James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles made it up.
It took a few months for the truth to finally emerge, but now we know that the GOP wunderkids, the “future of journalism,” these “heroes” as they were hailed by the right, are basically full of, well, crap. And not very good crap at that.
Last September, to much [...]
It’s a cliche, I know. But when it comes to the health care debate, the motto of Republicans and conservatives truly should be “Never let a fact get in the way of a good story.”
Oh, those pesky facts, as Glenn Beck might say (although Beck hasn’t used a real fact in so many years he [...]
“I’m much more sympathetic now to Republican candidates who have been on city councils or county commissions and have voted to raise taxes, much more sympathetic then I would have been not being on council,” he said. “At some point with gas prices rising up, you can only cut so much.” – Erick Erickson
Yes, that [...]
by @tregan on November 4, 2009 · 2 comments
in #tcot, Congress, Democratic Party, Economy, GOP, Gay Rights, General, Gun Control, Politics, Religion, Sarah Palin, Taxes, The President
Looking at the results of last night’s off-off year elections is a bit like looking at a Jackson Pollack painting. You see in it what you want.
Did the GOP win? Well, yes and no.
They won big in Virginia and in a squeaker in New Jersey, but lost a seat in upstate New York they [...]
It’s kinda odd when you think about it.
The future of the Republican Party is being played out in two places that look very different at first glance: liberal New York and conservative Virginia. True, both states voted for Obama last presidential election, but national elections don’t really matter all that much in state-based campaigns. [...]
It was a heady moment. This week Eric Cantor, leading GOP House member, said that if an election was held today, the GOP would take control of the House.
And he might be right … if an election was held today.
But I have sad news for Mr. Cantor. There is no election today. There is no [...]
I’m no big fan of Newt Gingrich, but I also know that he has a lot of political smarts (not that he always uses them appropriately). In the early part of the year, he made a very interesting comment that bares repeating in the midst of the onslaught by the GOP, the teabaggers and the [...]
It was GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss who pushed me over the edge.
Not that I should be surprised that Chambliss would make up a lie out of whole cloth about health care. The only way that he got elected senator in the first place was to engineer a campaign full of distortions against then Dem. Senator [...]
If the Republican Party existed except as a club of groupies androadies for the rabble-rousers on radio and cable, it would rouseitself from its narcotized self-satisfaction of second best and give aspeech that the Turfers, Birthers Tea-Baggers and all the otheramateurs of dissent must sit down and listen to the reason ofstatesmanship or else leave [...]
It was an incident that inflamed public sentiment. A group of soldiers, confronted by an angry mob, opened fire killing several members of the crowd. Eventually the soldiers were tried for their actions, but they were acquitted when it was decide that they only undertook this action to protect themselves.
This did not calm, however, the [...]