How about this for some truthiness: Democratic politicians receive a 40% increase in contributions in the 30 days after appearing on the comedy cable show The Colbert Report. In contrast, their Republican counterparts essentially gain nothing. These findings appear to validate anecdotal evidence regarding the political impact of the program, such as the assertions by […]
Watching Bush’s press conference and it’s obvious he is on edge, but still he lies like crazy. Yesterday we found out he has been lying to this country and the world about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He is saying that this changes nothing in his assertions because they had a program. Catch that – they […]
For wanting to be leaders, these idiots sure do have short term memory loss: The House Republican campaign chairman, at odds with Speaker Dennis Hastert over when Hastert learned about ex-Rep. Mark Foley’s come-ons to teenage male pages, was questioned Tuesday by an ethics panel. Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., would not comment afterward on his […]
The Bush dictatorship is in full swing and today the Boston Globe takes a look at how it got to this point: President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when […]
This is too funny to pass up: Latest Bush administration leak comes from … Bush CAMBRIDGE, Md. The source of the latest leak from the Bush administration is: President Bush himself. Thanks to an error by a White House technician, the sound of what were supposed to be private remarks to G-O-P House members was […]
During his press conference on Monday, President Bush said the leaking of the classified eavesdropping program was a serious matter and that the Justice Department has protocols for leaks and should be investigating it. For those of us who follow politics this sounds very familiar. When asked about investigation of the leak, President Bush responded […]
The RNC released their “white flag” video a couple weeks ago attacking Howard Dean and other Democrats. Now its the DNC’s turn to attack the right and this time they are doing it by proving that Bush has lied in recent speeches. The video shows President Bush telling Americans that Congress had the same access […]
The Republicans are pulling a strictly political stunt tonight in order to try and insult the Democrats. At approximately 7:00 tonight, they will be holding a vote on a plan to pull troops out of Iraq. The full resolution, which can be viewed at Raw Story, is very simple compared to that offered by Rep. […]