THIS IS what happens when a Tea Party politician listens to too much wingnut radio, then tries to mimic one of the hosts. It ends up in a train wreck, which certainly was the case with Senator Ted Cruz when he tried to corner Chuck Hagel, but ended up causing a mess for himself. Hagel [...]
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Another Edition of Newt was Wrong
SOMETIMES A video is all you need. From Meet the Press on Sunday: O’DONNELL: Who said this? ‘The tax increase will kill jobs and lead to a recession, and the recession will force people out of work and onto unemployment, and actually increase the deficit.’ That’s Newt Gingrich, in 1993, on the Clinton tax increase, [...]
Top Story: Obama’s Winnings and the Unreasonable Liberal
“If you want to pull the party, the major party that is closest to the way you’re thinking to what you’re thinking, you must, you must show them that you’re capable of not voting for them. If you don’t show them you’re capable of not voting for them they don’t have to listen to you, [...]
The Rick Santorum Sexual Inquisition & Our Media Idiocy
Despite the deep divide between some religious leaders and government officials over contraceptives, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll found most voters support the new federal directive that health insurance plans provide coverage for birth control. – New York Times/CBS Poll The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & [...]
Only Option for Republicans on Obama’s Free Contraceptive Mandate is to Stress Government Overreach
“There really isn’t a constitutional issue involved in this.” – David Boies, on “The Last Word,” with Lawrence O’Donnnell (leading U.S. constitutional attorney) There is no constitutional issue on the contraceptive coverage mandate, as David Boies explained last night. Republicans have two choices, only one of which could work. Right now they’re all doubling down [...]
MSNBC Faltering without Olbermann
**UPDATED** MSNBC is faltering without Keith Olbermann. I, for one, am not surprised. All Current TV needs now is more access to more viewers. From Bill Carter, who reports that Lawrence O’Donnell’s “falloff” is now also impacting Rachel Maddow. MSNBC Is Close to Falling to Third Place in Cable News Ratings How badly has MSNBC [...]
George W. Bush’s Economy was Even Worse than Obama Knew
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As insults fly between political parties as well as the U.S. and S&P, with nations like China chirping in, all the rest of us are left to do is wait. Republicans insisted on a disastrous debt ceiling deal, but it was Pres. Obama [...]
Obama: ‘If you read the Huffington Post you’d think I was some right-wing tool of Wall Street.’
Rebecca Theiss of the liberal Economic Policy Institute told The Hill she opposes the Reid-McConnell compromise since it appears to involve only spending cuts and not tax increases. – Budget experts raise concerns over McConnell debt-limit fallback plan (h/t David Dayen) It seems Huffington Post has hit a nerve. David Plouffe pulled out a video [...]
Norquist Loses as Ethanol Subsidies Go Down **UPDATED**
The Senate voted 73-27 Thursday to kill a major tax break that benefits the ethanol industry, handing a political win to a bipartisan group of lawmakers that call the incentive needless and expensive. – Senate kills off ethanol tax credits in possible break with tax pledge OMG. OMG! Republicans broke their “tax pledge,” as 33 [...]
Weiner Wrap, with Barbara Walters
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The elite D.C. media, new media, talking heads, gleeful Republicans, and spineless Democrats all weighed in… and then New Yorkers had their say, including Barbara Walters. According to the one-day poll, conducted Wednesday, just 33 percent of voters in New York’s Ninth Congressional [...]
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Bachmann Strategist Slams ‘Not Serious’ Sarah
Ed Rollins didn’t waste any time in getting down to business for Bachmann: “Sarah has not been serious over the last couple of years,” Rollins told Brian Kilmeade on his radio show, Kilmeade and Friends. “She got the Vice Presidential thing handed to her, she didn’t go to work in the sense of trying to [...]
Lawrence Slides Easily Into Olbermann Slot
“Liberals amuse me,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program after the election last fall. “. . . I live to the extreme left of you mere liberals.” – A starring role as the cable guy A snippet from the profile on Lawrence O’Donnell is below. It’s a terrific piece for O’Donnell, who seems to have found [...]
The Event that Binds Democrats Closer to Obama
“Trump and the rest have played a very divisive card from the fact of his birth to now implying that he got into two Ivy League schools … by affirmative action, which clearly brings race into the matter,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton. “It certainly enrages a lot of African-American voters, Latino voters and progressive [...]
The Ugly, The Bad, & The Good Can Oust the Worst
Donald Trump is upping the ante against President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, raising questions on Monday night about how the president was admitted to two Ivy League schools. Trump openly questioned how Obama, who he said had been a “terrible student,” got accepted into Columbia University for undergraduate studies and then Harvard Law School. – Donald [...]
Dealmakers: Dems Pay $1 Billion for Tea Party House Members to Drop Objection to Pap Smears
Numerous GOP and Democratic sources on and off Capitol Hill tell National Journal that the outline of the deal is as follows: up to $39 billion in cuts from the 2010 budget, $514 billion in spending for the defense budget covering the remainder of this fiscal year, a GOP agreement to abandon controversial policy riders [...]
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