Here's the billboard The Daily Show has up to greet Republicans when they arrive at the convention: "Welcome, Rich White Oligarchs!"

Pretty cute.

When I was younger, I was a Republican. One of the reasons for that was because I thought they were more responsible with our nation's budget. Later I found out that they were just better at marketing. They marketed themselves as fiscal conservatives, when in fact, they were nothing of the sort.

We explain the big lie here (some mild cursing in the clip):




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The Republicans did an internal accounting to see what they were doing wrong in Congressional races (because they got mauled in the 2006 elections and the special election since). The results are amusing. We explain them in the short video below:



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The title of this post sounds facetious, but in fact, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana says it is literal. He wrote an essay in 1994 claiming he took part in an exorcism where he battled Lucifer and won! That's bad ass. Now that's the kind of experience we need in the White House. If he can beat the Devil imagine what he can do Al Qaeda.

Just when you thought the Republicans couldn't get any more nuts, Governor Jindal is here to prove you wrong. Listen for the unbelievable details here:





This guys is being considered for the VP slot by McCain. Now, I'm not going to put this on McCain. I doubt he knew about the exorcism, or approves of battling Satan in your down time. And he hasn't even picked Jindal. This is part of the normal vetting process and I hope Jindal has now been effectively vetted out of consideration.

So, putting the McCain connection aside, how did this guy get to be governor? Atheists who believe in a rational world have no chance in politics in this country, but stark raving mad guys like this are considered legitimate and electable? What does that tell you about us? Now, that's the real scary thought.

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For at least twenty years conservative hacks have been coming on TV, yelling and screaming with no substance -- and finally Chris Matthews couldn't take it anymore. He just annihilated this right-wing talk show host on national television. Watch it here:





The full seven minute embarrassing interview can be seen here. I have criticized Matthews plenty in the past. I think he's too chummy with power and often buys into Republican talking points without really challenging their core assumptions. But in this one shining moment, he wiped all that way. If he could challenge the assumptions of the right and the left like this night in and night out, then his show would truly be worth watching.

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PS -- Small note of caution for Matthews. he can't let this develop into a shtick. What he did great here wasn't asking the same question 28 times; it was challenging the underlying talking point. The point isn't to embarrass people on national TV, the point is to get beyond the talking points and get to the substance of what they are saying.

It's impossible to predict the future with certainty (obviously) and many things can change between now and November. But if things continue as they are, the Republicans are going to get steamrolled in 2008. And there would have to be some real dramatic change on the world scene for there to be a different outcome. All things being equal, they are on their way to a loss like they've never seen before.

Here is why:




Now, new polls are showing voters preferring Democrats by nearly 20 points to Republicans. That's unheard of. Not chastened by any of this, the GOP continues to head in the wrong direction. Instead of finally coming back toward the center, they keep going further and further right. By the time they get their wake up call in 2008, it's going to be too late. It's going to take them decades to recover from this mistake. They have gone so far to the right, they went right off the cliff.

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How soon we forget the fallen! The Young Turks remember GOP Candidates moments before going down and disappearing! Our producer Jayar Jackson put this video together and I hope you guys enjoy it as much as we have!

Another Republican busted:




I'm telling you, I'm starting to feel bad for these guys. If they could just be honest with the public and with themselves, there would be nothing to report here. But as it stands, I guess we have to keep making fun of them until they all confess to being the hypocrites they clearly are.

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I love Charles Barkley. I was a Republican at the same time he was and we both left the party at the same time. We left the GOP when, as Barkley puts it, "they lost their minds."

In the video below you'll see the Charles Barkley interview on CNN where he goes after the hypocritical conservatives. If you keep watching, you'll also see an explanation of why it doesn't make any sense to say you supported both Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.:




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Ronald Reagan cut and ran from Beirut. Ronald Reagan negotiated with the Evil Empire. Ronald Reagan sold arms to Iran! Ronald Reagan raised taxes eleven times. Ronald Reagan was the one who gave illegal immigrants amnesty in the first place!

Reagan would be laughed out of the Republican primaries now. They'd call him a softie lib. God knows what Ann Coulter would call him. Yet these same Republicans treat him like a demi-god. You know why? Because they have no other Republican presidents they can be proud of. Who else are they going to praise? Richard Nixon? George W. Bush?

I think they should be proud of George H. W. Bush for many reasons, but of course they hate him because he raised taxes and didn't invade Iraq. Present day conservatives are an embarrassment. They are the most ideologically rigid party I have ever seen. Now compare them to the Democrats running:




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In the midst of record profits for oil companies we are giving them a $14 billion subsidy. That's insane. That's money straight out of our pockets and into Exxon-Mobil's pockets. Outside of politicians who get their elections financed by these guys, no one in the country should be in favor of this. This is not a conservative or liberal position, this is plain old robbery.

Our system is broken. The politicians funnel the money into these industries. The industries hire lobbyists to funnel the money back to the politicians. And we're the ones who get screwed. Remember, it's our money they're handing out:




And now, because of this insane economic stimulus package, businesses are going to get another $50 billion in tax breaks. This money doesn't grow on trees. It's money that's going over from our taxes to the corporations. Dumb, dumb, dumb idea. So, of course, both Democrats and Republicans agree to it. In fact, they have never agreed to an idea so quickly. That's how you can judge how dumb a political idea is, by how quickly the politicians agree to it.

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Find out who conservative bloggers are backing among the Republican candidates:




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The Republican debates have turned into a comedy and a tragedy at the same time. They openly mock anyone who has put any thought into a foreign policy issue (we don't need no stinkin' thought, we just need to go on the offense!). The one who yells for war the loudest wins (or at least gets the loudest applause from the gathered Spartans).

I feel like I'm watching a Saturday Night Live skit of what it would feel like if the Republican candidates were debating to become the leader of Sparta in the movie 300. Except it's a skit, so instead of being cool, it looks f'in ridiculous.

Look at the clip below, Huckabee actually says "gates of hell" and people cheer like crazy ... because they are:




May their God, or any other God, help us if one of these clowns gets elected as the next president.

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Moderator Charlie Gibson filled the space between Saturday's Republican and Democratic debates by having all the candidates take the stage to greet each other in the spirit of future camaraderie.

The thought that in less than a year all of these politicians would be coming together to support the new president was quite moving. And the way the candidates all embraced each other was nothing short of romantic.

McCain and Edwards hugged like long lost best friends.

Back in December I blogged about the Republican Fox News debate that didn't include Ron Paul. It turns out this has caused such a stir that the New Hampshire Republican Party has quit as a sponsor of the Fox News event.

No, the air time is too important. Ron Paul understands that.

After being "uninvited" to participate in FOX's debate Sunday night at St. Anselm College, Paul decided to purchase an hour-long television slot that evening, because "I can afford it." He raised $20 million in the fourth quarter, more than any other Republican campaign..Read More...