By now you’ve heard all about how Republican dirty-tricks operative Andrew Breitbart and Fox News used a carefully edited video to trash the reputation and career of African American Agriculture Department staffer Shirley Sherrod of Georgia. Breitbart and Fox are serial offenders when it comes to perpetrating fraud aimed at stirring racial disharmony, having used [...]
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Palin wit and wisdom come at a hefty price
As widely predicted, ex-Gov. Sarah Palin is cashing in after dropping out, reportedly making a haul “in the low six figures” for her speech in Hong Kong this week. Described as more moderate than last year’s campaign speeches, Palin’s 90-minute oration for an audience of investors did include criticism of U.S. foreign policy, especially regarding [...]
N.C. Rep. Foxx gets it wrong
in an especially hurtful way
Whether Rep. Foxx’s ignorance is the product of religious belief, bigotry or skewed popular wisdom learned in North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District we don’t know. What we do know is that Shepard was the victim of a vicious hate crime.
Stinging rebuke for sore-loser Coleman
A long-ago humorous wall plaque featured art work of a woman doing three things at once in her kitchen, none of them successfully, above a caption that read, “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” If we could find one of those plaques, we’d send it to Norm Coleman of Minnesota, who today — [...]
Despite election and Obama efforts,
Republicans unfazed by change
After discussing the scope and seriousness of the economic debacle precipitated by years of bad ideology, bad thinking, bad decisions and incompetent, sometimes perverse governance, Obama focused on what those responsible are doing now. . .
Chambliss, McCain add injury to insult
Only one Republican we know of, to his great credit then, joined in condemning Chambliss’ ad, calling it “worse than disgraceful” and “reprehensible.” That was Sen. John McCain. Does Chambliss, now destined for a Dec. 2 runoff with his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin, regret this 2002 attack ad?
GOP Sacramento Web site says it all
You might think this is just a site put up by some drooling, beer-sodden creep in a trailer with an old sofa parked outside and plastic bags taped over its broken windows. Well, not quite. . .
The real Republican maverick speaks up
“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials. You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything. . . .”I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window [...]
Strange, how Republicans put country first
“On national security, the Republican Party advocates continuing to force thousands of young Americans to risk life and limb refereeing Iraq’s civil war. Though the party’s slogan hearkens back to conservatives’ ‘America First’ isolationism, the GOP nonetheless supports spending $12 billion a month on the war — money needed at home. “Same story on economics. [...]
Dishonest duo out to break GOP record
With a cranky, sold-out septuagenarian and his flaky female sidekick to peddle, the McCain campaign has settled on a strategy of flooding the airwaves with falsehoods. Face it, as McCain’s handlers obviously have, honesty and openness will never win the White House for these Republican lamers.
