by Madeleine Begun Kane
(No one dissects the silliness and hypocrisy of Washington better than humourist MadKane. Here are her latest offerings on everything from Town Hall Meetings to amazon’s Kindle and from Sarah Palin to wandelust filled Governors and Senators. -Ed.)
Tantrum Politics
Planning to attend a local town hall meeting about health care reform? Hoping to [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
(Give her philandering politicians, dueling Republican gubernatorial meltdowns and Senator Ensign and it’s Christmas in July for MadKane and the rest of us! Enjoy one of the finest and funniest political wits on any planet! -Ed.)
Dueling Scandals
Senator John Ensign surely celebrated when Governor Mark Sanford’s soul-mate scandal took Ensign’s sex-capade off Page [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]

 
by Madeleine Begun Kane
My Homage To Feigned Outrage
May 14th, 2009
Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) have been staging yet another temper tantrum. What’s their grievance du jour? Speaker Nancy Pelosi said CIA leaders misled Congress about interrogation techniques.
The CIA’s under attack
By the Speaker who gave it a smack.
She accused it of lying.
The GOP’s crying:
She’s mean and must [...]

 
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Nothing brings out Republican hypocrisy like a nice, juicy U.S. Supreme Court vacancy. Take Karl Rove, for instance, on Obama’s potential nominees to replace Justice David Souter:
Karl Rove rails against the possible nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor because “her opinions…have been very liberal.” But when Sandra Day O’Connor retired, Rove said the [...]

Two new limericks by Madeleine Begun Kane
 
Rudy’s Family Values
How to become a GOP family values champion:
1. Marry your cousin.
2. Pretend you didn’t know she was your cousin.
3. Get your lengthy marriage to your mystery-cousin-wife annulled.
4. Marry someone else, have kids, then cheat on your second wife very publicly and notoriously while you’re New York City mayor.
5. [...]

 
By Madeleine Begun Kane
(Two new, hysterically funny limericks from Mad Kane - Ed.)
Fox News “pundit” rants always look foolish, especially when they’re packed with gleeful predictions of Democratic failures. And most especially when their predictions turn out to be dramatically wrong.
Such, thankfully, was the case with the loony rantings indulged in by Newt Gingrich, Glenn [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the House Republicans’ number-free budget. And I’m looking forward to the expanded version they’ve promised for next week — the one that won’t have any letters in it either.
Republican Road To Remedial Math (Limerick)
The purported Republican budget
Has no numbers, so how can we judge it?
There’s no dollars or sense
In [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
Fuming About Hume
What delicious irony — Brit Hume bitching about blogger partisanship.And then thanking rightwingers Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center “for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don’t know what we would have done [...]

 
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It seems Republican National Committee members are having second, third, and fourth thoughts about having named Michael Steele to be Chairman of the RNC. And it’s not just his humiliating apology to Rush Limbaugh, his mismanagement of the RNC, and a pair of ethics issues:
“In just a month on the job, Steele [...]