Cuccinelli, right, so here’s a guy – Tea Party favorite in Virginia – the guy is certifiable when it comes to mainstream political thought. This is a guy who attacks Medicare, he attacks Medicaid, he attacks Social Security, this is a guy who said he was thinking about not having his children get Social Security [...]
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Thank You Martha Raddatz
THIS IS a classic exchange, with Martha Raddatz slamming down the notion that some women can’t pull their own weight and then some. Host Martha Raddatz interrupted him, saying she’d seen female combat medics rescue 6’4″ Marines. “That’s fine,” Will responded, noting 152 women had died in the post-9/11 wars. “But there are certain anatomical [...]
With Mika Away, Joe Scarborough Does His Worst on Women in Combat
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “There will obviously be limits, correct, for certain assignments women can do based on physical ability. [..] There’s a reason why there are no women are in the NFL… there’s a difference physically between men and women. Can we say that in 2013? [...]
Who Will Get Last Fiscal Laugh?
”Right now, the only thing preventing us from reaching a deal that averts the fiscal cliff and avoids a tax hike on 98 percent of Americans is the refusal of Congressional Republicans to ask the very wealthiest individuals to pay higher tax rates. The President has already signed into law over $1 trillion in spending [...]
Diplomat War: Maureen Dowd’s Poison Pen Out for Susan Rice
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News WITH THE three amigos Senators McCain, Graham and Ayotte hanging in the Capitol square with their pre-planned partisan talking points hanging out, one question has risen to the top. Will Senator McCain place [...]
Top Story — Stupid at DEFCON 1: Petraeus Scandal Set Off by Rep. Eric Cantor
Later, the agent became convinced — incorrectly, the official said — that the case had stalled. Because of his “worldview,” as the official put it, he suspected a politically motivated cover-up to protect President Obama. The agent alerted Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, who called the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, on Oct. [...]
Joe Scarborough: What Voting Problems in Florida?
MEDIA MATTERS catches the moment where Joe Scarborough makes light of what’s been going on in Florida, which I wrote about early this morning. “It’s absolutely a story,” David Gregory added. And, yes, so is Benghazi, which I’ve been covering more than any other liberal in new-media. In response to these reports, Brzezinski said “We’ve [...]
Winning the Debate, Losing the Media War
LET THE SPIN begin. What I warned was going to happen yesterday is in full bloom, because try as Obama might last night, Mitt Romney’s debate strategy assured he could slither away from being pegged as un-presidential by the president, because you only get one chance to make a first impression and that came in [...]
Meet the Job Truthers [Videos]
**Update** “These numbers don’t add up.” – Joe Scarborough THIS IS not going to help Mitt Romney. But that didn’t stop GE’s Jack Welch from standing point. Chris Matthews and Welch had a smackdown today on “Hardball.” “Do you believe the BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, lacks integrity,” Matthews asked. “You don’t think it’s [...]
“Meet the Press” Careens Into Cable Style Brawl Between Bay Buchanan and Joe Scarborough
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy IT BEGINS in the video above, but it’s only part of the spectacle on “Meet the Press.” The usually civil Sunday show dissembled into an ugly and obviously personal battle between Bay Buchanan and Joe Scarborough, which had to stem from Scarborough’s unrelenting [...]
News Desk: After Continued Killings, Coalition Sharply Reduces Joint Operations with Afghans
IT TOOK too long and the ultimate message still hasn’t been received, but at least there is a decision that acknowledges reality. From the New York Times: After years of tightly intertwining its forces with Afghan troops, the American-led military coalition has sharply curtailed ground-level operations with the Afghan Army and police forces, potentially undercutting [...]
Top Story: The Bush Administration and 9/11
THE VIDEO above is old, condensed, too, with the pictures, tale and music I wove together now burned into our history and our memories, so the quick flip from scene to quote and back again seen in a rush simply reminds us of how quickly we lost what we once cherished, when fear replaced all [...]
Joe Scarborough, Jim VandeHei and the “Very Progressive” Democrats in Charlotte
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy WHAT IS IT with “Morning Joe”? This week Joe Scarborough started using the phrase “very progressive” like it was an epithet. Politico’s Jim VandeHei was also on the show, which resulted in the same type of buddy act that Scarborough often does with [...]
Top Story: Chris Matthews Accuses Romney of Playing Race Card, Haley Barbour Returns Fire
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy WELL GOOD morning America. You’re a racist. No, you are. Welcome to the battle to the bottom, with the Republicans leading so far. With the multiple welfare ads from Team Romney being unloaded on battleground airwaves, including where I live in the Virginia [...]
Top Story: Karl Rove Super PAC Skirts 30-Day Election Law But Nobody Is Talking About That
The outrageous ad by Priorities USA Action, the Obama Super PAC–the one that accuses Mitt Romney of being responsible for a woman’s death from cancer, apparently on the theory that Romney was personally responsible for providing health insurance and health care services to family members of anyone who ever worked for a company in which [...]
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