Tagged: politics

Trigger Warning... for anyone who has lost a congressional campaign due to saying dumb shit about rape. Poor Todd Akin. One can only imagine what it might be like to relive the most traumatic moment of your life, play it over and over again in your mind, every day, every time someone makes a stupid comment, or makes a dumb joke without realizing how it might hurt you. Todd Akin will tell you. Of course he has regrets. What if his skirt had been a little longer? What if he hadn't been [...]

President Obama was on hand at what he called a " Texas-sized party " in Dallas today for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library . Along with other former presidents Obama was tasked with giving a speech that celebrated the man and the legacy of George W. Bush. Which seems slightly awkward for Obama to do, since his whole candidacy for president was kind of based on being the anti-Bush—on restoring America's credibility at home and its image abroad. Bush left office with his reputation in tatters, one of the lowest-approved presidents ever, with [...]

Recently, The Daily Beast was asked to tag along on a "patrol" with the gang from Towson University's "White Student Union." Their fearful leader, Matthew Heinbach, is repeatedly described by nearly everyone he encounters as being an especially 'polite' human. Which is weird, because he is also an insane racist. Heimbach is super concerned about the "genocide of the European people," which is weird, because that is not at all a thing. Oh, and of course, he and his group feel importantly about the preservation of "white culture." Is white culture endangered? Let's see. I just [...]

Just hours after the 43rd President of the United States telling "Nightline" on Wednesday that his brother Jeb "should run" in 2016 for a White House bid, along comes his mother and former First Lady Barbara Bush completely contradicting her son's blowhard aspirations for his older sibling. On Thursday morning's "The Today Show," Barbara joined her daughter-in-law, Laura (Dubya's First Lady), as well as her granddaughters Jenna and Barbara, to discuss the May 1 opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. When "Today Show" host Matt Lauer asked about the possibility [...]

Former New York gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan, famous for his "Rent is too damn high" message in 2011, has once again brushed up his furry muttonchops for the political arena and announced his 2013 NYC mayoral campaign via a gangsta rap-inspired music video. "The race may be different, but the message is the same," McMillan says in his campaign anthem below. "R-I-T-D-H is gonna change the game." Finally, someone with a personality is ( officially ) running for mayor. h/t Animal NY [...]

I'll give the man credit: With his recent barrage of favorable press and poll numbers , Anthony Weiner is beginning to show just ever so slightly that once-cocky side we all loved and adored on the House floor. Since his sexting scandal back in 2011, the former congressman maintained kept a hangdog, nebbishe demeanor throughout his early retirement. But, now that Weiner is seeking redemption and possibly a spot on the 2013 NYC mayoral ticket - a position that requires a commanding presence - the man is showing a little gall. Even if it means [...]

After last week's gun control legislation failed that would have done nothing more than expand background checks to make sure crazy people and criminals can't buy guns, Obama called it a "shameful day for Washington." It seemed the numbers were on his side when he said it - 90% of Americans supported the expanded background checks. But a new poll from Washington Post and Pew Research paints a different picture: It turns out that less than half of those polled are disappointed the bill failed. Only 47% of those polled said they [...]

In case you didn't hear (or maybe you did and you're just reading this in some sort of nostalgia for what took place an hour ago, most likely in sepia tone) the AP Twitter account got hacked, tweeting out an erroneous tweet. But this wasn't any ordinary tweet, dear reader. Oh no. Check out the top one: So, that happened. You'd think that one wrong tweet couldn't do much harm, but it in fact took the DOW down 150 whole points in a matter of seconds: [...]

Underneath the infinite rolls of delicious marbled sausage meat slathered in Italian gravy, Chris Christie has one hefty set of coglioni . On Friday, the New Jersey governor gave a press conference in which he announced plans to tighten the reins on gun control in the Garden State despite Joe Manchin's expanded background check bill getting killed in the U.S. Senate earlier this month. "The existing system that we have placed in New Jersey is much stronger already than the proposed Toomey-Manchin legislation that failed in the Senate earlier this week," Christie said. "The [state] [...]

Ostensibly building on last week's momentum from spikes in public polling opinion, former congressman and prospective NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner opened a new Twitter account on Monday. Already two tweets in, the potential comeback kid tested social media waters with two pieces of campaign agit prop - an updated version of his 2009 "Keys to the City" manual and, two hours later, a specific, Earth Day-related page from the same online policy book. See below. For earth day: Idea 54. keystothecity.uberflip.com/i/1 21474/17 — Anthony [...]

Despite the desperate pleas of Karl Rove, the right wing of America is soldiering on with its mission to say incredibly insane and offensive things all of the time always. Take for instance Arkansas Rep. Chris Nogy. He has recently suggested that any Republicans who voted in favor of allowing "Obamacare" in Arkansas probably need to be more afraid that people are going to make use of their 2nd Amendment right to gun down lawmakers who do things they disagree with. True story! From Nogy's Manifesto : "The 2nd amendment means nothing unless [...]

Seemingly not content with being regular evil, the multimillionaire Koch brothers - the same dastardly duo who financed the Tea Party movement and bought several major Republican candidates in the last two national and midterm elections - are kicking their malevolence up a notch as they are in talks to buy out eight major American newspapers . These newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel and the Hartford Courant. The Koch brothers also gave $245,550 to politicians who supported voter ID laws, which in turn hindered (or in some cases, [...]

Dennis Johnson is the House Majority Leader of Oklahoma's House of Representatives as well as the owner and operator of A-1 Appliances in the bedroom communities of Duncan and Lawton. During a speech on the state house floor on Wednesday, the good ol' boy shared his beliefs on why lawmakers should pass Senate Bill 550, a measure that would repeal the 70-year ban on “loss-leader” selling and allow for merchants to aggressively push merchandise on Black Friday or for back-to-school weekends - even if those customers are of the Chosen ilk. "There's such a thing called niche marketing," [...]

In what is anticipated as a landslide victory for the reelection come November, New Jersey governor Chris Christie added social media fluff to his campaign on Thursday with an Instagram account that harkens back. "Kicking off Instagram with a pic of Mary Pat & I from the 80s," reads the caption. Christie has uploaded three other images to his account , but none of them come close to the greatness of that above. Overheard at Death and Taxes: "Looks like if they cast Danny McBride to star in 'Risky Business.'" [...]

In a New York Times op-ed that ran online Wednesday, Gabrielle Giffords puts her former colleagues in their place for killing the Manchin-Toomey gun control bill in the U.S. Senate that afternoon. The amendment would have universally expanded measures on background checks for gun control purchases, but, as Dianne Feinstein predicted , the National Rifle Association put the fear in lawmakers who felt insecure about their chances for 2014 reelection. Giffords was "furious" over the legislative failure: These senators made their decision based on political fear and on cold calculations about [...]

UGH. LADIES. Always bitching and complaining about something and telling the mens what to do, amirite? "Use a coaster!," "Stop talking with your mouth full!," "Where is this relationship going?," "Don't rape me while I'm unconscious!." How is Peter Hansen , an innocent 12,000-year-old male Republican State Rep from New Hampshire supposed to know that one of the 80 million things that silly women are bothered by is being called "vaginas"? He was just trying to make a point about how "Stand Your Ground Laws" are awesome! Because some other jerk in the house was talking about [...]

Amazing what a little good press will do for a political figure. After New York Times Magazine's generous feature on Anthony Weiner and wife Huma Abedin in which the former congressman admitted to "eyeing the mayor's race," the Marist Institute of Public Opinion conducted a survey among New Yorkers to see just where their heads and hearts lay with the 2013 NYC mayoral candidates - only, for Monday's poll, MIPO included Weiner as a potential runner for mayor. Survey says? Ding! Weiner took 15 percent of the vote, trailing frontrunner City Council Speaker Christine [...]

Now that the weekend has come and gone, I finally took the time to check out New York Times Magazine's Sunday profile on Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin. When it originally ran online last Wednesday, the initial scoop to come from the 8,000-word story was how the former Brooklyn congressman has his first two eyes on the NYC mayoral race. No doubt that's an item, but, for me, I love the quote where Weiner explores the impulse that made him share his private parts with Twitter followers. Loneliness and "being in empty spaces" is what more [...]

Remember on Thursday, just 24 hours ago, when I was completely joking about arming babies and toddlers because of all the toddler shootings this week? Well, Texas GOP congressman Steve Stockman one-upped me with this whimsical tweet: Haha! Get it? Because then they could just shoot the evil harlot planning to abort them from within the womb. Which isn't a difficult thing at all for a blob of cells to do. And then, said blob of cells could definitely survive on its own. The take home message here is that [...]

On Thursday night, 802s pop diva Cyndi Lauper performed at a White House function honoring "Memphis Soul." After Lauper's cover of Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness," Congressman Steve Cohen fired off a harmless tweet to congratulate the recording artist on her set. "Great night, couldn't believe how hot u were," the Tennessee Democrat tweeted. "See you again next Tuesday. Try a little tenderness." A harmless enough message for a bachelor in any profession if you ask me, but Cohen began to draw media attention only after he deleted the tweet, causing the deleted tweet aggregate Politwoops to [...]