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 ...
…the larger point is that we truly have a leader who keeps doing the wise thing on policy (assuming you agree with him) but the dumb thing on politics.
Politicians often like to brag about how they aren’t really political animals but public servants. It’s almost a political cliche, to accompany a craven decision with the statement: “I’m not doing this to win votes, but because it’s the right thing to do.”
But Obama is different. He truly doesn’t seem to relish politics, in the raw, mix-it-up sense. Most of all, he isn’t needy for public attention in the way our most neurotic and gifted politicians have been — walking outpatients such as Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson or Bill Clinton. He doesn’t like red-hot; he likes cool and deliberative.
[...]
Maybe Obama, the anti-politician, really doesn’t care if he gets reelected, so long as he’s doing what he thinks is right. Somehow, I can’t imagine this breakthrough president stepping aside to write law-review articles. But to stand a chance in 2012, he’s going to need someone to light a fire under him, someone who can play politics fiercely — and also can bring in some new voters.
Surely it’s obvious that I am describing Obama’s second-term masterstroke: Vice President Hillary Rodham Clinton.
What do you think?
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Hillary! Jeez, where have you been? She represents corruption. She sold her soul during the Monica issue to run for President, then the Whitewater, etc., lies during the primaries, and you suggest she be VP? It could be a good political move, but not good for this country! He might win with that ballot, but jeez, can’t we just find a decent human being to take the roll of VP?
Well, I voted for Hillary twice – first in the primary, then again when he didn’t tap her for VP in the general – soooo…
Also, @PerryE, for the sake of accuracy, he didn’t suggest Hillary should be VP; David Ignatius suggested it, Mario just asked what we thought. Also also, you’re wrong.
It may be more likely to set up a 12 year Democratic term in the WH, but Biden has been really good in his VP role; as has been Mrs. Clinton in her service to our country as secretary of state. @Perry: Hillary Clinton is a great American and a great politician. We’ll be lucky to have someone w/ her experience and temper at the wheel.
Hillary! Jeez, where have you been? She represents corruption. She sold her soul during the Monica issue to run for President, then the Whitewater, etc., lies during the primaries, and you suggest she be VP? It could be a good political move, but not good for this country! He might win with that ballot, but jeez, can’t we just find a decent human being to take the roll of VP?
You may be on to something there, Mario.
Well, I voted for Hillary twice – first in the primary, then again when he didn’t tap her for VP in the general – soooo…
Also, @PerryE, for the sake of accuracy, he didn’t suggest Hillary should be VP; David Ignatius suggested it, Mario just asked what we thought. Also also, you’re wrong.
It may be more likely to set up a 12 year Democratic term in the WH, but Biden has been really good in his VP role; as has been Mrs. Clinton in her service to our country as secretary of state. @Perry: Hillary Clinton is a great American and a great politician. We’ll be lucky to have someone w/ her experience and temper at the wheel.
Either way, it’s sweet music to my ears.