Day: July 1, 2011

NBC/WSJ Poll: 83% Say Republicans Have Brought No Change or Wrong Kind of Change

Jon Ponder

83%

Combined percentages of respondents to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll who said Republicans have either produced “not much change either way” (60 percent) or the “wrong kind of change” (23 percent). Just 13 percent — roughly the number of Americans who self-identify as supporters of the tea party — said Republicans had brought the right kind of change. (Source: MSNBC’s “Hardball” July 1, 2011)

GOP Wisconsin Judge Accused of Choking Fellow Judge Grabs Reporter’s Camera

Jon Ponder

Via The Bradblog:

Good lord. What next? Does WI Supreme Court Justice David Prosser need to strangle a baby on camera before members of all political parties in the state fully realize how absolutely inappropriate this man is for holding a seat on their highest court?

Following on the recently reported allegations that he placed a fellow justice into a chokehold during a contentious debate about the legality of the controversial anti-union legislation of Prosser’s former colleague, Gov. Scott Walker, a local news team — this time on camera — caught another glimpse at Prosser’s long-reported anger management problems.

A reporter from a local Fox affiliate attempted to get answers from Supreme Court justices about the choking issue, as six of the seven were said to have been present at the mid-June incident. He was able to confront four of them with questions, but only one, Prosser, snatched the mic out of his hand in anger, before quickly handing it back.

Prosser, you may recall, was reelected after a contentious recount earlier this year after thousands of votes in his favor mysteriously turned up days after the election. Check out The Brad Blog’s extensive coverage of the recount here.

Countdown: Newt’s Hypocrisy on the Defense of Marriage Act Wins Him a ‘Worst Person’ Nod

Jon Ponder

It was gratifying to see that Newt Gingrich made the “bronze” in the Worst Person segment on “Countdown” earlier this week because he’d touted his support for Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. Gingrich made the cut because — as we reported here first — he was cheating on his second wife at the time:

Most people know by now that, in the mid-1990s, then-Speaker Gingrich was cheating on his second wife, Marianne, with a staffer, his current wife Callista, at the same time he led the drive to impeach Pres. Clinton over a lie about his affair with a staffer, Monica Lewinsky.

It is not as widely known, however, that two years before the impeachment Speaker Gingrich was also cheating on Marianne with Callista when he led the passage of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.