Archive for July, 2011

Delaware GOP Presidential Straw Poll

The Delaware GOP is having a straw poll for GOP presidential primary during the state fair. It’s open!

20Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued

Gang of Six Proposed Debt Deal

President Obama held a quick press briefing earlier today (guess we were all listening to the Murdoch drama) to provide an update on progress towards a debt deal.

19Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 5 comments | Continued

The GOP’s Fort Sumter: Republican Insiders Launch All Out Smear of Michelle Bachmann

The fact that GOP insider’s think that Michelle Bachmann is going to win the GOP nomination and give Obama an easy shot at a second term makes me happy. The additional fact that they have used Tucker’s Carlson’s rag to launch a down and dirty smear campaign makes me elated.

The extreme teabaggers can only have one reaction to this…

19Jul2011 | jason330 | 6 comments | Continued

Tuesday Open Thread

The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

19Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued

Take the “I promise to kick Grover Norquist in the balls” pledge

A New Tax Pledge (Involving Grover Norquist’s Balls):
Let us say, and why not, that the Rude Pundit created an organization, one of yer fancy 501c3’s or some such shit, the kind of organization that could get lots of free-flowin’ cash from his buddies and their corporations. And let us say, and, indeed, why not, since [...]

19Jul2011 | jason330 | 12 comments | Continued

Banning Kids from Restaurants

The owner of McDain’s Restaurant and Golf Center in Monroeville, Pa (outside of Pittsburgh) has decided that kids under the age of 6 are banned from dining at his restaurant. What do you think about this?

19Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 174 comments | Continued

Murdoch And Parliment

If you’re watching keep us informed in this thread!
First up, Murdoch team’s request to read an opening statement was denied.

19Jul2011 | pandora | 14 comments | Continued

Seriously. Who is Running for What?

It is some 470 days until the next election and in politics I’ve heard that you need money and time to run an effective campaign. You might be able to get some more money, but you’ll never get more time – so what gives?
I guess I’ve heard about a bunch of people being [...]

19Jul2011 | jason330 | 9 comments | Continued

God’s Candidate

Who is God backing in the 2012 GOP presidential primary?

19Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 16 comments | Continued

Late Night Video — President Obama Discusses Getting Politics Done

This video is from the White House and comes from a surprise visit President Obama made to a group of College Democrats, Republicans and Independents back in March. This is very compelling — if anything because this philosophy of governing is very evident in how he has worked to date.

18Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued

Whistleblower’s Death Added To Murdoch Scandal

I’m not surprised. Truthfully, I lost the ability to be surprised about this scandal a week ago.
In another twist in the News Of The World scandal, a former reporter for the tabloid who initially alleged that editor Andy Coulson knew about the practice of phone hacking by his staff, was reportedly found [...]

18Jul2011 | pandora | 4 comments | Continued

Dan Savage vs. Marcus Bachmann

Let me begin by saying that I had no opinion, whatsoever, about Michelle Bachmann’s husband. I had no idea who he was. I first saw him on TV as I was walking past the set, and my only thought was – I swear! – this guy must be on talking about support for gay marriage. [...]

18Jul2011 | pandora | 18 comments | Continued

Monday Open Thread

The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

18Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 20 comments | Continued

NJ Truthiness Watch — Wagging Their Finger at American Political Debate

The Sunday NJ brings us an editorial with this amusing observation:

18Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued

OK, You Can Panic

As you may know, on Friday about 11 hours of comments (and posts) were disappeared from the blog. This appears to have been a glitch on the redundant database servers that store most of the data for the site. In technical terms, the servers stopped synchronizing data in the late morning and in the late [...]

18Jul2011 | liberalgeek | 6 comments | Continued

The Real Victim Is Rupert Murdoch

The Wall Street Journal finally notices there’s a huge international scandal encompassing their newspaper, but it’s no big deal.

18Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued

Christine O’Donnell Will Smite Her Enemies

Christine O’Donnell is back and she’s pissed.

18Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued

A Peak Inside Hell

Former employees from The News of the World discuss the atmosphere at the paper under Brooks and why their denials don’t ring true.

18Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | Comments Off | Continued

Sunday Reads

This has been a glorious weekend to be outside, but in case you are in and looking for something interesting to read, here are a few suggestions:

17Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 7 comments | Continued

Rebekah Brooks Arrested

This seems like a pretty big deal given her prestigious position and close ties to Rupert Murdoch.
Updated at 9:17 a.m.: Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were bribed to leak sensitive information, The Guardian reports.
The Metropolitan police said [...]

17Jul2011 | pandora | 8 comments | Continued