Mumbling Republican Blog

The last 24 hours or so since Arlen Specter indicated he was defecting to the Democratic Party have been entertaining to say the least if only for the reactions by the right wing. In fact the reactions have for the most part been hilarious. As might be suspected, there have been any number of rationalizations [...]

Globalism, the right rails against it, the great evil that will crush their grandiose notions of might in the militaristic nation state. Nationalism, the great good, preserving what we are, what we always have been. Us and them, seeing the world as a dichotomy, there is us and we are good and the good book [...]

The boredom of unemployment must be getting to me. My yearly stash of Girl Scout cookies came a month ago, of course delivered by an adult. Can’t remember the last time I actually saw an actual Girl Scout involved in the transaction, but that is another issue.  I contemplated devouring the Samoas right off, having [...]

Is it enough to make you horny? Depends on if it is your daughter. The current case that was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today addressed the issue of whether an Arizona School District had the right to strip search an 8th grade honor student who had been reported by another student as giving away [...]

Anyone happen to catch the piece on 60 Minutes this week, Retirement Dreams Disappear with 401K’s?  Doesn’t it make one feel as though all those years you put in working was nothing but sitting in a poker game playing against a card mechanic stacking the deck with every hand?  And here we are left with [...]

There comes a time in the life of a politician when they should have some sort of epiphany as to what they are going to be when they grow up.  There are many choices, puppet, political lackey, crook, or in the rarer case statesman.  Minnesota politics is unwinding as the road to Damascus for Norm [...]

The Loons on the right continue to frighten me.  People such as Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh and O’Reilly are flat out dangerous!!  And it’s not so much that these people have huge followings.  National polls show that in fact they still appeal primarily to the fringe right.  In fact Limbaugh nationally is as grossly unpopular as [...]

Goldman Sachs is apparently out to demonstrate once again that money can buy oppression.  In this case  it has hired a big guns law firm to crush the freedom of speech of a blogger who is critical of the big bank.  The full story is available from the Telegraph in the UK.  Ironic that I [...]

An element of the right wing that has concerned me some time is the influence of FOX News.  A couple of preliminary items are in order. 1.)  The influence is with a very small minority of the American population as polls continue to show the population has moved more to the left. However this does [...]

The Plumbinator, or why Joe the Plumber went into show biz…. I can fix a computer. I cannot seem to be able to get two pieces of plastic to hang together and hold water. The problem seemed simple enough looking at it, plastic pipe, threads, compression rings, a bit of water dripping under the kitchen [...]