One of the most satisfying features of Tuesday’s election was the thorough discrediting of Republican strategist Karl Rove. Rove was this supposed political genius, the one-time boy wonder who was credited with engineering George W. Bush’s two successful runs for the presidency and was known as ‘Bush’s brain’, as if that were a compliment. Rove’s mystique was such that mainstream media figures would fawn over him. [Read more…]
Fox News had a terrible night on Tuesday, as the realization slowly sank in that the hermetically sealed world in which they lived, where everyone hated Barack Obama and were just waiting for the chance to throw him and his Muslim-socialist ways out the door, had been breached, and the harsh winds of reality entered and chilled them to the bone. Needless to say, The Daily Show was not going to let them forget it. [Read more…]
I am an old and cynical person, especially when it comes to politicians showing emotion. I always suspect that such displays are rehearsed and aimed to achieving some goal. But I think this clip of Barack Obama getting emotional when thanking his campaign workers the day after the election is genuine. [Read more…]
As some of you may recall, I endorsed Elizabeth Warren for the US senate as soon as she announced and immediately sent her some money. Although I continued to support her, I was not confident of her chances. Although Massachusetts is a very Democratic state and that seat was the one held by Teddy Kennedy, the incumbent Republican Scott Brown had managed to pull off an upset victory in the 2010 election to fill Kennedy’s remaining term. [Read more…]
Last week, I posed the question of what might happen when people start believing their own lies. This was prompted by the fact that the Republican party and the Romney campaign and their supporters seemed to be willing to reject any information that went against what they wanted to believe. This election at least partially supplied an answer to my question and that is that you end up looking like a fool because at some point reality slaps you upside the head. [Read more…]
The Boy Scouts organization in the US has been having a hard time recently. The release of secret ‘perversion files‘ of sexual abuse by leaders stretching back over decades has brought further shame to it. [Read more…]
It was truly gratifying to see that some truly awful characters lost their races for Congress yesterday.
Richard (‘a child of rape is a gift from god’) Mourdock lost 50-44% his race for the US senate in Indiana, as did Todd (‘women have magical bodies that automatically prevent rape pregnancies’) Akin by a whopping 55-39% margin in Missouri. These were the two Republicans who started out being favorites to win and then during the campaign propounded their weird and reprehensible views on rape. Their polls started diving and they never recovered, not only destroying the Republican party’s high hopes of getting a majority in the senate, but actually increasing the size of the Democratic caucus by two to 55. You can bet that the party will try and school future candidates on how to speak about rape but it may not help. These people are true believers in what they say, and will chafe at hiding what they feel is their god’s will. Their religious nuttery will leak out in one form or another. [Read more…]
The very first law that Barack Obama signed after he was sworn in in 2009 was the Lilly Ledbetter Act, named after the woman who sued her employer after she discovered that her male colleagues had for years been getting paid much more than her for the same work. [Read more…]