The heartthrob of the Tea Party has a fix for America! Michele Bachmann thinks America blew it by extending a safety net to millions of Americans under President Johnson’s “Great Society.” Her solution? Model the economy after communist China. “The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state,” she […]
Things are really looking bad for ole’ Newt the adulterous Gingrich: Newt Gingrich’s campaign manager and numerous other key aides have resigned together, a strong blow to his hopes for the Republican presidential nomination. Gingrich press spokesman Rick Tyler told The Associated Press that he’s resigned along with campaign manager Rob Johnson, senior strategists and […]
Just a few weeks after the shooting in Arizona, we still have moronic Republicans out there using gun metaphors: A state senator in Alabama said Monday his call for Republicans to “empty the clip” on the issue of illegal immigration was taken out of context. At a Republican breakfast in Cullman County, Alabama, last weekend, […]
From TPM comes this email Dave Bartholomew, the chair of the Virginia Beach GOP, thought was funny enough to forward to other people: MY DOG I went down this morning to sign up my Dog for welfare. At first the lady said, “Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare”. So I explained to her that […]
With an ethics probe and calls for resignation mounting against John Ensign, the embattled Senator has one friend willing to lie for him – Joe Scarborough. This morning while discussing the ongoing trouble for Ensign, Scarborough asked if anyone called for John Edwards to resign when his affair came out. Wait! Edwards resign? Joe apparently […]
When polls ask about Sarah Palin running for President in 2012 she fares very poorly. People attend her speeches, but so many seem to go to see a star, not because they consider her a serious force in American politics. Well the lack of seriousness in Sarah Palin has now run over into her television […]
I just caught Matt Kibbe from Freedom Works on MSNBC saying that the problem with Democrats is that if you are conservative you HAVE to vote with the liberal caucus and Nancy Pelosi. Matt is either a complete liar or 120% ignorant to American politics. If what he claimed was true then we would have […]
Finally justice is served on another person whose power in Congress became a catalyst for greed: Former Rep. William Jefferson was sentenced Friday to serve 13 years in prison for what the lead prosecutor described as “the most extensive and pervasive pattern of corruption in the history of Congress.” While the sentence by federal Judge […]
And no I’m not talking about the Tom Cruise flick. Washington Post’s Dan Balz has a very interesting article up today about the shifting demographics in our nation and how it is really putting the hurt on Republicans, to the point they are facing a permanent minority status: For the past few months, political analysts […]
Larry Johnson’s blog, No Quarter, never ceases to amaze me. Here is one of his writers claims today: In a brilliant rebuttal to coordinated attacks from the far left, this Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Tax Day Becomes Protest Day – How the tea parties could change American politics.” (related stories) nails the true genesis of […]