After attempts to label President Obama’s cap and trade proposal a sales tax on energy failed, Republican have shifted their attack to calling Obama’s plan a tax that will cost American families an additional $3,100 a year. The problem is that this is a lie.
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) continues to try to give a rise to his 2012 presidential hopes by waging war against the stimulus package. Today on the Glenn Beck show, Sanford said that accepting stimulus money was the equivalent of fiscal child abuse.
Although, she isn’t putting up Glenn Beck like numbers over at Fox News, MSNBC’s Rachael Maddow’s show is up 98% in total viewers and she is now running virtually even with CNN’s Larry King at 9 pm. Could the end be near for the venerable King?
Seeking allies for the upcoming election Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai signed the Shia Family Law which negates the need for sexual consent between married couples, approves child marriage, and restricts a woman’s right to leave the home. While Americans are considering the military challenges in Afghanistan, there are also political and human rights issues that Obama administration also must address.
Bill O’Reilly gave an interview to The Hollywood Reporter where he continued his feud with NBC/MSNBC by calling MSNBC a hateful product that only exists to make money, unlike FNC where O’Reilly once described the disappearance of Laci Peterson as good for ratings. It a strange world Bill O’Reilly lives in, a very strange world.
Last month journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story that the Bush administration used an executive assassination ring to go into countries and execute people on a hit list. Today on CNN’s The Situation Room, former Cheney aide John Hannah said that a list of targets exists and there are troops in the field who have the authority to capture or kill certain individuals.
In a piece in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh about the complexities facing the Obama administration on the issue of Syria, Hersh reports that now former vice president Dick Cheney tried to sabotage the relationship between then president elect Obama and Israel by saying that Obama was pro-Palestinian and that he would never support their efforts.
In his column for The New York Times today, Ben Stein defended CNBC’s Jim Cramer for playing the financial soothsayer, while also applauding The Daily Show host Jon Stewart for bringing us back to reality.
Today on CNN’s State of the Union program, Centcom Commander Gen. David Petraeus disagreed with former vice president Dick Cheney’s statement that President Obama’s national security policy has made the US safe and more vulnerable to a terrorist attack. Petraeus also came out against the Bush torture policy.
John McCain was on Meet the Press today, and he gave an interesting answer when he was asked about supporting Sarah Palin for 2012. He only said that Palin should compete, and talked about all the good candidates the GOP has for 2012. He gave a let’s wait and see answer to supporting Palin.
Another sign of the big changes brought by President Obama came today as he announced that he is going to convene the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate. In a little more than two months we have gone from an administration that resisted any climate change science to becoming a leader on the issue.
Although Barack Obama has only been in office for a couple of months, this hasn’t stopped the 2012 Republican presidential contenders from jockeying for early position in what will likely be a crowded GOP field, and if the length of the 2008 campaign was any indication, it won’t be long until the race for 2012 will get going. The question is who among the contenders will challenge President Obama?
Fueled by the surge behind prime time hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, MSNBC has jumped to second in the prime time cable news ratings. Although CNN and MSNBC each have about half of the audience share of Fox News, March will be the first month ever that CNN has finished third in the ratings.
Today, Sen. Judd Gregg accused Obama of proposing the largest tax increase in history by imposing a sales tax on electricity during his delivery of the weekly Republican radio address. The sales tax Gregg is referring to is actually Obama’s proposed cap and trade system to combat global warming.
President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told reporters today that the spiraling drug related violence along the US/Mexico border has not put Mexico in danger of becoming a failed state. In fact, he tried to spin the violence as a positive.
According to Think Progress, GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann went on Glenn Beck’s radio show today and peddled the conspiracy theory that that the world is moving towards a global currency. Interestingly, Bachmann defended herself by saying, “This isn’t Michele Bachmann being a kook.” Is this in comparison to the other times when she was being a kook?
Even though she publicly denies it, Gov. Sarah Palin is being advised by John Coale, who is Greta Van Susteren’s husband and a Scientologist. Gawker.com today published an old memo of Coale’s which detailed his plan to use popular politicians to advance the Scientology agenda, so is Palin a tool of the Scientologists?
You really have to wonder what is going on over at Republican headquarters as today, the GOP released their alternative to President Obama’s budget, which contained lots of charts and graphs, but no actual numbers or budget, so the Republicans managed to put out the world’s first postmodern budget. It is a budget that transcends the need for numbers.
Newt Gingrich was ringing the warning bells of alarm while on Fox News that President Obama is creating a dictatorship by imposing regulations on the financial industry. Gingrich was in full conspiracy mode, while claiming that Obama is going to socialize everything.
An ethics complaint brought against Gov. Sarah Palin alleges that she violated state ethics laws by wearing a jacket from her husband’s sponsor during a snow machine race. Palin responded by calling the complaint asinine political grandstanding.
In a pot and kettle moment, Karl Rove accused President Barack Obama of being arrogant in his press conference last night, and of saying things that weren’t true. The Democratic National Committee responded by telling Rove that if he wants to see arrogance, he should look in the mirror.
The battle between Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly and Think Progress took another turn today as the progressive blog has started a campaign targeting O’Reilly’s advertisers in an attempt to get him to stop what they call his harassment machine, and his practice of “mafia style journalism.”
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) spoke to the NRCC last night, and he proclaimed that wanting Obama to fail is perfectly fine, because the Democrats wanted Bush to fail over the past eight years. He said rooting for Obama to fail isn’t treason, civil disobedience, or political obstructionism.
During his second press conference, President Barack Obama was asked why it took him so long to respond to the AIG bonuses.
Ah, spring is in the air, which means that it is time for proms, graduations, and anti-abortion groups to vow to stop what they call Catholic treachery as the University of Notre Dame has scheduled President Barack Obama to be their commencement speaker on May 17.
With the news today that someone is polling voters in Iowa and New Hampshire for Sarah Palin, it seems like a good time to take a look a poll released a few days ago which found that a potential matchup between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama would lead to biggest election blowout since Richard Nixon beat George McGovern in 1972.
Some congressional Republicans have been expressing grief that former vice president Dick Cheney has been attacking President Obama in the media. It is fair to say that they would like the unpopular Cheney to return to his secure, undisclosed location.
According to the Voice of America, President Obama’s holiday message to the Iranian people on Thursday night drew millions of listeners to the VOA and its website. Many of these listeners have come from Iran, where media is restricted.
During an interview with NPR today the senior vice president for programming at Fox News, Bill Shine called his network the voice of opposition to the Obama administration. So much for the fair and balanced slogan, but at least FNC is now being honest about its intentions.
During an interview over the weekend, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) called for armed overthrow of the U.S. government. What is the issue that has Bachmann calling for marches in the streets? She is worried about the danger of a cap and trade system to combat global warming which she denied as a human caused problem.
Tonight during his interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes President Barack Obama continued to back away from the House passed AIG bonus bill. Obama said that the tax code shouldn’t be used to punish people, but the AIG situation was egregious.
Today on CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) argued against the House bill that taxed the AIG bonuses for those who made over $250,000 at 90%. Gregg walked into a trap set by the Democrats to make it look like by opposing the tax, Republicans are supporting the bonuses.
On Fox News Sunday today, Bill Kristol and Brit Hume complained about President Obama’s weak New Year’s statement to Iran. Hume went off on tangent about how bad it was for the U.S. to practicing diplomacy like the rest of the world, and engaging in the diplomacy of talk.
Sarah Palin is swimming in legal debt after Troopergate and she is blaming the media and Barack Obama.
Not since Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G’s confrontation has a hip-hop war this serious, this menacing, this violent hit the scene…it’s Colbert versus Steele!
The Dick Cheney/Obama feud is set to continue when Obama is interviewed on CBS’s 60 Minutes tomorrow night.
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Right winger Gary Bauer blew a gasket today and accused President Obama of confirming his worst fears by rel
Today, the Obama administration took another step towards disabling the wall of secrecy around the
After reports that CNBC was furious with Jim Cramer for not defending the network against Jo
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced that the House of Representatives will be vo
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Blame is falling on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for the AIG bonus mess to the point where President
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The Washington Times reported yesterday that President Obama is ending a federal program that train
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It was announced by the Justice Department that they would be dropping the term enemy combatant, and while t
The Obama administration has spent this week trying to inject some optimism into the stock market, an
So the big confrontation, tongue in cheek, finally happened between CNBC’s Jim Cramer and Jon Stewar
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Mike Huckabee jumped all over RNC Chairman Michael Steele today for his recent comments tha
Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have decided against becoming married teenage parents, which is fine
In an interview with regional newspaper editors, President Barack Obama said that he isn’t im
When asked in an interview of his planned to resign, RNC Chairmen Michael Steele challenged the coj
A new survey released today by Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner finds that Rush Limba
RNC Chairman Michael Steele has only been on the job for a handful of weeks, yet he is likely to f
RNC Chairman Michael Steele continues to reinvent his positions to be more in line with the
The Employee Free Choice Act is a bill that depending on your political leanings, you either love or hat
The Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal of a case brought by Ralph Nader against the state of A
In a phone call back to the New York Times, President Barack Obama explained that he is not a socialist,
The conservative group Americans United for Life put out a statement today calling President Obama’s dec
Republicans continue to have to defend themselves against charges that Rush Limbaugh is the h
In an interview with the New York Times, President Barack Obama said that his administration doesn’t re
Palin is being sued for violating the law by failing to issue the 2007 Juneteenth Proclamation. While the lawsuit is frivolous, it does raise questions about Palin’s views on race, and how they may clash with RNC chairman Michael Steele’s plans to expand the GOP base.
With the news that unemployment has reached 8.1% in the United States, the nation’s food banks are put
This week the movement to give RNC Chairman Michael Steele the boot came out into the open.
Jim Cramer host of CNBC’s Mad Money has now blamed President Obama for spreading fear and
A new research study found that Sarah Palin’s looks hurt her with voters.
A new report released by Essential Information and the Consumer Education Foundation found that Wall S
President Obama continued today to repair the damage of the Bush administration by appointing Craig Fugate
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Democrats continue to have a field day with the Republican Party and Rush Limbaugh.
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