Though currently she is — at least temporarily — out of political life, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to enjoy a strong favorability rating, now 64%.. – Hillary Clinton Is Still Popular, More So Than Obama, Biden [Gallup] HILLARY Clinton’s comfortable front row seat just got a lot cozier. The conversations that [...]
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Loser of the Week: Ben Carson’s Gafferiffic Gay Marriage Implosion
CARSON: Well, my thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality. It doesn’t matter what they are. They don’t get to change the definition. So he, it’s not something [...]
Roger Ailes Talks: Obama was Worried About Sean Hannity
“Newt’s a prick.” – Roger Ailes IN THE teaser on Vanity Fair’s website, previewing Zev Chafets’s book, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, who had the Fox News channel chief’s cooperation, a stunning anecdote is revealed. President Obama actually went in to see Roger Ailes to complain about Sean Hannity. After some pleasantries, Obama got to the [...]
The Entire Political Press World is Laughing at Bob Woodward [Video] *Updated*
THE GRAPHIC above is from Gawker, with John Wood doing a massive take down of Bob Woodward, who is getting pilloried by the press and established journalists. The graphic is apt, because Woodward went out on a limb and his colleagues sawed it off. Wood also goes back over Woodward’s career, including the Watergate tale, [...]
From Reporter to Economic Activist, Bob Woodward In White House Crosshairs [Email Text]
“You’re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. … I think you will regret staking out that claim.” – Gene Sperling to Bob Woodward GENE SPERLING‘s conversation with Bob Woodward has exploded into a tale where [...]
Republicans Unraveling Over Sequester
“We have moved a bill in the House twice. We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something.” – Speaker John Boehner [The Hill] ROCK, HARD PLACE, meet John Boehner. President Obama here in Virginia, a state that’s getting slammed by sequester. “These [...]
Byron York on Sequester: Could GOP Message Be “Any More Self-Defeating?”
The effect of Boehner’s argument is to make Obama seem reasonable in comparison. After all, the president certainly agrees with Boehner that the sequester cuts threaten national security and jobs. The difference is that Obama wants to avoid them. At the same time, Boehner is contributing to Republican confusion on the question of whether the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Obama Cites Fox News in Interview in the Relaunch of The New Republic
IMAGINE THAT President Obama called Fox News Channel out on their unfair and imbalanced baloney. That’s what he does in an interview for the new relaunch of The New Republic, which Dylan Byers breaks down. … The build-up has lasted for almost a year. In June 2012, three months after buying the magazine, Hughes was [...]
To Combat Clinton, Fox News Channel Turns to Lies
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook THE PUNDITS on Fox News Channel, from Bill O’Reilly to Sean Hannity and beyond, could only lie about Secretary Clinton’s testimony, taking her most electrifying quote, but then cutting the following statement she made in order [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
News Desk: Secretary Hillary Clinton Hospitalized with Blood Clot
THE REPORT comes from the Associated Press: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. Clinton’s doctors discovered the clot Sunday while performing a follow-up exam, her spokesman, Philippe Reines, said. He would [...]
The Sexist Confederate War on Susan Rice
THE CONFEDERACY lives in the 21st century Republican party and segments of the American right, which many progressives have argued for a long time; they may not be the largest contingent, but they’re the loudest and most troublesome for conservatives clawing their way to relevancy in the wake of the 2012 election. The confederate right [...]
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