Weasel Zippers has this headline up: Obama: My “Deepest Condolences” to Joplin Tornado Victims, Now Watch Me Drink This Beer!… And it is followed by this picture: Even the commenters are chiming in: But Bush would never do that – would he? That would be then President Bush strumming along the day after hurricane Katrina […]
When all the news was turned to the flooding Mississippi, there was a big rumor going around the right wing media that the federal government wouldn’t offer any aide. Of course that was a flat out lie and FEMA is still expanding the financial aide. This week Joplin, Missouri was hit by the worst tornado […]
The other night I covered the pardon problems of Mike Huckabee and Tim Pawlenty. Now a new GOP pardon problem comes to life. This one doesn’t involve a presidential candidate, but rather a former President and aTea Party darling: Though it’s typically pardon-empowered governors who must fret about their felons in the closet, legislators can […]
One of the long known goals of Osama bin Laden was to financially break the United States: A key facet of bin Laden’s anti-American warfare has always been economic. It’s a lesson he drew from the Afghan-Soviet war, in which he first served as a financier of mujahidin efforts and then as a fighter. He […]
Yesterday there was a major Tea Party rally scheduled in Columbia, S.C, in which about 2,000 people were expected to attend. Well it didn’t turn out that way: The Columbia Tea Party went from Donald Trump to jilted chump after the celebrity businessman canceled his appearance at Thursday’s State House rally, and state legislators approved […]
Just check out the anger that is brewing over at townhalls: Of course my headline is totally misleading. Instead of Healthcare and Democratic Townhalls, it’s actually Republican Townhalls and the issue of taxes, but my headline might get the media to actually notice that the Republicans are getting heat at townhalls over taxes and Medicare. […]
Could you imagine a Democrat making this claim, instead of a Republican presidential contender? Now comes presidential candidate and “enhanced interrogation” supporter Rick Santorum arguing on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show that McCain simply “doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works.” Yes, he’s talking about the same John McCain who, in his five and a half years […]
I guess not: A top House Republican is planning to propose that Internet service providers be required to store information about their customers to aid police in criminal investigations, CNET has learned. But a recent draft has one huge exception: wireless companies aren’t included. That appears to be the result of lobbying from wireless providers, […]
Tomorrow, President Obama will be traveling to El Paso, Texas to reignite the debate over immigration reform. El Paso, ranked the safest city in America, is one of our larger border cities. For years the GOP has tried to paint these border cities as a hot bed for crime, and today it continues with John […]
Yesterday John Boehner said there would be no debt ceiling increase without cutting trillions in spending: “Without significant spending cuts and changes to the way we spend the American people’s money, there will be no debt limit increase,” Mr. Boehner told members of New York’s business and finance community. “And cuts should be greater than […]