As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
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 ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
In case you missed the story, Pope Benedict made headlines this week by doing what it is popes do best - putting the irrational fear of God into his followers.
The ...
Romney was asked whether questions dealing with distribution of wealth and power were a matter of jealousy or fairness.
You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class ...
If one could meld the Republican presidential candidates into a single person, what would emerge? I was thinking along the lines of Jekyll and Hyde and the result, as demonstrated ...
And the winner of the Lying Hypocrite award goes to…Clarence Thomas.
He also lashed out at his critics, without naming them, asserting they “seem bent on undermining” the High Court as an institution. Such criticism, Thomas warned, could erode the ability of American citizens to fend off threats to their way of life.
“You all are going to be, unfortunately, the recipients of the fallout from that – that there’s going to be a day when you need these institutions to be credible and to be fully functioning to protect your liberties,” he said.
Yes, that was Supreme Court Justice Thomas speaking to a gathering of conservative law students…the same Justice Thomas who in 2008 attended the Koch brothers annual fundraiser for the conservative movement’s top movers and shakers…the Justice Thomas whose wife is a founder of a Tea Party group and who has now started a government lobbying group which looks to repeal the health care bill…and the same Justice Thomas who ruled in favor of corporations having the unrestricted right to fund election ad campaigns and to do so anonymously. That guy.
And how does Thomas defend his actions in what is clearly a conflict of interests? He uses the old standby…
“…there is a price to pay today for standing in defense of your Constitution.”
Of course. Criticize Thomas, or teabaggers, or Palin, or Beck, or those who work towards the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, criticize Wisconsin’s union busting tactics or gun nuts who look to remove the sanest of gun control legislation…criticize these people in any way and what you get back is a fraud wrapped up in the flag, lamenting how the Constitution is under attack.
How ironic that a Supreme Court justice warns of the consequences of institutions losing their credibility when he himself has had a major role in weakening the credibility of the institution he was appointed to.
Don’t you love it when people rise up in an honest and open way?
When Target gave money in July to a pro-business group in Minnesota, the company thought it was helping its bottom line by backing candidates in its home state who support lower taxes. Instead, the retailer has found itself in a fight with liberal and gay rights groups that has escalated into calls for a nationwide boycott and protests at the company’s headquarters and stores.
The problem: Target’s $100,000 helped pay for TV ads supporting the gubernatorial campaign of Republican state Rep. Tom Emmer, who thinks Minnesota’s corporate taxes should be lower. As it turns out, he also wants to ban same-sex marriage.
All of this is a direct result of January’s Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to contribute unlimited money for political advertising. The court foolishly determined that in matters of free speech, there should be no distinction between individuals and corporations. Adding to the idiocy of that decision is the fact that corporations may do so anonymously. Target’s problems arose because Minnesota’s laws force political committee’s to disclose their list of contributors.
Let Target’s problems be a warning to other corporations attempting to influence political campaigns by way of money. While they may do so with their clientele never being aware, they risk the chance of a national boycott should they be found out.
Mess around with the people, the people mess around with you. It’s only fair.
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Virginia Thomas is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ spouse.
Virginia Thomas is on record as calling our current President a “tyrant”
Virginia Thomas is the President and Founder of Liberty Central, a conservative organization which lists FreedomWorks as a “friend of Liberty Central” and “Coalition Partner”.
At least two directors of Liberty Central have strong direct ties to Koch Industries.
One director had direct input to the Bush administration with regard to the selection of John Roberts and his elevation to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Liberty Central will directly benefit from the Citizens United ruling as a recipient (past, present or future) of undisclosed corporate donations.
Justice Thomas supported the Citizens United decision.
The wife of a Supreme Court justice is the president of a tea party organization and this is supposed to be ok? Yes, I know that legally it is allowed but how about ethically? Virginia Thomas’ teabagging outfit has two donors – one who gave $50K and another who contributed $500K. While it shows up in the paperwork as individuals contributing to the cause, it is not too difficult to imagine that any corporation wanting to contribute could easily disguise their involvment.
Clarence Thomas was a player in the Supreme Court’s ruling of the Citizens United case which banned all caps on corporate spending in elections. Justice Thomas ruled in favor of any corporation being allowed to inject as much money as they wished in support of any politician who they ideologically agreed with. Think BP, think any health care industry giant, think Wall Street financial institutions…and think tea party candidates. Who do you think these corporations are going to put their money behind.
With Justice Thomas’ wife as president of Liberty Central, a supporter for all things Republican (e.g. fewer regulations on corporations), and a likely recipient of big money from big business, should Thomas not have recused himself from that Supreme Court case?
What a stinking rotten operation.
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Five key issues to watch at the Kagan nomination hearing.
* militiary recruitment on Harvard’s campus (a non-story)
* abortion (yawn – the old standby)
* campaign finance reform ( Kagan represented the government in restricting corporate spending in elections)
* Kagan’s liberal background and how it’ll influence her judgeship (what?!!? a liberal nominee? horrors)
* Kagan’s lack of judicial experience (could be more of a plus than a negative)
They’ll yap, jab, nitpick, praise, question and at the end of the process, Elena Kagan will be the fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. End of story.
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