25 Facts Right-Wingers Desperately Want Us to Forget. Photo Credit: Image by Shutterstock October 29, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. How quickly facts are forgotten—or drowned out—in today’s political echo chambers. Now that we have named the disease, we have to point to the cure: the facts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 10 Jaw-dropping Absurdities Brought to You By the Right Wing. Coach DaubenmirePhoto Credit: Via RightWingWatch/Youtube October 26, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. 1. Kevin Swanson is begging you not to buy those lesbian Girl Scout cookies How, you might ask, can a cookie be lesbian? Right-wing pastor Kevin Swanson is not buying sweets from his local Girl Scouts. “I don’t want to support lesbianism, I don’t want to support Planned Parenthood and I don’t want to support abortion, and if that be the case I’m not buying Girl Scout cookies,” he neatly summed up on his radio show this week.
Where does he get these ideas about what is truly behind the Girl Scouts? “The vision of the Girl Scouts of America is antithetical to a biblical vision for womanhood,” he said. And nothing screams independent woman more than Do-si-do. 2. Men’s rights. ‘Nuff said. 3. Staunch Group of Republicans Outflanks House Leaders. A User's Guide to the Many Conservative Groups Grubbing Money from the "Defund Obamacare" Cause. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images For a long time, through the largely successful 2010 cycle, Brian Walsh was the spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
He's exactly the sort of person you'd expect to write a jeremiad against the wave of "defund Obamacare" campaigns that sprouted during the August recess, and to do so after disagreement about how to move ahead and satiate the base on this issue made Republican leaders punt into next week. Walsh's take: They are doing it because doing it raises money. The Senate Conservatives Fund and Heritage Action, the political arm of the once well-respected Heritage Foundation, have spent more money so far on attack ads this year against House and Senate Republicans than the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic National Committee, combined.
You see, money begets TV ads which begets even more money for these groups' personal coffers. The National Liberty Foundation: Rick Perry says his wife misspoke on abortion, barely covers tracks. Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images For a moment at Saturday’s 2013 Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, the mind control top GOP officials use to keep their womenfolk in line started to wear off. Anita Perry—wife of Texas governor Rick “As Many Special Sessions As It Takes” Perry—awoke to find herself on stage, discussing abortion with Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith. “I see it as a women’s right,” she told him, as her handlers frantically pawed at their control boards. “If they want to do that, that is their decision; they have to live with that decision.” My colleague Amanda Marcotte interpreted those shining seconds of progressive real talk as the First Lady of Texas trying to soften her husband’s image as a cold-eyed Ramses II of the uterus.
“Having a pro-choice wife is an excellent way to look less fanatical!” But clearly, Anita Perry’s statements were the result of a technical glitch, as Rick Perry does not actually want a pro-choice wife. Yeah, right, Perry. Paul Ryan: Congressman picked by Mitt Romney completing 'comeback team' Ryan is considered one of the brightest stars in the Republican partyRyan has gained a reputation in politics as Washington insider Expected to champion 'Ryan Budget' which cuts Medicare and aid to elderly and poorRomney campaign hopes to turn election battle from 'personality to politics'Mitt Romney reportedly selected Ryan on August 1Romney accidentally introduced him as next 'president'Speeches touched on economy, energy and middle class By Toby Harnden and Emily Anne Epstein and James Nye Published: 03:48 GMT, 11 August 2012 | Updated: 10:46 GMT, 14 August 2012 Mitt Romney has confounded those who said he was too cautious by dramatically choosing Paul Ryan, a young Wisconsin congressman and budgetary whiz kid, as his vice-presidential running mate.
Appearing on board the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia, Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, hailed the chairman of the House of Representatives as a man of ‘energy and vision’. 'Every now and then I'm known to make a mistake. U.S. Investigation: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Accounts, Tax Loopholes, and Mysterious I.R.A. | Politics. Did Republicans deliberately crash the US economy? Michael Cohen. So why does the US economy stink? Why has job creation in America slowed to a crawl? Why, after several months of economic hope, are things suddenly turning sour? The culprits might seem obvious – uncertainty in Europe, an uneven economic recovery, fiscal and monetary policymakers immobilized and incapable of acting.
But increasingly, Democrats are making the argument that the real culprit for the country's economic woes lies in a more discrete location: with the Republican Party. In recent days, Democrats have started coming out and saying publicly what many have been mumbling privately for years – Republicans are so intent on defeating President Obama for re-election that they are purposely sabotaging the country's economic recovery. These charges are now being levied by Democrats such as Senate majority leader Harry Reid and Obama's key political adviser, David Axelrod. "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. " Tea Party movement. The Tea Party movement is an American political movement that is primarily known for advocating a reduction in the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing U.S. government spending and taxes.[1][2] The movement has been called partly conservative,[3] partly libertarian,[4] and partly populist.[5] It has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since 2009.[6][7][8] The name is derived from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, an iconic event in American history.[9][10][11][12] Anti-tax protesters in the United States have often referred to the original Boston Tea Party for inspiration.[13][14][15] References to the Boston Tea Party were part of Tax Day protests held throughout the 1990s and earlier.[16][17][18][19] Agenda The Tea Party does not have a single uniform agenda.
The decentralized character of the Tea Party, with its lack of formal structure or hierarchy, allows each autonomous group to set its own priorities and goals. Foreign policy Organization Etymology.