The right is up in arms over last night’s debate: ABC News commentator George Stephanopoulos directed pointed, hard-edged questions to Republican presidential candidates during Saturday night’s New Hampshire debate, often attacking without providing evidence to justify his broadsides. When questioning former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Stephanopoulos, a former senior advisor in the administration of Democratic […]
I am stealing this from Bob Cesca because I have never read more truer words. Andrew Sullivan: To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now. Instead the Republicans act like the President is some sort […]
Last week during his address to Congress, President Obama talked about our crumbling infrastructure. One project he highlighted was the Brent Spence bridge, which connects Cincinnati to Northern Kentucky. This bridge is a part of the most major north/south corridor in the United States – I-75. It is a vital part of transportation, meaning it’s […]
A new poll by the New York Times finds very bad news for Congress: A record 82 percent of Americans now disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job — the most since The Times first began asking the question in 1977, and even more than after another political stalemate led to a shutdown […]
Only dozens showed up to hear Tea Party darlings Michele Bachmann and S.C. Governor Nikki Haley speak at a rally in Columbia, SC. While the media tries to talk up the significance of the Tea Party, the showings at recent rallies have told another story. Yesterday was a prime example of this, as the Taxed […]
A new CNN poll shows the favorability rating of the Tea Party in decline: The approval rating for the 2-year-old movement fell to 32 percent in a CNN/Opinion Research corporation poll released Wednesday, the lowest it’s been since CNN first polled on the tea party in January 2010 That’s compared to a 46% approval for […]
With the world waiting to see if any of the four nuclear reactors go into meltdown phase, the right is using this as a reason to stress the importance and safety of nuclear energy. Over at Right Wing News, we see this: Obviously, as one cruises around the Liberal-o-sphere, this means that all nuclear power […]
Hearing the Republicans pound their chests as the anti-earmark crusaders has me laughing. I decided it was time to look for some historical data on earmarks, which ended up validating my suspicions. First thing you will notice is that the source of this chart is from the very conservative Heritage Foundation, using data from the […]
Rand Paul claims to be this “small government’” Libertarian, the kind of person almost synonymous with “Tea Party”, but when it comes to Medicare, that’s a different story. It turns out Paul is now framing himself as the savior of Medicare and Social Security in a new ad: Imagine that – a doctor who relies […]
This one should get people talking: HATCH: Let’s be honest about it, in the First Amendment, religious freedom, religious expression, that really express matters to the Constitution. So, if the Muslims own that property, that private property, and they want to build a mosque there, they should have the right to do so. The only […]