Lesson of the midterm election: Archie Bunker lives!

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Thursday November 04, 2010 · 8:39 PM PDT

2010/11/04 · 20:39

"Where do we go from here? The battles done and we kind of won. So we sound our victory cheer. Where do we go from here?" – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode ‘Once more with feeling’.

So where do we go from here? That is the question that Republicans must ask themselves after Tuesday’s midterm election.

Historians may remember the elections of 2010 as the campaign season in which the bunker mentality resurfaced. The Archie Bunker mentality.

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Sunday September 19, 2010 · 8:44 PM PDT

2010/09/19 · 20:44

Like moths to a flame, members of the Tea Party movement have found themselves attracted to a dream ticket of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to square off against incumbent Barack Obama and thus restore the nation’s honor.

Restoring honor apparently has something to do with stemming the tide of marriage-minded gay Mexican Muslim Marxists who even now are mincing and prancing their way toward America’s porous borders {while looking fabulous} to steal low-paying service sector jobs that patriotic citizens refuse and bankrupting the nation by seeking free health care.

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Thursday September 09, 2010 · 8:08 PM PDT

2010/09/09 · 20:08

So would-be Koran-burner Terry Jones has abandoned his plans to have an Elijah moment.

The pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center made the announcement this afternoon after Defense Secretary Robert Gates telephoned him, and after allegedly extracting a promise to relocate the Cordoba House Islamic center further away from New York’s Ground Zero.

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Wednesday June 09, 2010 · 7:50 PM PDT

2010/06/09 · 19:50

You've seen this happen whenever kids compete on the playground: one child fails in spectacular fashion, and immediately issues a plaintive cry for a "do-over." So it goes in the Pachyderm Party, where tea partyists listen to luminaries like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck drive the level of discourse down to grade-school levels.

Having failed to derail health care reforms the first time out, Republicans are offering a "second opinion" about the legislation.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), an orthopedic surgeon who coined the “second opinion” slogan, participated in a recent strategy session in the office of Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell.

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Saturday April 24, 2010 · 8:41 PM PDT

2010/04/24 · 20:41

The driver of the 2017 BMW sedan was hit with twin blasts of Arizona heat as he rolled down the electric window.

Some of the heat came from the blazing sun on a roadway outside Flagstaff. The rest of the heat was personified by an Arizona State Trooper who had just pulled him over.

“What seems to be the problem Officer,” the driver asked.

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Friday January 08, 2010 · 7:27 PM PST

2010/01/08 · 19:27

I grew up during the heyday of the Saturday morning cartoon. Week after week, I’d watch the adventures of characters such as Scooby Do, Spider-Man and Jonny Quest, all rendered with colors that were only slightly less vivid than those of whatever breakfast cereal I was consuming.

But not even the countless hours of animated antics I watched before the Senate approved its much diluted health-care reform bill could have prepared me for the cartoonish battles that preceded the historic vote. I watched in disbelief as leaders of the majority political party behaved like recent graduates of the Neville Chamberlain School for Negotiation.

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 8:04 PM PDT

2008/10/23 · 20:04

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

--Deuteronomy 20:16

The Eighth Commandment. Not a real complicated rule. Not very difficult to understand, even when rendered in the somewhat archaic language of the King James Version of the Holy Bible. And yet the editor of publication aiming to serve Roman Catholics can’t seem to get it right.

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 4:28 AM PDT

2008/09/23 · 04:28

President George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC

Dear Mr. President:

With your permission, I’d like to test out a hypothesis. My theory is that, back in the days of your wild youth, back before Jesus became your favorite philosopher, you must have been a huge Led Zeppelin fan. The lyrics of their classic heavy metal music must have spoken to your soul on such a deep level that they would continue to affect you for years to come.

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Saturday June 14, 2008 · 5:56 AM PDT

2008/06/14 · 05:56

For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Not content to leave the above warning where the Book of Deuteronomy does, certain Roman Catholic clergymen have taken it upon themselves to extend it, punishing supporters for the sins of their candidates.

Consider the case of Douglas Kmiec, a supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential run who was denied Communion in April by a priest who takes exception to Obama’s pro-choice views.

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Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 10:59 PM PDT

2008/05/14 · 22:59

How can social conservatives who yearn for an America where the Ten Commandments are posted on every stationary object across this great nation be so obtuse as to the meaning of those Commandments?

I’ve been asking myself that very question after reading the results of a study that found people with conservative ideologies are happier than their liberal counterparts. It’s not that I begrudge the conservatives their happiness. Heck, this country was founded on the right to pursue happiness.

No, I’m concerned about the reason conservatives are so happy. According to researchers Jaime Napier and John Jost of New York University, conservatives are happy because they are able to rationalize social and economic inequalities.

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 8:34 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 20:34

When it comes to the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover probably gets a bad rap. The fact that he shares a surname with W.H. "Boss" Hoover, whose eponymous firm helped popularize the vacuum cleaner, has only further cemented his reputation as an economic scapegoat. (We had a Hoover in the White House and the economy sucked!)

But however clean Hoover’s hands may be when it came to the stock market crash of 1929, there’s no getting around the fact that he helped pave the way for the current economic downturn.

How did it all go so wrong? Some history is in order.

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Saturday March 22, 2008 · 9:27 PM PDT

2008/03/22 · 21:27

Several years ago, when I was practicing the craft of journalism in a small town, a co-worker who was disappointed with the community's exceedingly shallow dating pool planned a trip to Nevada. His primary purpose was the opportunity to patronize one of that state’s legalized brothels. Several of us at the office asked him why he would be willing to spend a significant percentage of his biweekly paycheck on a sexual encounter.

"You always pay for it," he responded with the world-weary cynical air of one who has picked up the tab on dinner and a movie one time too many.

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