Rand Paul:
Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer.
We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...
Happy Friday.
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...
I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...
Finally.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...
Election roundup:
Indiana.
As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...
There are lies...and then there are lies.
My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...
From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this.
Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. Happy Friday.
"Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...
It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson.
Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...
Sullivan:
What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage?
A faggot.
Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...
And they claim that atheists are immoral?
The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...
It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden.
Romney, April 2007:
It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...
In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics.
We have been studying Washington politics and ...
Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play.
He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...
Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...
It was never a matter of 'if'...only of 'when'.
Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 ...
I'm not sure what one does with information of this sort but I thought it important you know. From Alex Pareene's new ebook, The Rude Guide To Mitt.
Every good Romney ...
Guess whose illustration made the May cover of a national magazine? Mine!
I'm quite sure there isn't much Stephen Moore/Newsmax and I share in common as far as politics goes but ...
Jesus (c. 30 CE):
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois (2012 ...
“I don’t believe the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don’t think they want more gridlock. I don’t think they want more partisanship. I don’t think they want more obstruction. They didn’t send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of steel-cage match to see who comes out alive.”
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Translation: “Start doing what I want, dammit! I won the election! Plus, we Dems own the House AND the Senate, so forget about your so-called principled disagreement over the proper role of government in people’s lives…to hell with that ‘loyal opposition’ crap, and start agreeing with everything I want to accomplish, the WAY I want to accomplish it, got it?! I’m the frickin’ President of the United States: Do as I say!”
oh really, the translation actually is “stop lying and hate mongering” and get to work on behalf of the people, not your political party, not the lobbyists and not the corporations.
Clearly you require English lessons and surgery to remove the Fox News feed from your brain
I was rivited! This should happen more often, like once a month. I was impressed with the emotion and no nonsense attitude of the President. I was watching between Fox and MSNBC and thought how typically chicken shit that they would cut away when they did. He needs to do this with the Dems too.
Pres. Obama against a room full of Republicans? Not a fair fight. For the Republicans. They were bested in every way and on all fronts. Obama exhibited prowess, insight, knowledge and alacrity. The Republicans exhibited talking points.
I can see where some people would interpret such a show of bravery and confidence as aggression and belligerence. Being intellectually bested is a bitter pill to swallow indeed.
I was watching this on Huff Po and looking at the twitter feeds for Journalists, Progressives, and Conservatives. The Conservative feed virtually dried up when Fox cut away.
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Translation: “Start doing what I want, dammit! I won the election! Plus, we Dems own the House AND the Senate, so forget about your so-called principled disagreement over the proper role of government in people’s lives…to hell with that ‘loyal opposition’ crap, and start agreeing with everything I want to accomplish, the WAY I want to accomplish it, got it?! I’m the frickin’ President of the United States: Do as I say!”
@Brad,
oh really, the translation actually is “stop lying and hate mongering” and get to work on behalf of the people, not your political party, not the lobbyists and not the corporations.
Clearly you require English lessons and surgery to remove the Fox News feed from your brain
I was rivited! This should happen more often, like once a month. I was impressed with the emotion and no nonsense attitude of the President. I was watching between Fox and MSNBC and thought how typically chicken shit that they would cut away when they did. He needs to do this with the Dems too.
That’s the Barack Obama I voted for!
My President ROCKS!!!
Hobbs :)
Pres. Obama against a room full of Republicans? Not a fair fight. For the Republicans. They were bested in every way and on all fronts. Obama exhibited prowess, insight, knowledge and alacrity. The Republicans exhibited talking points.
I can see where some people would interpret such a show of bravery and confidence as aggression and belligerence. Being intellectually bested is a bitter pill to swallow indeed.
I was watching this on Huff Po and looking at the twitter feeds for Journalists, Progressives, and Conservatives. The Conservative feed virtually dried up when Fox cut away.