Chris Dodd gets to the heart of the matter on this whole FISA nonsense and immunity for telecoms. "Either the companies and the President acted outside of the rule of law, or they followed it," he said. "Either the underlying...
It's been said that a candidate steers hard left or right (depending on their political affiliation) in the primaries to woo the base of his party and then quickly tacks back to the center in the general election. Well, somebody...
Nestled in the heart of the speech in which he claimed the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama made a promise to the American people that laid out the tone and tenor of his campaign against John McCain: It is a debate...
In what must be one of the most pathetic smear attempts in years, some right wingers are actually trying to paint Barack Obama as—get this—a Marxist. On right-winger Mike Gallagher's radio show today, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX)...
This is exactly what I want to hear Obama say in response to the "appeasement" flap: Obama also slammed the notion that he'd ever supported any sort of negotiations with terrorists. "They're trying to fool you, trying to scare you,...
Here's why I still love old Joe Biden: "This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind...
We come to expect this from a political huckster like George W. Bush. The fact that he recently compared Democratic plans to deal with terrorism to that of "Nazi appeasers" no longer shocks the sensibilities as something so clearly over...
Saying he just wants to get people thinking, Jonesville, S.C. pastor Roger Byrd put a new message on the outdoor sign at his church. It reads: "Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?" Byrd says the message wasn't meant to by...
With all of the hullabaloo around Obama's ties to the Rev. Wright you'd think that the candidates running for president would be a bit sensitive to comments from religious leaders that...um...seem insensitive. Imagine for a moment Obama seeking and then...
The fact that we're even having a debate on the use of torture in this country is not only embarrassing to me as an American, it puts the lives and well being of American soldiers in danger. If we—the greatest...
If you follow Democratic national politics then you know that Mark Penn is one hated MOFO. The Chief Strategist for the Clinton campaign has a special talent for raising the dander of his opponents (and even supporters on occasion) that...
In a pretty lame attempt to paint Barack Obama as an exaggerator, the Clinton camp has circulated several talking point sheets trying to debunk his claim of being a law professor at the University of Chicago. Sen. Obama consistently and...
Gotta love YouTube mash-ups. If you're following the whole "Hillary in Tuzla" hub bub, this is for you. Hillary in Tuzla: The Movie...
Here's why it's important to have an independent Justice Department: White House: Computer hard drives tossed In an attempt to thwart a federal court's plan to recover "lost" emails, the White House disclosed that older workstations are routinely sent offsite...
Hillary Clinton has been teasing audiences of late with the idea of a "Dream Ticket" featuring her in the lead position and Obama supporting her as a VP nominee. It's bullshit and Obama cuts to the quick: With all due...
I love interviews with Georgia Republican Jack Kingston. He's a buffoon and completely unaware of his own ignorance, which makes watching his interviews like watching an exercise in social retardation. Last night on MSNBC's Live with Dan Abrams, Kingston laid...
Now here's an interesting tactic: a conservative blog engages in the dreaded liberal practice of "class warfare" to bash John Cougar Mellencamp, who recently asked John McCain to refrain from using Mellencamp's song "This is Our Country" at campaign events....
The biggest rat to jump the sinking ship of the Republican party is none other than blowhard pillhead Rush Limbaugh. It seems Rushbot is none-too-pleased with McCain pulling ahead in the GOP primaries and blames him and an uninspiring cast...
There are lots of reasons to hate the blogoshpere. There's a lot of weirdo bullshit out there, especially when it comes to politics. But there's also a lot of really funny one-liners floating about, and that's what I love about...
Quote of the Day: "If A Tape Is Not Safe In The CIA, We're In Trouble" --Former CIA Assistant General Counsel John Radsan The guy makes an excellent point in refuting the nonsense that the CIA had to destroy interrogation...
Quote of the day: "While the Republicans are passing a resolution celebrating Christmas, the president was vetoing health care for children. There's a little bit of irony going on around here." --Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), explaining why he voted against...
We wouldn't normally copy and paste someone else's post wholesale, but Andrew Sullivan is opening a can of worms here and his post says it all: Scott Horton puts it simply: Let's first focus on this question: Why is this...
I don't even know where to begin with this article so I guess I'll start from the top of the page and work my way down...to the bottom. The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002...
If anyone questions whether Rudy Giuliani has balls need look no further than his latest radio spot. As an example of how America's health care system is the best in the world and beyond the meddling of some pinko universal...
There's a lot in this Harold Ford interview that drives me insane, but I am going to focus on Ford's answer to the very first question and how it is an abject lesson in how NOT to respond to a...
I don't know if Senator Larry Craig is gay or not. I know he's said he's not gay about 120 times since his arrest for soliciting sex in a men's bathroom in Minneapolis this summer. I also know this dude...
Exposing fathead as the pussy he is, a wounded Iraq war veteran tells Rush Limbaugh, "until you have the guts to call me a phony solider to my face, stop telling lies about my service." The gall of these chickenhawks...
You wouldn't know it by some of the votes that have actually taken place in congress lately, but there are some very important issues facing this country that we'd like our elected representatives in congress to address. Among the many...
Beyond tasteless, a California fundraising event for Rudy Giuliani is asking for $9.11 per person. Dogged by accusations of politicizing the 9-11 attacks, Giuliani spokeswoman Maria Comella is scrambling to distance the candidate from what she described as "two volunteers...
According to the Washington Post, federal health officials' attempts to convince mothers that their babies faced health risks if they did not breast-feed were thwarted by the infant formula industry: Plans to run these blunt ads infuriated the politically powerful...
In response to Tony Snow's use of the sarcastic phrase, "I'm shocked. Shocked," while covering up for Bush's inappropriate (and probably illegal) briefings of diplomats, Last Plane to Jakarta reminds us of the phrase's origins: It is spoken by Captain...
A couple years ago when Michael Moore was promoting Fahrenheit 9-11, he was on the Howard Stern show telling the King of All Media that he understood why people (like Stern) fell for the President's bullshit in the run-up to...
More fun with headlines... You know, I want to believe our President is above cheap scare tactics. Yes, I've seen all the articles pointing out how the threat level rose and fell with political bad news or in conjunction with...
Just when you thought the drums beating for Big Alberto's resignation were dying down, we get this headline: Gonzales was told of FBI violations After getting report, attorney general said he knew of no wrongdoing This is in reference to...
With eroding support from both the public and now some key Republicans in congress, the Bush White House is understandably in a tizzy over Iraq and seems to be chasing its own tail in trying to quell the calls for...
We at POLJUNK have been saying for some time now that the true voice and face of the new conservative movement is best represented by hate mongers like Ann Coulter. She's not a radical firebrand within the movement, but the...
So, not only did White House aides (including Karl Rove) use Republican National Committee and Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign emails for official business—which in itself is against the law—and not only did they later destroy emails from certain staffer—also against the...
You've got to wonder how many more investigations into Justice Department activities will be opened in the coming months. We've got investigations by both chambers into the attorney firings, an internal investigation into political-based hiring for non-partisan positions, and today...
A New York Times piece today, entitled Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani's Legacy, delves into the Giuliani administration's culpability for the health problems thousands of Ground Zero workers are now experiencing. Over 8,000 city workers - police, firemen and others...
Conservatives often confuse me. Well, modern conservatives anyways. I am not sure how to read this bizarre posting on The Jawa Report (great name, by the way): "Hopefully, Sarkozy can keep his momentum and grand vision for France going...
Rush Limbaugh: "Long after we're all dead and gone, when historians who are not yet born begin to write about this era, they're going to place George Bush in the upper echelon of presidents who had a great vision for...
Crooks and Liars has a great clip of John Stewart sticking it to Bush and his bullshit rhetoric on the Defense bill and what it means to troop deployments. Too good to be missed. The gall of this administration...
Anyone not sure of the Cult of Personality Jude detailed in his April 3 post, A Cult of Personality, In Living Colour, look no further than AJ Strata at the Strata-Sphere. This is maybe the best example of how some...
Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit uses today's tragic shooting at Virginia Tech to echo the old NRA battle cry that MORE guns, not less, lower gun crimes and had more students been packing then the death toll may have been...
The White House is claiming that emails sent and received by staffers using Republican National Committee accounts (in itself a possible violation of law regarding the Presidential Records Act) have been erased and are, conveniently, lost forever. White House spokesman...
Anyone wondering what might be the fatal flaw in Don't Ask, Don't Tell need look no further than the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. In a surprisingly candid remark regarding the ridiculous Clinton compromise on gays in the military, Peter...
Apparently, American Christian conservatives are so fed up with living in an environment that doesn't mold itself in strict accordance with their views that they have embarked on a mission to literally redefine every aspect of the world we all...
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "waste" as: a. to spend or use carelessly : SQUANDER; b : to allow to be used inefficiently or become dissipated... How better to describe the madness in Iraq? But politics on both side say any utterance...
David Kuo used to head up the President's office of Faith Based Initiatives and has just released a book criticizing members of the Administration as being, um, less than genuine in their cozying up to Christian conservatives. In a 60...
The only thing Republicans like more than beating up on Bill Clinton is beating up on Ted Kennedy. Dig this gem from Connecticut shithead, Rep. Chris Shays: "I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young...
I have no idea whether the NRCC considered this ad or not, but it's an example of both the ugliness of American poltics right now and the power of a focused creative mind bent on disparaging anyone associated with Bill...
A simple post on the Real Ugly American succinctly illustrates how some on the Right continue to demonize all muslims and how easy it is to dismantle their inane arguments. All in one simple exchange between the blogger and a...
One of the Right's favorite activities is propagating the concept that the news media, and the media in general, in America are inherently left-leaning. Wikipedia has a breakdown of the media bias issue. I have always found this perceived...
Not only is Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt a shameful opportunist who attacks decorated war veterans on the floor of the House of Representatives, she's also a God damned liar. Her apparent fib has her claiming some impressive numbers on the...
In case anyone was confused as to why Republicans (and the RNC) is either explicitly or implicitly supporting Joe Lieberman's Independent run in Connecticut, Right Wing News has the answer: ...as we speak, millions of dollars are pouring into Connecticut,...
In a shocking turn of events, the RNC Chairman switches sides and joins Democrats in demanding the administration abandon their "Stay the Course" mentality in Iraq and make some changes. Well, not quite. But Mehlman is desperately trying to distance...
I was watching the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday and was flabbergasted by Cokie Roberts' suggestion that Ned Lamont defeating Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primaries would be "a disaster for the Democratic Party," and comparing this situation to George...
Is it possible to get to the bottom of things via Senate Commissions or select panels on intelligence? Sadly, we all know the answer is a big fat 'no'. Here's a nice little piece from the Washington Post about the...
For a while now, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has been in a mostly hilarious and harmless feud with Fox's chief blowhard Bill O'Reilly. It's usually Keith showing a clip in which O'Reilly mistates or misrepresents "facts" to support his asinine arguments....
Orrin Hatch's recent comments that two FISA judges were informed of the President's data collection program seems to be enough cover for some conservatives. Our friends at Confederate Yankee seem to think so anyway. As far as they're concerned,...
Mr. Cohen, I have a couple of questions for you in regards to your Washington Post article of May 4, 2006 ("So Not Funny"). 1. You claim that Colbert's "deck chairs on the Hindenburg" statement is a "mixed metaphor." How...
The Traditional Value Coalition ("Empowering People of Faith through Knowledge") is gravely warning its members to watch out for a new queer propaganda campaign aimed at turning your children into limp-wristed, cocksucking window-dressers. Maybe the "people of faith" at the...
Think Progress is hosting video of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist falling back on the GOP's boogeyman Bill Clinton as the cause for today's high gas prices. The Republican's pathological hatred of Bill Clinton is endlessly entertaining to me, but...
Mr. Gibson, I just read your piece on Neil Young's new album ("Neil Young and Pink Blame Wrong Leaders", FOXNews.com, April 28, 2006). Does Mr. Young's new album say anything about the war on Afghanistan? Your references to Flight 93...
All Things Beautiful proves again why isolationists continually are painted as xenophobic nutters with this bizarre diatribe about the immigration debate: Well let me tell you what I would say to the illegals in this country, if it were up...
The Brothers Judd get all self-righteous and claim that if a Democratic president were sitting today and contemplating a preventative strike on Iran (not that those pussies—like FDR, Truman, JFK or LBJ—would ever defend America), they'd have the full and...
The Brothers Judd get all self-righteous and claim that if a Democratic president were sitting today and contemplating a preventative strike on Iran (not that those pussies—like FDR, Truman, JFK or LBJ—would ever defend America), they'd have the full and...
There are two new songs available by the Right Brothers, the same geniuses who brought you "Bush Was Right." (Remember that?) The new songs are "The Illegals" (mp3, lyrics) and "What Happened to the Pot" (mp3, lyrics). Well, if I...
Ugh, I hate it when war supporters try to parse out casualty reports and paint them in a brighter color. There's nothing more embarrassing than intellectual chicken hawks try to minimize the violence in Iraq. Get a load of this...
Blogs For Bush dismisses recent immigration rallies as an excuse for "illegals and others making off from school to jump and shout and be rude...and, incidentally, get a day off from school." So, did they get a day off from...
Wizbang tries to combat the Dems' use of generalizations in regards to recruiting the immigrant vote with...generalizations. "The Democrats classify people based upon race and then work to corner the racial voting collectives...Immigrants who come from south of the border...
This is a couple weeks old but it's still incredible....
Giddy because Cheney hasn't been entirely ratted out yet, the publisher of JustOneMinute must have been easily amused as a child....
Aaaaaaand they're off!!!! Following closely those Republican talking points, GOP cyborg Carol Platt Liebau takes the lead in the old "The President Can't Leak" race. Those eyes!!!!...
