Frustrated that Romney/Ryan say they’re going to cut taxes without hurting the middle class or making the deficit explode — yet refuse to release any details on what they’ll actually do?
Wait no longer! Check out romneytaxplan.com for all the nitty-gritty!
Obama + withering sarcasm. Two of my favorite things!
The Onion nails it once again.
Startled sources at a GOP fundraiser confirmed Thursday that after being duped into saying his own name backwards, ancient elfin mischief-maker and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus was cast back into the gilded puzzle box that has confined him for millennia.
Priebus, a wily, mystical creature who has reportedly carried out right-wing political trickery at numerous points throughout recorded history, was said to be delivering a speech on traditional family values when he unthinkingly read the words “Subeirp Ecnier” aloud off the teleprompter, immediately causing the lights in the Omni Hotel to flicker and sending a powerful, chilling wind through the convention hall.
Sarah Silverman has a few tips about the so-called “voter fraud” laws. Audio is, as you might expect from Sarah Silverman, NSFW.
The New Yorker provides this handy history of the United States, as explained through GOP quotes.
1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.”—Rick Perry
1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.”—Dick Armey
An important news update from the Onion News Network.
Walking awkwardness factory Mitt Romney told a great “humorous” anecdote yesterday:
“One of (the) most humorous stories, I think, relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors,” Romney said… “They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin.”
It only gets more hilarious!
GraphJam explains.
How many can you get right?
Stop me before I Photoshop again.
Not everyone has seen this hilariously self-unaware ad from the Santorum campaign.
Everyone should.
As Wonkette put it:
So what did Rick Santorum’s campaign come up with, for the new ad complaining about Mitt Romney? Oh, just a life-sized cardboard cutout of a dumbly smiling Santorum repeatedly splashed with a brown, frothy liquid. No, really.
Mike In Raleigh’s ode to the recent Santorum surge:
Starring Justin Long!
For those not following Stephen Colbert’s involvement in the SC GOP primary, his editorial in The State recaps it quite well. In brief: the SC GOP insisted that taxpayers cover much of the costs of the primary, so Colbert’s “Super PAC” agreed to cover the bill if they got naming rights (“The Colbert Super PAC South Carolina Republican Primary”), and if SC put a non-binding referendum on the ballot about corporate personhood.
The GOP agreed… at first.
Then the unthinkable happened — the activist judges of the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that the counties, not the GOP, would be responsible for funding the primary. And, in what I can only see as a personal attack on corporate persons, they ruled that all non-binding referenda be struck from the ballot.
The S.C. Republican Party no longer needed my $400,000, but being Southern gentlemen, they gracious[ly] offered to still want it.
Colbert’s editorial has the whole (hilarious) story.