planning to be the Republican nominee for president in... [read more]
A BITTER TASTE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
I don't know how the corn crop is doing this year, but Washington is producing a bumper crop of irony for America's black farmers.
In the same week that Shirley Sherrod,... [read more]
GOP GOES "GRASSROOTS," WASHINGTON-STYLE
Friday, July 30, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Congressional Republicans have spent the first two years of the Obama administration as the rock-solid party of "no," "uh-uh," "no way," "forget about it," "nothing doing," "we're-agin-it-and-we'll-kill-it." This is one reason their job approval rating... [read more]
THE CORPORATE REALITY OF CARLY AND MEG
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Big news in California politics: The Golden State's GOP has nominated a pair of golden gals to try to take the state's top two political offices.
Meg Whitman, running for governor,... [read more]
THE GOP'S GENETIC LINK TO BIG OIL
Monday, June 28, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
If scientists were to examine the DNA of oil corporations and of Republican congress critters, I'll bet they'd learn that both are genetically connected. The two species have many similar political instincts and show a... [read more]
OUR STATE OFFICIALS ARE GOOFIER THAN YOURS
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Not so fast, Arizona!
You might try to convince the American public that you've got the goofiest, right-wingiest state officials in the land, but – ha! – you can't begin to... [read more]
WHINING ABOUT KAGAN
Monday, May 31, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
Poor Elena Kagan. Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court is getting raked over the coals by Republican politicos – not because of who she is, but because of who she is not.
... [read more]
WHICH MITCH DO YOU BELIEVE?
Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
As Lily Tomlin has said, "No matter how cynical you get, it's almost impossible to keep up."
She could've been referring to Sen. Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans in Congress,... [read more]
DOWN ON THE GOP's FARM
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | Posted by Jim Hightower
I have to ask: Does the Republican Party have a secret "Stupid Farm" where it breeds and raises senators?
How else to explain the far-out loopiness of several GOP solons who... [read more]
REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS GONE WILD
"Knock it off," he barked to the rowdy and randy bunch of boys under his charge.
Unfortunately for John Boehner, he was not trying to straighten up the raucous behavior of... [read more]