Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 22, 2009, 3:14 pm
The Party’s Over Well, frumps, I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later:  Glenn Beck is feeling his oats and is going all political activist on us.  Maybe it was the success of his 912 Proje...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 21, 2009, 10:42 am
Well, frumps, here we are nearing the end of another November and preparing for the annual Great American Pig-out otherwise known as Thanksgiving. Yep, this is the American holiday devoted to giving ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 20, 2009, 4:29 pm
Well, frumps, I must say that one nice thing about conspiracy theories is that they have a relatively short shelf life.  Maybe that has to do with the emotional intensity that adherents are willing t...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 19, 2009, 4:24 pm
Well, frumps, you know how some professions require that before you can hang out a shingle you have to prove to some experts that you know what the hell you’re doing?  You know what I mean, before ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 18, 2009, 3:12 pm
Fellow Democrats Well, frumps, it would appear that Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) is either really feeling his oats or he’s developing superpowers.  After warning ominously, a few days ago, that “ther...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 17, 2009, 11:39 am
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 16, 2009, 2:12 pm
Dave Martin, Getty Images Well, frumps, a while back when Sarah Palin decided to quit her day job to devote more time to her Facebook page, I really believed that we had seen the end of Sarah-belle o...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 15, 2009, 10:36 am
Well, frumps, it’s been a week now since Congress passed HR 3200 the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the House version of a health care reform bill, complete with Stupak-Pitt amendment.  Fo...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 13, 2009, 4:04 pm
Well, frumps, nothing can spoil a good Tea Party faster than a catfight.  And that appears to be exactly what’s going on in the wonderful world of teabaggery.  It was bound to happen sooner or lat...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 11, 2009, 2:03 pm
Well, frumps, it’s another Veteran’s Day and I’d like to take the opportunity to suggest that, just as we do on New Year’s Day, we start a new practice of making a Veteran’s Day resolution e...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 10, 2009, 1:41 pm
Well, frumps, today I’m going to break my “promise to self” to never discuss “Money for Money’s sake.”  My relationship with Money has always been rocky.  I blame that on my yout...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 9, 2009, 1:26 pm
Maj. Nidal M. Hasan Well, frumps, it would appear that the “court of public opinion” is moving inexorably toward a “guilty of domestic terrorism” verdict on the comatose Maj. Nidal Hasan, bel...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 8, 2009, 1:43 pm
Well, frumps, it was a big night for the “Real World Majority” that is, the actual, countable majority of Americans who desperately want and need Health Care Reform.  You know them, they are the ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 7, 2009, 12:22 pm
2politicaljunkies In a rare show of bipartisanship, GOP members of the House helped their liberal counterparts to declaw the Patriot Act by attending Michelle Bachmanns “Super Bowl of Freedom” ra...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 6, 2009, 3:19 pm
Carlson Well, frumps, evidently the past week’s political mayhem have broken the GOP’s brain – again.  There is so much pseudo-analysis, punditry, pronouncements and renunciations; tea partyin...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 5, 2009, 11:39 am
Well, frumps, we have a real treat in store today for those of you who miss those zany tea-baggers and their madcap assaults on the “Seats of Power.”  We have Rep. Michelle Bachmann to thank for ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Nov 4, 2009, 4:22 pm
Well, frumps, I started out this week a little “under the weather” but there’s something magically restorative about the spectacle of a gang of overheated “ideological purists” hoist with th...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 31, 2009, 7:45 am
Well, Cheneys, all I can say is “it sucks to be you.”  That isn’t a very nice thing to say but since you lowered the common decency standard by several notches, this week – there you have it....
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 30, 2009, 4:48 am
Well, frumps, if you’re anything like me you are probably overdue for a brief respite from the insane political circus that has marked President Obama’s first year in office.  I have recently dis...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 28, 2009, 3:43 pm
Well, frumps, lest you have any lingering doubt that the GOP is in critical condition with only a 50-50 chance of survival, we can now turn to Bill Kristol’s prognostications on the future of the Re...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 27, 2009, 12:53 pm
Well,  frumps, as I perused the World’s doings with my morning coffee, today, I came across a news item (entitled Afghans protest rumored desecration of Koran by U.S. troops) that I found particula...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 25, 2009, 9:30 am
Well, frumps, despite the amount of time spent “in the crucible,” it appears that Health Care Reform legislation is still an ungainly glob of base metals that may never be transformed into actual ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 23, 2009, 1:20 pm
Well, frumps, looks like somebody rattled Dick Cheney’s cage again – either that or he’s trying to look “presidential.” (God help us) Cheney came out of hibernation on Wednesday to put on h...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 22, 2009, 1:44 pm
Well, frumps, my attention today was drawn to some articles about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), specifically the PTSD suffered by the members of our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan a...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 20, 2009, 2:34 pm
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) Well, frumps, the Republican Party is starting to show a disturbing tendency toward cannibalism so can it be far off before they start devouring their young?  I’m not ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 19, 2009, 2:44 pm
Well, frumps, for a while now I just haven’t been paying enough attention to Glenn Beck – I took a little rest cure.  This weekend, however, I did some catching up and found this viewed-to-death ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 18, 2009, 2:27 pm
Well, frumps, as if we didn’t have quite enough of our own homegrown nut cases, we now seem to be running an exchange program with the UK. The visiting wingnut making the most waves, recently, is an...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 17, 2009, 9:34 am
Well, frumps, this week’s Tales of the Strange and Uncanny come from Never Never Land, the preferred getaway of the GOP Old Guard and associated right wing camp followers.  Up until very recently, ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 15, 2009, 2:58 pm
Boss Hog Well, frumps, nothing has lifted my spirits quite as much, in a long time, as watching Rush Limbaugh reap what he sowed.  In case you’ve been too busy to notice, or your mind goes on “m...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 14, 2009, 2:35 pm
... , linked by the FBI to the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. According to Marc Sageman, ... tribal-based coalition...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 13, 2009, 12:05 pm
Well, frumps, yesterday America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association which represents 1,300 member insurance companies, fired its best shot over the bow in a last ditch effo...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 12, 2009, 12:00 pm
Well, frumps, it’s only a little over a year until the 2010 mid-term elections so this morning the GOP strategy for Roaring Back into Power in 2010 was unveiled in The Wall Street Journal.  And it�...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 11, 2009, 2:51 pm
Everyone deserves equal rights. That’s why they’re called “equal” and “rights.”   Bill Maher Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Ec...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 10, 2009, 12:44 pm
Well, frumps, it’s probably best that President Obama’s Nobel Prize announcement came on a Friday.  It means that we’ve gotten through knee-jerk reactions, Twittermania and conservative blog ba...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 9, 2009, 2:19 pm
President Barack Obama: 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Well, frumps, surprises abound!  I awoke to the news that President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and I say “Good on you, Mr. President...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 8, 2009, 2:49 pm
Jamie Leigh Jones Well, frumps, another day another little spoonful of insanity.  The recent passage of Senator Franken’s amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill 2010 demonstrates, once again...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 7, 2009, 1:50 pm
Well, frumps, the war in Iraq may be “over” but the memory lingers on.  Today, AP ran a story about a company called Combat Support Associates that’s been picked up everywhere because it’s a ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 6, 2009, 3:38 pm
Well, frumps, today I’m going to take a little departure from the norm.  I’ve been having an interesting exchange with a Frump Gazette reader who commented on a recent post entitled “Where the ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 5, 2009, 3:00 pm
cagle.msnbc.com Well, frumps, I have what’s probably going to sound like a really stupid question but humor me, OK?  Say you’re a homeowner, and you decide it’s time to replace your wall-to-wa...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 4, 2009, 4:55 pm
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FLA) Well, frumps, it’s getting downright exciting to cover partisan politics now that we have a real contender in the ring.  I’m speaking of Rep. Alan Grayson again – sam...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 3, 2009, 3:48 pm
A Real American (AP Photo) Well, frumps, this is some sort of bumpy roller-coaster ride we find ourselves on.  Yesterday I wrote about my sense that there was a growing movement, even among Republic...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 2, 2009, 2:39 pm
www.ofb.net Well, frumps, it appears that we have an official outbreak of sanity and truth-telling in politics – fancy that. That is not to say that this unusual ailment has reached epidemic propor...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Oct 1, 2009, 12:43 pm
Well, frumps, I’ve been waiting a long nine months for some Democrat, any Democrat, to grow a spine and fight fire with fire.  As I said, it took a long time but it was worth the wait because Rep. ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Sep 30, 2009, 3:25 pm
Don’t you just hate it when somebody makes you feel hate?  I even hate the word “hate” but I have to admit I sometimes feel it lapping at my feet lately.  There’s certainly an overabundance ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Sep 29, 2009, 2:05 pm
Sen. Dorgan Well. Frumps, we’re getting to the exciting part now.  That’s the part where healthcare reform “riddles and mysteries” move out of the shadows and start to take on some real subs...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Sep 28, 2009, 1:19 pm
forgetomori.com Well, frumps, sometimes the Sunday political roundups make me feel like a visitor from another galaxy, far, far away.  And sometimes they make me wish I were and that I could go “h...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Sep 27, 2009, 12:56 pm
So, frumps, some of you, I’m sure, are old enough to remember a school of social psychology that advocated pillow-punching to help us get out our latent aggressions.  I believe it became popular 19...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Sep 26, 2009, 12:29 pm
  thinkprogress.org Well, frumps, one more senior Republican has decided to “pack up his marbles and go home.”  The latest sore loser is Sen. Chris “Kit” Bond (R-MO) who is the top-rank...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Sep 25, 2009, 12:22 pm
kilburnhall Well, frumps, it’s been a long harrowing slog through the health care reform swamp full of strange and frightening critters but it looks like persistence, integrity and the will of the ...
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Kate Z. posted an article on The Frump Gazette - Sep 24, 2009, 3:09 pm
Well, frumps, the Baucus healthcare reform bill has finally been delivered to the full Senate Finance Committee so that everyone else on the committee can take a good whack at it before it wends its w...
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