The Plame game
Wingnuts downplame the verdict

I'll be blunt. That talking point won't fly. If you're doing a national security investigation, if you're trying to find out who compromised the identity of a CIA officer and you go before a grand jury . . .if it is proven that the chief of staff to the vice president went before a federal grand jury and lied under oath repeatedly and fabricated a story about how he learned this information, how he passed it on, and we prove obstruction of justice, perjury and false statements to the FBI, that is a very, very serious matter.
-- Patrick Fitzgerald

Bye bye Harriet
When specific outcomes matter. What did we learn from the Miers debacle? That conservatives believe that a nominee's faith shouldn't be a factor? Nope. That they think all of Bush's nominees deserve an up or down vote? Nope. Don't let the code words fool you, we all know what they want.

Moron taxes
Starving the beast. Instead of doing the sensible thing and repealing the Bush tax cuts in order to make up for revenue loses and astronomical deficits, conservatives want to "starve the beast", that is intentionally run up deficits to prevent the government from funding education, healthcare, and anything else except for weapons systems.

Previous Debunkers

Katrina, continued
This is the story of the hurricane. The devastation of Hurricane Katrina revealed the Bush Administration's incompetence to the world. It also tragically revealed the enormous gap that exists between the rich and poor in America. It’s unfortunate that it took a natural disaster to bring the media into poor urban neighborhoods.

Burn baby burn
Why the Right is way wrong on energy. All this time the Left has tried to convince America that driving SUVs is destroying the Earth. How wrong we were—it turns out SUVs may have saved the Earth from another ice age. And you thought all you got from your gas guzzler was a false sense of security!

Death and taxes again
The Right must have run out of good reasons for the estate tax’s repeal this week, because they have gone back to the same boring tall-tale about the death of family farms. I suppose they don’t care about the social programs that will be scaled back when state and federal governments see a $60 billion/year fall in revenue.

Here come da' Judge!
To act or not to act? Last week was extremely stressful for conservatives, especially the type that goes to bed worrying about how to take back the judicial branch. President Bush’s nominee for Chief Justice, John Roberts, was subjected to difficult questioning by Senate Democrats, who audaciously believe they have a right to know something about the nominee for the highest judicial position in the nation before they vote to confirm him.

Democracy Inaction
When one looks back in history at the best forms of government, certainly our form, democracy, is the best, right? Well, sure, but that and a token will get you on the subway. And the subway doesn't even take tokens anymore. Democracy is great, and we all love it, ok. So shut up already. But what we don't love is Rightwing jingoism. Especially when it's used to marginalize dissent. Why that's downright undemocratic.

Death and taxes, again
Katrina forces Congress to shelve another windfall. Read why Republican arguments against the estate tax are intentionally misleading

Rock and roll
Rock and Roll music, lyrics, and attitude challenge conservative orthodoxies. This is the American spirit in its purest form. It is this pioneering and rebellious spirit that created democracy, and most of the great advancements of the last two centuries. Chuck Berry and Thomas Edison share the same American DNA. So do Martin Luther King, Jr. and Charlie Parker. Challenging dominant paradigms is in our blood, and rock and roll music is one of the most powerful expressions of this. Elvis Presley was considered shocking by the conservatives of his day. For that matter so were female suffrage and integration.

Bomb Iran

Remember the late '70s? Flash forward 25 years. Iran and North Korea, two countries that really do sponsor terrorists, are both making nukes. The problem is of course, the difficulty that the Administration that cried wolf faces - a) convincing anyone we have proof that Iran has WMDs; and b) taking any effective action whatsoever. Never-the-less, what good is a right wingnut who can't talk tough on Iran?

Intelligent design? Continued...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back out into the jungle and evolve naturally, the latest Time Magazine issue forces us to revisit the intelligent design v. evolution debate. Not to miss out on good right wing blather, The Washington Times celebrates intelligent design as an exercise in intellectual curiosity while attacking Darwinists as anti-religious, closed-minded ideologues.