Day: September 13, 2010
Nate Silver: 2-in-3 Chance Republicans Will Take the House in November
2 in 3
Chance that Republicans will take control of the House in November, according to Nate Silver at the New York Times.
The New N-Word: ‘Newt’
Newt Gingrich and his right-wing brethren
Think they’ve hatched a plan that can win.
They’ll play their race cards
As they’re trying so hard
To make folks believe Obama’s a Kenyan.
DNC Releases Ad Attacking GOP’s Boehnernomics
They don’t call it “Boehnernomics” but close enough.
Verbatim
He’s trying to appeal to the fringe of people who don’t believe the President was born in this country. You would normally expect better from someone who held the position of Speaker in the House. But look, it’s political season.
— White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, in an interview on ABC News, condemning Newt Gingrich’s assertion that President Obama can only be understood through his “Kenyan, anti-colonialist behavior.”
Tea Party Queen’s State Has Less Tea Partiers
25 percent
Number of Delaware Republicans who self-identify as Tea Partiers, according to Public Policy Polling. Only 18 percent of Alaska Republicans say the same.
Kelsey Grammer Launches Conservative ‘RightNetwork’
This is what happens when the nerd kid gets a new pair of jeans and thinks they make him cool. Kelsey Grammer is starting up a conservative TV network and he says it’s a “B-F-D” and will give Keith Olbermann a “case of the Mondays” and make Bill Maher shed a single tear. Right. When will conservatives learn that they can’t do cool and they can’t do funny? FishbowlLA offered a programming idea for the new network — Conservative Cheers: “Where everybody knows your name unless you’re gay, Mexican or believe in global warming.”
Verbatim
When you make an important decision in your life when you’re angry, there’s an 80 percent chance you’ll make a mistake. To have an election based on anger, apathy and amnesia is nuts. That’s exactly what’s going on all over America today.
Former Pres. Bill Clinton, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Atlanta.
Verbatim
What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.
— Racist adulterer Newt Gingrich, quoted in the National Review, arguing that President Obama “is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works.”
GOP Racism Rears Its Ugly Head – Newt Says Obama Is an Anti-Colonial Kenyan Conman
Is a person’s behavior determined by his or her race?
Take the case of a theoretical mixed-race American boy — let’s call him Barack Obama — whose mother is a Caucasian American and whose father is an African native of Kenya. Let’s say the father leaves the boy and his mother when the boy is two years old and moves back to Kenya, 10,000 miles away, never to be heard from again, except for one visit when the boy was 10 years old. How will the father influence the boy when he grows up?
A) Is the boy predestined by his genetic connection to his father to grow up and emulate his African-ness (whatever that is) — even going so far as to hold the same political beliefs rooted in Kenyan culture as his father?
Or B) is the boy more likely to identify with the culture and politics of the United States, the country where he spent most of his formative years and that he considers to be his home?
If you answered A, you are a racist, just like Newt Gingrich, the smartest guy in the Idiocracy — who is floating a possible run for president in 2012 — who made one of the most outrageously racist statements by a national politician since the Jim Crow era:
