By Wink The Libyan overthrow of Gadhafi is worth celebrating. Anytime a ruthless dictator is deposed the world has a chance to become a better place. A chance. It is better when a country overthrows its own dictator, like Libya did, than when an outside country does this, like the U.S. did in Iraq. Why [...]
By Wink The GOP talking-points machine is always well-oiled. Every Republican gets a regular memo, and dutifully spits out the same sh**, to magnify the ‘seriousness’ of some alleged problem. I call these YAPI – Yet Another Phony Issue. And what is today’s YAPI, you may ask? Vacation. Too much vacation. Barack Obama has been [...]
By Wink Is it cynical to think the GOP is happy about our ongoing recession? Are their actions based on total cluelessness, or is this intentional? What Americans need are jobs. The last thing the GOP seems to care about is jobs. Putting people to work would … Take them off unemployment (which saves money) [...]
By Wink In our July 28 column we discussed GOP efforts to eliminate voters on a nationwide basis. To pass laws restricting voters, they drummed up the following phony message: Fraud, fraud, fraud. So where is the fraud? Ohio is one of the states that passed a new, more restrictive law as to who can [...]
By Wink Dinking around, delaying raising the debt ceiling, has cost us money. The U.S. taxpayer is now on the hook for $1.7 billion that we never would have owed had we simply acted more timely to do something we were going to do anyway…. I told you so. Economists told you so. This [...]
By Wink We at the Winkest Link were stupid enough to believe that the House of Representatives would eventually see the light and just pass raising the debt ceiling. To all presidents of both parties this has always been a formality in the past. But now morons run the House, so we at W-L will [...]
By Wink GOP legislators in 40 states have introduced bills to make it harder to vote. The stated objective is to stop ‘voter fraud.’ Many of these bills have already passed. Why are Republicans doing this? Why not Democrats? Isn’t voter fraud bad? Don’t Dems think voter fraud would be bad? Yeah, they would think [...]
By Wink The GOP talking point to regain the House in 2010 was the following mantra: “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.” Nothing else…just ‘jobs.’ It worked fabulously. They took complete control of the House and narrowed their deficit in the Senate. What have their objectives been SINCE the election? Embarrass President Obama. Protect the extremely wealthy [...]
By Wink Do you remember the days when Republicans were allowed diverse opinions? Betty Ford did. In spite of the fact that her conservative Republican husband, President Gerald Ford, opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, Betty Ford supported it. She didn’t just silently support it, she said so in front of microphones. She made public speeches [...]
By Wink We sometimes make verbal misstatements or mistakes. All people do. Honorable people, when they say something stupid (or stupidly), will apologize and correct the error. This is not an article about that. This is about lies. Lies are different from misstatements, because a lie has the intent to mislead people. In the political [...]
