We knew it was only a matter of time: Rebekah Brooks, the loyal lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a Sunday tabloid. Murdoch had vigorously defended Brooks in the face of demands from politicians that […]
Rep. Keith Ellison is unleashing at Robert Gibbs over his comments to The Hill. From The Huffington Post: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), an active member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Gibbs went too far. “This is not the first time that Mr. Gibbs has made untoward and inflammatory comments and I certainly hope that […]
Time for a little political break for something that has had me laughing for about 30 minutes now. Go to this page and check out how this girl resigned. It is positively brilliant! UPDATE It turns out that this was a hoax. It still is awesome and will hopefully provide motivation so someone to quit […]
With the resignation of Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) today, that leaves a question of who could end up replacing him on the ballot this November. Most are predicting that Bob Thomas will pick up the mantle, especially given the close defeat Thomas saw in his primary challenge to Souder a couple of weeks ago. I […]
With an ethics probe and calls for resignation mounting against John Ensign, the embattled Senator has one friend willing to lie for him – Joe Scarborough. This morning while discussing the ongoing trouble for Ensign, Scarborough asked if anyone called for John Edwards to resign when his affair came out. Wait! Edwards resign? Joe apparently […]
Classy guy here: The spokesman for U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul resigned Thursday after the campaign acknowledged that he maintained a page on a Web site that included racist remarks and suggested the government bore some responsibility for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Christopher Hightower’s resignation came five hours after he told the […]
Levi Johnston had this to say about Sarah Palin’s resignation: “She had talked about how nice it would be to take some of this money people had been offering us and you know just run with it, say ‘forget everything else,’” he said. Needless to say, this has sparked a war with Palin. Palin’s spokesperson […]
Despite Palin’s announced resignation, she is still getting hit with ethics complaints: Zane Henning — a conservative government watchdog from the governor’s hometown of Wasilla and an oilfield worker on Alaska’s North Slope — asserts in a letter to Alaska Attorney General Daniel S. Sullivan that Palin has “been charging and pocketing per diem to […]
There are a couple strong theories behind Palin’s resignation right now. One is that she got fed up with the media attention and the other is that she is being indicted. I want to focus on the first. Let’s go with that first reason. If Palin thinks the media spotlight is too bright now, then […]
Ironic that this comes just days after that National Review’s little cruise ended (I guess shit does float!). The NYTimes is reporting about the problems happening at the printed voice of neo-con thinking: In a span of 252 days, the National Review lost two Buckleys — one to death, another to resignation — and an […]