Sarah Palin excels in getting media attention, but it looks as though the more people see of her and hear from her, the less well this half-term ex-governor of Alaska wears on them — Republicans included.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll reported this week that 71 percent of Americans overall, and 52 percent of Republicans, think [...]
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She’s a pistol, he’s an arsenal and they
are a few rounds short of a full clip
Take it from the right, ‘Palin is America’
“First off, I have to report that Palin was wearing a pin with two flags, one for the US and one for Israel. This is so beautiful and brave, I am speechless. What utter goodness.
“Secondly, she delivered the goods.
“Palin is America. Before it was infected and corrupted by the left.”
—Pamela [...]
Will Tennessee tea partiers buy in
or bag Palin-headlined event?
Looks as though the Republican right’s rendition of America’s sweetheart doesn’t make tea partiers’ hearts go pitty-pat all that much, judging by Sarah Palin’s lack of drawing power for a pricey dinner do in Nashville.
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips likely assumed that scoring a dinner speech by the former Alaska governor and GOP [...]
South Carolina’s Bauer advocates
starving the poor out of existence
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. [...]
As world sends help to quake-stricken Haiti,
Robertson contributes tale of deal with devil
The supposedly Rev. Pat Robertson practices a perverse theology, one in which it’s standard operating procedure in times of calamity, pain and grief, to blame the victims — any way his twisted excuse for a mind can devise.
While the U.S. and much of the rest of the world began marshalling money, manpower and all manner [...]
Wages of informing on rich tax cheats
is a 40-month term in federal prison
Unless the public intervenes to somehow get Birkenfeld’s sentence commuted, or better, pardoned, we who pay our taxes honestly can be sure future potential whistleblowers will decide they’re better off talking only to their attorneys.
Lawmakers opt to censure adulterous governor
Gov. Mark Sanford is in no danger of joining the ranks of the unemployed, thanks to a legislative subcommittee’s vote to censure rather than impeach him.
Seems the wages of sin and misuse of state travel funds are getting off light in the God-fearing, Republican stronghold of South Carolina.
The House judiciary subcommittee’s 6 to 1 vote [...]
Presidents prefer blondes
Since President Obama is determined to be bipartisan, even if doing so means jeopardizing everything else he’s trying to do, he might as well go in style.
President Barack Obama has tapped a former top aide of his predecessor George W. Bush to a key post on a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting.
Dana Perino, the first [...]
Schlafly: Obama indoctrinating schoolchildren
“Red alert to parents: If you send your children to a public school, they may be secretly indoctrinated in the cult of Obama-worship. If that’s not your plan for your children, you had better act now, before it’s too late.
“Public schoolchildren are now forbidden to sing Christmas carols that mention the real meaning of [...]
Group takes exception to politics of deceit
A Democratic group, Call ‘Em Out, has a bone to pick with House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, and others spreading lies about health care reform, plus various efforts to get America back on the road to fairness and prosperity for all.
As the name implies, Call ‘Em Out’s mission is to spotlight (borrowing a [...]
