Republicans react to WH support of equal rights and it’s probably just the beginning of their regular anti-gay election jihad: [Read more…]
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Republicans react to WH support of equal rights and it’s probably just the beginning of their regular anti-gay election jihad: [Read more…]
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Via TPM: 1) the Log Cabin Republicans, gay conservatives, sort of the Clayton Bigsby of equal rights. 2) Follow the money, as in ““God is the author of marriage, and we will not let an activist politician like Barack Obama who is beholden to gay marriage activists for …”. And last and arguably the least, the Fox News/Limbaugh axis of evil, “War On Marriage!”
This is a knife fight in a telephone booth over marriage rights along with women’s rights, minority rights, the 99% vs the masters of the universe, education, Social Security & Medicare, tax rates, defense, child care, and just about any other issue you can imagine where conservative zillionaires see a chance of ripping off and disenfranchising the rest of us. Choose wisely my friends.
It’s always a gray margin between rightly criticizing someone on “our team” and providing fodder for the other jokers to use. See Gingrich, Newt, for an example of how that works and how effective it can be. Nevertheless, I was hesitant to write anything that might have resulted in a flame war below — between people who agree on most everything and need one another’s support to win in 2012 — but my fellow blogger in disgust-at-conservatives John Cole saved me: [Read more…]
I usually avoid so-called presidential debates. But it will be interesting to see Mitt Romney debate Mitt Romney this fall. There are clear contrasts between the two candidates on important issues. Here’s just one good example: [Read more…]
I see the Beltway has their feinting couches (And I mean feint) and smelling salts at the ready, always important should they need to be revived after passing out at the latest manufactured crisis that’s all the right-wing rage today. Concern trolling on gay marriage was going gangbusters among the Morning Joe gang, especially with GOP Joe, but they didn’t invent the genre or create this particular iteration of it. [Read more…]
Several nations across the EU foolishly experimented with “austerity” and one name-brand casualty has paid with his political career. Others will almost certainly follow: [Read more…]
Maybe charts like that help explain the earlier post about Mendacious Mitt. No one would argue TPM and Daily Kos are non-partisan sites. But they’re accurate. [Read more…]
Steve Benen has been cataloguing Mitt Romney’s lies and it has become quite a list. There is something new going on here we haven’t seen before in presidential politics. It’s not just that Mittens garnishes his speeches with a few zombie lies, it’s that he lies so continuously that his entire stump speeches are now nothing but one easily debunked lie piled on top of another from end to end. It’s unprecedented. Here’s a just a few of Romney’s serial whoppers, the rebuttals are linked in the original piece: [Read more…]
Romney has only himself to blame for what is shaping up to be yet another looming campaign screw up created by eagerly inserting his foot into his partisan mouth before thinking. A few days ago, a Chinese dissident under house arrest managed to sneak away and make it to the US embassy. Imagine the embarrassment and heads rolling over that in the People’s Republic: a blind guy essentially broke out of jail guarded by the Chinese gestapo. They wanted him back, real, real bad. [Read more…]
Think of all the things Rick Perry would have to be forgiven for if he were to make it past the Pearly Gates. Screwing over the poor in favor of the money changers, demonizing gays, flushing God’s little microscopic souls down the toilet to ‘save them’ from stem cell research, etc. But Tricky Rick knows what God forgives first and foremost and this ain’t no Perrytale! [Read more…]