Of course Gov. Huckabee is correct that no one has a crystal ball. I don’t think anyone expected him to. What I would like to see, however, is even a modicum of genuine remorse, just a teeny weeny bit of post-traumatic stress disorder where he blames himself just the haziest [...]
Remember after the 2008 Democratic primary finally ended and candidate Obama took the family to Hawaii for a little vacay? Remember how the Republicans labeled him “elitist” for doing so? Let me refresh your memory, just in case.
TNR’s Michael Crowley noted:
I know he grew up [in [...]
It’s been a whole year but we’re still not over this gruesome video that sums up the train wreck that is Sarah Palin.
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It’s hard to overemphasize to the other 49 states the impact the smallest gestures toward Cuba have on politics in Florida. Case in point: Florida’s new Republican senator, George LeMieux, is blocking the appointment of an Obama nominee as ambassador to Brazil because of a stand [...]
John McCain doesn’t even have an opponent in the 2010 U.S. Senate primary, but a new poll shows the race would be tied if he did. Conservative polling firm Rasmussen asked likely Republican voters whether they would vote for McCain or J.D. Hayworth, a former Arizona [...]
Most people were stunned when, after weeks of auditioning the Republican party’s best and brightest, Sen. John McCain chose the unknown and inexperienced Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign. But Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was probably even more disappointed than most. [...]
There’s another crack in the Republican wall of opposition to Pres. Obama’s policies, nominees, and general existence. Sen. Richard Luger (R-Ind.) says he will vote to confirm the president’s first appeals court pick, Judge David Hamilton of Indianapolis. He is nominated for a seat on the [...]
Anyone planning to read the Sarah Palin book should bookmark these sites. Both the A.P. and Media Matters have printed lists of the inaccuracies and falsehoods in Going Rogue: An American Life. Media Matters is maintaining theirs as an ongoing work in progress, since drilling [...]
State Attorney General Beau Biden, the vice president’s son, has pulled ahead in the 2010 Delaware U.S. Senate campaign. U.S. Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), whose votes have taken a partisan turn, is going down in flames. A new poll shows Biden leading Castle by 5 points, after trailing him [...]
David Corn, Mother Jones Washington reporter, brought reality back to Republican arguments about Afghanistan on ABC’s This Week. After conservatives George Will and David Brooks went over their thoughts on Obama’s distaste with the task of figuring out how to go forward in the country, saying [...]
The Onion has nailed it before but this time, they used a Hitachi 16-gauge, selective trigger, leather-grip nail gun. You need to read the whole thing but here’s how it starts.
ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot [...]
Ken Rudin is reporting a bizarre situation in the recent New York 23rd Congressional District race. It began as a three-way race between Republican Dede Scozzafava, Democrat Bill Owens, and Conservative Doug Hoffman, for whom Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson campaigned. Scozzafava dropped out after taking [...]
Let the games begin. There’s a poll going around on Facebook (based on a made-up email) that the Obamas have outlawed the use of the word “Christmas” to describe the green thing that holds up ornaments during the month of December, and insist on calling it a [...]
If you missed Carl Hiaasen’s send-up of Sarah Palin’s autobiography via a fictional letter from her publisher, here are the high points. We just wish the part about John McCain duct-taping her mouth was true. Enjoy.
(Confidential response of Sarah Palin’s book editor to the first draft [...]
If you’re on the west coast, and of course by that I mean from Naples to Pensacola (not California), listen up. An event to protest any efforts by Florida’s Republican legislators to sell out to oil interests and allow drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is [...]
The tea baggers are starting to remind me of my ex-mother-in-law, who always used her bags at least twice. No matter how long you let it steep, the product is weak and watery. The same could be said for trying to recycle the grassroots angst of the [...]
Get ready. The mouth-foamers are preparing to take the tea party to the Capitol. When debate begins Thursday in Congress on the health care reform bill, Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) want their odious, easily duped, irrational and not so bright supporters there [...]
At last, some good news on the American religious front. A new study shows 15 percent of Americans claim no religious affiliation. Only 10 percent of the 34 million people who are being called “Nones” say they don’t believe in God. Rather, they don’t believe in people who believe [...]
We love this official White House photo, taken by Pete Souza, of the president and first lady giving out Halloween candy. But we have one question.
What’s up with the Klan costume?
Seriously, we’re sure there’s a reasonable explanation and this is, despite the white robe [...]
How disgusted are Floridians with Gov. Charlie Crist? So disgusted they’d be willing to have Jeb Bush back in Tallahassee. A new poll shows 46 percent of the registered voters asked wish that Jeb were still in the governor’s mansion, while 41 percent would rather keep Charlie, even though [...]
To truly enjoy the vampire remix of the Glenn Beck freakout on July 15, you have to sit through the original broadcast. It’s painful but it makes the remix so much funnier.
First, the real deal:
This guy needs health care, all right. He needs MENTAL health care.
And now, the remix:
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We told you that Florida’s Gov. Charlie Crist (R) wasn’t planning to hobnob with the president when he came to Florida this week. We knew that the political realities for Crist, who is in a very competitive race for U.S. Senate with an actual Republican conservative, [...]
When the nation’s largest solar electric generating plant goes online outside a small, sun-baked Florida town this week, Pres. Barack Obama will be there to herald the dawn of a new era of energy production. The state’s governor, Charlie Crist, made a name for himself as the “green governor” in [...]
A new poll on the Florida Senate race supports the idea that Republicans are dissatisfied with their party because it’s not conservative enough. Gov. Charlie Crist, the so-called moderate, is getting chomped by the so-called conservative, former State House Speaker Marco Rubio.
The Oct. 12-18 Quinnipiac University poll finds the [...]
Today’s the day to call your representatives in Washington about meaningful health care reform, or to call them again if you already have. And this tool from Organizing for America makes it a truly three-minute process. You just put in your zip code and up pop the names and [...]
