There was a debate last night. It was fun. Here’s what happened: Rick Santorum doesn’t want gays in America to have rights, but he is deeply concerned about gay rights in Iran. Tim Pawlenty believes that Michele Bachmann is a do-nothing loser. He also thinks Mitt Romney is a pinko slimeball with a huge lawn. […]
Election 2012
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I Shall Attempt to Write About This With a Certain High-Minded Betterness
Rick Santorum—once again—compares same-sex marriage to incest. “So when people come out and say that marriage is something else—marriage is the marriage of five people, five, 10, 20. Marriage can be between fathers and daughters. Marriage can be between any two people, any four people, any 10 people, it can be any kind of relationship […]
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Nobody Wants To Pray with Rick Perry
I think we can safely call Rick Perry’s big prayer rally a dud: At about 9 a.m., an hour before the program was scheduled to start, the stadium, with a seating capacity of 71,500, had tens of thousands of empty seats, particularly in the upper decks. By 10 a.m, organizers estimated that about 20,000 people […]
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Michele Bachmann Says She Wanted to Destroy the Global Economy Because Someone Has To
I’m paraphrasing, of course, but that’s the gist of Bachmann’s new ad, which is a full-on plea for Teabagger support:
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Paul, Cain, Gingrich and Santorum Sell Campaign Gear Not Made in America
This is like Campaign 101, people. If you’re running for president of the United States, you have to sell t-shirts that were made in America: ABC News, which previously revealed that Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were selling campaign T-shirts and other gear made outside the United States, has now found two other campaigns selling […]
Posted inReligion
Michele Bachmann Knows You Want to Know About Her Jot and Also Her Tittle
ABC News: Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann declined to directly address reports that the Christian counseling clinic she owns with her husband, Marcus, has tried to help gay people become straight through prayer…she acknowledged that running for president often brings intense, and sometimes unwanted, scrutiny. “I have no doubt that every jot and tittle of my […]
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Sarah Palin Uses Big Word, Astonishes Nation
Holy shit you guys: Count the syllables in this bad boy that Sarah Palin just dropped: “A lot of this has to do with his background, him having not been a part of the private sector and running a business or having to rely on making profit. That seems to be foreign to our President. […]
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Speaking of Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum didn’t like what I had to say about him—not what I said about Republicans generally, which I didn’t mean and immediately apologized for—on Real Time with Bill Maher last week. Comedian and podcaster Marc Maron said something about wanting to hatefuck Michele Bachmann. To keep things from seeming all sexist and shit, I […]
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Does Michele Bachmann Suffer from Episodes?
Wonkette brings a story from The Daily Caller to our attention: It seems that three anonymous people who are claiming to be “close to Michele Bachmann” have said that she frequently suffers from debilitating migraine attacks. She reportedly carries an array of pills at all times to take before, during, and after the attacks, which […]
Posted inCity Hall
National Women’s PAC Endorses Eileen Brady for Mayor
Eileen Brady, already by far the fundraising leader in next year’s mayoral race, just scored a prominent endorsement this morning (and likely fundraising boost) from EMILY’s List, the self-described “community of progressive Americans dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women to every level of office.” The group, according to its website, has helped raise more than […]