Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.
Alexander CockburnTags: politics united-states rhetoric funerals sarah-palin bickering republican-party-united-states 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting tea-party-movement
But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.
David FrumTags: politics conservatism tea-party-movement david-frum post-truth-politics
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: arrogance pride elitism racism pride-and-prejudice narcissism bill-o-reilly tea-party-movement egalitarianism blue-collar-snobbery proud-ignorance
We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised "awesome" in a week of scripted "blah".
But because it advanced our understanding.
This president has issues, and there are very legitimate debates about his policies and actions, and successes and or failures as president - I mean, tune in next week. But I could never wrap my head around why the world, and the president republicans describe, bears so little resemblance to the world and the president that I experience. And now I know why :
There is a president Obama that only republicans can see
Tags: politics republicans presidents washington-dc-politics current-events tea-party clint-eastwood tea-party-movement
The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
Chris HayesTags: politics america congress health-care health-insurance tea-party-movement health-care-system affordable-care-act health-care-reform obamacare real-time-with-bill-maher
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