–bumped– To white evangelical women, Sarah Palin is a modern-day prophet, preaching God, flag, and family—while remaking the religious right in her own image. [...] Palin shows them a path through this thicket of contradictions. “Within these circles, there is very much an ideal Christian woman model,” explains Griffith. “It’s an image that blends this [...]
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If Dems Lose House, Can Special Counsel be Far Away?
Let’s just say it and get it out of the way. The lunatic right wants to take back the House in 2010 so they can begin an investigation that they hope will end in an impeachment trial against Pres. Obama. It’s not rocket science, because this is the politics Republicans practice. The insidious, swiftboating campaign [...]
Remember When They Did This to Hillary?
“…The only trouble with this one is, it almost feels as if all these women winning are kind of a blow to feminism.” – Tina Brown It’s cleavage Friday! Again. This time because Sarah Palin is the target, not Hillary. Let me explain…. Then we’ll get to Tina Brown’s blast against Tuesday’s ladies’ night winners. [...]
Politics is an Emotional Sport
What I want from politicians is competency. It doesn’t matter if a politician feels my pain if he or she doesn’t know what he’s doing or if what he’s doing makes matters worse. See George W. Bush. But to prove the point, Pres. Obama is reportedly going down to the Gulf next week to spend [...]
Blanche Stuns, as Women on the Right Rise
edited version cross-posted at Huffington Post Nothing represents change in an anti-incumbent year like a woman. Since Hillary Clinton’s historic presidential run for office, the 18 million cracks have created a political opening. Sarah Palin was the first through and she’s used her clout to make room for others. It’s just too bad the Republican [...]
Election Night Countdown
UPDATE (10:56 pm): Politico, then AP, call it for Blanche Lincoln with 51%, Halter 49%. Also Orly Taitz wins nomination for CA Sect. of State. Yes, indeed, William Jefferson Clinton is still relevant. UPDATE (10:04 pm): Big Dawg still relevant? Don’t look now, but Blanche Lincoln may pull this out. See Nate Silver. UPDATE (9:52 [...]
Is Obama & Dem Majority Making Case for Big Government or Small Government?
We’re into dueling competitive narrative territory now. However, there is a much bigger story, which goes beyond what’s being talked about now and it’s not a good one for the Democratic Party currently in power. Democrats control the Executive and Legislative branches of government. The BP blowout makes a good case for government and the [...]
Primary Tuesday Not Quite ‘Throw the Bums Out’ But It Should Be
With white independents deserting in droves, Obama and Democrats desperately need the party’s fractious core of liberal supporters. Recent polls show that progressives are far less willing to turn out to back Democrats this year — and far less energized than the GOP base and conservative tea party activists. – Left to Obama: We’re not [...]
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Speaker Pelosi’s ‘Word Made Flesh’ Appearance
Pelosi’s politics is one thing, but drenching it in religion is another. We need less of this in American politics. Having the Democratic Speaker of the House genuflect to the Catholic Community Conference on Capitol Hill simply brings back Pelosi inviting bishop representatives in to help write portions of the health care bill. As a [...]
Peggy Noonan Channels Rand Paul
I wonder if the president knows what a disaster this is not only for him but for his political assumptions. His philosophy is that it is appropriate for the federal government to occupy a more burly, significant and powerful place in America—confronting its problems of need, injustice, inequality. But in a way, and inevitably, this [...]
Will this Woman Help Elect Harry Reid?
Rand Paul, meet your political bookend, Sherry Angle. Who is she? She wants to be a Nevada senator, but she may instead help to re-elect Harry Reid. Angle’s idea of prison reform is for “female inmates to enter a drug rehabilitation program devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, an idea she still defends.” This [...]
Making More Independents Every Day
via CBS It hit on “Morning Joe” this a.m. that on day 36 of the BP blowout, Obama’s EPA chief Lisa Jackson decided it might not be a good idea to go to a New York fundraiser while the Gulf Coast is being coated in oil. It hadn’t occurred to her or the Administration before [...]
Sarah ‘drill, baby, drill’ Palin Oversteps
The Gulf Coast catastrophe and Pres. Obama’s horrific management of the crisis is bad enough. We don’t need the princess of “drill, baby, drill” adding absurdity to the nightmare. Palin’s support for expanded oil exploration as the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate helped turn “Drill, Baby, Drill” into a party mantra. Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” [...]
Macaca’d!
Rand Paul is finding out what it’s like to be caught in a maelstrom of your own making. The incoming is not only deserved but escalating, which the videos below illustrate. Libertarian defenders of Paul’s whacked views are joining him in his digging deeper tour. Segue to David Weigel’s latest, though he doesn’t realize it’s [...]
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