Muddy Politics

Michigan Democrats, Don’t Play Dirty Politics

2012-02-27T18:11:00.000-07:00

Sometimes you’ve got to “get down in the mud with the fucking elephants.”Sometimes you don’t.The Michigan primary race is one of the latter.On Feb. 15, 2012, DailyKos.com founder Markos Moulitsas Zúniga launched “Operation Hilarity,” a grassroots, web-based political campaign that encourages Democrats to vote for Rick Santorum in states such as Michigan, whose open primaries allow crossover

Obama is, in fact, in bed with the M.U.S.L.I.M. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D.

2012-02-26T21:36:00.001-07:00

Rick Santorum recently told Fox “News” host Greta Van Susteren that “The president was willing to jump in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya and in Egypt….”It’s true. President Obama actually was wrestling around between the sheets with the M.U.S.L.I.M. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. long before he officially took office.But who cares? What’s so bad about the “Moral, Unwaveringly Sane,

Cal Thomas, Retire Already: Part III

2012-02-25T15:00:00.001-07:00

Conservative Columnist Co-opts Black History Month to Honor Republicans As Black History Month draws to a close, world-renowned conservative columnist Cal Thomas wants to remind liberals everywhere who are too stoned to remember basic American history that the Republican Party really really really loves black people.Or at least they did at one time.Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Thomas

Chimichanga Nation: Messina is a big bigoty Latino insulter

2012-02-18T17:16:00.000-07:00

(Originally posted Feb. 17, 2012, at AngryBlackLady.com) The most viewed and most discussed “news” article in The Hill on Thursday was titled, “GOP demands apology for Obama campaign manager’s ‘chimichanga’ tweet.”So much for focusing on “the issues” this election season.Republicans are demanding an apology Wednesday from President Obama’s campaign manager after a tweet that they argue was

Alien Attack Now Imminent, Republicans Warn

2012-02-17T16:33:00.002-07:00

(Originally published Feb. 15, 2012, at AngryBlackLady.com) Conservatives are sounding like a celestially-fervid flock of Chicken Littles over President Obama’s plan to reduce the U.S.’s nuclear weapon stockpile by as much as 80 percent.And for good reason.As Ronald Reagan knew well in the 1980s—because his wife kept him informed of all inter-galactic current events—20,000 nuclear warheads

The Obama-Santorum Conspiracy

2012-02-16T07:06:00.001-07:00

(Originally published Feb. 15, 2012, at AngryBlackLady.com; also published at The Reaction) Convinced that President Obama’s contraception battle with the Catholic Church is not a “short-term tactical blunder” but yet another example of the president’s “strategically shrewd” long-game, conservative-turned-Dem-loving-ratiocinator Andrew Sullivan this week dabbled in a potentially promising career

Democratic Party Finds a Spine in Obama

2012-02-12T14:21:00.000-07:00

(Originally published Feb. 11, 2012, at Angry Black Lady Chronicles) When the Republican Party’s promiscuity police stood toe-to-toe with science—arguing, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that contraception increases sexual indiscrimination—they won. Democrats sat on their unprotected thumbs as “abstinence only” replaced “sex education” in our nation’s schools.It was not realistic

Trite & Untrue, Weird Willard’s Obama Attacks Fall Flat

2012-02-09T19:11:00.002-07:00

Mitt Romney’s Colorado concession speech was as inspiring as a corpse. Romney Concession Speech, Colorado But weirder. Between congratulating his supporters for clapping—not doing Olympic back flips through fiery rings, just clapping—and uttering some meteorologically redundant gibberish about how February winters are cold in Denver, Romney appeared to have discovered Rick Perry’s stash of meds

Should Obama Speak to Americans like 8th Graders or Academics?

2012-02-08T04:29:00.003-07:00

Everybody remembers Barack Obama’s famous “Yes We Can” speech. Can you imagine how powerful, how memorable, how defining it would have been if he had instead called it, “Affirmative! This Collective Is Capable”? The average American reads at or below an 8th-grade level. For those who want to communicate with said average American, common sense says speaking to them at an 8th grade level will

Newt Gingrich: Obama’s Biggest Fan

2012-02-06T15:17:00.005-07:00

(Originally published at Angry Black Lady Chronicles) With friends like Newt Gingrich, who needs Organizing for America?In his concession speech following the Nevada primary Saturday night, Gingrich laid to rest the Romney campaign’s “greatest fantasy” by clarifying that he would continue his campaign all the way to the Republican convention.“I am a candidate for president of the United States,”

Mitt the ‘Milquetoast Massachusetts Moderate’ May Not Be Nominee Material

2012-02-02T21:15:00.001-07:00

(Originally published at Angry Black Lady Chronicles on Jan. 27, 2012)For those who want a quick and easy re-election for Barack Obama, the ideal outcome of the Republican primary race is to see the president’s supposedly most formidable rival, Mitt Romney, suffer a slow and painful (and scandalized and mortifying) defeat at the pudgy hands of the GOP’s “pneumatically overstuffed” chief

Romney’s not a witch

2012-01-20T11:03:00.004-07:00

Presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has more than an “animal cruelty problem.”He has a personality problem, a likeability problem, and a passion problem—to say nothing of his “consistency problem,” his “1 percent-status problem” and his “Mormon problem.”He may have a “rugged jawline,” perfectly coiffed hair that has “gone gray in just the right places,” and boatloads of

Barack Obama, ‘food stamp president’: legacy or myth?

2012-01-18T15:51:00.002-07:00

Presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich believes that campaigns are all about asking “legitimate questions” and demanding “facts and data” about a politician’s record.It’s the reliance on such “facts and data” that allows Gingrich to sleep at night after publicly dubbing Barack Obama “the food stamp president.”During an exchange with Fox News analyst Juan Williams during a debate in South Carolina

To Defecate in Terror: Mitt Romney gets Google-bombed

2012-01-13T16:18:00.002-07:00

While the 99 percenters are destined to play a significant role in the 2012 presidential election, there is now another percent that very well may undermine the candidacy of Republican primary front-runner Mitt Romney. Let us call it the 39 percent movement. Perhaps more damning than Bill Clinton’s “zipper problem,” George W. Bush’s “cocaine problem,” John Kerry’s “Catholic problem” and Barack

Money Can't Buy Mitt Love

2012-01-11T08:11:00.000-07:00

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Sorry, Greenwald, but Ron Paul’s no diamond in the rough

2012-01-10T16:15:00.003-07:00

Barack Obama is running unopposed for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Admittedly, that may be the single most obvious observation made thus far in the 2012 presidential election cycle. Sadly, it’s one that deserves some attention—particularly for politically plugged-in progressives who’ve willingly subjected themselves to the broken record of purely ideological, unabashedly

Bradley Manning’s ‘Gay Defense’ is Killing His ‘Hero’ Image

2011-12-28T07:31:00.001-07:00

Bradley Manning is a “true American hero,” a modern-day Daniel Ellsberg, a brave and selfless patriot and soldier who sacrificed his own freedom in order to fight against the “enemies of public liberty” and awaken the American masses to the realities of war. But even if you believe Manning is a “true American traitor,” a modern-day Benedict Arnold who betrayed his unit and disavowed his oath to

Glenn Greenwald Masters the Fox News Playbook on NDAA

2011-12-19T18:40:00.002-07:00

America is lucky to have a designated area for fear-mongering bullshit. It’s called Fox News, and it’s time for Salon.com to dump Glenn Greenwald and send him off to his rightful place among the Chicken Little conspiracy theorists and anti-Obama demagogues. Greenwald’s “three myths” piece on the National Defense Authorization Act should allow this unprofessional lefty to sidestep the normal

Romney’s Foreign Policy Strategy: Spineless Sycophancy & Ankle-grabbing Servitude

2011-12-12T12:43:00.001-07:00

At least we’re clear. The Romney Administration’s foreign policy strategy was rather obscure even after delivering a 23-minute speech on American “greatness” at the Citadel military academy on Oct. 7, but the looming cloud finally broke Saturday during the Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa. “On foreign policy,” Romney said, “I would lead like a spineless lackey with Stockholm

Romney’s $10,000 Blunder: Who’s Right?

2011-12-11T11:17:00.002-07:00

Mitt Romney’s $10,000 bet with Rick Perry has been called many things: a “rare but likely costly unforced error,” a re-enforcement to “the perception that he’s the out-of-touch elitist in the race,” a very “1 percent” thing to do. But would he have won that bet? At issue was Perry’s repeated attack against Romney’s alleged support of a national health care mandate, which Perry says was written in

Anti-tax Republicans fight against tax cuts for the bottom 98 percent

2011-12-06T11:32:00.000-07:00

What does an oil pipeline through the middle of the United States have to do with payroll tax cuts? Absolutely nothing. Grasping for whatever leverage they can find in a tax battle with Democrats they’re sure to lose, and hoping to “sweeten the deal” for Teapublican House members weary of supporting any measure backed by the Obama Administration, Republican leaders have proposed

Herman Cain Supporters, Rejoice!

2011-12-05T14:34:00.001-07:00

In a meandering, cliché-drenched speech that made George W. Bush sound like a world-renowned scholar of the oratorical arts, Republican Herman Cain announced on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011—a day that will live in infamy thanks to the candidate’s head-scratching paraphrasing of a Pokémon quotation—the immediate suspension, some say permanent, of his pie-in-the-sky presidential campaign. Herman Cain

The Curse of the Anti-Romney Candidates

2011-12-01T16:48:00.000-07:00

Now that’s presidential: Obama Vs. Romney

2011-11-22T22:23:00.000-07:00

‘Likeability’ Factor Keeps Cain’s Campaign Afloat

2011-11-22T10:46:00.000-07:00