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 ...
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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 ...
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"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 ...
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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