The media are reporting Bunning’s outrageous stunt as his doing alone, and given what a thoroughly nasty piece of work he is, that could very well be the case. But having watched Senate Republicans oppose unemployment compensation extensions in the past, an alternative possibility came to our mind, inspired in part by a remark Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., made on the Senate floor today.
Posts under ‘Republican dirty tricks’
Dealing with Snowe cost time and much more
“As I look back it was a waste of time dealing with (Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Me.) because she had no intention of ever working anything out.”
—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, commenting on health care reform negotiations undertaken in hopes of gaining at least token
bipartisan support, from a yet-to-be-published New York Times
Magazine article, as reported [...]
A scandal that isn’t about a racist who’s not
The forces of darkness and party of no smell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s blood, and they’re out to bring him down, all because of a remark from a year or two ago in which he referred to then-Sen. Barack Obama as a light-skinned black with “no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have [...]
Election-year scandal seeds being sown already
Well, look at what we have here, just ahead of a midterm election year: an oopsie-daisy revelation of ethics investigations involving — you guessed it — a whole bunch of Democratic House members.
Shades of 1992-1994, when Republicans turned inconsequential sloppiness in administration of the House’s internal “bank” for members into a scandal, “Rubbergate,” [...]
What you should and shouldn’t be scared of
With Halloween fast approaching, we thought we’d go Hatch and the rest of the Party of No witches and goblins out screaming, “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” one better. So, here’s something we all should really be scared about.
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 [...]
Big buzz on Obama, public option
smacks of Clinton-type triangulation
Obama can’t very well urge Democrats who favor reform with a public option to get out and raise more hell than the Astroturf againsters who’ve hijacked the debate. It would smack of Bush-style firing up the base by accentuating partisan and ideological differences.
Hutchison site blacklisted
for Rove-style dirty tricks
Looks as though Texas governor wannabe Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is hustling for crackpot incumbent Rick Perry’s job in typical anything-to-win Republican fashion.
Except, having dirty tricks backfire immediately is not supposed to happen deep in the heart of Armey, Bush, Cornyn, DeLay, Gramm and Rove country.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is running for governor of [...]
Buchanan, racist blogger push
English-only strategy for GOP
How could the home of the brave and the land of the free, victorious in two world wars and one long, hard cold war, even survive if some working-class whites were challenged to learn a second language so they could improve their career prospects? Why, it’s downright un-American! Well, it’s only un-American in the narrow, disturbed minds of sour old pols like Buchanan, racist wingnuts like Brimelow and society’s relatively small fringe of insecure and/or bigoted lamebrains.
Franken might be near end of ordeal
By dragging out his bid to reverse the decision of a clear majority of Minnesota voters for seven long months, losing every step of the way, Coleman has surely undermined, and perhaps ruined, any future he might’ve had in politics.
