Amidst a whole lot of bad news and atrocious actors on the national scene, let’s break for a few well-deserved pats on the back, starting with NBC News and MSNBC, for their terrific coverage of the historic exit of the last U.S. Army combat brigade from Iraq. MSNBC paired Rachel Maddow and reporter Richard Engel [...]
Posts under ‘Republican dirty tricks’
Radical right says jump, reporters ask how high
Journalists, once proud of their independent, essential role of informing Americans about people, issues, events and controversies, have devolved into media sock puppets for the loudest, most mean-spirited louts of the radical-conservative right. Columnist E.J. Dionne calls them out. “The traditional media are so petrified of being called “liberal” that they are prepared to allow [...]
Iowa GOP surrogates liken Obama to Hitler, Lenin
L oons and lowlifes of the tea party kind in Mason City, Iowa, have a billboard up showing Adolf Hitler, President Obama and Vladimir Lenin side by side. This despicable attempt at propaganda neatly overlooks the fact Hitler is infamous for military aggression against smaller, weaker countries — something ex-President George W. Bush is guilty [...]
Republicans kick million people who are down
in fiendish bid for their own political gain
Following the cynical, politically selfish example set earlier this year by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., senators of the Party of No, joined by DINO Sen. Ben Nelson, Neb., killed a desperately needed extension of unemployment benefits Thursday. As Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., points out, Republicans complained the $30 billion jobless pay extension for people out [...]
SC smear artists question Haley’s faith
South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley is the target of another ugly whisper campaign, this one questioning whether she’s a Sikh wolf who’s cloaked herself in Christian sheep’s clothing. As if having a Sikh conservative Republican governor would be South Carolina’s undoing. Never mind that Haley and her family have become Methodists and regularly attend [...]
U.S. Chamber bashes Democrat
through front group, with a lie
The day the U.S. Chamber of Commerce starts siding with out-of-work Americans against businesses that want to boost profits by offshoring production and jobs will be the day its free-market-fanatic, right-wing zealot chief, Tom Donohue, crawls in a hole and pulls the dirt in over himself.
Amendment game’s final inning
will be played on election day
We turned on C-SPAN this afternoon to see how the Senate was doing, just in time to see an amendment to health care legislation by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, being voted down. The purpose of Crapo’s amendment came as no surprise: removing the provision that would raise taxes on those making more than $200,000 a [...]
Maybe someone put Bunning up to it
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.
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, [...]
