...Mr. O’Keefe is best known for posing as a pimp and recording his conversations with workers for Acorn, the community organizing group, who advised him and a woman posing as a prostitute how to evade taxes on illegal activities. The video recordings severely damaged the reputation of Acorn, which now plans to close most of its offices.
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Rigid conformity is being enforced, no dissent is allowed, and the conservative brain will slowly shrivel into dementia if it hasn’t already.
...The donor community is only interested in financing organizations that parrot the party line, such as the one recently established by McCain economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin … This is a black day for what passes for a conservative movement, scholarship, and the once-respected AEI.
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The problem is that the country romanticized by the far right hasn’t existed for some time, and its ability to deny that fact grows more dim every day. President Obama and what he represents has jolted extremists into the present and forced them to confront the future. And it scares them. Even the optics must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill’s most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It’s enough to make a good old boy go crazy. ... ...The Tea Party, my friends, is not the future. You may want “your country back,” but you can’t have it. That sound you hear is the relentless, irrepressible march of change. Welcome to America: The Remix.