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 [...]
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Karl’s Roving Standards
Posted on 04 May 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (1) | Tags: Bush, David Souter, Hypocrisy, Judiciary Satire, Karl Rove, Madeleine Begun Kane, MadKane, obama, Republicans Humor, Sandra Day O’Connor, Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Republican Road To Remedial Math and More
Posted on 30 March 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: 60 Minutes, AP, Budget, Bush, CBS, Cheney, Deadlines, economy, Gallows Humor, GOP, Interview, Laughter, Media, memes, News Conference, obama, PR, press conference, Punch Drunk, Remedial Math, Republicans Humor, Ron Fournier, Steve Kroft, Teleprompter, television
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 [...]
Shrewdness, Thy Name is Barack
Posted on 16 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: a highly respected US Constitutional law scholar, Addington, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, already learned to let others around him do the heavy p, Ashcroft, asked definitively by Chairman Patrick Leahy if waterbo, asserting that there is no ambiguity here, astonishing bit of testimony, Attorney General designate Eric Holder’s confirmation h, Bush, cement his legacy as a bipartisan maverick, Cheney, complete hurricane thinking he will do nothing, Conspicuously absent from the invitation list, could fill as a result, Denis Campbell, don’t plan on any international travel gentlemen, end partisan gridlock, Feith, for anything and anyone related to any torture inquiry, former running mate, General Pinochet about his trip to a London hospital en, Genius, Gonzalez, he replied “yes, headline Lamey Whinehouse, his Administration “would not conduct torture”, his silence misdirects the left, honoured at a dinner tonight hosted by Barack Obama, introduced by his longtime Senate friend and colleague, Jail cells, John Stewart, Jonathan Turley, keeps your hands clean, letting others carry the torture debate so he can hones, Libby, many in the media pundit pack assume his Administration, many more to come, marginalises, may go freely within the borders of the USA, McCain, Monday’s news out of Washington contains a long list of, MSNBC commentator, Mukasey, not directly answering questions about Bush Administrat, not tainted John McCain, obama, on video tape saying they did authorise torture, POTUS after 3-years in the Senate without making shrewd, public pronouncements now seem a clever smokescreen, public self-destruction, pursue torturers and granting them no safe haven from i, reached across the aisle, reiterated his determination to sign an executive order, Rumsfeld, Sarah how can we miss you if you won’t go away?, separating John McCain’s political legacy from the ‘Was, Shrewdness Thy Name is Barack, The chief legal officer of the USA is on record saying, The Daily Show, The Hague, the highest in the land “get out of jail free” card the, they have no choice but to prosecute, They will open the door, three previous Attorneys General (Mukasey – the current, Torture is a globally recognised war crime, unequivocal claim two days, US key signatory to several treaties, very public snub by President-elect Obama, very shrewd move Barry, waiting for the political wind to gather enough steam, waterboarding is torture”
By Denis Campbell
One does not become POTUS after 3-years in the Senate without making shrewd moves. These two are genius: separating John McCain’s political legacy from the ‘Wasilla Hillbilly’ and letting others carry the torture debate so he can honestly say he has no choice but to pursue prosecution of highest Bush officials for war [...]
Good Riddance! Please Leave NOW!
Posted on 11 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 on 9-11, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as “The Dark House”, 57-year old single mother of three, 9-11, Bill Clinton, bringing honour to the White House, Bush, covered up the environmental risks at ground zero, Denis Campbell, did not keep five Americans safe from anthrax and never, did not keep us safe from the shoe bomber, do not censor science, do not plant propaganda in Iraqi newspapers, failed to provide for the health of rescue workers, fantastic, Gingrich inspired patriotic pabulum, giving bin Laden a safe haven in the region of Wazirist, Good Riddance, He kept the American people safe, helped bin Laden’s family flee the country, Keith Olbermann’s brilliant commentary of last evening, kept reading My Pet Goat for 7-minutes after learning t, literally endorsing a truce that Pakistan signed with t, no child left behind act, nor pay US columnists to write it in American newspaper, one of them mentally challenged, opposed the 9-11 commission, opposed the department of Homeland Security, Osama bin Laden, outsourcing that to Afghans and turning that country in, quit after patronising an escort service linked to pros, Randall Tobias, release of a two-page talking points memo to rehabilita, selected President in 2000, so poorly received, sputtering mad at the whitewash, standard applause line for Democrats, still has not caught the killer of 17 sailors aboard th, still has not caught the killer of 3, taking back, that we do not betray those (Valerie Plame’s CIA status, that we do not eavesdrop without warrants, that we do not play politics with justice, that we do not stage fake news conferences, that we uphold rather than commute the penalty for thos, The lie of Mission Accomplished, the lie that we do not torture, The meltdown he prevented now having claimed several Wa, tried to outsource America’s port security to Dubai, uniquely American that she had to work three jobs, upholding the Constitution while protecting habeas corp, we do not eavesdrop on Americans, we do not use the wheels of justice to crush dissent (f, White House
By Denis Campbell
When W. Bush was selected President in 2000, I shrugged and assumed this a natural part of the pendulum’s swing to the right. Now, the release of a two-page talking points memo to rehabilitate his presidential image has me sputtering mad at the whitewash this White House continues to apply to try and [...]
Ayers & Keating: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
Posted on 09 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (1) | Tags: Ayers & Keating, Bush, Charley James, GRAMM, KEATING, Keating matters and Ayers doesn’t, McCain, news media picked up on the symmetry of Obama’s approac, obama, Obama was eight when Ayers engaged in his infamous bomb, One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other, Palin, pop quiz, SAT skills
by Charley James
Dust off your SAT skills, kids. Here’s a pop quiz:
Question: OBAMA : AYERS as McCAIN :
a) PALIN b) GRAMM c) KEATING d) BUSH
If you picked c) Keating, you would be partially right – but mostly you’d be wrong, wrong, wrong.
Going on attack last Sunday, Sarah Palin dusted off the old story about Obama’s [...]
National Masochism: Only Way To Explain Tight Presidential Poll Numbers
Posted on 22 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Angler, Barton Gellman, Bill Clinton, bin Laden, Bush, Cheney and the Republicans took us to war against a cou, Cheney said. This is our due, Delay, deserved better than to be covered in horse shit by the, fix the looming crisis in Social Security, Fixing Social Security, George Bush, got busted in this slezy scam, gutting the Constitution, handed a large budget surplus by a Democratic president, hate Social Security Abramoff, Iranians, Iraq War, Isn't the punishment for treason hanging?, John Maynard Keynes, John McCain, Karl Rove, lied to, Majority Leader Dick Armey, National Masochism, peaceful protesters at the RNC in St. Paul are actually, Republicans came to Washington in 2000, Ronald Reagan, Saddam's evil scientists suitcase nuke, Saddam's family was al-Qaeda, Scooter Libby, See anyone swinging by their neck?, solid majority in both houses of Congress and on the Su, the whole K-Street crowd, they immediately ran up a gargantuan deficit. doubled t, Tight Presidential Race, unpatriotic PATRIOT Act, using the surplus to pay down the national debt, Valerie Plame, We won the mid-terms, you save deficit spending for a recession
by Charley James
I don’t understand.
Republicans came to Washington in 2000 with a solid majority in both houses of Congress and on the Supreme Court, allowing them to steal the presidency. If you ever wanted to know what a pure Republican Party government unhindered by Democrats or anyone else might look like, this was the moment.
After [...]
Abstinence, Chastity, Hypocrisy, Control, Belief, Recovery, Redemption… Reality
Posted on 02 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: abortion, Abstinence, addressed a near empty convention hall, Alaskan witness protection program aka the Iditarod Rac, beginning of the end of one’s political career, Belief, Bill Buckner, bravery in upholding Christian values, Bristol and Levi, Bush, caring face, Chastity, Cheney, chickens came home to roost, Cindy McCain, compassionate, conservative interview record, Conservative radical Republican group, Control, Convention, Dan Quayle, death by a thousand cuts, Eagleton, Emperor Nero fiddling, FEMA Secretary Chertoff, former Democratic Governor, Governor owns a gun, Gustav, hands-off, has the complete support of President Bush, Hypocrisy, hypocrisy-a-thon, I want my buddy Democrat Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden, lack of vetting, lauding Palin, Laura Bush, lobbyist friends, long shamed his name, McCain, Minneapolis, moral outrage at Bill Clinton, new arrival, New Orleans, New Orleans was being evacuated, nightclub event, Nixon’s dog Checkers, nomination death watch, obama, Olympic standard, on message, Palin nomination death watch continues, partied like it was 1999, party of Lincoln, Party spokespeople trying to bury the story during the, pending nuptials, perfected talking out of both sides of its mouth, pregnant 17-year old daughter of Alaska Governor and VP, publicly forgave, rally his party, Reality, Recovery, Red Sox, Redemtion, Republican lawyers are on the ground in Alaska, Republican members of Congress, Republicans, riot police, Saturday Night, seven deadly sins, seven deadly virtues, shotgun wedding, Smug Religious Right, split screen convention, State Police tasered parents, steady drip of bad news, Straight Talk Express, strayed from the serious message, the Bush team, their failed abstinence pledge, to the stylish renderings of the band Hookers and Blow, took the monkey off his back, troops, two subdued hours of party business, what other surprises may lurk, when sin and virtue collide, White House, will now NOT speak, won the World Series
These seven deadly virtues ran headlong into the seven deadly sins as The Straight Talk Express and Smug Religious Right collided head on in New Orleans and Minneapolis yesterday. Dozens were wounded in separate incidents as riot police and troops stood at the ready to bring everyone forcibly on message.
Facing no choice, the same Conservative [...]
The Radioactive City Convention Hall
Posted on 14 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1 in 5, 80 lies in the first 36 pages, Broward County Florida, Bush, Bush/Cheney, Cheney, Chuck Hagel from Nebraska, clinton, democrats, Denver, Dr. John Corsi, eight Republican US Senators, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, Georgia, Gordon Smith of Oregon, John Kerry, Kansas City, Kansas side, key foreign policy advisor, Larry Craig of Idaho, lobbyed by the government of Georgia, Maine’s Susan Collins, McCain, meddling, MediaMatters.org, Minneapolis, Missouri, not attending their party’s convention, not understanding the conflict, politics of destruction, President Saakashvili, Radioactive Convention Hall, Randy Scheunemann, Republican, Republican Convention, Rocky Mountain high, Russia, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, skip the festivities, smear book, St. Paul, support of US troops, Swift Boat, Ted Stevens of Arkansas, UN Security Council, Wayne Allard of Colorado, Welcome to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International A, Welcome to Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airpo
While the Democrats have planned a Rocky Mountain high for Denver (that is if the Clinton’s stop thinking everything is always about them and come back to the reality of planet earth), those heading to the Republican convention in Minneapolis (or is it St. Paul?) have been jumping ship like proverbial rats.
Senator Pat Roberts of [...]
The Race Card
Posted on 06 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 90-days, accepting the race premise, attack adverts, bar lowered, Battle of Baghdad, Berlin, black candidate, Brand Republican, Britney Spears, budget deficits on their watch, Bush, Bush Administration, campaign manager Dick Wadhams, campaign trail, celebrity-seeking antics, Cheney, clinton, Colorado Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, concrete evidence, convention in Minneapolis, daily tracking polls, decided to invade anyways, democrats, Democrats improve majority in the Senate, didn’t look like all those other guys on the dollar bil, fear, fell for the bait, Georgia Senator Max Cleland, Gingrich Revolution, give me a call, glam gals, gold bathroom fixtures were actually gold paint and und, high school class president, Internet only, Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iraq, John Stewart, Karl Rove, lose more House seats, lost an arm and both legs in combat, McCain, Moses, NBC News anchor Brian Williams, net Democratic gain of 23+ seats, no WMD’s in Iraq, obama, overblown fears of Iranian military power, Paris Hilton, Presidential Palace, psycho-analysed piece of footage, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind, pundits jumped in, race card, racial stereotyping, racially charged spot, Republican, Saddam’s Palaces, son of former slaves. rise up and steal/sire the master, statistical tie, subliminal racial fear tactic, Swiftboating Season, Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, The Daily Show, The One, unpatriotic, US Presidential race, US South, Victory Tower, Vietnam, we're going to shove a bunch of 30-second ads up his a-, within the margin of error
With 90-days to go, Swiftboating Season has begun in earnest as charges and counter-charges by each candidate’s camp of injecting race into the election turned the current US Presidential race into that of a popularity contest for high school class president. No. I must apologise. That characterisation demeans the thousands of young students who prepare [...]
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