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Scurrying from the Light 2 – The Rick Perry “Ummm” moment

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FoSotD – 11-Nov-2011: The entire Republican presidential field, except for Herman Cain

And it goes to them for not jumping on Cain at last night’s debate, over the sexual harassment allegations. You’re going to regret that move.  Except maybe for Newt, because nobody would buy him giving someone grief about sexual harassment.

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Rick Perry’s horrible debate performance…

Last night probably sank Team Perry for good. It’s one thing to have poor debate performances your first couple times up.  He could have practiced and gotten past those, especially since there are several more debates to go. But forgetting … Continue reading

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And the pendulum swings the other way (a little)

Yesterday was an off year election / voting day in a number of places. Last year, Democrats rather stupidly stayed home, out of frustration with the lack of progress by Obama.  This allowed a number of very important Republican victories, … Continue reading

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My massive distrust of Libertarian philosophy (Part 1 of likely many)

I distrust Libertarian political / economic philosophy. Now note:  I don’t inherently distrust people who claim to be Libertarians.  I know more than a few, and I trust them.  As individuals. But I look at the political theory, and I don’t find … Continue reading

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FoSotD: 8-Nov-2011 Jesus, Herman Cain and Newt

Ok, so I missed a few days there.  Sure, I could have commented on David Williams asking why Hindus can’t love Jesus.  But, when you get down to it, that’s an Evangelical Republican dickhead being an Evangelical Republican dickhead.  Yes, he’s … Continue reading

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FoSotD: 4-Nov-2011 John Boehner

John. Seriously. Nobody believes it when you call Grover Norquist “some random person”.  This is Grover Norquist.  Who, unlike the character Grover from Sesame Street (though, if you give the muppet glasses, and the politician forgets to shave a few more days, … Continue reading

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FoS of the Day…

Hermain Cain’s campaign for saying that Rick Perry is behind the sexual harassment issues that Cain is currently having to deal with. Now, like every other pundit (or wanna-be pundit) out there, I recognize that this is Cain’s campaign saying that Perry … Continue reading

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Announcing….

The premier cockroach based political cartoon in the world… Scurrying from the Light…

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Village Bastard…

There’s a saying that every village has an idiot. If you look at politics these days, it seems that what we have isn’t a village idiot;  we have a large collection of national idiots.  And, what’s worse, they don’t seem … Continue reading

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