Why is this guy still in business?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer investigation into documents pertaining to President Barack Obama's place of birth and citizenship now includes the services of a taxpayer-funded ...
The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar.
A partial list.
Bush had nothing to do ...
Happy Friday.
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney doesn't even support same-sex car pools." –David Letterman
"The head of ...
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser in Colorado.
I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I ...
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 ...
If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a Republican, press 2. If an independent, press 3.
Democrat ……………………………………………….. 4%
Republican……………………………………………… 75%
Independent……………………………………………. 21%
Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not sure?
Christian…………………………………………………. 12%
Muslim …………………………………………………… 52%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 36%
Do you believe in evolution, or not?
Believe in evolution………………………………….. 22%
Do not ……………………………………………………. 66%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 11%
Do you think that interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?
Legal……………………………………………………… 54%
Illegal …………………………………………………….. 29%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 17%
Alabama
If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a Republican, press 2. If an independent, press 3.
Democrat ……………………………………………….. 3%
Republican……………………………………………… 76%
Independent……………………………………………. 21%
Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not sure?
Christian…………………………………………………. 14%
Muslim …………………………………………………… 45%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 41%
Do you believe in evolution, or not?
Believe in evolution………………………………….. 26%
Do not ……………………………………………………. 60%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 13%
Do you think that interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?
Legal……………………………………………………… 67%
Illegal …………………………………………………….. 21%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 12%
Make sure you circle March 1 on your calendars. It might very well turn out to be the most earth-shattering day in U.S. political history.
The results of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “investigation” into whether President Barack Obama is eligible for office are set to be announced.
MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong tells New Times the findings are set to be released on March 1.
Arpaio’s been mostly hush-hush about the probe, but has promised his “birther” posse will deliver a “shock” with its findings on the conspiracy theory that’s been continuously debunked for several years now.
And it all comes down to twin babies and something you probably last heard of in a 1970s spy movie…microfiche!
Arpaio told New Times in November that the key to investigating whether Obama’s eligible for the office of the president deals with twins born at the same Hawaii hospital as the president (allegedly), just one day earlier.
The sheriff said the twins’ files could be found on microfiche — meaning Obama’s records should be there too.
One of the most brilliant and diabolical plots ever conceived will finally be brought down by a lousy piece of plastic film. Nice. Kudos to Sheriff Arpaio for taking the initiative and hiring a posse (did they have horses?) and finally putting an end to the black Muslim’s illegal reign of terror.
Orly Taitz should be given a medal for sticking in there when the rest of the world mocked her and referred to her as a crazy, racist bitch with a bad wig. Well, I’m thinking that while few people would argue the fact that Orly gives every impression of being both crazy and a racist, March 1 will be her day of redemption. Thank you, Sheriff Arpaio.
‘Leaders before readers‘ is quickly becoming the new Republican mantra.
“I don’t read newspapers in the state of Ohio,” Kasich said Monday at a college in Columbus. “Very rarely do I read a newspaper. Because … reading newspapers does not give you an uplifting experience. … I have found my life is a lot better if I don’t get aggravated by what I read in the newspaper.”
Understandable. Why should someone like Kasich have to subject himself to ugly stories of how his bill which killed collective-bargaining rights for public workers was repealed by the citizens of his state…or how his job-approval ratings (low 30s) make him the most unpopular governor in the union, just ahead of Florida’s cartoon governor, Rick Scott.
When Republicans and conservatives seek bullshit…err, truth, and a soothing voice to comfort their frayed nerves from too much exposure to the MSM, who better to turn to than Mama Fox. She’s always good for an “uplifting experience” and a gentle insertion of that much needed over-sized suppository (brand ‘Delusion‘, naturally).
Pathetic but not surprising is how I would describe Herman Cain’s latest ‘oops’ moment. So blatantly ignorant was Cain’s inability to respond directly to a question on Libya – as current a major event as is out there – that if this doesn’t end his presidential run, I’m not sure what will.
Conservative media is turning against him (“Cain makes Rick Perry look like a Mensa president“), while diehard fans point fingers at the usual bogeymen and in the process prove once more that stupid is never pretty.
…this is more to do with the media, technology and media bias, than Cain’s lack of knowledge.
Today, almost everything is done under the eagle eye of camera and sound. When the MSM does the interviews, the MSM decides what the public will see or hear or read.
Cain’s error was in not knowing his limits, when to say yes to interviews and when to cancel and rest up. Two weeks of intense attacks and responses certainly would have put him off his game.
Fewer of those biased eagle eyes trained on Cain and the man would be doing great.
The man with “a lot of stuff twirling around in his head” is a moron. End of story. The Tea Party’s attempt to prove they’re not a racist bunch was slightly amusing and fun to watch for a while. Unfortunately for them, they chose an idiot and a creep who practices sexual harassment on women in his employ, to play the role of Black Republican. Failed. Time to move on.
It recently dawned on me that the more I hear Herman Cain speak, the more he reminds me of a Sarah Palin babbling slogans whenever challenged to express an opinion on real issues. Both are completely unaware of how ignorant and uninformed they really are. That lack of awareness has them being in no hurry to come up to speed on history, geography, world events, science or just about any other issue confronting them. They just don’t care which proves the maxim that ignorance is indeed bliss.
The two of them also have no problem in stringing and voicing whatever two thoughts pop into their head regardless of how incoherent or contradictory the thoughts might be. Here is Cain, for example, expressing his thoughts on whether abortion should be legal.
CAIN: I support life from conception. No people shouldn’t be free to abort because if we don’t protect the sanctity of life from conception, we will also start to play God relative to life at the end of life.
An understandably “confused” Stossel then asks Cain whether a rape victim should have the right to get an abortion. Cain then offers position 2:
CAIN: That’s her choice. That’s not government choice. I support life from conception.
STOSSEL: So abortion should be legal.
CAIN: No abortion should not be legal.
A now thoroughly perplexed Stossel asserts, “I’m not getting it, I’m not understanding it” and helps Cain understand the obvious flaw: “If it’s her choice, then that means it’s legal.” Cain replies with position 3:
CAIN: No! I don’t believe a woman should have an abortion. Does that help to clear it up?
STOSSEL: Even if she is raped.
CAIN: Even if she is raped or she is the victim of incest because there are other options. We must protect the sanctity of life and I have always believed that. Real clear.
Clearly, not only is the man an idiot but he’s also a heartless bastard if he truly believes that a rape victim should be forced to continue a pregnancy against her wishes.
But there is a better explanation as to why a Cain or Palin are able to spout the nonsense they do on a daily basis. The idea is expressed brilliantly in this comment from a Think Progress reader:
This is just a simple matter of Cain’s buzz-phrase dispenser being out of calibration. Both the “pro-life from conception” and the “the government shouldn’t get involved” buzz-phrases are staples in the GOP buzz-phrase library, but savvy politicians are careful to keep them separate.
Poor Herman — he’s learned the buzz-phrases, but hasn’t really learned what they mean, so he just spews them randomly.
Exactly. When forced to express a view on a subject to which they have given little or no thought, low-information politicians like Cain and Palin use that “buzz-phrase library” as an escape hatch. Does it work? To the low-information voter it surely does which helps to explain in part the existence of Fox News and conservative talk radio.
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