Alternate Brain

An homage to Donald Segretti, the first political ratfucker to call himself that, in the context of what the teabaggers are up to by Charle...

The last coupla ¶ from a post you should read at The Political Garbage Chute But one thing is for certain, Senator Cruz. You are going to ...

El Rude-o on the shutdown etc. Links at site. What the GOP has done, first through the ludicrous overuse of the filibuster and now throug...

You're not dummies. Watch it anyway. One chickenshit boozehound is holding me, you, and every American hostage over right-wing ideolog...

Good article. The government-sabotaging fervor of the Republican Right – likened by one GOP congressman to “lemmings with suicide vests” –...

The GOP Takes Its Clothes Off in Public: It's Not a Pretty Sight, Even for Some Republicans O the horror! I'm getting an awful visu...

On the theory that the Principal should run the school and not the kindergarteners, I hereby revoke the privilege given to Congress to vote ...

If Sabotage of the US Economy Is Terrorism, Send the House GOP to Guantanamo Were I the Prez, they're only ONE of the domestic terroris...

Part of a good rant you should read by Charles P. Pierce : We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ig...

Andy Sullivan on the shutdown: When ideologies become as calcified, as cocooned and as extremist as those galvanizing the GOP, the Americ...

Raw Story Farmers in California may finally begin growing industrial hemp under a new law signed Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown. Lawmake...

N.Y. Times columnist says the GOP is finally having its ‘60s — and Ted Cruz is the new Abbie Hoffmann Mopping keyboard, righting chair, cha...

Ironic Times Poll: Most Americans Have No Idea Obamacare Launches This Week Nearly half never heard of Obama. AIG CEO Says Criticism of ...

MUST SEE! Stories at Raw Story and HuffPo .

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A tip o' the Brain to Seniors for a Democratic Society . Also on Facebook .

Charles P. Pierce I wasn't ready, but the 2016 Iowa caucus campaign kicked off this afternoon when Tailgunner Ted Cruz announced that ...

Good. Stu Rothenberg Political parties seem to suffer through internal battles periodically, but the current state of the GOP is much wors...

For Jay in NC. Eerily apropos, I think, given his comment on the second post below this one. :-) It's crazy-makin' ta think the ...

Kos Among the more bizarre moments of Senator Cruz's fake filibuster tonight was his reading of the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham ...