An excellent article at Five Thirty Eight points out that while conservatives claim that the Democrats want to appoint “liberal activist judges” to the Supreme Court, statistically, the most activist court in in modern history was the Rehnquist Court, a conservative court. The same article points out how the make-up of the court — conservative […]
It is part of the game of politics that Republicans will attack Judge Sotomayor — heck, they attacked Obama’s nominee even before he announced who it was — but for Jeff Sessions, it is not a game, it’s personal. But the Republicans should know that when an attack gets personal, people make mistakes. And Senator […]
The confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor begin today in the Senate. The politics will be intense, as Republicans attempt to attack Sotomayor without appearing to be racist and thus anger Latinos. Much noise is going to be made about “identity politics“, especially Sotomayor’s comment in 2001: I would hope that a wise Latina woman with […]
Arlen Specter called his opponent in the Democratic Party primary, Joe Sestak, a “flagrant hypocrite” and accused him of registering as a Democrat “just in time to run for Congress.” Remember that Specter just switched from Republican to Democrat, because polls showed that he was going to lose the Republican primary. Sestak says that he […]
Whenever you see Sarah Palin complain about the “gotcha media”, just remember this video of her telling Hillary Clinton that she shouldn’t whine about her rough handling by the media: Fair or unfair—and I do think that it’s a more concentrated criticism that Hillary gets on so many fronts; I think that’s unfortunate. But fair […]
The Washington Post was caught flat footed selling access (for as much as $250,000) to “Obama administration officials, members of Congress”, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors. The first event was entitled “Health-Care Reform: Better or Worse for Americans? The reform and funding debate.” Who were they selling this to? Lobbyists and association […]
The latest installment of the Mark Sanford saga is that in his original confession about his lover in Argentina, he, uh, failed to tell the entire truth (he lied). Now he wants to “lay it all out” (as he inconveniently put it) and has added several additional romantic liaisons with his girlfriend that he failed […]
This is absolutely nuts: The quote from Michael Scheuer is “The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” Glenn Beck agrees. In today’s Wall Street Journal is an opinion piece about how dysfunction helps the GOP. It […]
Instead of a “healthy” debate, the arguments against health care reform are becoming more and more bizarre. I’ve already talked about the fact that even though most people are in favor of single-payer health insurance, our representatives are so owned by the insurance companies (who are paying off politicians with the money they have been […]
After Fox News labelled disgraced Governor Mark Sanford as a Democrat (when he is a Republican), Intershame pointed out that this happens far too often to be an honest mistake:
Personally, I think the sex life of anyone — including elected officials — is their own damn business, but you can’t help but shake your head at the behavior of people like Governor Mark Sanford and you may even enjoy watching him squirm. After all, he preached morality to others while sinning himself. He publicly […]
Wing-nut lawmaker Michele Bachmann has come out against the census, saying that she “won’t be answering any information beyond” how many people live in her home. She claims that ACORN will be part of the Census Bureau’s efforts “They will be in charge of going door to door and collecting data from the American public. […]
Conservative ire is still being thrown at David Letterman for an off-color joke he made earlier this month about Sarah Palin and her daughter. Watch the video here. Without defending Letterman, who has apologized for the joke, Media Matters points out that protesting sexist jokes from a comedian is hypocritical when right-wing spokespeople and pundits […]
Obama promised a new era in transparency in government. He even complained about all the oil company executives who visited the White House to write Dubya’s Energy Bill (code named “No Oil Well Left Behind”), even though Obama voted for that bill. But now, MSNBC reports that the Obama administration is trying to block access […]
There is a new website http://iamdrtiller.com/ devoted to the memory of Dr. George Tiller, the abortion doctor who was shot and killed in his church. The site contains letters and photos sent in from people. In some (but not all) of the photos, people are holding signs saying “I am Dr. Tiller” over their faces. […]
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