Mittens the Missing emerged from his fortress of solitude Thursday to participate in Friday’s Iowa Republican presidential candidates’ debate. Figuring that as long as he was going to be in Iowa anyway, he deigned to grace the commoners with his royal presence. (Didn’t help much, given his coming in seventh in yesterday’s straw poll, which he won in 2007). Artfully …
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rattigan tells it like is Caught this live this afternoon. Made my day.
Last August, we had to endure wanna be cult leader Glenn Beck‘s “Restore Honor” rally on the anniversary and locale of Dr. Martin Luther King’s iconic I Have A Dream speech. Billed as a non-political event with the message that America “has wandered in darkness”, the bullet proof vest wearing Beck told his television audience the following week that “many, many miracles” …
Is Mittens hiding out in Cheney’s old bunker? BEN SMITH at Politico writes that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been missing in action: Call it the Mittness Protection Program. Through the hot summer of 2011, the front-runner for the Republican nomination has been in hiding. Romney was hit repeatedly by his opponents and the Democrats for refusing to offer …
Keith Olbermann performs a post-mortem on the Teabaggers’ latest political triumph
Teabaggers threaten to burn down the House in order to save it With the dreaded Aug 2 debt celing deadline approaching fast, Speaker of the House John Bohener rounded up enough Teabaggers to barely pass the Rethugs’ latest debt ransom demand. Even with all the backroom arm twisting, made more difficult by the Teabaggers’ earlier victory in eliminating earmarks that …
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Stephen walks us through the media’s early coverage of the Norway massacres “Maybe it was a good disguise.” — CNN terrorism analyst commenting that despite the identification of Anders Behring Breivik, a white, blond haired blue eyed native Norwegian as the mass murderer of some 76 …
