Could this be the end of the national joke known as Michael Steele? That’s what Politico is reporting: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele faces an all-but-impossible path to reelection this month, as a majority of the RNC’s 168 members indicate that they will not support the controversial chairman for another term. A weeklong canvass […]
Unbelievable: I’m hesitant to jump to conclusions about what actually happened in this kind of made-for-TV publicity stunt. Who were these “Rand Paul supporters” who roughed up MoveOn.org activist Lauren Valle? Why did police question Valle, and not the guys who roughed her up? At any rate, I remember when Alex Jones sicced a mob […]
After years of the right wing claiming George Soros was funding Media Matters, the billionaire decided to cave and write his first check to the website: Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war againstFox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 […]
Welcome to the new American political system: Police arrested a man around 5 p.m. Thursday outside KSPS studios after he drove by a group of Sen. Patty Murray supporters waving a meat cleaver. Johnny J. Sieler, 50, first drove by the group with a knife, shouting profanities about Murray. He upgraded his weapon to a […]
It can be all boiled down to one headline: Rush Limbaugh, Pastor Terry Jones Were High School Classmates
Sovereign citizens are the craziest of the crazies. They are the most extreme of the right, believing that the federal government has zero authority and even rewrite history to say as much. But it doesn’t stop there. These people are also some of the worst predators out there: They call themselves sovereign citizens, U.S. residents […]
Remember way back in 2008, during the big primary, when Rush Limbaugh was telling Republicans in Ohio and Texas to switch to Democrat just so they could vote for Hillary and screw up the primary? People listened and obeyed, and now it looks like it could be coming back to haunt them: Victoria Robertson has […]
Yesterday Sarah Palin finally addressed Limbaugh’s use of the word “retard” and as expected, she approves! PALIN: I agree with Rush Limbaugh. He was using satire to politically correct — WALLACE: He used the “r” word. PALIN: He used satire. Name-calling by anyone, I teach this to my children and you teach it to your […]
A couple big stories today involving Republicans and violence. First here is former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS): Former Congressman (and C Streeter) Chip Pickering is reportedly under police investigation for his involvement in a brawl with a rival youth league soccer coach. Apparently, police were called to Liberty Park in Madison, Mississippi, after Pickering and […]
Now we have Michael Steele taking on Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh – the true GOP leadership: RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorsed moderate Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R-NY) in the NY-23 special election before national conservative leaders — like Dick Armey, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin — forced Scozzafava out in favor of right-wing […]