“The Fix” in today’s Washington Post offers up this headline: Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. When you look at how divided this country is that could be easy to conclude, but is it President Obama’s fault? First let’s take a look at how they come to this conclusion: For 2011, Obama’s third year in […]
After the NBC debate Newt Gingrich blamed the media for not allowing the audience to cheer and even threatened to pull out of future debates that do the same. Now he’s claiming that the cheering audience last night was stacked against him: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich rode a strong performance and crowd enthusiasm at […]
Newt Gingrich just got an endorsement from of all people, Randy “Duke” Cunningham – straight from his prison cell: Newt, a voice out of the past. Down but not out and still fighting. First I do not want anything from you but have been watching the debates. I have 80% of inmates that would vote […]
PolitiFact is back at it again, showing that they don’t even know the meaning of fact. Tuesday night they gave President Obama a half true for this statement in the SOTU: in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005 PolitiFact originally […]
Honestly this is one of those “common sense” bills that should already be in the books: Conservatives in the blogosphere found one small aspect of the president’s State of the Union address that they could praise: a bill banning insider trading by members of Congress. “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members […]
This exchange happened in an interview on CNN with Nancy Pelosi: John King, CNN: “You make your case there passionately for President Obama. But also understand that this is a tough reelection climate for any president, Democrat or Republican in this economy. Because of your history with Speaker Gingrich, what goes through your mind when […]
No other GOP candidate has invoked Ronald Reagan more than Newt Gingrich. Nate Silver has been keeping count and Newt has invoked the former President 55 times as compared to Mitt Romney, who has only done it 6 times. Perhaps that’s because Newt is trying to erase his history of bashing Reagan when it came […]
Since Newt’s win in South Carolina this weekend and Florida only a week away the civil war in the GOP is really heating up. The battle is establishment verses base and it’s really becoming fun to watch. First off we have this from CNN: Veteran Republican leadership aide Ron Bonjean said on the record what […]
Newt Gingrich spends a lot of time denying he is a racist yet his own words tell a different story. At the height of his career in Congress, Newt Gingrich used to tell audiences that renewing American civilization was “the central challenge of the rest of our lives.” But before Gingrich could deliver his grand […]
Bob Cesca points to this line from Newt Gingrich: GINGRICH: “When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets.” As Bob points out, we only had two, not four balanced budgets. But there is something else here that has been eating away at me. More and more the right is trying to make it […]