Waaaaaaah—waaaaaaaaah–wah. The big bad AARP is beating us senseless with their huge numbers, so the Republican We’ll Show Them Report is out. And Republican allies have come up with a scary title for AARP to rev up the Right: “AARP is the Death Star of American entitlements.” Through AARP the Right hopes to do a [...]
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Suffering in Congo Reveals Obama’s Weak Case for Libya
“Why invade Iraq and not North Korea or Burma? Why intervene in Bosnia and not Darfur?” – Candidated Obama, “Audacity of Hope” Pres. Obama got one thing correct last night in his speech. Just because we can’t help all countries doesn’t mean we can’t intervene where it’s really needed. Unfortunately, his judgment for what this [...]
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 [...]
Geraldine Ferraro, First Woman on Major Ticket Passes
Geraldine Ferraro was a first for the United States. First woman to break the presidential ticket glass ceiling; first Italian-American to do so as well. The next time a woman would grace a national ticket would be in 2008, when John McCain chose Sarah Palin. In the late ’90s Ms. Ferraro was given 3 years [...]
Progressive Notes: Ferraro, VT House Passes Single Payer, G.O.P. Overreach Galore
Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. With the news of the death of trailblazer Gerladine Ferraro we remember one of her most famous moments in the 1984 campaign. It was during the debate between her and Vice President Bush when this famous flashpoint broke out: Here is what 3 months of global [...]
What Unemployment?
Quote of the day is from Christina Romer, the woman who tried to get Pres. Obama to do a larger stimulus and be more aggressive about the economy from the start. From Ben Smith: “I frankly don’t understand why policy makers aren’t more worried about the suffering of real families,” former Council of Economic Advisors [...]
The Movie Legend, Sexual Force that was Elizabeth Taylor
[...] “My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love,” he said. “Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear, we will always be inspired by her enduring contribution to our world. Her remarkable body of work [...]
One Year Later, People Still Hate the Affordability Care Act
Today begins with a declaration from the man who wants to be president, Mitt Romney. If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. The executive order would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and all relevant federal officials [...]
Newsweek Asks ‘How Dumb Are We?’ Ask Oprah.
[National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon speaking] [...] Fourth, the circumstances arose with the passage of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, the night before a congressional recess. So he did, even with that, call Congress, those who remained in town on Friday and those who are out of town, on the phone to consult [...]
AmericaBlog Gay: Joyce Arnold ‘Becoming Must Read’
Nothing thrilled me more today than getting an email from Joe Subday telling me he gave a huge hat tip to Joyce in the title of his latest post, because people need to know she’s important reading. He cites the post Joyce did this past Saturday. Joe then goes on to drill home what Joyce [...]
Women War Hawks Win on Libya
The Pentagon says 114 Tomahawk cruise missiles have been launched from U.S. and British ships in the Mediterranean, hitting more than 20 Libyan targets along the Mediterranean coastline. Navy Vice Adm. William E. Gortney, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, told reporters the Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from one British submarine and a number [...]
The Helen Thomas Playboy Interview
**BUMPED – TM NOTE BELOW** Well, this is going to make heads explode. Not sure if Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers went off simultaneously or in contagion fashion with Pajamas Media. The interview with 90 year-old Thomas is out in April, but snippets are available, with much more at the link. On the situation in [...]
Obama and Hillary, the Ongoing Saga
An article circulating today has one kernel of truth, though I can’t vouch for the rest of it. It revisits Pres. Obama’s performance last weekend from the Gridiron dinner. Great marketing stunt from Murdoch’s minions over at The Daily. In “Oh, Hill No” comes this bit of stand-up from Pres. Obama, which refers to Clinton’s [...]
Hillary: No Second Term as Secretary of State
If asked she will not serve. From the interview with Wolf Blitzer, transcript at the link: Q- If the president is reelected, do you want to serve a second term as secretary of state? No Q- Would you like to serve as secretary of defense? No Q- Would you like to be vice president of [...]
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 [...]
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