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   Dan Savage, the brilliant and foul-mouthed sex columnist, has become one of the most important ethicists in America. Are we screwed?
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 Washingtons budget hawks want to decimate the federal workforce to shrink the deficit. It will have the opposite effect.
 There arent nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of Americas police. So we got these guys instead.
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September 2, 2010
MARK KIRK SYNDROME SPREADS TO OTHER GOP CANDIDATES.... When it comes to candidates with an almost pathological tendency to exaggerate their backgrounds, Illinois Senate candidate Mark Kirk (R) is obviously in a league of his own. But there are others who are at least competitive in the category. In Colorado, for example, gubernatorial hopeful Dan Maes has told some fascinating tales about his work in law enforcement in Kansas in the 1980s. As he tells it, Maes was a hero, fighting against a corrupt local system.
In reality, Maes never worked for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and the agency did not send Maes undercover. He did work for the local police department for about a year and a half, but it's unclear exactly why his tenure ended. Asked this week about his claims of working undercover, Maes conceded "those comments might have been incorrect comments." Pressed further about the stories published on his campaign website, Maes added, "Whoever typed it, typed it. That's all I've got to say." Maes, up until now, is best known for his concerns that a bike-riding program in Denver may be part of a nefarious scheme hatched by the United Nations. I have no idea where the Republican Party finds these guys, or why they keep winning GOP primaries. —Steve Benen 10:05 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (12)
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"I have no idea where the Republican Party finds these guys, or why they keep winning GOP primaries." When I was a boy my father told me the true and accurate meaning of the acronym GOP. Many think it stands for Grand Old Party but he explained it stands for Goofs on Parade. That might be a good clue to your statement/question above. "It's not a lie if you believe it."-George Costanza Posted by: kd bart on September 2, 2010 at 10:20 AM | PERMALINKWhen it comes to mesmerism you need to believe you are exactly what you need to believe . The more I watch the GOPers, the more I've come to believe that with them lying isn't a bug, it's a feature. They're down to the bottom of the barrel now, with the likes of Fiorina, Brewer, Angle, Bachmann, Boehner, and the like. These people are such losers that they have to lie just so someone will (stupidly) vote for them. Posted by: azportsider on September 2, 2010 at 10:31 AM | PERMALINKNever let the truth get in the way of a good story. Posted by: Kris on September 2, 2010 at 10:34 AM | PERMALINK"I have no idea where the Republican Party finds these guys, or why they keep winning GOP primaries." It's a feature, not a bug, of the modern GOP. There was a brilliant article on MightyDogKing a few months ago called "The Three Lies of Politics". The problem with the GOP, moreso than the Democrats, is that the GOP finds habitual liars, those who lie to cover everything and to explain everything. Why tell the truth (I was a cop for a year) when the embellishment is so much more glamorous (I was an undercover cop working against corrupt liberals!). A lot of these Republicans getting caught in their web of half-truths and full-bore lies is that they've done it all the time to where it's like a reflex to them. They lie because they can't think of anything else. And because of that, once they are in power they have to force the Real World to conform to those lies. And then everyone else finds out why lying is bad: because lies can kill. azportsider: Beware of calling them losers. At the moment they've got excellent chances of being winners. Posted by: davidp on September 2, 2010 at 10:37 AM | PERMALINKNote the rotten lack of personal responsibility about "whoever typed it." As for "or why they keep winning GOP primaries" - I've seen good answers here, but we need a big national debate and stirring up about all that. Our future depends on it. Posted by: Neil B on September 2, 2010 at 10:41 AM | PERMALINKYes, ye olde "The Typist did it" defense. However, he will still receive his votes from those, such as one fellow who posted following the Denver Post story, of a "So what. Remember Hillary and the "sniper" in the Balkans?" But, I am awaiting the new book by Maes entitled, "cleaning up the West; The Earps in Dodge City and me in Liberal". Posted by: berttheclock on September 2, 2010 at 10:59 AM | PERMALINKSteve's questions in the last paragraph cancel each other out. It's easy for the GOP to find candidates like this precisely because people are so prone to vote for them. There's no limit to the suckers out there who fall for this shtick, and keep re-electing nutjobs like Bachmann. So as a career option, the tea party wing of the GOP must look pretty attractive right now. Get elected once and you're made for life, as a career of well paid lobbying and activism beckons after your brief time in Washington. Posted by: davidp on September 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM | PERMALINK"'Asked this week about his claims of working undercover, Maes conceded 'those comments might have been incorrect comments.' Pressed further about the stories published on his campaign website, Maes added, 'Whoever typed it, typed it. That's all I've got to say.'" More Republican revisionism. In actuality, the correct phrase for a situation like this is "he who smelt it, dealt it." Posted by: Perspecticus on September 2, 2010 at 11:05 AM | PERMALINKWhere do they find them? When you want the trains to run on time and the ovens to function properly, look no further than the chicken farmer for maximum dedication and efficiency. Posted by: Countme? on September 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM | PERMALINK
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