New Jersey governor Chris Christie has promised to veto any gay marriage law that crosses his desk. Remember, this guy is on every shortlist for Republican vice presidential material: See, as part of his push to have New Jersey voters vote on gay marriage in a referendum (so that he doesn’t have to be on […]
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Nobody Likes Newt Gingrich
Even though Newt Gingrich is promising all sorts of cool things like a permanent moon base and trips to Mars during a Gingrich presidency, nobody seems to like him. Politico is noticing that within the last 24 hours, what seems to be a mainstream conservative push against Gingrich has ‘spontaneously’ launched. Drudge, Ann Coulter, National […]
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Today in Newt Gingrich’s Selfless Battle on Behalf of Rude Audiences
As I mentioned the other day, Newt Gingrich has threatened to pull out of future Republican debates unless the audience is allowed to bellow, weep, and cheer every time he throws them a disingenuous applause line. Gingrich even framed it as a free speech issue, which is total bullshit. CNN told Huffington Post (via Poynter) […]
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Fidel Castro Is an Astute Commentator on the American Political Process
This is more honest and true than anything Wolf Blitzer has said in the last ten years. Maybe CNN should give Castro his own show? “The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance […]
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The Republican Takeaway from the State of the Union
I’m sure we’ll have much more about the State of the Union address later today—short version, phenomenal speech with an amazing closing, but Democrats are right to be concerned about the sop in the middle to drilling offshore and on public land—but right now I’m enjoying the Republican adoration for Mitch Daniels’s lackluster response to […]
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Heavyweight City Union Gets Behind Smith, Nolan, and Novick in Portland Races
Less than a week after Eileen Brady drew the first official union endorsement in this year’s race for mayor—a nod from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Local 48—another influential union has picked sides ahead of the May primary. AFSCME’s Local 189, which counts nearly 1,000 city employees among its ranks, officially voted tonight to […]
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Newt Says He Won’t Do Any More Debates Unless the Audience Is Baying for Blood
I’m paraphrasing, of course: Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, on Tuesday morning threatened not participate in any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. That was the case on Monday, when Brian Williams of NBC News asked the audience of about 500 people who assembled for a debate in Tampa […]
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Santorum Begs for CUM
Santorum‘s website over the weekend was begging for CUM. Here’s a screenshot: Let’s just take a moment, here, to appreciate the fact that this shit-soaked anti-sex pervert had the entire evangelical coalition fall behind him in South Carolina, and it just didn’t matter. This means one of two things: Either Santorum is so unlikeable that […]
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Who Is This Radical Anti-American Saul Alinksy Person?
Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama a “Saul Alinsky radical” and sneering at the president’s tenure as a “community organizer.” If you’re curious who Alinsky was, Richard Adams at The Guardian has an informative short post up on his blog. (American lefties? You really should be checking in on the Guardian’s website once a day, if […]
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Romney Releases Tax Returns, Had Tons of Money in a Swiss Bank Account…
… as Sarah mentioned in GMN. And it begins with 550 pages worth of tax documents: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating he will pay $6.2 million in taxes on a total of $42.5 million in income over the years 2010 and 2011…he and his wife, Ann, paid an effective […]
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A Busy Week for the GOP!
It’s going to be a busy week for Election 2012, with Republican debates tonight and Thursday and the State of the Union tomorrow night. But tonight’s debate holds a special place in my heart. That’s because it’s the first debate after South Carolina, which is the state that made this ad possible: Newt Gingrich is […]
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Portland City Hall Has a New Mayor!
Wear that crown with pride! Max Bauske remains the funniest candidate for mayor (intentionally funny, I should note). And now, apparently, there’s no reason to hold the election this spring. Because in an email Friday night, Bauske announced a thunderous, and surprising, victory: Because he bothered to check in 34 times in 60 days at […]