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Asshole of the Month: Dan Flynn
If you want to abolish something completely legal, but don’t have the political support to back you, there’s a sneaky workaround: Create a maze of absurd, costly regulations to render whatever you’re trying to abolish inaccessible or impossible to practice or own. That’s how marijuana and industrial hemp, for example, were effectively “outlawed” by the...
Asshole of the Month: Rick Snyder
Life has been tough for Michigan Governor Rick Snyder this year. His approval rating has tanked, and he has been constantly heckled by irate citizens everywhere he goes. Dining out in an Ann Arbor restaurant with his family back in January, he was nearly run out on a rail. If tarring and feathering were still...
Asshole of the Month: Jim Jordan
Representative Jim Jordan from Ohio may be the most extreme, far-right legislator in all of Congress, earning a perfect score from the American Conservative Union. What did he have to do to earn this dubious honor? First, he corraled 78 freshmen radicals into a posse called the Republican Study Committee andwent headhunting for heretics who...
Asshole of the Month: Donald Trump
Donald Trump has shocked the nation by leading the dense pack of contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination, prompting even the anointed candidate of the GOP establishment, Jeb Bush, to allegedly call him a “buffoon,” “clown” and “asshole.” It’s not hard to understand Trump’s appeal: For an electorate long weary of the mealymouthed evasions and...
Asshole of the Month: Trey Gowdy
The Tea Party is rhapsodic over its new gunslinger in Congress—South Carolina’s Representative Trey Gowdy, a former hotshot prosecutor and alumnus of Baylor University, mecca of the Southern Baptist faith. Gowdy won his seat against fellow Republican and longtime incumbent Bob Inglis Sr. in 2011, after Inglis cast too many sane and rational votes for...
Asshole of the Month: Mark Meadows
One of the Tea Party’s new young guns in Congress, Representative Mark Meadows— elected in 2012 from North Carolina—launched a radical insurgency against the Republican old guard last summer with a move to depose House Speaker John Boehner. Meadows and his fellow bomb throwers believed Boehner and the GOP leadership were just not conservative enough,...
Asshole of the Month: Benjamin Netanyahu
Twenty years ago the bloody Israel-Palestine conflict was very close to a peaceful resolution with the 1993-1995 Oslo Accords. In a landmark move, Israel recognized PLO chairman Yasser Arafat as a negotiating partner for the first time and agreed to exchange “land for peace” in accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which condemned the...
Asshole of the Month: Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina won the “junior varsity” round of the first Republican Presidential debate on August 6, 2015, and was hailed by some pundits and right-wing activists as the GOP’s antidote to Hillary Clinton. They all praised her poise and elocution, which amounts to so much lipstick on a pig, because gnarly Carly embodies the supposed...
Asshole of the Month: Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio is a fresh new face in the Republican Presidential sweepstakes, but despite the good looks and charming articulation—a Ricky Ricardo look-alike carefully tailored to siphon the Hispanic vote away from Democrats—he’s afflicted with the same debilitating political Alzheimer’s that plagues the rest of the pack. After five years in the U.S. Senate, Rubio...
Asshole of the Month: Ben Carson
By popular acclaim of the Tea Party and the evangelical ding-dong wing of the Republican Party, Dr. Ben Carson has been drafted to run for President. No doubt he’s a smart and talented man: former head of pediatric surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the first surgeon to separate conjoined twins attached at the head, author...
