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Allow me to introduce you to your fierce, pissed off fighter-in-chief, President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama took the stage today in Washington speaking to the United Auto Workers to wild cheers of “Four more years!” And let me tell you something…. This was an epic, genuinely passionate speech about Obama’s betting on the American…
Mitt Romney flip flops again. Today Romney told Fox and Friends that it was “outrageous and disgusting†for Santorum to try to get Michigan Democrats to vote in Republican primaries in order to push the seemingly unelectable Rick Santorum to the top. Rick Santorum, who doesn’t support bailouts of the auto companies or Wall Street,…
Rush Limbaugh, a.k.a. radio’s morning after pill for your intelligence, used an attack on Danica Patrick to stealthily advance the right’s war on contraception.
Mitt Romney pointed to Staples and The Sports Authority as examples of places where he is going to create “middle class” jobs for Americans.
Mr. Rick Santorum was on ABC’s This Week today during which he announced that he doesn’t believe in the absolute separation of church and state.
Mitt Romney tries to be a common man by talking about his Cadillacs, and Republican complains that the war on women is costing him sex.
We women are told to relax about the War on Women, but the war via Virginia’s transvaginal ultrasound bill has spread to Pennsylvania.
A special Politicus Radio post Republican debate program focuses on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates, and their love of lying about America, their own records, and President Obama. Jason Easley, Sarah Jones and George Sirios take on the CNN Republican debate, listen here: As Jason wrote for PoliticusUSA last night, the CNN Republican Debate was…
Yesterday in Wisconsin, a hidden camera caught a certain Republican voter ID law advocate violating the assembly rules to cheat and vote for colleagues who were not present. This is also referred to as vote fraud.
The Daily Caller is urging readers to buy “Morning Sickness Soothers Aromatherapy Nasal Clips for Nausea Relief” in order to vote for Mitt Romney.
Last night, the President and his gorgeous First Lady hosted a star-studded night of blues music and Obama even sang a few lines for us.
The mainstream media called the notion that Rick Santorum was openly questioning President Obama’s faith a conspiracy, but today Franklin Graham proved that it is a fact.
David Koch is busy trying to rehab his tarnished media image so that he can continue the Koch game plan for manipulating American policies.
Pat Robertson warned viewers today that watching Twilight invites the Demonic in. Funny though, ALEC shares many of the characteristics of Robertson’s Twilight demons.
In his State of the State address, Republican Governor John Kasich was short on ideas for the state, long on self-congratualtion and high on imprudence. While congratulating himself for medical research, he launched into an explanation of work being done for Parkinson’s patients. Unfortunately, he imitated the shaking movements of a Parkison’s patient in the…
The paranoiacs at Fox News are super afraid that the Chrysler Super Bowl ad starring Clint Eastwood has subliminal pro-Obama messages in it.
I have recently been informed on Twitter by an “ordained minster†that Republicans are right to disrespect the President because God tells them to call out those who “pervert†the Bible. Keep this in mind, then, as I tell you the story of Wisconsin today, because it seems like Republican God has mysterious values. Today…
CNN is on a roll these days, from Roland Martin’s offensive tweet about David Beckham’s Super Bowl underwear ad to Erick Erickson’s unforgiveable comments about President Obama to the latest offense du jour. Tea Party affiliate, Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism and CNN contributor Dana Loesch brings this one to us from her radio show, saying…
A new poll today suggests that getting to know Mitt Romney isn’t a good thing for Mitt Romney. Also in shocking news, voters do not like what the GOP candidates are saying. According to an ABC News/ Washington Post poll conducted by Langer Research Associates, the more Americans get to know Mitt Romney, the less…
Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler Super Bowl XLVI Commercial: It’s Halftime in America Walking down a dark tunnel, Clint Eastwood growls, “It’s halftime.” Ahh, that voice. That iconic silhouette. He continues, “It’s halftime in America, too.” Comparing America to the struggles Detroit has faced and is overcoming, Eastwood says that because we all pulled together, the Motor…
Today, CNN contributor Eric Erickson of Red State wrote that the President of the United States “perverted the word of God.â€
I never thought I’d see Mitt Romney get so ugly so early in the race, but tonight in his Nevada victory speech he showed that he is willing to sell what’s left of his genteel veneer to court the conservative hate mongers. In a speech where the inaccuracies and the lies outweighed any message of…
It’s a conundrum for a Republican to campaign in Nevada, amidst the gilded rubble and ruin resulting from policies their party is pushing: No personal income taxes! Rich rule! Give Big Daddy all the land and he’ll hire you at his plantation for pennies! It will be fantabulous! Only, of course, it’s not fantabulous; it’s…
Republican governor Scott Walker won’t say whether he was subpoenaed or not, but he has lawyered up and says he is willing to sit down with the investigator of the John Doe investigation that has already landed several of his top aides and donors in jail and/or with felony convictions. Walker has chosen lawyers who…
The power of the Feminazis reaches an epidemic and Rush Limbaugh is not happy. Rush is upset over the Komen cave on their original Right wing plan to defund Planned Parenthood for a variety of reasons that made no sense (save for the real reason, which is Karen Handel’s alleged “pro-life†position; aka radical Right…
Here are eight lies being used to prop up ‘right to work’ laws popping up in Republican governed states all over the country.
It’s coming…….. Game Change, the movie is heading your way on March 10th at 9PM on HBO. Did you read the book? If you missed it, this movie will be a bit of a shocker for you. Game Change was written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann about the McCain campaign in 2008. Mark Halperin…
Rush Limbaugh will not stand for Juan Williams writing that the Republican Party candidates are using racial code words like “food stamp president†and “entitlement society.†He put Juan in his place by reminding Juan that he would not have a job were it not for the white conservative at Fox News who gave him…
Wow. Just when you think you’ve seen it all. A Republican strategist is claiming it’s hypocritical of Rick Santorum to not quit the race after he went home to be with his sick daughter. I guess I don’t understand Republicans at all. While the modern day Republican Party exemplifies hypocrisy on a daily basis, Rick…
You thought Sarah Palin was a non-entity, didn’t ya’? Guess again, liberal elite suckers! Yes, but this time she’s working’ for you.
Republicans are projecting their anxiety over the 2012 election by equating President Obama to the Italian Captain who abandoned his ship.
Republicans and Fox News call Obama the food stamp president, but the truth is that red states lead the nation in food stamp participation.
The battle between Newt and Mitt was fierce in tonight’s Jacksonville, Florida CNN Republican debate. But Mitt Romney came off as weak and wins the clown of the night.
A new study has found that the lower a person’s level of intelligence the more likely they are to be drawn to conservatism and prejudice.
A hearing today in South Carolina proved that the Fox touted dead zombie rush for the polls in South Carolina is nothing but a myth!
Newt Gingrich’s surge in Florida just might bring about uncontainable exposure of the real values of the Republican Party.
In the South and Midwest of our country, an evil struggling against female freedom is winning ground. In Mississippi, a woman is charged with murder for giving birth to a still born. In Alabama, a mother of three awaits a ten year sentence for a Cesarean that resulted in the death of her baby. In…
Mitt Romney is the poster boy of all that’s wrong with the current tax system and indeed, all that Occupy Wall Street is protesting.
The party of “ideas†has come to this: The Republican Party’s publicity arm Fox News had Brad Stine on this morning’s edition of Fox and Friends to justify Marines peeing on dead “Taliban.†After he got through explaining that liberals are coming from a position of idiocracy based in feminine values of putting too much…
According to Fox News, if you love the planet you hate people. And by people, they mean corporations.
In defense of Mitt Romney’s Bain problems, Fox News announced that Republicans have always been more “pro-capitalism†than Democrats.
When cool cat President Barack Obama addresses his fellow Americans, his anger translator Luther helps him get his real message across. Comedians Key and Peele introduce Americans to Luther, the Obama anger translator, in their new web show. Watch here (video is not safe for work, children, etc): The satirization of the President needing an…
Voter fraud is among the charges NH officials and experts say they’d like to see thrown at James O’Keefe and his gang of video thugs.
There is no comparison to the inanity of having Mark Sanford on Fox News to use a Civil War analogy to explain why Romney (the non-Christian) might not get South Carolina.
The problem for Mitt is that he lives in a millionaire’s bubble and unlike the wealthy Kennedys for example, Romney just doesn’t have the compassion gene.
Wealthy elitist Rush Limbaugh is super mad that the Obamas are worming their way into living “high†on the “hog†like the white peeps. The nerve.
The investigation into GOP Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s aides comes closer to the big fish, and the DA says more charges are coming.
Mitt Romney’s privileged background reveals itself again. According to Romney, only the wealthy should run for President.
it’s bizarre and confusing to see the media glorifying while ignoring the moral decision of the “Make My Day Mom†to kill a young intruder.
This is the problem with Republicans. They actually expect reporters not to question them or call them out on what they see as inaccuracies.
Tim Russell, a Scott Walker aide, was arrested for charges of embezzling money meant for families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Turns out there are worse things you can do than be a Kenyan Muslim anti-colonialist. Okay, maybe not worse, but still something to fear. Mormonism! Cue the ominous music, the plural marriages and strange underwear. This, my dears, we cannot have. It doesn’t matter that neither of these statements is true about the candidates (President…
An internal memo from PA Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration reveals that even GOPers think extremists like Walker and Kasich are failures.
One of the worst things that the Tea Party has done is push the championing of an uncompromising legislative branch in the name of liberty. Sadly, all too many politicians have fallen for this dangling carrot of immediate gratification at the eventual expense of democracy. Extremists complain that politicians compromise too much and that nothing…
The NDAA signing statement only clarified how the Obama administration viewed the law and how the executive branch will interpret it.
I have my own dreams of a perfect world. I share your frustration with the political process, and I suspect it could be argued much more personally than some who enjoy the privilege of not being a minority class – after all, as a woman, I’ve seen my personal freedoms immediately decreased under the Tea…
Late Night Snack: Adorable Baby Meerkats – Video. Open thread.
From the West Wing, we have the mailbag edition of the West Wing Week, President Obama used the recess to appointed six nominees to fill key administration posts that have been left vacant for an extended period of time, signed some bills and made the world a bit safer. Not bad for vacation, Mr President.
TLC’s “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” website has a Broadsheet section written by David Murray. Last night, Mr Murray attacked a Texan blogger who had the temerity to correct Ms Palin over her inaccurate claim that environmentalists were “limiting deforestation†in Alaska. Mr Murray adds to the spice of this late night whopper by actually suggesting that this show isn’t political as he says, “once or twice per episode, Sarah does make a quick aside with some political content.â€
Open Thread: your late night snack, moment of zen. Baby Panda plays with soccer ball. Random quote (sent to me by Thomas Bishop): “Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well. Nor is hope the…
After a trial lasting a year, a Tel Aviv district court comprised of a panel of judges has found Israel’s former president, Iranian-born Moshe Katsav, 65, guilty of rape and sexual harassment in a case filed four years ago by three women who worked for him. Katsav was Israel’s eight president, a position of largely ceremonial powers, but was forced to resign in 2007.
Open thread with polar bear getting the best of spy cam video.
Um, so this whole transparency vs privacy vs secrecy issue is really starting to brew up a storm. A man in Michigan is being charged with hacking into his wife’s computer. Jessica Cooper, the Oakland County prosecutor, said Leon Walker broke the law by hacking in to his former wife’s account but Walker says they shared the computer while his wife says it was her computer. Pay attention people, because this matters.
After a rough two years of Palinitis stained by winning Politifacts’ Lie of Year award among other ignoble distinctions, it appears that even Republicans are mournfully unclenching their stubborn fists from around Palin’s star bursts. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted December 17-19 and it turns out that support for Ms Palin is nose-diving among Republicans.
In a world gone crazy from Tea Party zealots incessant screaming over reasonable people to Jim De Mint’s reading problems holding up all business on the Senate floor, we don’t often get our moments of zen or, in this case, Christmas spirit. But here it is. Evincing the true spirit of Christmas in Montreal, Muslims volunteered to serve Christmas Eve Dinner to the Old Brewery Mission.
Shut Up Barbie might remind you of Sarah Palin in her most immediate qualities: she, too, is sexy and cuddles up to big daddy for approval and attention but the super cool thing about Shut Up Barbie is that she isn’t ignorant! Yes, Shut Up Barbie comes with a book and she can talk well at parties. In other words, she’s the perfect companion for liberal men. She’s cute, she’s sassy, she’s smart, but she knows when to shut up.
President Obama and the First Lady wish Americans a Merry Christmas and remind them to participate in their community, whether it’s to think of the less fortunate this season, or encouraging everyone to support our troops and their families. This year’s theme for the White House Christmas was “simple giftsâ€.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave was busy this week; you’d almost think Santa came with his bag full of goodies for the American people. In spite of threats of Republican obstructionism and Democratic betrayal, the President and the legislators managed to make this Christmas one to celebrate for a variety of reasons even as our country struggles under the slow economy and resulting job losses. This was indeed the Lame Duck that roared for the People.
Mr Assange claims to stand for transparency, which is a noble mission, and under the guise of said transparency did last month release hundreds of secret diplomatic cables but he is outraged over the leaks of police files against him.
Sometimes our life experiences come in handy. This is one of those times. Who can forget Ms Palin’s endless mocking of President Obama for using a teleprompter and her cutesy way of referring to her hand notes. Last night, as I was watching the latest episode, I saw the evil socialist machine staring me down, clear as day. So clear that I could read the logo. Autoscript teleprompters.
“The day of reckoning is here!†Announces New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in a theatrical voice dripping with doom. Joe Scarborough loves him for it, squealing that Chris Christie makes him feel like a 14 year old girl at a Beatles concert. Nothing spells GOP recovery like a suffering American economy. And nothing says desperate party like pushing Chris Christie as the next great white hope.
Sarah Palin had a woman escorted out of her book signing today in Alaska. The woman’s crime was the t-shirt she wore which read “worst governor ever”. Ms Palin is often complaining about her own first amendment rights (translated to mean the Press can not criticize her or fact-check her without trampling on her first amendment rights) but seems to think less highly of other Americans’ rights.
During Ms Palin’s interview with GMA co-anchor Robin Roberts, Ms Palin responded to criticisms regarding her rather dismal current poll numbers were she to run against President Obama in 2012. Ms Palin’s response put to bed notions that she isn’t running as she extolled the virtues of “debating ideas†in competitive primaries.
This morning on Good Morning America, Ms Palin responded to criticisms regarding her rather dismal current poll numbers were she to run against President Obama in 2012. Anyone who is in doubt about Ms Palin running for President had best grab the smelling salts. She is and it’s uncertain if the GOP can stop her without alienating her Tea Party evangelical base.
This morning on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh made a case for why the Republicans don’t want to vote on the START treaty. Apparently, none of them have had time to read it and Rush thinks they should be given special consideration for their reading impairment. DeMint has called to have all legislation read aloud to him on the Senate floor since he has been unable to complete the 17 page document on his own. Mr DeMint and his Republican buddies now advocate for a special ed version of the Senate in order to accommodate their choice to remain ignorant.
Back in April of 2009, anti-women’s freedoms groups won the approval for specialized license plates reading “Choose Life†in 18 states. A few states were holding out, continuing the legal fight. One of those states, New Jersey, just gave in last week to stop the financial bleeding of the endless court battles.
President Obama spoke at the Christmas in Washington celebration last night at a performance to benefit the Children’s National Medical Center, during which he tied the Christmas holiday to the liberal themes that we are all our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, and that Christmas is a time to remember those in need as well as to celebrate.
Ms Palin finally did something that may have a positive impact somewhere in the world, or at the very least, wasn’t a rage filled episode of non-nonsensical tweeting meant to start WWIII. Small things to be grateful for these days, friends. Perhaps the social democracy of Haiti rubbed off on the social Darwinist.
In an attempt to show her dashing ability to thwart off DDOS attacks, Sarah Palin told ABC news she had been the victim of a DDoS attack from Operation Payback but that she had been prepared for the “backlash†and hence warded it off. All of the above turned out to be… untrue.
Today on Glenn Beck’s radio show he and his friends were discussing the Assange situation. It turns out that Sex by Surprise is a GOOD thing! Sure, it may or may not involve continuing sex after a condom breaks even as the woman asks you to stop, but we can’t let the Nanny state tell us what to do! Turns out, nothing says pro-family like a little Sex by Surprise!
While the Right demonizes Obama ala Bill Clinton, the Left is finishing the job ala Jimmy Carter – bashing the President as a weakling, even calling to primary Obama in 2012 for his many crimes against the progressive base.
Mitch McConnell and his Republican brethren are holding legislation hostage until the Democrats give them tax cuts for the rich. They claimed that this pledge didn’t include the START treaty, and then like clockwork, they started denouncing the START treaty. Democrats are beginning to realize that negotiating with Republicans “is almost like negotiating with terrorists”.
This morning on Fox & Friends, a Fox Cheerleader in a plunging neckline meant to distract the viewer from the obvious dishonesty in her argument sold propaganda about how the poor rich folks needed those tax cuts for the trickle down jobs. Not even Juan Williams could rein in his shock at the audacity of her talking points.
Sarah Palin has made it to the big time; she’s now being called out for her unpatriotic behavior by international media. Yesterday, the Russian paper Pravda eviscerated Sarah Palin for her unrelenting attacks upon the democratically elected President, at a time when America needs to stand together, united.
Joe Barton, the ranking House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican, is circulating a slideshow via email in which he pledges to do for the Obama administration what Gen. Patton and company did for Germany, including “put anything in my scope and I will shoot it.” A party of integrity would call for a public reprimand via a censure of such behavior, but you can bet the Republicans will roll with this kind of reprehensible behavior so long as it continues to be politically advantageous among their base.
Christine O’Donnell showed up this morning on Good Morning America to talk about how weak our President has been on the current Wikileaks cable dump. She managed to be a good puppet Grizzly for her Mama Bear, suggesting that President Obama was incompetent and that she would vote for Hillary Clinton in 2012 primaries because “anybody is better than Obama.â€
Today the GOP’s best and brightest, Ms Sarah Palin, tweeted what she intended to be a dig at President Obama over his handling of the Wikileaks situation. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with Ms Palin, her jab is going to come right back on her, so full of tells as to why she shouldn’t be anywhere near power as it is.
This morning, Glenn Beck assumes we should shut down WikiLeaks like we shut down the Prada infringers, in order to enjoin publication of the cables. In doing so, Beck skips over the tug of war between a transparent government and the protection of U.S. national security, the eternal tango between the need to limit power without rendering it impotent. As Lord Acton warned, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
Yes, as we all suspected, the right had a stake in echoing the TSA outrage and now they’ve come out with it on Fox. Their solution? Private security corporations should take over for the TSA and also, too, aggressive profiling is necessary (but only of the Muslims, not of the blond whites- FYI).
In another sad, desperate attempt to get media attention on a holiday, Sarah Palin spent her Thanksgiving day licking her wounds on Facebook and creepily stalking the President, who has better things to do with his day than acknowledge she who has not earned his attention.
This morning on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Sarah Palin revealed that she thinks North Korea are our allies and she’s gravely concerned over Obama’s handling of our North Korean allies. So, yeah. Sarah Palin doesn’t know the difference between North and South Korea.
In Sarah Palin’s second book (also known as propaganda; a fact Palin herself admitted on Fox last night, albeit unknowingly- as she seems to do just about everything), “America by Heart,†she accuses the President of having an “enemy centric foreign policy†and reveals that she is spectacularly clueless about what an enemy centric foreign policy is.
This is about drunken frat boys at the helm of the economy, sliding daddy’s credit card to pay for anything that suits their fancy and never stopping to think about the bill and then smugly turning around and running on being fiscally conservative.
Palin is stuck in 2008, banking on the press of 2008, when in fact, she will be dealing with a different animal all together. Welcome to the press of 2012, Ms Palin. You will be the center of their attention, just like you’ve always dreamed, but I’m afraid it may well turn into your nightmare.
Yesterday our country suffered the breath-taking blow of hearing Sarah Palin announce that she thinks she can beat President Obama when she runs for President. Today, new polling data shows that the majority of Americans do not think Sarah Palin represents the middle class. That would be those “real Americans” Palin is always dropping her “g”s to ingratiate herself with. Apparently they are not as gullible as Palin hoped. So, that would be a no, you can’t, Ms Palin, regarding beating President Obama in 2012.
The most salient note regarding Willow and Bristol Palin’s facebook slurs is the awkward timing of reality, rearing his mean little head and directly conflicting with the carefully crafted image of angelic wholesome Northern Barbie Family who like to shoot and pray together so cheerfully sold to us on Palin’s reality TV show.
This morning on Fox News, the erstwhile “news” people at the GOP PAC are pretending that President Obama is the earmark bogey man and that they will be the driving force in getting him to support banning earmarks. This would be a great sale of baloney if only reading people the country wide didn’t already know that the President has been attempting to get earmarks killed for oh, ever since he was a Senator.
