How quick some people forget: The nation must stop health insurance companies from defrauding senior citizens, presidential candidate Barack Obama told residents in Des Moines on Friday. The Illinois senator’s remarks came in response to a recent study and a government report that conclude Medicare’s private plan alternative – called Medicare Advantage – costs taxpayers […]
Chris Matthews just said people who don’t like this crap health care bill are not real Democrats – they are netroots. He then went on to accuse us of not voting our whole lives or doing anything for the party. Fuck you, you fat pompous ass hole. I have spent the last 22 years of […]
The right is all in a happy frenzy over this from FOX: On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.” Carville was joined […]
And by home, I of course mean lobbying: Charles R. Black Jr., a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, is returning to his former profession: lobbying. Mr. Black will go back to his former lobbying firm, BKSH and Associates, and will resume his old title of chairman. The firm, a subsidiary of WPP Group, […]
This is what we have been warning about on the left; that Sarah Palin’s increasingly dangerous rhetoric was putting Obama at danger. Well it looks like the Secret Service also agrees with us: The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, citing his association with the sixties […]
Or an abuse of campaign funds? The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August. According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks […]
NBC just did a breaking news cut in to report they have learned that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be McCain’s VP pick. It looks very probable as there are reports that she flew into Hook Field last night: A Gulfstream IV jet owned by a firm in Kirkland, Wash., landed at Hook Field Municipal […]
Everybody at once – “awwwww“: John McCain’s campaign hit back at Madonna on Sunday after the pop diva kicked off her world tour with a concert that bracketed the US presidential candidate with Adolf Hitler. McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds angrily condemned the segment of Madonna’s concert in Cardiff on Saturday that appeared to draw […]
And you have now been thrown under it: Barack Obama angrily denounced his former pastor for “divisive and destructive” remarks on race, seeking to divorce himself from the incendiary speaker and a fury that threatens to engulf his front-running Democratic presidential campaign. Actually it is more like Obama was driving the bus. I hope one […]
One in every 100 Americans is behind bars: For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. […]