The New York Times has a very interesting article today about Chris Christie and how the GOP has treated him since Hurricane Sandy: A few days after Hurricane Sandy shattered the shores of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie picked up the phone to take on a different kind of recovery work: taming the Republican Party […]
There was a lot of talk yesterday of how Mitt Romney’s so called “hurricane relief” event in Dayton, Ohio turned into nothing more than a campaign stop. Twitter was a storm of reports about the event. Today we get even a bigger insight into how staged this “relief” effort was: As supporters lined up to […]
Leave it to Matt Drudge to come up with some new conspiracy that all the little minions on the right can latch onto. Today’s conspiracy involves the release of October’s jobs numbers. Here’s the headline he is pushing right now: Mystery? Oh must be bad numbers and Obama is going to wait until after the […]
Right now Drudge is pushing this: From the link: In a last-minute change of plans, Mitt Romney will head to visit storm-affected areas in New Orleans today, skipping a previously scheduled joint rally with running mate Paul Ryan in the battleground state of Virginia this afternoon. A Romney aide told ABC News that Romney will […]
Hurricane Isaac is set to hit the Gulf late tonight, early Wednesday morning. With that we have the GOP at a category five stage of hot air, trying to blame President Obama for everything. First off we have the Republican leader and king of all conspiracy theories, Rush Limbaugh, suggesting that Obama had the Weather […]
Hurricane Isaac is on target to Florida starting tomorrow night. Currently the storm is off the coast of Cuba, but being over open, warm water means that Isaac has the fuel it needs to gain strength. As we know the Republican convention starts in Tampa this week. There has already been talk in the media […]
Yesterday John Boehner tried to claim that President Obama “doesn’t give a damn about the middle class“. Now let’s look at who really doesn’t “give a damn”. First, get ready. You are going to see your grocery bill go up even more. The cause is something that no party can control, the weather: Corn prices […]
It’s dry. Its very, very dry. As matter of fact, it’s now so dry that this year has officially rivaled the Dust Bowl of 1936: The 2012 drought disaster is now the largest in over 50 years, and among the ten largest of the past century, according to a new report released by the National […]
Tropical Storm Debby has just made landfall in Florida and while it lacks the punch of a hurricane, what Rand Paul is doing doesn’t hold back: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) moved this week to hold a noncontroversial flood insurance bill hostage until the Senate agrees that life begins at fertilization. The bill, which would financially […]
It looks like we’ll have a new system of alerting us in case of disasters or terrorist attacks: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said Monday that the Commercial Mobile Alert System will direct emergency messages to cell phones in case of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other serious emergencies. The alert plan was […]