Paul Ryan has lately taken to defending his plan to, for all intents and purposes, end Medicare. (The article link explains it well.) Last night, Rachel Maddow discussed this in some detail. I agree with...
Newt’s marital high jinx have long fascinated us. Not the divorces as divorces, marriage is complicated, divorce is common. Common as well is the way in which Newt went about those divorces via consistent and...
The news yesterday from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s D.C. forum centered on the GOP’s presidential front runner, Newt Gingrich. Aside from all the candidates’ craven posturing and promising things they know they could not or...
Ego sum papa! On Monday, at a gold-encrusted fortress in his city–state within downtown New York City, Pope Donald Trump met with Cardinal Gingo of Georgia. The Cardinal’s purpose? To add a highly-sought after papal blessing to...
From last night’s GOP presidential primary debate, sponsored by CNN, the Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute (both, all righwing, all the time): ED MEESE [ed., a fine rightwing specimen from the Nixon...
“You’re going to see from me extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,” Newt Gingrich speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, last Friday, November 19, 2011. Yes,...
“It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are truly stupid. Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors,...
I’m on record – before tonight’s Bachmann news – as a Bachmann denier. I simply did not believe she existed. No one so utterly Congressloony could co-exist with gravity, the human nervous system, or...
At the GOP debate on Tuesday night, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo asked Herman Cain about the well-known sexual harassment claims swirling around his campaign and character like a river around a boulder. Like that boulder,...
Perfesser Gingo, aka Newt Gingrich, a GOP presidential sorta-hopeful, was in full Gingo last night at yet another sorta-presidential debate. Showing off what makes him simultaneously interesting and tiresome, he pulled out one of...
