WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE? that popular mantra (just Google it) certainly seems to fit in this case. I just received a Tweet that led to an article in Monday's Washington Post about the possible effects an immigration overhaul (is one suddenly in the works?)...
Thanks for the coverage of the complaint by the DGA against Fox News. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/democrats_accuse_fox_n... Ever since the $1,000,000 corporate contribution from News Corp. to the Republican Governors Association became public, I have been pondering the effects of that type of corporate/political...
Without knowing about the Friday announcement, one of my kids and I were talking about former Congressman Jim Kolbe. How he epitomized the well-intentioned, good people that ARE actually involved in high-level politics. How he was one of the Republicans...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is enjoying the national attention - and the boost in her electoral chances - she has received since signing controversial anti-immigration measure S.B. 1070 into law. On Friday, she took another step down that (far) right...
I applaud GOP Chair Michael Steele's self-contradictory comments about Afghanistan; he is the perfect example of the current-day Republican Party and should remain as an out(in right field)spoken leader of an out(in right field foul territory)spoken party. I think the...
I just witnessed a disgusting display on C-Span. Republican Rep. Pete Sessions sarcastically blasted how Pres. Obama and the Democrats are leading our nation to its doom. He said it is so dire that he has gotten himself out of...
Sen. McCain didn't want to look back at his VP choice - and got pretty snippy with Matt Lauer while apparently saying he didn't know what vetting process was conducted - but he had no problem looking back to Trent...
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) seven years ago, when a Republican Senate Majority Leader was on the hot seat for his comments about Strom Thurmond and his subsequent explanations: ''I understand a lot of Democrats and liberals generally have had a...
Arizona's Senior Senator has two in-your-face radio ads ready to run for his 2010 re-election campaign. I'll bet he's already bought the airtime on the conservative talker where potential primary (or Tea Party) rival and fmr Rep. J.D. Hayworth holds...
Even ones about his own parents' emigration to the U.S. (from Italy). Not only that, but he has not totally read the book. (He "may have" read the parts relating to illegal immigration.) Sometimes, it takes being under...
(Disclaimers: (1) I don't know if she of the beautiful voice actually reads TPM and/or the Cafe's Eric Ward; (2) Ronstadt did not organize the upcoming day of action, just joined up with it; (3) I was not attempting to...
... here is the comment I posted on Resistance's "I, RESISTANCE, APOLOGIZE..." thread. Resistance, as one who has debated/discussed - or, tried to - with you on a number of occasions, and who was just (over on my most-recent...
WHAT A MESS! A quick recap: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney have been investigating, indicting, interrogating and intimidating just about anyone they can. Using the nation's 5th-largest court system for most of their actions, they have indicted...
I just re-watched my two Senators yapping (with others) about how the Republicans have not had a chance to put their reform proposals forward, how they can "do something", etc. And, through all of the Republican outcry, they keep coming...
For a moment, forget the big rivalry football game next week, THIS could really be something! Last night, while picking up some - OK, a LOT of - toilet paper, I learned that my neighborhood Costco is going to be hosting Sarah...
First, I see that Rush, Ledeen and Co. are trumpeting a SATIRICAL piece about Obama's college thesis (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/fake-obama-thesis-story-g_n_332... ). A few minutes later, I come across the story on Media Matters that Glenn Beck has tweeted about Pelosi bringing a vote...
Two weeks ago, we were buzzing about "TV-lawyers-cum-DC-GOP-Power Couple" Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing dropping into Cactus Country to help outta-control Sheriff Joe Arpaio and cohort/County Attorney Andrew Thomas push forward their hasty arrest-before-indictment of County Supervisor Don Stapley. (Zach...
In Phoenix this year, NRA (Natl Rifle Association) Executive Vice-President Wayne LaPierre quoted Mark Twain and told us that there were three kinds of lies ("plain old lies... damned lies... and statistics.")* His set of damned lies that he wanted...
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) continues to amaze me - this time with his unethical slicing-and-dicing of Pres. Barack Obama's words in his book, The Audacity of Hope. I clicked on an ad which brought me to the "Right To Work...
