Yup tomorrow morning is lining up to be a day of right wing talking heads: ABC’s “This Week” — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen. Carl […]
The Republicans are digging into their racist roots now: A conservative political forum on Saturday sold boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. The product, Obama Waffles, was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob […]
John Edwards has admitted to the rumors of his affair, and already the right is in a frenzy. So, can anyone refresh my memory? When was it John McCain started dating Cindy? When was it that they applied for their marriage license? Oh yeah – while McCain was married to the woman who waited for […]
The Huffington Post’s front page this morning couldn’t sum it up better: The top article from today’s WaPo has a little gentler headline: Key Setbacks Dim Luster of Democrats’ Year Having been a close follower of politics for over 25 years, I keep thinking back to 1995. Bill Clinton was in the White House and […]
Gingrich won’t run for President: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Saturday decided against running for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain head of his tax-exempt political organization. Gingrich, 64, said the change of heart, which came as aides readied the NewtNow.org Web site and prepared to […]
Yup – some notable voices in the GOP appear to be upset at the front-runners for blowing off black and Latino voices: “We sound like we don’t want immigration; we sound like we don’t want black people to vote for us,” said former congressman Jack Kemp (N.Y.), who was the GOP vice presidential nominee in […]
Today’s Washington Post has an article by right wing hit man John Solomon. Today Solomon goes after John Edwards and his infamous $400 haircut. They are coining it as “the stylist speaks out”, even though I got a feeling Solomon worked hard to get him to “speak out”. Instead of quoting this piece of crap, […]
All this flack over the Don Imus controversy has me thinking about something else. There is a darling of the right out there, one they want to be their President, that has been in the same boat very recently. Here is that person last month calling the 9th ward of New Orleans “uneducated”. Ironically the […]
Joe Klein writes this: Then again, the Republicans are fielding a motley crew right now: if you count Newt Gingrich, who’ll probably join the fray in the fall, the four leading candidates have had nine marriages among them: Giuliani three, Gingrich three, McCain two and Romney one. The Republican faithful are left with a devil […]
In the last decade we have seen our political climate severely changed by the Christian right. Motivating them has been the greatest accomplishment that the Republicans have pulled off. During the 1994 Republican take over of Congress, Newt Gingrich helped construct this new powerful base. While the now infamous “Contract with America” did not specifically […]