Tag Archives: GOP Death Watch

Poll Shows Fickle Americans Support Health Care Reform

And to think all it took was passing the damn bill… A new USA Today/Gallup poll has confirmed what Republicans do not want you to know, which is that a majority of Americans (49 percent) believe that Sunday’s passage of health care reform legislation was “a good thing” as opposed to “a very bad, evil [...]

GOP Death Watch: Special Thunderdome Edition

When beloved U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and all-time favorite radio personality Rush Limbaugh get busy together, the music they make isn’t exactly beautiful. In fact, the sounds generated from their lovemaking don’t register in the human aural spectrum, but can be compared to the high-frequency squeaking of two giant shithouse rats circling around the same [...]

GOP Death Watch: Day 39,023

So here we have Louisiana Senator David Vitter being asked by a consituent about Vitter’s “no” vote on an anti-rape clause in a defense appropriations bill that passed, 68-30, last month. The clause/rider — the first authored by Frosh Senator Al “I Can’t Believe I’m A Senator” Franken — would prohibit funding to military contractors [...]

GOP Death Watch: Day 36,041

I like numbers. Although I often don’t understand them, they can be helpful little things, especially when they are used to make “polls.” In this case, we have an ABC/Washington Post poll, which shows that only 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans — the lowest GOP party ID in over 25 years. Only [...]

GOP Death Watch: Day 10,203

Whenever G. Gordon Liddy opens the fetid, bile-stained maw that is connected to the shining globular den of evil that is his head, only bad things will happen. … [T]here’s a real split on the right between elected officials, particularly in the Senate, who have jobs to keep, and radical figureheads in the conservative movement [...]

GOP Death Watch: Day 8,317

  Right. So primordial Republican throwback Newt “My Sister’s Gay” Gingrich is positioning himself to be some sort of GOP oracle and potential 2012 presidential candidate. How can we tell? If The New York Times Magazine runs a cover story saying Gingrich is important because he’s one of the Right’s few think tank-grade Pols whose [...]