Secession could save the GOP

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Sunday May 31, 2009 · 10:38 AM PDT

2009/05/31 · 10:38

The GOP has a problem. Their wingnutty base makes them anathema to the rest of the country. For every vote the GOP picks up on the far right, by promoting torture and opposing gay marriage, they lose a vote from the center. Republicans are trapped in a cruel electoral calculus, a variant of Newton's Third Law applied to political forces; each and every reactionary impulse produces an equal and opposite shift of momentum to the Democrats.

Is there any solution? Are Republicans consigned to permanent minority status on the fringe of an increasingly tolerant electorate?

Most likely, the GOP is doomed. Republican denial is essentially limitless. Yet I think the Republicans do have a way out, a clear path to becoming once again a truly national party.

Paradoxically, that path lay through Secession.

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Sunday December 07, 2008 · 1:35 PM PST

2008/12/07 · 13:35

In a highly disturbing finding, researchers at UC Berkeley are reporting that children 9-10 years old differing only "in socioeconomic status" show "detectable differences in the response of their prefrontal cortex" that, according to study author Mark Kishiyama, are "similar to the response of people who have had a portion of their frontal lobe destroyed by a stroke." A preliminary report of these findings can be found in a Science Daily article entitled: Poor Children's Brain Activity Resembles That Of Stroke Victims, EEG Shows.

The research has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience but has not yet appeared. Thus, we're left to speculate as to a number of critical details. Nonetheless, the idea that poverty is creating a lost generation of children, while hardly new, receives a disturbing new emphasis when tied to standard neurological measures, highlighting the case for more proactive government assistance.

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Saturday January 19, 2008 · 4:25 PM PST

2008/01/19 · 16:25

checkout CNN's coverage of S.C. Rethug primary

McCain 38%
Huckabee 23%
Romney 19%
Thompson 11%
Paul 5%
Giuliani 4%
Hunter 0%

Only a few thousand votes so far. Go Huckabee!
(he's the most likely to knock off McCain, who is the
most likely to win the White House for the rethugs.

CNN Poll: Rethugs Lose all Head2Heads

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Saturday January 12, 2008 · 6:28 PM PST

2008/01/12 · 18:28

Wow. This is awesome!

We win every Head2Head match up (although not by more than the
margin of error against McCain)

Clinton 50% Clinton 58% Clinton 56% Clinton 55%
McCain 48% Romney 40% Huckabee 42% Giuliani 42%

Obama 49% Obama 59% Obama 58% Obama 56%
McCain 48% Romney 37% Huckabee 39% Giuliani 40%

And the percent of respondents who:
"Would Definitely Vote Against That Candidate in November"

Romney 62%
Giuliani 55%
Huckabee 52%
Clinton 43%
McCain 43%
Obama 38%

And the percent of respondents who:
"Would Definitely Vote For That Candidate in November"

Clinton 37%
Obama 30%
McCain 22%
Giuliani 19%
Huckabee 15%
Romney 13%

CNN Poll Results

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Friday January 11, 2008 · 1:24 PM PST

2008/01/11 · 13:24

I love DailyKos. I even like John Edwards. But the latter is ruining the former. Can we please make a deal? After Edwards is beaten in his home state of S.C., No Mas? In fact, how about a voluntary moratorium on Edwards diaries until after S.C? If JE can pull an HRC (and boy would he be the comeback kid if he did) then fine, Diary away. But can we please get on with the true mission of DailyKos, which is to elect Democrats and take back our country from the forces of pure evil who have usurped it? Baring a miracle in S.C., Edwards has zero chance of being the Democratic nominee, let alone the next president. Time to MoveOn guys. He's 0 for 2. In this case, I say three strikes and you're Out!

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Sunday January 06, 2008 · 2:27 PM PST

2008/01/06 · 14:27

According to the recent "holiday" issue of the Economist, in an article about how China's GNP has been recently revalued based on an analysis of domestic purchasing power (Clipping the dragon's wings), it was noted off-hand that China will surpass the USA as the "world's largest economy" in approximately 10 years.

10 years!!!

I do not think of myself as a jingoistic American whose self-worth requires being a citizen of the #1 economic power and indeed I have long accepted that our 5% share of the human population cannot indefinitely account for such a disproportionate share of the planet's collective wealth. Still, I find it shocking that the ultimate indicator of America's relative economic decline is projected to cross the magic barrier, from #1 to #2, quite so soon.

10 years!!!

And with a further decline in the dollar, it is actually possible that Barack Obama (or your favorite candidate) will preside over the official end of the New American Century.

America, are you ready for the coming demotion???

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Saturday December 01, 2007 · 4:54 PM PST

2007/12/01 · 16:54

It's about the SEX stupid!

Everything you always wanted to know about why the Republicans hate SEX, but were too afraid of finding out to ask...

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Saturday November 10, 2007 · 11:22 AM PST

2007/11/10 · 11:22

What does Turing’s Theorem have to do with progressive politics? I'm not sure, except that the opponents of liberal minded people everywhere seem to have one thing in common, a rigid ideology that admits no room for alternative perspectives. It makes no difference whether the reactionary forces in question represent fanatical Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or whatever. Wielding one's religion as a club, attacking all those who disagree as heretics, infidels, traitors, and worst of all, liberals, does not depend on in whose God’s name the bludgeoning is being carried out. The following parable applies Turing's Theorem to the Ultimate Question, "Does God Exist?", although the answer won’t satisfy anyone. People of faith, liberal or conservative, will rightly retort that Turing's Theorem applies only to a finite state machine (e.g. a digital computer), providing a theological loophole large enough for even the most inflexible God to slip through. Nonetheless, my parable offers yet one more way to view the eternal debate about eternity. Whatever the Ultimate Answer might be, it cannot be reduced to "Literal Truth" (i.e. an algorithm).

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