Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
The Massachusetts Republican Party has gone to court in an attempt to stop the appointment of Paul Kirk to the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.
The issue here, the GOP claims, is that Gov. Deval Patrick did not have the constitutional authority to declare the bill empowering him to make an appointment to be an emergency law, thus having it take effect immediately.
Of course this is all about having one less Democrat in the Senate to vote on the health care bill. Do you get the feeling that Republicans are having a difficult time with withdrawal derangement syndrome?
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It’s remarkable to read and watch the usual suspects splutter and harrumph at an American president who actually seeks to engage foreign powers as equals rather than as subordinates. What Obama sees as self-confidence in the supreme military and economic powerhouse on the planet, they see as craven weakness. So you get Paul Hinderaker throwing up in his mouth watching the UN address:
Obama then listed a series of decisions that he hoped might placate the assembled thugs, dictators, and hypocrites — a crowd from which he feels compelled to seek approval on behalf of the United States. Obama noted that he has banned torture, closed Gitmo, moved to end the war in Iraq, moved towards disarmament, attempted to advance the ball on creating a Palestinian state, “re-engaged the United Nations, paid our bills, joined the Human Rights Council.”
So here was the president of the United States doing everything but getting down on his hands and knees before the representatives of every wretched regime in the world to plead that the U.S. has turned over a new leaf and, in effect, become harmelss.
To which Sullivan brilliantly responds:
Notice the neocon right’s view of the rest of the fricking world: “assembled thugs, dictators, and hypocrites.” Against this, we have blameless America, always right, never wrong, and blameless Israel, always the victim, never the aggressor. And when you realize that this was the worldview of the last president, you understand why he got so little of any substance from any foreign country, except Britain, whose prime minister’s career was destroyed by the decision.
Obama’s promise was and is a re-branding of America (which was the primary reason I supported him). Of course, if you are a neocon, you see no need to rebrand after Gitmo, Iraq, Bagram and Abu Ghraib. Torture and pre-emptive wars waged on false pretenses are things to be proud of. But if you are capable of absorbing complicated reality, you realize that such a re-branding was essential if the US were to dig itself out of the Bush-Cheney ditch and to advance its interests by defter means than raw violence and occupation.
They’ll never understand. This is clear.
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Here’s the story. Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky put forward an ammendment that the the vote on the health care bill be delayed for 72 hours so it could be posted on the Committee’s website. While it all appears reasonable on the surface, it would actually have delayed the voting process by two weeks. See why here. And yes, Bunning is the same senator who fell asleep during Committee hearings this week.
Step forward Kansas Republican Senator Pat Roberts in defense of Bunning.
All the Senator from Kentucky is asking is for 72 hours to determine the cost. Senator Snowe has spoken eloquently about sunshine, and the openness, and the fact that the American people would support this 90 percent, 95 percent. But the thing that I’m trying to point out is we would have at least 72 hours for the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation that we pass around here, and the regulations that we pass around here, to say “hey, wait a minute. Have you considered this?” And that’s all I’m asking for — is not only cost, but also the content of a bill. And that 72 hours, I think, is highly, highly important.
And who, praytell, is Roberts referring to when he speaks of “the people that the providers have hired to keep up with legislation“? Clearly he’s referring to the health insurance lobbyists. Roberts, in an amazingly candid moment, feels that the very gluttons who are a big part of the reason health care needs to be fixed, should be given more time to come up with arguments on why health care should not be fixed.
Well, let me be candid here and say to Senator Roberts, “F.U.”
(Sorry. This stuff ticks me off like you can’t believe.)
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What is it with Republicans? I’m dead down serious here. The shear nonsense that comes out of their mouths day after day is overwhelming. I’m not referring to differences in opinions. I’m talking about the stuff they use to justify those opinions and positions. It’s pure idiocy and I can’t believe that anyone could possibly hear any of it and not instantly question the sanity of these people.
Here is Rep. Steve King yapping about same-sex marriage.
“If there’s a right to same-sex marriage, if that right exists then that means Rick Santorum was right. The right also exists for any other relationship that one might argue. Then there would exist no ban, no rational foundation to prohibit incest, for example, between father and a son or a daughter or a mother and a son or daughter, for example or brothers and sisters. Every civilization has had a prohibition towards incest and every civilization has at least promoted relationships between a man and a woman, even though some have tolerated same-sex relationships more or less than others.”
This is not some off the cuff comment. This is a supposedly thought out and reasoned response to a question on a serious issue. Also, this is not coming from some drunk in a bar. It’s coming from an elected member of Congress representing hundreds of thousands of people and responsible for passing laws which will have direct impact on the entire country.
Opposing same-sex marriage on grounds of religious belief, while still wrong in my opinion, is somewhat understandable. But making the claim that allowing gays and lesbians to marry could lead to laws allowing incest…well, those are the thoughts of an ignoramus who should not be allowed within 200 miles of the Capitol building.
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There are no shortage of Republican imbeciles. Feeble-minded dolts are attracted to the Republican party like flies to…you know what. If I had to choose the worst of the lot, it would have to be Michele Bachmann. But running a close second would be Oklahoma senator and global warming denier Jim Inhofe. This guy has a record of stupidity dating back two decades. The President’s determination to get climate change legislation passed has Inhofe’s last three remaining brain cells in a tizzy.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) has announced to National Review that he will be personally leading a “truth squad” to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, where he will make it clear to international leaders not to believe that the United States will pass legislation to deal with the issue.
Truth squad? Here are a few quotes from the truth teller.
“With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?”
“It [environmentalist movement] kind of reminds… I could use the Third Reich, the Big Lie… You say something over and over and over and over again, and people will believe it, and that’s their [the environmentalists'] strategy.”
As a member of the Armed Services Committee, he was among the panelists questioning witnesses about the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. There he made news by claiming he was “outraged by the outrage” over the revelations of abuse, suggesting that shock at the crimes was more offensive than the crimes themselves. In 2006, Inhofe was one of only nine senators to vote against the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 which prohibits “cruel, inhuman or degrading” treatment of individuals in U.S. Government custody.
And that, folks, is Jim Inhofe – Supreme Leader of The Truth Squad and proud Republican Senator. Sad.
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