That crazy old uncle is talking again: Much of the reaction to the nuclear power crisis in Japan is “overblown” but the U.S. seems unlikely now to build another nuclear power plant, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Tuesday night. “My guess is, when the dust settles, it won’t be nearly as bad as some of […]
Earlier this week the gossip site Phawker posted an email exchange between Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News and Keith Olbermann. The exchange started with this email from Keith Olbermann: “Dear Stu, Since you’re obviously a moron, I won’t waste your time or mine writing more emails you clearly can’t understand. But I do […]
Talk about a short suspension: STATEMENT REGARDING KEITH OLBERMANN – SUNDAY, NOV. 7 From Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC: After several days of deliberation and discussion, I have determined that suspending Keith through and including Monday night’s program is an appropriate punishment for his violation of our policy. We look forward to having him back […]
Good: Dear Mr. Breitbart, We have spent the past several days trying to make clear to you your limited role as a participant in our digital town hall to be streamed on ABCNews.com and Facebook. The post on your blog last Friday created a widespread impression that you would be analyzing the election on ABC […]
The Democratic Party has become an utter train wreck since Tuesday night. Now we have this from Diane Feinstein: Feinstein said it is clear that attempts to pass sweeping legislation to address climate change by capping carbon emissions cannot pass this Congress. So if Democrats are just going to cave in on any important legislation […]
Something interesting has happened since Byron Dorgan announced his retirement from the Senate Tuesday night. We now see a movement developing to get Ed Schultz to hang up the microphone and hit the campaign trail. Today Bob Fertik over at democrats.com started an online petition to draft Ed. I have been critical of some of […]
I reported about the outrage of Tuesday night’s address by President Obama upsetting some because it was at the same time as A Charlie Brown Christmas. Well Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington Tennessee has taken it to an even more extreme level: In the opinion of Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama’s speech […]
Wow it didn’t even take a week for this to happen: The ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee on Tuesday night accused the White House of withholding information on the Fort Hood attack. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of Congress about the alleged gunman, raising “red flags” about what […]
Steve Benen finds one of the most important lessons from Tuesday night: Keep in mind, the two Republican statewide candidates who won this week — Christie in New Jersey and McDonnell and Virginia — wanted nothing to do with Palin, while the high profile conservative candidate who embraced Palin — Doug Hoffman in NY23 — […]
There is no arguing now that the health care debate has taken a turn for the worse, and now mimics something we would expect to see out of foreign nations. On Tuesday night a health care opponent decided to punch out a supporter of reform as an event being held by Ben Nelson. As if […]