The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

In Case Our Orwellian Reality Had Eluded You

by Smitty via Red Rover

Armey’s Exit and the Mystery $12 Million

Mother Jones reports that a pair of Knoxville-based mystery corporations contributed $12 million to the FreedomWorks super-PAC in September. Dick Armey, whose exit from FreedomWorks made headlines this past week, says he knows nothing about it. Neither does FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe, “whom Armey has accused of misappropriating FreedomWorks resources for his own personal benefit,” […]

Fiscal Clif Bar

by Smitty The tasteless joke that is the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ negotiation continues to be the antithesis of mature, rational, representative government. Also, it tastes like sawdust held together by gluten. The cynical question moves to: Who is doing a better job of phoning it in? One is tempted to reciprocate #OccupyResoluteDesk’s four-year finger pointing odyssey, […]

David Brooks, Ignorant Tool At Large

by Smitty Two things are constant, and there are three things rivaling the sunrise for invariance: death, taxes, and the codpiece-like dumbness of David Brooks: Over the past month, the Republican Party has changed far more than I expected. First, the people at the ideological extremes of the party have begun to self-ghettoize. The Tea […]

As With #Benghazi Four, So Will Obama Do For The Country At The Fiscal Cliff

by Smitty There really isn’t any need to let Benghazi fall off the radar. Sure, a huge component of the Fiscal Cliff fracas is to control the narrative, and turn John Bohner into Emmanuel Goldstein, spray tan edition. Obama is at least in character. All politics, all the time. Hence the murky lead-in to Benghazi, […]

I Can’t Tell If @AlGore’s Latest Idiotic Utterance Is A Sign Of Improvement

by Smitty Al Gore still owns what, I feel, is the dumbest utterance by a public figure, emphasis mine: From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and so little done, the truth about […]

Prof. Lessig: What Are You Saying, Man?

by Smitty We Americans are not easily inspired. Forty years of reform have left us more cynical, not less — and not just about Congress but also about the very idea of “reform.” Eighty percent of Americans surveyed by Clarus believe that the reforms Congress has passed “have been designed more to help current members […]

Due To Budget Cuts, The Band Has Been Reduced To A Lone Guitar

by Smitty The proceeds were given as tribute to the Imperial Executive:

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