There’s been a ridiculous back and forth going on that started with Rahm Emanuel calling the liberal activist strategy on health care “f-ing retarded.” This ticked off Sarah Palin, who evidently thinks her cute son Trig is either a liberal, an activist or somehow involved in the health care debate. Then of course, Rush, [...] [...more]
I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women’s movement especially when I’m walking behind it. – Rush Limbaugh Via Media Matters Isn’t he just charming? He loves women, just not liberalism. But thinks feminism has “led women [...] [...more]
–updated– “… Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or f—ing beatings. The world ends when you’re dead, until then you’ve got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man. And give some back.” – Al Swearengen, “Deadwood” Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, [...] [...more]
What word hasn’t been used for the awful aftermath in Haiti? The usual suspect, Pat Robertson, waded in with his signatured insulting, tone deaf rantings of a mad old man (video), this time invoking some Satanic pact, who even with Joe Scarborough’s compassionate tweets, couldn’t be saved from himself. However, Robertson got company when Rush [...] [...more]
The GOP establishment may not like her, but she doesn’t seem to care. Sarah Palin knows that whatever shot she’s got at the big job won’t come through traditional means. She’s mapped out another strategy, which Politico’s Andy Barr explains today: Palin is declining an invitation to address the Conservative Political Action Conference next month because, [...] [...more]
Jonathan Cohn has the big news today where health care is concerned: “There will almost certainly be full negotiations but no formal conference,” the House staffer says. “There are too many procedural hurdles to go the formal conference route in the Senate.” [...] “I think the Republicans have made our decision for us,” the Senate staffer says. [...] [...more]
updated The latest is a UK report saying the scientist at the center of “climategate” has been told to quit. That likely won’t make a dent on the right, if Rush Limbaugh’s show yesterday is any indication. With Obama’s decision today to attend Copenhagen surely to ignite a wider furor (update to original post). Driving home from [...] [...more]
updated below Honest to Christ, forgive me mother, but today I heard Rush Limbaugh making a more impassioned plea for women on the latest assault on women’s health care than I’ve heard from Democrats. That’s how bad this has gotten. Rush went on and on about this all being about “self defense” and “peace of mind,” just [...] [...more]
Stuck in this mess with you. Paul Krugman weighs in on the meaning of NY-23 today. It’s the exact point I made last week when I wrote that Sarah Palin was now the GOP establishment, which he takes further to diagnosis as political paranoia coming from the right. America is being take away from them! Man [...] [...more]
Via Facebook, naturally: … The race for New York’s 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010. The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs. In 2010, these issues will be even more crucial to the electorate. I [...] [...more]
updated Tom Davis, a former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, said he still believes the race is a tossup but also expected Scozzafava supporters to swing toward Owens. “This is not a Sarah Palin district, and they tried to make it that way. In a three-way race, you could have gotten 35 to 40 percent to [...] [...more]
Pres. Obama went to war with Fox News, and what he got to show for it was the preview of what Rush’s new Fox News Channel show will look like. … um… Rush is getting his own show, right? Otherwise he lost all that weight for nothing. Rush went on and on, with Chris Wallace happy [...] [...more]
–updated– Before the election last year, this was the storyline. That was then. So, get ready. The you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours moment of the year is coming, as Oprah goes rogue, which also happens to be Newsday’s headline (h/t Memeorandum). Oprah shoots for blockbuster ratings during Novembers sweeps, while also making up to conservatives for [...] [...more]
–updated– … [...] This is just an attack on all of us who are conservatives. Look, they’re scared. Conservatism is in ascendancy. Conservatism is rising. Conservatism is growing. Obama’s in trouble, folks. You can’t take the politics out of me in this, ’cause it’s not about the National Football League. [...] [...more]
expanded edition cross-posted at Huffington Post The Nobel Committee announced Friday that the annual peace prize was awarded to Barack Obama, just nine months into his presidency, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” The award cited in particular Mr. Obama’s effort to reduce the world’s nuclear arsenal. “He has created [...] [...more]
