**UPDATED** It starts at 8 pm EST. Gary Johnson was banned by CNN, but Dylan Ratigan gave him a few moments today on his show. Big question: How long will it take for them to tee off on Anthony Weiner? While the challenge for Tim Pawlenty is seeming relevant, something that he’s still not done. [...]
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Newt Gingrich Campaign Team Bolts
**UPDATED** The word for this moment is “implode” for $500,000 or a coupon for one of Tiffany’s classic blue boxes. Jonathan Martin reports it was “a team decision” in The Newt Gingrich campaign implosion. Chris Cilizza: Gingrich presidential campaign implodes. Iowa Caucuses’ Jennifer Jacobs: Gingrich’s entire paid Iowa campaign team resigns. Jim Galloway does something [...]
Catching Up with the Right
TM NOTE: Well, this was supposed to be up hours ago, but a little life interruptus impeded my best intentions. So, finally, here you go… Tired of being on the receiving end of damaging stories developed by liberal groups such as Media Matters and the Center for American Progress, conservatives are looking to launch their [...]
Gingrich Has More Positions on Libya than He’s Had Wives!
Hey, that’s not me talking. It’s Sen. Rand Paul. This is just too delicious. PAUL: I was happy to see that Newt Gingrich has staked out a position on the war, a position, or two, or maybe three. I don’t know. I think he has more war positions than he’s had wives. (via Think Progress) [...]
Flashback Fun for 2012: Newt Gingrich Spinning his Cheating During Clinton Impeachment
Republicans need to take this clown down. Mitt Romney should rhetorically nuke Newt. But even as Chris Wallace zeroed in on Gingrich, watching Wallace squirm while doing it was telling. The Fox News anchor obviously conflicted about cornering a Republican. Having gone through impeachment and written in Clinton’s defense at the time, the unwinding of [...]
Peter Beinert’s Right, It’s The End Of An Empire
Some commentators love the Libya war; others hate it. But most agree that it’s profoundly unnatural that we were pushed into it by… France. Welcome to the post-American world. In the age we’re entering, most of the time, the choice will no longer be between humanitarian interventions controlled by the United States and humanitarian interventions [...]
Sarah Palin Still Popular with GOP Primary Voters
The headlines out of the WashingtonPost/ABC poll are misleading at best. For the first time in Post-ABC News polling, fewer than six in 10 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents see Palin in a favorable light, down from a stratospheric 88 percent in the days after the 2008 Republican National Convention and 70 percent as recently as [...]
Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Field for 2012
It’s true that Palin relies on shallow talking points, but where do these come from? They come from the institutions and leaders of the movement that is supposedly so concerned with ideas. Palin is disinterested in ideas, and she has flourished in the conservative media for years. She does rely on shallow talking points, and [...]
Sarah, Roger Ailes, and Republican 2012 Possibilities
From New York magazine, a report reveals that after the Tucson domestic terrorism tragedy, Sarah Palin put in a call to Roger Ailes. Before Sarah Palin posted her infamous “Blood Libel” video on Facebook on January 12, she placed a call to Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. In the wake of the Tucson massacre, Palin [...]
Gov. Chris Christie Loves Collective Bargaining
“In fact, I love collective bargaining,” Christie told the crowd Wednesday, packed into a room in the municipal building. “I’ve said let’s get rid of civil service and let everything be collectively bargained, as long as collective bargaining is fair, tough, adversarial and there’s someone in that room representing you.” – Chris Christie: Collective Bargaining [...]
Fox News Suspends Newt & Some Guy Named Rick
Fox News suspends the contracts of political contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum because both have demonstrated that they are seriously considering running for president. A Fox News official says the channel will take the same action against Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin if they get closer to jumping into the race. – Fox News [...]
Wikileaks Diplo Docu Dump
Italy’s Foreign Minister Frattini called the Wikileaks release the “Sept. 11 of world diplomacy.” Republicans are jumping on the leak, as expected, because transparency scares the bejeezus out of the Right. Rep. Pete Hoekstra using hyperbole to say what allies might ask, “‘Can the United States be trusted? Can the United States keep a secret?’” [...]
2012: Room Growing for An Independent
Dan Balz has a column up about Obama advisers holding on to hope for 2012, grabbing the Gipper’s political story as a lifeline. I hope it gives them comfort, but it misses the picture by a mile. First, the economy today is much worse than what the U.S. was suffering under Reagan, plus the politics [...]
2012: Of Newt, Nazis, Flame Throwing, Failed Husband and Speaker
Newt Gingrich’s remarks invoking Nazis to reference the Cordoba House have not only been incendiary, but anti-American given our Constitution. Invoking Nazis always a sign that you’ve run out of intellectual energy and have decided to take the gas hose and have a big suck, which no doubt thrilled Bill Kristol, who hasn’t stopped beating [...]
Of Teachable Moments
There wasn’t a doubt in my mind the race-baiting that occurred in the 2008 primaries wouldn’t stick to former Pres. Bill Clinton. It was utter bullshit. I also have no doubt that Barack Obama never believed it of either Clinton. You don’t tap a racist to be your secretary of state, including if you think [...]
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