The GOP Debates: Not Grand, Getting Old, And Nothing To Party About
How Many More Of These GOP Debates Do I Have To Endure? I’m still recovering from the last GOP debate on September 7th in Simi Valley, California and bracing for the next one on September 19th in Tampa, Florida. Last week the “leaders” in the GOP race to become our country’s next president came together to explain their positions on everything from Obamacare to jobs and not much in between. It’s not like, among many other issues, we’ve... Read More
Michele Bachmann Spends $4700 In Hair & Make-Up In 5 Weeks
It takes a lot of money for Rep. Bachmann to hide the ugliness behind the facade. How much? Way too much for ANYONE! But even more so for someone who is such a rabid deficit hawk and Tea Party darling constantly denouncing government spending: According to Bachmann’s latest campaign finance filings, her campaign spent nearly $4,700 on hair and makeup in the weeks after she entered the presidential race on June 13. Records show her campaign made three payments of $1,715,... Read More
Michele Bachmann: The Ugliness Behind The Facade
Michele And The Beatles The Beatles sang: Michelle, ma belle (Michelle, my beautiful) Sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, (Are words that go very well together,) Tres bien ensemble. (Very well together.) That might have been true of the imaginary Michelle they were referring to, but it’s way off if we are talking about Michele Bachmann. Ok, so she’s quite attractive in that Charlie’s Angels Kate Jackson/Jaclyn Smith brunette prototype sort of way; but, wait... Read More
Monday’s GOP Debate: John King And The Seven Dwarfs
This past Monday the GOP held its umpteenth debate between a bunch of conservative candidates who have no hope of winning a presidential election. It was a beautiful day in New Hampshire and the weather was perfect for a pointless exchange of ideas that would have no bearing on anyone or anything. Tim Pawlenty and Rick “Foot-In-Mouth” Santorum stumbled badly out of the gate, as Pawlenty tripped over his own words and Santorum seemed lost and confused as to where he... Read More
Palin And Bachmann: “Prom Queens” With Claws
Republican Women Get Nasty Courtesy of Ed Rollins After years of virtually ignoring half of the population as regards presidential nominees, it seems as if Republicans might be asked to choose between two female contenders for the 2012 presidential elections. Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann may not have yet taken their gloves off fully, but Bachmann’s newly appointed adviser, Ed Rollins, has started a kitten fight (not quite a cat fight) by saying that Palin is “not... Read More
Misquoting the Founding Fathers: A New Republican Tool
According to The Washington Post: “Republicans have used incorrect quotes to portray the founders as sympathetic to modern conservatism.” Knowing that people derive hope from the words of our founding fathers, Republicans have started to frequently use and MISuse their words to garner support for their positions, especially when using the Internet to propagate their ideas: The problem results, in part, from an unfortunate marriage of two 21st-century trends. One... Read More
Newt Is Anything But New
Just when you thought the Republican slate of presidential hopefuls couldn’t get any more bizarre (courtesy of Donald Trump), more boring (thanks to Mittens Romney and Tim Pawlenty, yawn) or just plain old more idiotic (the ladies have this one tied up, thanks to Sarah “I can see Russia from my bedroom window” Palin and Michele “carbon dioxide has never been proven to be harmful” Bachmann), enter stage right Newt “Mr. American Values” Gingrich and his mistress of... Read More
Michele Bachmann: Double Agent for the Democratic Party
We want to tell Chris Matthews to take a chill pill and to not get so incensed about the things Michele Bachmann says. For example, in an interview during the mid-term elections, Chris asked Ms. Bachmann if she, as part of a Republican-led Congress, would use congressional subpoena power to investigate Democratic members of Congress for “un-Americanism.” He was referring to her 2008 Hardball appearance, during which Bachmann had called upon the media to investigate “un-American”... Read More
