Posts Tagged as ‘liz cheney’

December 13, 2009

Shillgate Denialism: why the rightwing Republican corporate shills aren’t getting traction with ‘climategate’

While our friends at redstate Trike Force HQ and elsewhere are busy prostituting themselves to corporations that profit greatly from selling dinosaur era fuel, all their jumping up and down is profiting them little.
They think they have debunked the climate change ‘myth’ conclusively. They are of course wrong, but, trapped in their self amplifying echo [...]

June 5, 2009

Loose lips

The Hill reports this morning that Republicans are telling tales out of school regarding information from a closed, and ostensibly secret, House intelligence committee briefing.
“Based on what I heard and the documents I have seen, I came away with a very clear impression that we did gather information that did disrupt terrorist plots,” [Rep. John [...]

May 26, 2009

What are they thinking…?

Or, are they even thinking, for more than a nanosecond, at all?
Even before news leaked concerning the announcement of Sonia Sotomayor as Obama’s Supreme Court pick, conservatives were “spoiling” for a
SCOTUS fight. A fight based not on the views, history, ideology or any personal characteristics or beliefs of the nominee, but instead based purely, [...]

April 26, 2009

Competing realities and divergent uptakes

If you need any more proof that human perception of reality is partial, in both senses of the word, look at the varying ways people of differing political and ideological inclinations subjectively perceive events.
People with different, especially opposing, points of view can look at the same event and come away with diametrically opposed opinions of [...]