The Republican presidential race appears to have shifted from debating the economy to discussing social issues - same-sex marriage, abortion and, amazingly enough, birth control. The year is 2012 and ...
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.
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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 ...
Bush in bed with the Saudis, holding hands and kissing them even. Good stuff.
Reagan smiling and palling around with Gorbachev in the preamble to the shutting down of the Cold War. Good stuff.
Nixon heading off to Beijing in 1972 and hanging out with Mao. Good stuff.
Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez at the Americas summit. Naive and dangerous behaviour by an inexperienced president.
Or so say the right wing talking heads. I wonder what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich thinks about it all.
“Everywhere in Latin America, enemies of America are going to use the picture of Chavez smiling and being with the president as proof that Chavez is now legitimate that he is acceptable.”
In a wonderful piece in Vanity Fair, James Walcott had this to say about Newt.
“Only within the Beltway popcorn popper could Gingrich, whose serpent tongue and ogre ego did so much to polarize discourse in the 1990s and abort reform, be considered a foxy catch. Only in Washington, D.C., could Gingrich, a magpie of futurist jargon and a bumptious opportunist, pass himself off as an iconoclastic force and centrifuge of ideas, a cross between Buckminster Fuller and Che Guevara leading a commando raid on the buffet table. And only within the punditocracy could “hyper-bipartisan” be bandied about as an aphrodisiac.”
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Okay. Let’s dispense with the exaggeration. Let’s dispense with living in the past and address the present.
President Obama makes amiable overtures to Chavez. Chavez has made many disparaging remarks about this President, the former President and our country, including recently calling President Obama an “ignoramus”.
Chavez returns President Obama’s gestures of friendship by giving him an outdated book criticizing and admonishing American Policy and Actions.
I’m not sure I understand the “up side” of this.
As for whatever it is that Walcott is trying to say, it has been theorized that people that tend to use an over abundance of big words are insecure! :-)
My interpretation of your image, using past actions of President’s as “good” while juxtaposing it with Obama and stating “bad” constitutes “living in the past” in order to try to make a disparaging statement about the opinion that possibly cozying up to Chavez may not be universally considered a good thing.
As with Reagan and Bush, the “up side” will be determined in the future. It’s time for these people to step up and reciprocate. Something that has not happened so far.
In fact, if anything, the hand of friendship extended to Ahmadinejad has been pretty much slapped. And Chavez has used it as an opportunity to enhance his realistically unimportant position. President Obama is going to need to understand the line between willingness to dialog and simply playing into the hands of these people, furthering the image that the US is weak.
The fact that I do not agree with much of anything you represent has no impact on my ability to understand and comprehend.
Khrushchev and Kennedy… now that was a big one for americans…
Very good illustration! Love it! Thanks for sharing your work with us.
Okay. Let’s dispense with the exaggeration. Let’s dispense with living in the past and address the present.
President Obama makes amiable overtures to Chavez. Chavez has made many disparaging remarks about this President, the former President and our country, including recently calling President Obama an “ignoramus”.
Chavez returns President Obama’s gestures of friendship by giving him an outdated book criticizing and admonishing American Policy and Actions.
I’m not sure I understand the “up side” of this.
As for whatever it is that Walcott is trying to say, it has been theorized that people that tend to use an over abundance of big words are insecure! :-)
It’s not “living” in the past. It’s “learning” from the past.
When you understand that you might then understand the “up side”
Exactly “learning” from the past is the name of the game personally and as a nation!
If not, then we might as well take away the history classes in schools and burn all the history books and tell historians to zip it!
My interpretation of your image, using past actions of President’s as “good” while juxtaposing it with Obama and stating “bad” constitutes “living in the past” in order to try to make a disparaging statement about the opinion that possibly cozying up to Chavez may not be universally considered a good thing.
As with Reagan and Bush, the “up side” will be determined in the future. It’s time for these people to step up and reciprocate. Something that has not happened so far.
In fact, if anything, the hand of friendship extended to Ahmadinejad has been pretty much slapped. And Chavez has used it as an opportunity to enhance his realistically unimportant position. President Obama is going to need to understand the line between willingness to dialog and simply playing into the hands of these people, furthering the image that the US is weak.
The fact that I do not agree with much of anything you represent has no impact on my ability to understand and comprehend.