Tweet Untweet: Massachusetts Republicants

You know you're watching a commercial for a Republican candidate in MA if the word "Republican" doesn't appear in the commercial.

— STEVE HUFF (@SteveHuff) March 13, 2013

Tags: Massachusetts, Republicans, Tweet Untweet, Twitter

Tuesday's Links: Sound the Bugle for Chavez

* The Bugle says "adios" to George W. Bush's muse.

* Notes from the GOP naming committee meeting.

* What Americans think about the Pope being Jewish.

* Homeland as a role-playing game.

* Someone may be trying to tell Gov. Rick Scott something.

* What is the Cyrus cylinder and why is it important to America?

* This is what it sounds like when Joe Biden tells John Boehner a joke.

Tags: Catholic Church, Daily Links, Funny or Die, Hugo Chavez, Jewish, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rick Scott

Tweet Untweet: Putting Out Conservative Fires

Paul Ryan's new budget unveiled the same day as the papal conclave. Looks like House Republicans and the Vatican will both be blowing smoke.

— Adam Carl (@AdamWearsPants) March 12, 2013

Tags: Catholic Church, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Tweet Untweet, Twitter, Vatican

Dead ACORN Is Not Dead Enough for House GOP

Look, if ACORN wanted to avoid getting its corpse repeatedly kicked by the U.S. Congress, they should have killed some civilians in Iraq and renamed themselves Academi. Instead they're stuck in the darkest timeline: 

March 22, 2010: ACORN, an umbrella organization of community organizers that provided lots of figurines for Glenn Beck's fear-diorama, announces it will disband. Later that year it does just that, closing its state affiliate offices and filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

December 5, 2012: Despite not existing, ACORN is blamed by 49% of Republicans for stealing the 2012 election.

Today: A short-term budget bill sponsored by House Republicans includes language to defund ACORN, which continues to not exist.

April 2013, probably: House Republicans take a strong stand against an appropriations bill that would allow the National Institutes of Health to study unicorn farts and manticore tears.

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Tags: ACORN, House of Representatives, Republicans

Jeb Bush Is Pissed That You Can't Decide What He Should Believe

Turns out the only thing harder than immigrants finding a pathway to citizenship is a guy named Bush finding a pathway to the presidency.

And you people are not making it any easier.

Take a look at Jeb Bush's* new book, released just last night, which argues that "those [immigrants] who violated the laws can remain but cannot obtain the cherished fruits of citizenship." Harsh!

(Also, "cherished fruits"? Sounds like Michelle Obama just got an ally for her healthy eating campaign. Yay bipartisanship!)

But just a few hours later on Morning Joe, Bush said the following sentence-like jumble of words: "If you can craft that in law where you can have a path to citizenship where there isn't an incentive for people to come illegally."

His reason for waffling? "We wrote this book last year, not this year." Duh. If only Americans would stop flip-flopping on what they want Jeb Bush to believe, he wouldn't have to change his mind so quickly.

_{*Fun fact: his real name is John Ellis Bush. If he's going to avoid one of his names, though, shouldn't it be the last one?}

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Tags: 2016, Immigration, Jeb Bush, Republicans