Teabagger fail.

The great thing about last night was it officially made the Teabaggers totally irrelevant.

As you wake up this morning, the tea party has failed because it has surrendered itself into the hands of Romney, Santorum, or Gingrich — all of whom would use government to suit allegedly conservative ends, which is not conservative in and of itself.

It's almost as though the "Tea Party" wasn't a distinct political movement at all -- and just another name for "Bush/Cheney Republican." Shocking, but true.

At least we're all honest about that now. Even Putz.

I THINK HE’S RIGHT: Rand Paul on a third-party run by Ron: The tea party’s better off within the GOP.

Notice he didn't say "with" -- but "within."

Rick Perry must be a masochist.

Looks like the Secessionist is back in. Feel the Perrymentum!

Rick Santorum just compared Obama to Mussolini.

But he's running a very positive campaign!

Adios mofo.

Damnit, the Secessionist just dropped out. I was enjoying watching him humiliate himself and get his ass repeatedly kicked.

No one should care who wins Iowa.

If Santorum wins, Romney will be the nominee.

If Paul wins, Romney will be the nominee.

If Romney wins, Romney will be the nominee.

Southern right-wingers have a bad track record for being wrong about stuff.

Reich:

America has had a long history of white Southern radicals who will stop at nothing to get their way - seceding from the Union in 1861, refusing to obey civil rights legislation in the 1960s, shutting the government in 1995, and risking the full faith and credit of the United States in 2010.

Not to mention the tacit approval of 100 years of lynching after the Civil War.

Pants on fire.

I remember quite vividly that the Obama-Clinton primary was pretty rough -- but I don't think the candidates themselves got quite this ugly.

Then again, these are Republicans, and no one does ugly personal attacks like they do.

Prediction

No matter who wins the Iowa caucuses, it will be a big win for the Tea Party.

Ronald Reagan cut taxes to 0% and personally took down the Berlin Wall with a sledgehammer.

The cult of Reagan is fun to watch, certainly, but if I were Eric Cantor, I would not want my press secretary shouting at interviewers.

Terrorism in NYC

But it's against Muslims, so -- we won't call it "terrorism."

This would've been extremely useful in 2009.

I assume the Obama administration thought that by the fourth year of his first term, the economy would be pretty much fixed.

Even so, the GOP has been the Rich People Party since the 1920s. So this "new" positioning they've come up with should've been the positioning from the beginning -- and really, should always be the positioning of any Democratic politician, period.

Surrender

In wingnutland, Obama can dramatically increase drone attacks, surge in Afghanistan, expand the war into Libya and kill bin Laden -- and it's all still "surrender."

(Above: Henry Kissinger's non-surrender to the North Vietnamese.)

UPDATE

Pavlovian Putz picks up the "surrender" meme.

Yes, that Obama is seeking to end a decade long war George W. Bush completely fucked up means he's "surrendering."

Rubes

I guess I was the only one who saw this coming.

“They put the campaign together like all the other Perry campaigns: raise a bunch of money, don’t worry about the [media coverage], don’t worry about debates and buy the race on TV,” said a top Perry official. “You have to be a total rube to think a race for president is the same as a race for governor.”

I get that the national media would've been easily taken in by the Secessionist, but remain baffled that Texas-based politicos were bullish on his chances when he entered the race.

The only path to victory for him was to, a la Palin, skip the debates and not give interviews -- which is exactly what they've done in Texas for years. And when those restrictions weren't put in place, it didn't take long for him to start babbling about Ponzi schemes and lynching Ben Bernanke.

Game over.

Yes, Glenn Reynolds lies.

Duh.

Also love that Heritage foundation deficit chart Putz was obsessively posting for a while that ends the Bush presidency in 2008.

HAHAHA Obama's not an American citizen HAHAHAHA.

The Romney boys are such entitled little assholes.

Keeping it classy at Fox.

Speechless.

Pointless polling.

The only thing this poll shows is that Republicans and the right-wing media are much better at consistently and forcefully screaming "liberal" and "far-left" than Democrats are at calling Republicans "radical" and "far-right."

If you poll issue by issue, this doesn't happen. Does anyone seriously believe Ron Paul is closer to the median voter than Barack Obama?

One thing it reminds future Democratic presidents is that, no matter how "centrist" they govern -- they will always be labeled as a "liberal" and "out of the mainstream" uniformly by the right.

Clinton for veep?

Normally, I'd ignore a rumor like this from a pundit, but Reich is pretty connected.

Not sure it matters. Unemployment keeps nudging down and the clown show that is the GOP keeps screwing up.