Category Archives: Elections

Obama To CNN: “The Buck Stops With Me”

Please remember to wipe the DERP? look off your face before going to work. Or the laughing hysterically look. Or the “WTF?” look. Obama strikes realist tone in CNN interview President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday that he may be a one-term president if voters’ patience with the pace of the economic recovery runs out by […]

Bachmann Wins Ames Straw Poll – Breaking It All Down

That darned “tea-inspired” woman just keeps showing up and doing well (Washington Post) Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann scored a victory in the GOP Ames Straw Poll on Saturday, a win likely to provide her considerable momentum as the 2012 race ramps up. “What we saw happen today is this is the very first step toward […]

Good News! Rick Perry Is A Big Time Climate Realist

Obviously, this annoys the Alarmists, in particularly Grist’s resident GINK (green inclinations, no kids…if only all alarmists were ginks, we’d be done with them and their stupid movement), who whines over at the UK Guardian The climate sceptics can finally get excited about the 2012 election: Rick Perry, their candidate of choice, is about to […]

At Fundraiser, Obama Tells Big Money Donors To Send Money To IRS

Just kidding. He decided to blame George Bush, 2 1/2 years after Mr. Obama took office President Barack Obama said on Monday he inherited many of the country’s problems with high debt and deficits when he entered the White House, sounding a theme likely to dominate his 2012 re-election campaign. Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser, […]

Attacks Against Bachmann Are Sexist And May Violate Several Laws

The Boston Herald notices the sexism inherent in the treatment of Bachman and Palin GOP mega-stars U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin — both top Republicans who buck the status quo — have been unfairly mocked and broadsided with loaded, gender-biased questions, prominent women from both parties told the Herald yesterday. “You have two […]

The Atlantic Attempts To Smear Michele Bachmann Through Her Church

I’m so glad they can take on this issue, after being dragged in kicking and screaming to the Jeremiah Wright controversy after Sean Hannity revealed it a year prior. Of course, all the writers at The Atlantic gave Obama a free pass after sitting for 20 years in the pews listening to an anti-American and […]

Michele Bachmann Builds A Porn Star Lead In Iowa

Wait, what? Well, that’s a new one, comparing Bachmann to a porn star. Of course, in reality, someone forgot to fix that portion of the story, and failed to replace the xxx with the actual numbers According to the new IowaRepublican.com poll, Bachmann has built a four point lead over Romney, 25-21. Former Gov. Tim […]

Obama’s Solution To Joblessness: High Speed Rail

That, and other small ball measures, as the LA Times points out. Just the kinds of ideas one would expect from a (not my) president with virtually no experience in the private sector As White House aides search for ways to show progress on the economy, they are banking that a set of small-scale proposals […]

Democrats Upset Over GOP Plans To Tighten Voting Laws

Obviously, any attempts to reduce voting fraud would handicap Democrats Democrats and Republicans are clashing in state capitals across the country as GOP-controlled legislatures push proposals to tighten voting requirements — a move prominent critics have decried as a throwback to Jim Crow laws. The proposals include measures in nearly three-dozen states to either require […]

Michelle Bachmann Is Compassionate: Says She’ll Help Obama Find A Job

She’s a nice lady Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is getting more creative, and apparently more aggressive, in her political attacks against President Barack Obama. On Saturday, the Minnesota congresswoman took fresh jabs at the president. In one instance, Bachmann said she hoped to oust him from his current employment, become president herself — and […]

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