“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 […]
One big question hanging over the GOP field right now is the question of Donald Trump. He hasn’t ruled out a third party run and today he made a move to suggest he just might do that – switching his registration from Republican to Independent. He also isn’t hiding the reasons: Trump special counsel Michael […]
He wants you to think he’s the common man, while hiding his estimated wealth upwards of a quarter billion dollars: Mitt Romney, who is one of the wealthiest men ever to seek the presidency, said on Wednesday that he had no intention of releasing his tax returns if he became the Republican presidential nominee, breaking […]
Well if this is true then that was really fast: Sources tell FOX 5 News that Herman Cain plans to endorse fellow Georgian Newt Gingrich on Monday. They say details of a formal announcement are still being worked out. A spokesperson with the Gingrich campaign said there is a 2 p.m. press conference in New […]
Following my previous post, where a Tea Party rally, expected to draw around 2,000 people only drew 30 after Donald Trump cancelled, we now have another case where Trump’s cancellation is causing the GOP some problems: Donald Trump on Thursday backed out of a June speaking engagement at one of the Iowa Republican Party’s premier […]
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 […]
With the news that the Obama administration won’t release the images of a dead Osama bin Laden, Sarah Palin once again takes to the Twitter to prove she is totally wrong on national security: So why is this the wrong thing to do? Well let’s ask the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, […]
Bob Schieffer, far from being some member of the “liberal media”, tonight accused Trump’s assertion of bordering on racism: Donald Trump has moved on from the “birther” conspiracy to allege President Barack Obama didn’t get good enough grades to warrant entry to Harvard Law School, an assertion that CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer […]
Yesterday the right-wing blogosphere erupted with posts of the greatest scandal of the 21st century: Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father. Unprompted, Ayers also noted that while Dreams deserves its praise, […]
What Kos says: The other big story of the night is that three — count ’em — THREE incumbents lost tonight. There are foul omens indeed for incumbents everywhere. People are pissed, they’re not happy, and they want change. In GA-04, Hank Johnson crushed McKinney 59-41. In MI-07, Republican Rep. Joe Schwarz lost to Tim […]