“Isn’t it reasonable for these conservatives to assume that you’ve been duped here?” – Laura Ingraham THE TV AD starring Marco Rubio finally popped up over the weekend or at least that’s when I finally saw it. As you’ll see when you watch the ad above, it’s basically trying to bolster his conservative cred while [...]
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Rush Limbaugh Actually Believes Marriage Equality is a Word Game
“This issue is lost. I don’t care what the Supreme Court does, this is now inevitable — and it’s inevitable because we lost the language on this. …” – Rush Limbaugh TODAY’S so-called conservatives are completely clueless about the ideology they trumpet. However, Rush Limbaugh is so pitifully ignorant about it he actually believes that [...]
Dick Morris Desperately Trying to Save his Career at CPAC Using Roe v. Wade
Overturning the decision, he argued, “is a case we’re never going to win.” “Single white women run screaming from the Republican Party, largely because of our pro-life position,” Morris said. [PJ Media] TRYING his best to become relevant again after his prediction debacle of 2012, Dick Morris decided to triangulate at CPAC. The audience was [...]
Obama, Sequester and “Meat Cleaver” Republicans
“If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness, it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research.” – President Obama WIELDING the bully pulpit, President Obama hit Congress hard over the looming sequester cuts that are about to land hard. But Republicans are almost gleeful [...]
Challenges to Independent and Alternative Journalism on the Left
The three stories below, each related in some way to the state of journalism on the Left independent and alternative side, are just three of many. Staying informed in an accurate, thoughtful sort of way requires persistent efforts. At least this is my experience. What’s happening with independent / alternative news reporting and analysis on [...]
Chris Christie on David Letterman, and Limbaugh Approves [Video]
IT WAS the average guy performance, with Gov. Chris Christie passing the likability test by a mile. Christie is very smart to keep building his national name recognition, especially in places like late night talk shows where the bar is very low and politics has nothing to do with being successful. Gov. Chris Christie continues [...]
Michelle Obama Target of Offensive Misogyny, Coach Suspended
“Fat butt Michelle Obama,” said Bob Grisham, a high school football coach who was surreptitiously recorded by one of his students. “Look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or 190. She’s overweight.” [Washington Post] THIS IS not the first time First Lady Michelle Obama has been the target of conservative misogyny. Rush Limbaugh [...]
WABC’s Hate Radio: Mark Levin Calls Obama Muslim Brotherhood “Sympathizer”
YOU CAN’T get anymore disgraceful than the vicious invectives that Mark Levin spews every day on WABC’s hate radio. Citing hard right Tea Party extremists in Congress, Reps. Bachmann and Gohmert, Levin once again quoted the outrageous charges that the U.S. government had been “infiltrated” by the Muslim Brotherhood, then claimed President Obama was a [...]
Top Story — Pres. Obama Offers “Fact Sheet” on Immigration [Text], While Rubio Hits Rush Limbaugh
“We define ourselves as a nation of immigrants.” — President Obama DELIVERING REMARKS in Las Vegas today President Obama outlined his priorities on immigration reform. On the other hand, administration officials told media outlets that they believe a path to citizenship needs to be more straightforward. They believe a trigger system, like the one in [...]
Top Story — The Second Inauguration of President Barack Obama (and the Most Important Task) [Video - Full Remarks]
The speech, slated right after Obama takes an oath to “faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States” Monday on the Capitol’s west front, includes no new policy, aides say. Rather, the president plans to use the moment as it traditionally has been in most of the 56 previous inaugurations — to [...]
Top Story — As Obama Inauguration Nears, Republicans Realize They’re Powerless
THE LIGHT dawns on the Republican Party, just as President Obama’s inauguration is about to drive salt into their wounds. “We will raise the debt ceiling. We’re not going to default on our debt,” Cornyn told the Houston Chronicle editorial board. – Cornyn: Congress Will Not Allow Default It may be a dim bulb, but [...]
CBS/NY Times Poll: 92% of Americans Support Universal Background Checks
Ninety-two percent of Americans favor background checks for all potential gun buyers, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll. – 9 in 10 back universal gun background checks IF YOU want to know what a minority looks like, how lonely the N.R.A. is on their extremist stance on gun safety, the latest CBS/New [...]
Obama Versus the Republican Right in Congress on the Debt Ceiling
In the event that Republicans make good on their threat by failing to act, or by moving unilaterally to pass a debt limit extension only as part of unbalanced or unreasonable legislation, we believe you must be willing to take any lawful steps to ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a [...]
Top Story — The N.R.A. is a Minority Group, 87% of Americans Want Universal Background Checks
“There is an emerging set of recommendations — not coming from me but coming from the groups we’ve met,” Biden said. “There is a surprising, so far, a surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks.” These recommendations were not only about “closing the gun show loophole,” he said, “but total universal background [...]
Speaker, But No One’s Champion
Boehner won a bare majority in a vote that saw nine Republicans vote for other GOP members, and several others who abstained from voting or voted “present.” Two years ago, Boehner won all 241 available GOP votes. [The Hill] NEXT FIGHT for Speaker Boehner is getting Republicans to raise the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling, educating [...]
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