Con Double Standard Strikes Again

12:59 am EST April 27th, 2007 | News | 7 Comments

To repeat: Conservatives push a never-ending campaign telling celebrities to "shut up and sing"

A celebrity offers a political opinion they agree with? GUSH!!. (And for the record, I still like Jon Voight, a snake ate him for chrissake)

A Party That Looks Like America

10:17 pm EST April 26th, 2007 | Democrats | 12 Comments

Black Democrats feel surge of pride.

Rep. James Clyburn, the top black politician in South Carolina and the No. 3 Democrat in the U.S. House, was a delegate to the 1972 Democratic convention. His choice for president was easy: He cast his vote for a black woman, Shirley Chisholm.

“I’m very proud of that. I know that people still have those same kinds of feelings,” Clyburn says.

But it’s more complicated now, he concedes. Some black voters feel that surge of pride for Barack Obama, who is black, and others feel it for Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is female. Asked which bond will be stronger, Clyburn quotes baseball legend Yogi Berra: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

The Democrat’s South Carolina Debate

9:48 pm EST April 26th, 2007 | News | 6 Comments

How could you possibly glean anything from that debate? I thought the 2003 debates where too crowded but that looks like a leisurely stroll by comparison. The big loser is clearly Dennis Kucinich, who, with the addition of Mike Gravel, has been pushed towards – like maybe one step – actual electability by comparison.

Topic: 2008 Election

Mitt Romney Thinks Finding Bin Laden Is Not Worth It

9:27 pm EST April 26th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 20 Comments

Are any of these Republican candidates actually serious? Or are they just jokers and liars? Mitt Romney does not think it’s worth any kind of effort to find Osama Bin Laden, the man who masterminded the murder of over 3,000 Americans:

[Romney] Said the country would be safer by only “a small percentage” and would see “a very insignificant increase in safety” if al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught because another terrorist would rise to power. “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person,” Romney said.

Again, that “one person” is behind the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. It’s clear this current president isn’t interested in catching or killing him, why would we elect someone who shared that perverted ideology like Mitt Romney?

Topic: Mitt Romney

Right Wing Terror Watch: Attempted Abortion Clinic Bombing

8:20 pm EST April 26th, 2007 | Terrorism | 39 Comments

Remember that previous to 9/11 the worst act of terror on U.S. soil was from a right wing extremist.

A package left at a clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device that investigators said Thursday could have been deadly.

The incident came just days after a national abortion group alerted providers around the country to an increased risk of violence.

The device, found in a duffle bag Wednesday, “was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department.

The bomb, which was found in the parking lot of the Austin Women’s Health Center, comes on the heels of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling which banned a controversial type of abortion and was viewed as an anti-abortion victory.

Four Years Ago

2:58 pm EST April 26th, 2007 | News | 14 Comments

This is what the conservative movement hates so much about the growing liberal blogosphere – the ability to accurately quote them (see O’Reilly, Bill): Tom Tomorrow: What They Said.

The Only Thing I Feel Like Noting About David Broder’s Deranged Column In The Post

2:44 pm EST April 26th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

From the Post Politics Chat:

Does The Post offer sabbaticals for its writers? Not for book writing, but just to rest, see the world and recharge the batteries? I ask because today’s David Broder column is a cry for help. I hope The Post will let him get the rest he needs.

SEE:
>> Paul Begala: David Broder Is a Gasbag
>> Broder goes over the edge
>> David Broder Jumps Several Sharks

PREVIOUSLY: David Broder Libels Democrats

Topic: David Broder

links for 2007-04-26

7:21 am EST April 26th, 2007 | Politics | 2 Comments

Arielle Kebbel – Movieline’s Hollywood Life 9th Annual Young Hollywood Awards

Mitt Romney Connection To Jack Abramoff?

3:41 am EST April 26th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Ah, the usual sudden interest in spending time with one’s family.

Jason Roe, the deputy campaign manager of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s 2008 GOP presidential bid, has resigned.

The resignation came a day after the St. Petersburg Times reported that Roe, while serving as chief of staff to Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.), had sent an e-mail to the paper saying that Feeney had no way to know that now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid for a 2003 trip to Scotland with the congressman. The Justice Department is investigating the trip.

Topic: Mitt Romney

Stephen Colbert on Toby Keith’s High Maintenance Woman

1:20 am EST April 26th, 2007 | News | 16 Comments

On Wednesday night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert – in the process of setting up a joke – noted that he had made a review of Toby Keith’s “High Maintenance Woman” on iTunes. And I thought to myself: did he really?

I should have known better.