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 ...
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Finally.
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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.
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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 ...
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 the president did. He finally took them through bankruptcy. That was the right course I argued for from the very beginning. It was the UAW and the president that delayed the idea of bankruptcy. I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back.
I am not sure how one responds to Romney’s statement in light of his previous statements on how the government should have handled the auto industry rescue. “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” comes instantly to mind. What we do know is that by the time right-wing media gets done with it, Romney’s words will be the gospel truth in the land of wingnuttia and anything which counters that belief (aka: reality) will be the work of a lying, fiendish and manipulative liberal media. We all know the script by now.
Okay, repeat after me:
Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden Romney saved the auto industry and Bush killed bin Laden
And don’t you forget it. A man’s dream of becoming the leader of the free world depends on it.
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(The Romney source photograph is a Creative Commons licensed image from photographer Gage Skidmore.)
Is there anything more vengeful than a wounded Newt? I think not. Unwilling to accept his inevitable failure to become the Republican nominee, Gingrich abandons any pretense of bowing out with grace and honor and lashes out at Fox, conservative media and the Republican Party.
I think FOX has been for Romney all the way through. In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than FOX this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of FOX, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of FOX. That’s just a fact.
I assume it’s because Murdoch at some point [who] said, ‘I want Romney,’ and so ‘fair and balanced’ became ‘Romney. And there’s no question that Fox had a lot to do with stopping my campaign because such a high percentage of our base watches FOX.
Distortion out of FOX? Really? It took the Republican presidential primaries for Gingrich to realize that FOX is neither fair nor balanced? Funny.
And how pissed is Gingrich over the treatment he’s received from FOX and conservative media in general?
This much.
“They know I don’t care about their opinions,” he said. “I don’t go to their cocktail parties. I don’t go to their Christmas parties. The only press events I go to are interesting dinners when the wife insists on it, so we’re going to go to the White House Correspondents’ dinner because she wants to. And we’re actually going to go to CNN’s table, not FOX.”
Obviously Gingrich has given up any hope of returning to his former gig as a FOX analyst and is instead vying for an Erick Erickson type deal over at CNN. He’ll probably get it too. There can never be too many bullshit pundits on cable news.
Here he is sucking up to teabaggers while dissing his own party.
“The Republican Party is a managerial party that doesn’t like to fight, doesn’t like to read books,” he said. “This is why the Tea Party was so horrifying. Tea Partiers were actually learning about the Declaration of Independence. They wanted to talk about the Federalist Papers. It was weird. They could be golfing.”
So there you go. True to form, Gingrich shows that he holds loyalty to no man, woman, political party or propaganda cable news network.
Side note: I’ve always been suspect of any man who refers to his spouse as “the wife” rather than “my wife.” Given Gingrich’s history with women, though, it’s not surprising that he’d refer to Callista in the same way he’d refer to any other inanimate product he could purchase and later discard. The car. The golf clubs. The underwear. The mistress.
Use them, abuse them and lose them. It’s the Gingrich way.
Paul Krugman’s observation that Gingrich is “the stupid person’s idea of what a smart man sounds like” rings truer each day.
“I have come to the conclusion that this is no viable path forward for me in this 2012 campaign,” said Rick Perry. “Therefore I am suspending my campaign and endorsing Newt Gingrich for president of the United States.”
In the end we learned that early comparisons between Perry and Bush were not out of line. If anything, George W. Bush might be a notch or two up on Perry on the intellect scale.
So while Perry might be gone, his wisdom lives on.
Evolution.
“It’s a theory that’s out there. It’s got some gaps in it. In Texas we teach both Creationism and evolution.”
“I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.”
BP oil spill…God’s fault.
“From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.”
On the possibility of Texas seceding from the union – just what you want to hear from a presidential hopeful.
“There’s a lot of different scenarios. We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”
Proving that even bigots and liars can aspire to great things.
“But you don‘t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know that there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas and pray in school.”
Birds of a feather…
“George W. Bush did a incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.”
Oops.
“I will tell you: It’s three agencies of government, when I get there, that are gone: Commerce, Education and the — what’s the third one there? Let’s see. … OK. So Commerce, Education and the — … The third agency of government I would — I would do away with the Education, the … Commerce and — let’s see — I can’t. The third one, I can’t. Sorry. Oops.”
The saddest part of Perry’s failed presidential run? We’ll never get to see this…
Make what you will of this. Joe McQuaid, publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader which published the rave review of Gingrich last week, had to this to say about the current GOP frontrunner.
“Look at the broad history of the guy — when’s been in the wilderness, as Churchill was — and I don’t think that’s an inaccurate comparison at all.”
Is this guy kidding? Gingrich? Churchill? The only thing that the pseudo-intellectual “smartest guy in the room” has in common with Churchill is girth. Beyond that, there’s nothing…except in Gingrich’s own mind, of course. And exactly what “wilderness” has Gingrich been subjected to? After his disgraceful exit from the House, Gingrich did quite well for himself as a paid lobbyist raking in millions. His Gingrich Group charged clients upwards of $200,000 a year to ‘obtain advice’ (wink, wink, nod, nod) from Gingrich.
Any comparison between the vile, morally bankrupt cretin Newt Gingrich and Winston Churchill is an act of slander on a great statesman. But hey, let conservatives believe what they will. The next best thing for Democrats to having Herman Cain as the Republican nominee is to have Gingrich.
Political suicide is never pretty.
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ~Winston Churchill
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