Chris Cillizza pulls out this chart from almost 2 years ago: That’s pretty sad when over half the people, who are responsible for choosing the future leaders of our nation, don’t even know who the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is. That’s exactly how biased media outlets can push so many falsehoods about the […]
The very serious Allen West, one of those on the short list for VP on the Republican ticket, made a very familiar claim for this who remember some of the last century: As many as 80 House Democrats are communists, according to Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.). West warned constituents at a Tuesday town hall event […]
Wingnut conspiracy alert!!!!!!!!! Apparently President Obama has secretly declared diabetes a disability! Here’s Ed Morissey at HotAir: That seems to be the message from the White House, which is apparently a little desperate to make the case that Barack Obama has proven his historical and diversity mettle in judicial nominations. In a new infographic for […]
On March 1st 2005, Tom Delay said, “The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior,” when talking about judges in the Terri Schiavo case. On April 1st of that year U.S. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow came home to find her husband and mother murdered. Fast forward two […]
President Obama said that it would be unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn a law passed on economic issues on Monday. Yesterday President Obama even went further into explanation of those remarks: MR. SINGLETON: Mr. President, you said yesterday that it would be unprecedented for a Supreme Court to overturn laws passed by an […]
Not even a year ago many in the Republican Party were pushing for Haley Barbour, aka Boss Hogg, to run for President. Imagine if he did and this came out: GOP power broker Haley Barbour’s lobby shop, BGR Group, represents a Russian bank that has financed a company that helped build Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power […]
Andrew Breitbart is doing his vetting of the Obama administration beyond the grave and this time they have gone after Eric Holder: Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.” Holder was addressing the Woman’s […]
It wasn’t more than a couple hours after Andrew Breitbart’s sudden death last week that the right wing conspiracy theorists started coming up with their stories. The biggest one was that President Obama had Breitbart assassinated because he was getting ready to release a career ending video he had obtained of Obama. The mystery video […]
With all the problems facing this country, this is a priority? The American Mustache institute earlier today made this surprising announcement: After barnstorming the Nation’s Capitol in support of the proposed Stache Act (details and white paper here), the office of of [sic] Maryland 6th district U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett informed the American Mustache Institute […]
When it comes to trying and scare the hell out of constituents the Republicans never let us down. The latest chapter of “OMG you will all die” fear mongering comes from the state that bought us one of the greatest fear mongers of all time, Dick Cheney: State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch […]