Archive for August, 2010
Cordoba House, And The Families and Friends of 9/11 Victims
It’s really very simple. Feisal Abdul Rauf has a perfect right to build an Islamic community center 2 blocks from Ground Zero. He has a legal right, and he has a moral right. He has a fundamental constitutional right. Nobody has any right to stop him from building that community center. Not even the family [...]
Did Someone Accuse Ensign Of Telling The Truth?
Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston gives Nevada Senator John Ensign the treatment he so richly deserves: he jumps all over him with hobnailed boots. In a column that appeared late Saturday night, Jon skewered John over the letter John sent out last week soliciting contributions to his legal defense fund. (In a move that [...]
Constitutional Amendment? I’ve Got Your Constitutional Amendment Right Here!
If the lunatic fringe of the Republican party — and all its Republican leaders followers in Congress — can propose (and shamelessly promote for political purposes) constitutional amendments that have no hope whatsoever of actually passing into law, I don’t see why I can’t advocate one of my own. Especially when mine makes a lot [...]
Leader? Come On!
Yesterday, Steve Benen had this sarcastic sentence in a post he wrote about House Minority Whip Eric Cantor following the extremists and lunatics who seem to dictate the Republican Party’s public position on every single issue these days in condemning Cordoba House, the Islamic community center that a moderate Islamic cleric wants to build in [...]
Much Better Than 1,000 Words
No amount of newspaper articles explaining that the Republicans’ plan for extending the Bush tax cuts is skewed towards the wealthiest 2% of Americans drives home the point like this well-conceived Washington Post graphic: After such knowledge, what forgiveness? (Hopefully!) Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about [...]
The Politics Of Gullibility
Another hilarious set of findings from the same NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: Republicans, however, now enjoy an edge on dealing with the economy, dealing with immigration, dealing with taxes, dealing with Afghanistan, reducing the deficit, promoting values, controlling government spending, and combating terrorism. If I had to rank those in order of hilarity, I [...]
The Bigotry Of Low Expectations?
Here’s a funny little tidbit from the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: President Obama‘s overall approval rating stands at 47% … overall, seven in 10 believe Obama has met or exceeded their expectations as president. We don’t really think too highly of the job he’s doing, but, boy, he’s doing a lot better than [...]
Baby, Please Don’t Go!
Lt Gen Babaker Zebari is Iraq’s Army Chief of Staff. He believes that the planned US troop withdrawal (by the end of 2011) is premature. How premature? He thinks we need to stay around for another ten years. Iraq’s top army officer has criticised as premature the planned US troop withdrawal by the end of [...]
Quote Of The Day
Here’s Politico, commenting on the result of last night’s Republican gubernatorial primary in Colorado: Republicans also didn’t do themselves any favors in Colorado’s gubernatorial contest by narrowly nominating Dan Maes. GOP leaders had hoped former Rep. Scott McInnis, who has become embroiled in a plagiarism scandal, would win the nomination and then agree to drop [...]
Newt Gingrich’s Second Wife Tells All
Did you know that that a plausible case can be made that, as of last night, Newt Gingrich was the front-runner in the Republican 2012 presidential race? As 2012 approaches, he has raised as much money as all of his potential rivals combined and sits atop the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. If Gingrich, [...]