Just when you think right-wing Congresspeople can go no lower, there’s usually a special case, one singled out by “Big Ed” Schultz for the “Psycho Talk” of his MSNBC show.
N.C. Rep. Virginia Foxx, with a face not unlike a clenched fist, testified during a debate on the Matthew Shepard hate-crime bill that the murder of [...]
Kentucky U.S. Senator Jim “No Relief” Bunning, a whack job who makes Rush Limbaugh look like a flaming lefty, is the latest GOP crackpot to apparently plan to retire from the Senate — after weeks of threatening to run for re-election, reports say.
When guys like Bunning retire, it makes the Senate a less hilarious [...]
That would be over-cornfed Neb. Sen. Ben “Half” Nelson, the latest power-broker wannabe. As NYTimes columnist Gail Collins noted in her insightful, lighthearted column today following Arlen Specter’s party switch:
“The fabled 60th vote! Finally, the Democrats can override filibuster threats and pass the Obama agenda! Except that even as Specter was arriving, his new fellow [...]
Sen. Arlen “The In” Specter, after casting a vote against Pres Obama’s budget, made this anything-but-startling statement an interview yesterday:
“I’m interested in staying in the Senate, for good reason,” Specter said.
For good reason, all right. These guys (and gals) in the Senate are so deeply in love with themselves, their perks, their sycophants (lobbying [...]
Among us TV critics, the WashPost’s Tom Shales is well-known for being even more of a grump than most. He doesn’t like much, which is why he’s such a good, worthwhile read.
Shales’ piece today on Pres. Obama’s prime-time news conference last night was unusually adulatory. (Then again, look at the act Obama is following).
“Barack Obama [...]
Sen. Jim “Out of It” Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Wednesday that Sen. Arlen Specter’s defection from the Republican Party is “the first visible evidence” that the GOP will crush the Democrats in the upcoming 2010 midterm elections.
Inhofe, in an interview with — who else? — Fox News, agreed with South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim “I Ate” [...]
There’s been plenty of commentary lately by political worthies and pundits about the weakened state of the Republican, er, Republic, Party.
This line of thought usually goes something like, “This country needs a strong opposition. It needs a healthy two-party system.”
Not for a while, it doesn’t.
There are 20 years of Ronald Reagan-inspired trickle-down, help-the-rich-and-screw-the rich idiotic [...]
As much as I like Jon Stewart, it’s been good to see him proven wrong. When the Bushman left and the even-tempered, parody-resistant Barack Obama came in, Stewart solemnly called it “the death of comedy.”
He was wrong. The GOP/Fox News clown show has been very funny indeed, and it shows no sign of winding down. [...]
The one the New York Post wouldn’t print:
“OUTBREAK OF SWINE FLU TRACED TO RUSH LIMBAUGH!”
(Makes perfect sense, n’est-ce pas?)