Month: December 2014
PensitoWire
- Talking Points Memo: Republicans Float ‘Impeachment Lite’ Plan To Censure Obama
- Alternet: Teaching People to Hate Their Own Govt. Is at the Core of the Project to Destroy the Middle Class
- Houston Press: Rep. Steve Stockman Gets His Own Climate Change Denial “Theory”
- Grist: Barbra Streisand Behind Global Warming Hoax, Says GOP Sen. Inhofe
- Crooks & Liars: Sarah Palin’s PAC Mostly Spends Its Money On Sarah Palin
Lite Ain’t Right
The Republicans just won’t give up the fight.
Now they’re talking about “impeachment lite.”
They say censure’s the solution,
But if it violates the Constitution,
The Grand Old Party would be a very foolish-looking sight.
GOP Voters STILL Prefer Romney in 2016
20%
Margin by which Mitt Romney leads the GOP presidential field, followed by Ben Carson at 10%, Jeb Bush at 9%, Chris Christie at 9% and Mike Huckabee at 7%, a new CNN/ORC International poll finds. When Romney is left off the survey, Bush takes the top spot.
Obama Regains His Relevance, Sticks It to GOP
Less than a month after suffering an electoral drubbing, President Obama has succeeded in placing the majority of the internal party angst back in the other camp. The president’s move on immigration has made that the overriding issue as Republicans face down a government funding deadline of next Friday. In fact, it now looks likely to become the overriding issue when Republicans try to do much of anything, in the current Congress and the new Congress, for the next few months at least. GOP leaders’ early plans of avoiding shutdown talk have already been forced into rewrite. It’s now clear that Republicans will have to work through their internal party discord – yes, again – even as they reconvene in Washington in substantially greater numbers.
— Rick Klein, on ABC’s “The Note” blog.
Flashback 1992: Rush Limbaugh Calls Chelsea Clinton, Age 12, the ‘White House Dog’
Here is hope for the tens of people who are worried about the future of Liz Lauten, who was fired as communications director for tea party congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee yesterday because of a rant she posted on Facebook in which she called Pres. Obama’s daughters, Sasha, age 16, and Malia, age 13, classless sluts.
Based on Rush Limbaugh’s experience insulting daughters of Democratic presidents, Lauten, a former Republican National Committee employee and press secretary for former Rep. Joe Walsh, the infamous deadbeat dad from Illinois, is sitting pretty. Limbaugh has accumulated a net worth of $400 million, reportedly, even though (or perhaps because) he has a history of insulting the appearance of the daughters of Democratic presidents.
PensitoWire
- Gawker: The GOP Staffer Who Criticized Obama’s Daughters Was Arrested as a Teen
- Politiscripts, by Richard Roth: Glossary: an anatomy of key memes, euphemisms, sneers, innuendos, and meta-narratives in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Nov 21-28, 2014
- PoliticsUSA: Historians Drop A Truth Bomb On CNN: Obama Has Already Built His Legacy
- Huffington Post: GOP ‘Payback’ to White Working Class That Voted Them in: Cut Earned Income Tax and Child Tax Credit
Obama Girls’ Cyber-Bully’s Bosses
Decent people everywhere are still absorbing the shock from the scandal that erupted when a Republican Capitol Hill staffer, Elizabeth Lauten, a former Republican National Committee apparatchik who has served in communications positions under two tea party congressmen, took to Facebook over the Thanksgiving holiday to smear Pres. Obama’s daughters, Sasha, 16, and Malia, 13, as having no class and dressing like sluts:
