A Rasmusson poll: In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party comes out on top. Thirty-three percent (33%) prefer the … Read More
Palin Left College In Hawaii Because Of The Slighty-Eyed People
Seriously…. what would cause a young woman to quit college in Hawaii? In The New Yorker review of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue, Sam Tanenhaus touched on the reason, as re-reported here in The Huffington Post: Palin, though notoriously ill-traveled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a … Read More
Quote Of The Day
Here it is, from the (I'm assuming, Republican) mayor of Arlington TN, on his Facebook page, referring to Tuesday night when Obama announced an increase in troops to Afghanistan: "We sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose…" Riiiiight. I'm sure … Read More
Sarah Palin: Model Of Constistency
Sarah Palin, during her resignation speech, on the silly accusations/ethics complaints against her: And this political absurdity, the “politics of personal destruction” … Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn’t cost them … Read More
Andrew Sullivan On Why He Left The Conservative Herd
Inspired by Charles Johnson, former Log Cabin Republican Andrew Sullivan takes time out to state the reasons why he has moved from right wing conservatism. To be fair, he has never claimed allegiance to any party (he supported, in order, Reagan and Bush and Clinton and Dole and Bush and Kerry and Obama), but he's shown a clear movement leftward … Read More
Bad News For Huckabee 2012 Campaign
That shooter (still on the loose) who shot and killed four cops in Tacoma? The suspect's name is Maurice Clemmons and: Nine years ago in Arkansas, The Seattle Times reported, Mr. Clemmons was released from prison after Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted his lengthy prison sentence, over the protests of prosecutors. Late Sunday night, Mr. Huckabee’s political action committee released a … Read More
Potential Terrorist Caught In Ohio Making Bomb
You know why you haven't heard this story? Because the would-be terrorist wasn't Muslim and didn't have a funny-sounding name. He was an extreme right-winger teabagging anti-government type: CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – Following a pipe bomb explosion Monday night, police and federal law enforcement officials are trying to figure why a Center Avenue man turned his apartment into a bomb … Read More
Obama’s Slo-Mo Catch
It's a nice ad, even if it is about how we're going to indoctrinate kids into socialism:
Pardoning Courage
If you're into that sort of thing, the White House is pardoning a turkey at 11.28 a.m. today, and you can view it live on the White House website here. The turkey's name is "Courage", and he's from North Carolina. In the meantime, here's a classic scene from The West Wing where CJ asks President Bartlet to pardon a second … Read More
President Lou Dobbs?
Yup, he's mulling a White House run in 2012. He's smarter than Palin; I'll give him that. And caters to the same crowd. He'll probably run as an independent third party candidate though. He doesn't stand a chance, especially in a country with 25% non-white voters. I think 2012 is going to be interesting in a popcorn eating kind of … Read More
“Pray for Obama” vs. “Pray for Obama’s Death”?
Apparently, "Psalm 109:8" appeared at the top of Google Trends last week, the internal Google device that sees what people are searching most. And why? Because of a new bumper sticker popping up all over the country. The bumper stickers say "Pray for Obama", but the biblical reference is Psalm 109:8, so it's not as "nice as it sounds. Psalm … Read More
Sarah Palin On Whether She Thinks She’s Qualified To Be President
Bill O'Reilly asked her if she thinks she's qualified to handle "the most powerful job in the world", and Palin offered up this bowl of word salad : O'REILLY: Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world? PALIN: I believe that I am because I have common … Read More
Real Americans Speak At Palin Book Signing
This speaks for itself… Nice people. They don't strike me as the teabagger type, and probably aren't (most of them). What concerns me is how massively un- or under-informed they are…. and how unconcerned they are about how un or under-informed they are.
The Judean People’s Front versus The People’s Front of Judea
Sounds like the Tea Party people can't get along: Tea partiers turn on each other After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become embroiled in internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money and is at risk of losing its momentum. The grass-roots activists driving the movement … Read More
ACORN Madness
Everyone is talking about this Public Policy Polling survey, and in particular, one particular chunk of data. 1,065 registered voters were asked: Now… think about this. One in four registered voters think that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama. What accounts for this oddly high number? Are you serious?!? Half of all registered Republicans — that's about 40 million Republicans — are … Read More