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| Dixie Dianne’s Betrayal |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 4:56 pm |
| Tags: Power Games, Pinstripe Klansman, Safe Negro Report, White Supremacy, Nigger, Racial Diversity, Thad Cochran, Wingut Judicial Appointments, Leslie Southwick, Political Expediency, Racist Judges, Dlc, Trent Lott, 2008, Racism, Race, U S Senate, Hillary, Mississippi, Dianne Fe |
| Hillary and Barack have the power to force one. We will see if they oppose this bastard because they have too or because his nomination is an offensive stench in the nostrils of freedom loving people everywhere. Reading an obligatory statement into the record will not do. Voting against cloture will not do. Putting up an aggressive |
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| ABC Republican Debate |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 8:51 am |
| Tags: Right Wing Propaganda, Power Games, Gop Presidential Candidates, Gop Presidential Debate, Political Expediency, Embracing Wingnuttia, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Gop Wedge Issues, John Mccain, 2008, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Politics |
| The comb-over caucus met again for another one of their unforgetable debates yesterday morning on This Week with Georgie the Greek. On display was the full panoply of GOP wingnuttia and delusional posturing on abortion, immigration, and the War in Iraq. It was truly not worth watching except that the applause of partisans cheering for their |
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| Obama’s war plans |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 6:05 pm |
| Tags: Power Games, Safe Negro Report, Troop Surge Plan, Troop Withdrawal, Political Expediency, Obama For President, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, George W Bush, 2008, Politics |
| photo by radiospike Hat Tip: Dan Balz, Washington Post Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama today pledged an aggressive war against Islamic extremists, calling for the deployment of at least 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to combat the growing Taliban influence and promising to order U.S. forces into Pakistan if necessary to |
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| Rudy’s Imperious Whore |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 11:24 pm |
| Tags: Gop Presidential Debate, Judith Giuliani, The Next First Lady, Political Expediency, Family Values Hypocrisy, Gop Presidential Candidates, Power Games, Courtesan, 2008, Rudy Giuliani, Sex Scandal, Gold Digger, Politics |
| This Vanity Fair profile of Judi Giuliani, Rudy’s whore, is so hilarious that I just had to share it. I hollered, y’all. |
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| Michelle’s mystique |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:05 pm |
| Tags: Elizabeth Edwards, Power Games, The Next First Lady, Campaign Surrogates, Michelle Obama, Obama For President, 2008, Hillary, Barack Obama, Politics |
| Hat Tip: By Carly Zakin, NBC News WASHINGTON - Since he stepped onto the national political stage, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been compared to a rock star, a superstar, and even an NBA all-star. I'm LeBron, baby, he told Chicago Tribune reporter and biographer David Mendell, referring to LeBron James of the NBA’s Cleveland |
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| Clinton/Obama 08: Never gonna happen |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 10:57 am |
| Tags: Black Endorsements, Obama Vs Hillary, Power Games, Black Voters, Black Consensus, Wingut Judicial Appointments, Cnn Presidential Debates, Political Expediency, White Supremacy, Vice President Of Color, Racism, Race, U S Senate, 2008, Hillary, Obama For President, Bill Cl |
| At some point, we need to give up on this fantasy ticket idea. It is as likely as a Paris Hilton presidency. I entertained the delusion of a Clinton/Obama ticket actively-you can go back and check. It's dead. And like all dead things, it will never be resurrected. The latest debate dustup over dictators and such is truly ridiculous |
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| Senate subpeona’s Karl Rove |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 4:11 pm |
| Tags: Harriet Miers, Patrick Leahy, U S Attorney Firings, U S Attorney Firing Scandal, Josh Bolton, Power Games, Gop Culture Of Corruption, U S Senate, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Politics |
| Hat tip: by Klaus Marre, the Hill Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday issued a subpoena for top White House adviser Karl Rove to compel him to testify about the firing of several U.S. attorneys. The evidence shows that senior White House political operatives were focused on the political impact of federal |
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| New Orleans Cop acquitted of police brutality in beating of black senior citizen |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 7:08 pm |
| Tags: Lance Schilling, Racist Judges, Stuart Smith, Robert Evangelist, Frank Marullo, Power Games, Robert Davis, Racism, Race, New Orleans Katrina, Racial Profiling, Police Brutality, Politics |
| Hat Tip: Associated Press, NPR’s News andViews blog. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) – A former police officer accused in the videotaped beating of a man in the French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina was acquitted Tuesday by a judge who heard the case without a jury. “I didn’t even find this a close call,” said |
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| House Judiciary Committee finds a pair and issues contempt of congress charges against Bolton and Miers |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 3:06 pm |
| Tags: U S Attorney Firing Scandal, Political Expediency, Josh Bolton, Harriet Miers, Right Wing Propaganda, U S House Of Representatives, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Power Games, Politics |
| The House Judiciary Committee found a pair, manned up, and issued contempt of congress charges for the White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolton and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers. Wow. The Republicans actually called this move unnecessary and unprecedented with straight faces. Incredible. Let me get this straight, y’all |
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| A final word on the Debate |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 3:30 pm |
| Tags: Power Games, Racial Profiling, Bill Bradley, Political Expediency, Cnn Presidential Debates, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, 2008, Race, Fundraising, Hillary, Al Gore, Politics |
| point that Al Gore had the power to get Clinton to act in a way nobody else could. Bill Bradley spoke about the racial divide and the racial disparities in our nation with an eloquence and conviction that Gore didn't. None of it mattered in the end. Gore out organized Bradley and wiped the floor with him on Super Tuesday, blowing him |
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| Cindy Sheehan arrested in capitol protest |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 10:17 pm |
| Tags: Power Games, Troop Surge Plan, Troop Withdrawal, Political Expediency, Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Iraq, Cindy Sheehan, Impeachment, Politics |
| Hat tip: WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat’s refusal to try to impeach President Bush. Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan says “Impeachment is not a fringe |
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| CNN Debate Tonight |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 6:18 pm |
| Tags: Obama Vs Hillary, Power Games, Safe Negro Report, Black Voters, Beltway Pundits, Cnn Presidential Debates, Political Expediency, Obama For President, Dennis Kucinich, 2008, Race, Youtube, Fundraising, Hillary, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Politics |
| The first of six officially sanctioned Democratic debates will be held tonight with CNN and Youtube as co-sponsors. Tonight’s debate will be availble in its entirety on this space as soon as Youtube makes it available and I can put it up. The pundit class has been chattering actively that its put up or shut up time for Barack Obama. |
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| Hillary and Barack tensions simmer underneath surface pleasantries |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 12:57 pm |
| Tags: Obama For President, Safe Negro Report, Power Games, Obama Vs Hillary, Barack Obama, Hillary, U S Senate, Race, 2008, Politics |
| Hat Tip: By JEFF ZELENY, NY Times WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 They work in the same building. They slog through the same rigorous travel schedule. Along the way, they often cross paths several times a day. But Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have barely spoken to each other at least in any meaningful way for months. The |
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| The Audacity of Ambivalence |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 10:33 pm |
| Tags: Gop Culture Of Corruption, Safe Negro Report, White Supremacy, Power Games, Corporate Whore, Slavery Reparations, Political Expediency, Racial Diversity, Obama For President, Dennis Kucinich, 2008, Racism, Race, Hillary, Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Dlc, Politics |
| it safe in order to keep power is what got us here to start with and placating the establishment so that it facilitates the rise to the ultimate power of the Presidency is not my idea of radical transformation. Creeping up inside of my listless and dispirited soul is a powerful melancholy because we've been on the smooth glide path |
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| Giuliani’s Whore does damage control |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 10:18 pm |
| Tags: Gop Presidential Candidates, Power Games, Judith Giuliani, Family Values Hypocrisy, Homewrecking Whore, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Gold Digger, New York Times, 2008, Family Dysfunction, Media Criticism, Rudy Giuliani, Politics |
| The New York Times, in further proof that it is nothing more than an establishment mouthpiece, has done what amounts to a fluff piece with a light treatment of Judi Giuliani’s homewrecking. |
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