A quiz:
Mitt Romney likes the idea of moving to Florida because:
a) The palm trees are the right height
b) He's pals with the owner of the Dolphins
c) With low labor costs, he could hire more employees, then fire them
d) He...
(484) Comments | Posted May 11, 2012 | 7:04 PM
Mitt Romney's full of it.
"First of all, I had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be," Romney said of the boy whose dyed blond hair he doesn't remember cutting as a bunch of his fellow prep-school goons held the kid down on the ground. "Going back to...
(221) Comments | Posted March 31, 2011 | 8:37 AM
A tweet from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor the other day (March 28):
If @SenatorReid @ChuckSchumer force gov to partially shut down b/c they oppose sensible spending cuts, Americans will hold them accountable
Dream on, Congressman. Americans won't blame Democrats like Harry Reed and Chuck Schumer. They'll blame...
(10) Comments | Posted February 23, 2011 | 1:50 PM
Monday night, watching "President of the World," the Chris Matthews documentary on the post-presidency of Bill Clinton, one sensed a man in a race against time. One day Bill Clinton's in Northern Ireland, the next in Malawi, then it's off to Kosovo. He's sharing a stage with Bill...
(1) Comments | Posted January 20, 2011 | 6:32 PM
John Boehner said the right things last week. "An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve," he told us in the first statement he released after the shooting in Tucson. In the well of the House of Representatives four days later he
(28) Comments | Posted January 12, 2011 | 10:22 AM
At a prime-time news conference on April 18, 1995, President Bill Clinton aroused both ridicule and pity when he stated, "The president is relevant." The comment seemed to encapsulate his weakened political position and what appeared to be his woeful state of mind as the new speaker of...
(702) Comments | Posted October 18, 2010 | 2:17 PM
It's all Bill, all the time.
There's Bill Clinton on television talking about President Obama. There's Bill Clinton talking about the Tea Party. There he is talking about the midterm elections, the Clinton Global Initiative, his healthy, not-quite-vegan diet. There he is talking about Ireland. There...
(672) Comments | Posted September 20, 2010 | 3:11 PM
It's simplistic to call Bill Clinton, as Rachel Maddow did in March, "the best Republican president the country had, if you look at the policies that he passed." But her assertion is certainly an arguable one -- as is the former president's claim last week that...
(18) Comments | Posted May 21, 2012 | 12:18 PM