Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski today became the third GOP senator to come out in support of marriage equality, first in an interview with KTUU, the Anchorage NBC affiliate, and then in an op-ed piece at her website, The Pursuit of Happiness – Without Government Interference. (emphasis added) Not too long ago, I had the honor [...]
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Nate Silver, & Politico’s Conventional Washington Wisdom
WHEN TWO of the founders of Politico, John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei sat down with TNR to talk about their insider Washington franchise, Nate Silver had plenty to say after his name came up. But, by far, my favorite part of the interview comes when the Two Presiding Geniuses decide to pick another fight [...]
IRS Official: No White House Involvement in Tea Party Targeting
IF THERE was an award for screwing up, Rep. Darrell Issa would be the top contender, with his latest investigation, which focuses on the IRS targeting Tea Party groups, hoping he’d ensnare the White House, going down in flames. Instead of Issa proving the Tea Party screening was concocted out of the Obama White House, [...]
Rep. Michael Burgess: A Fetus Feels Pleasure, Masturbates
**Updated** “If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs.” – Rep. Michael Burgess THE RIGHT wing never lets an opportunity go by without exploiting it and the extremist Republicans have put Rep. Marsha Blackburn in charge of the campaign. She’s getting a lot of help from pals like Rep. Michael [...]
NSA & PRISM Revelations as Real-Time Journalism
PAID CONTENT has the best piece yet explaining what is important evolving journalism that allows the full story to be told on the Obama administration’s use of PRISM, as well as the NSA dragnet spying efforts that includes the FISA system. Both Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on Edward Snowden’s revelations, as well as Barton Gellman’s reporting, [...]
Queer Talk: Taking Pride and Pressing for ENDA (Video)
The month of Pride festivals and parades and more is well underway, and this year in addition to a focus on the soon to be released SCOTUS decisions regarding marriage equality, a big part of taking Pride is pressing for the passage of ENDA, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, and on the executive order candidate Obama [...]
Australia’s David Morrison Shames McCaskill and Levin
“I will be ruthless in ridding the Army of people who cannot live up to its values.” – Australia’s Chief of Army Lieutenant General David Morrison [h/t Gawker] CARL LEVIN should be forced to watch Australia’s David Morrison. Senator Levin is not fit to wash his boots, and neither is Senator Claire McCaskill, who voted [...]
Queer Talk: Marco Rubio- Should be Legal to be Fired for Being Gay (Video)
Sen. Marco Rubio, a GOP presidential hopeful, told Think Progress that he thinks it should be legal to be fired for being gay. Non-heterosexual orientation, and I’ll bet Rubio would include non-“traditional” gender identity, is an okay reason to discriminate in the workplace. Of course, he wouldn’t call it “discrimination.” From Think Progress, Adam Peck [...]
Gov. Chris Christie’s Slow Jam the News
**Updated** THERE IS nothing like Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, as they slow jamm the news. Not even The Roots could resist a dig at the NSA. Gov. Chris Christie is also having another Democratic bromance, this one with former President Bill Clinton, as he closes CGI. Now, Christie’s headlining the closing ceremonies of Bill [...]
American Public Disagrees with Peter King
“I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American,” Snowden told the South China Post, an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, in an interview published on Wednesday. [Reuters] CHARACTERIZATIONS of Edward Snowden are running wild across the media, which exploded when Rep. Peter King called him a traitor, then doubled his idiocy by saying Glenn Greenwald [...]
Gallup: Confidence in Congress At Record Low 10%
Just released results of a new Gallup Poll reveal the lowest level of public confidence in Congress on record. The low confidence is expressed “about equally” by Democrats, Republicans and Independents. My guess: the Electeds won’t be all that concerned. After all, “you have nowhere else to go” still seems to work quite well for [...]
Jonathan Chait Stupidly Translates Trent Franks
WHY IN the world is Jonathan Chait providing cover for Rep. Trent Franks? Do we really need another man translating for a guy who turns a conversation about abortion into one about the incidences of rape causing pregnancy? Why is Jonathan Chait working so hard to make distinctions between Todd Akin and Trent Franks, as [...]
Wherein Jeffrey Toobin Plays Rube for Obama
SOME OF the attacks on Edward Snowden, like what Jeffrey Toobin unloaded in the New Yorker, reveal where this discussion is heading in some quarters, but at least the transparency President Obama once promised is being forced on him, which is obviously the only way it was going to happen. The screen capture at top [...]
Majority Think NSA Snooping Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
OBAMA doesn’t do anything he doesn’t know is fully backed up by the polling, which includes the anti-terror tactics he’s used from day one, which the majority of Americans back. That’s why President Obama is not worried at all about the libertarians in America crying foul over the ongoing spying dragnet under his watch. The [...]
Gallup, Hillary and the Right-wing Benghazi Buzzsaw
THE Republican parade of falsification and fulmination on Benghazi and the efforts of the right-wing to tar Hillary Clinton with the death of four Americans has had an effect, according to Gallup. It’s just not near what they had hoped. Politics, especially if she announces she’s running for president in 2016, was always going to [...]
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