Is John McCain Becoming Human Again?

John McCain used to the the Right's Conscience, the guy who embodied cautious responsibility in management, preferred smaller government, and fought for ''freedom'' and ''individual liberties''. With a military background (and former POW star-status), he was pretty much what Republicans are trying to make us believe Ronald Reagan was.

Then he lost the GOP nomination to George W. Bush, whose cronies destroyed his public personae as a means to show him ''how to play the game''. In the 8 years of the Bush Administration, the U.S. (and Republicans, mostly) became a caricature of its former self, with talking points turning to extremes more and more every day - and baseless insults to put down the opposition became the norm.

That's when a Democrat comes up with an idea - even if it was proposed by a Republican first - it'll inevitably be taxed as ''communist/socialist'' and irresponsible. The only things politicians should advocate is lower taxes, tax cuts for the rich, war and other types of death (no to killing future babies, yes to killing as many adults as we can), less laws (but, ironically, stronger penalties to those who commit crimes).

And, above all, ''less - smaller - government''. Yet no Tea Party-related cronies are willing to sacrifice their own healthcare-provided jobs to make a point and/or get the ball rolling. No, in Congress and the House - strength is in numbers. Duh.

In any event, McCain has not only been a shadow of his former self, he's also gone against just about everything he's ever stood for (''no wall to separate us from Mexico'' / ''build the damn fence''), a position most thought would end with the ''Sarah Palin as running mate'' debacle, but he continued in his Senate race two years later. Jon Stewart had a great bit about that, look it up.

But now, he's standing up Palin 2.0 - Michele Bachmann - on the Senate floor. Now, we're still a far cry from the reasonable guy of yore, the score's still 45-3 and he has a long way to go before making amends for his temporary fit of being delusional, but he hasn't given up quite yet. Let's see where this goes.

Tim Thomas Strikes Again

So you're a high-profile athlete in your sport...

And I mean high-fucking-profile: playoff MVP, two-time best-at-your-position, Olympian silver medalist. You are Tim Thomas, star goalie of the Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins.

You stack your Facebook profile page with highly political statuts updates, refuse to meet the President of the United States and... won't answer questions about it to the media?

You're dumber than I thought, and that's knowing you fully support the Tea Party assholes.

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Who Says Politicians Are All Alike?

Christine O'Donnell and Sarah Palin not only share half a brain and a knack for saying the dumbest shit, they also apparently see the same handlers who use the same marketing team and focus groups who are then sent to the same tailors.

Or maybe the Tea Party responds to prefers just one type of human being.

Or maybe they were all made at the same clone factory, which would make sense considering both were pretty much non-existent nobodies until mere months before a national election.

Which is also true for Clone #3, Michelle Bachmann:

For fuck's sake, people. Can't you see through this shit?

Christine O'Donnell Doesn't Stand By Her Principles

It seems former Tea Party poster girl Christine O'Donnell doesn't understand that a TV interview is not a press release nor a press conference but rather a question-and-answer session led by a host - usually a journalist, or at least someone with at least half a brain and an IQ higher than that of a slice of pizza.

But the former witch and still-against-gay-marriage O'Donnell didn't like Piers Morgan's (of all people) questions and stormed off his show, presumably as advised by her staff. And called him ''rude''. says all he wanted to talk about was ''sex'' - albeit the type she would prefer be ''forbidden''.

Good thing some polls show the Tea Party's policies and ideas as less popular among Americans than even Muslims. A weird statement (''Muslims not being popular'') for anyone living elsewhere, but you know how it is...