Lefty Blogger: GOP-Backed Voting Laws Could Lead to ‘Fascism’ a la

June 9th, 2014 10:33 PM
In a Sunday post, Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman charged that a combination of unyielding ideological extremism and efforts to prevent many who might oppose said extremism from voting mean that the Republican party’s creed has “really beg[un] to resemble fascism.” Longman noted that the DNC recently announced a campaign designed to find and register likely Democratic voters and…

Lefty Blogger: GOP, Romney Should Have Had 'The Taste Slapped Out of

May 11th, 2014 4:57 PM
The right has directed most of its anger over the handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack at President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice, but when lefty blogger Martin Longman reflects on reactions to Benghazi, he thinks of a different villain: Mitt Romney. In a Saturday post for the Washington Monthly web site, Longman recalls that a few days after the attack, he was "seething about…