Posts filed under “Depends on the Definition of”
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 [...]
Are You Experienced?
The first line of the Jimi Hendrix song goes “If you can just get your mind together”. It looks like Amanda Terkel of ThinkProgress couldn’t, when she wrote: Franken has had experience with the filibuster dating back to before he was even seated as a U.S. senator. As Republicans attempted to drag out the recount [...]
Depends On The Definition Of Simply Untrue
BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles last Wednesday: Recent media reports have suggested that individuals involved in the cleanup operation have been prohibited from speaking to the media, and this is simply untrue. BP fully supports and defends all individuals rights to share their personal thoughts and experiences with journalists if they so choose. BP [...]
Brewer’s Bruised Feelings
Jan Brewer is really, really upset at some of the criticism she has received since she cheerfully signed Arizona’s draconian anti-immigrant law for personal political gain: “The Nazi comments . . . they are awful,” she said, her voice dropping. “Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him [...]
BP’s Experiments With Truth
Even at this stage of the game, BP continues to play fast and loose with the truth. The top kill procedure at the Deepwater Horizon site started on Wednesday, at 1 p.m. CDT. For about ten hours, BP’s engineers pumped the heavy drilling mud into the blown well. Around 11 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, this [...]
Parsimony
Mark Souder has been, for almost 16 years now, one of the staunchest “family values” Republicans in Congress: The Indiana Republican … has made the “fight to uphold traditional values” the centerpiece of his professional life. His official website declares, “The family plays a fundamental role in our society…. I am committed to preserving traditional [...]
Republican Bailout Rhetoric
Mike Pence is a member of the Republican Congressional leadership, specifically, chairman of the House Republican Conference. That seems to mean he lies for a living. This is how he characterized the Wall Street reform bill yesterday morning: The American people are tired of runaway federal spending, borrowing and bailouts. The legislation being considered by [...]
Reimbursement Roulette
Michael Steele, hapless chairman of the RNC, doesn’t just suffer from Loose Lips Syndrome. He’s also been running a really loose ship. On the heels of the recent revelations about the RNC cheerfully reimbursing expenses for a group trip of young donors to a topless lesbian-bondage nightclub, we learn about seriously misrepresented reimbursements: At the [...]
Foreign Money And US Elections
So now there’s a big debate about whether the recent Supreme Court decision really opens the door for foreigners and foreign corporations to spend money to influence US elections: The president, a former teacher of constitutional law, had asserted that the ruling, known informally as Citizens United, would open the floodgates to a torrent of [...]
Depends on the Definition of Change
2009-2013: The Third Bush Term: Senior administration officials are briefing the press about President Obama’s speech tonight detailing the 30,000 more troops he’ll be sending to Afghanistan. They say he will outline a “new window of opportunity” and a “new approach” to the region. But another talking point emerged, with language we’ve heard before. An [...]