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Dean Powers lives in Castleton, VT. He has apprenticed at several newspapers including The Nation. He currently writes for OpEdNews. He can be found at facebook.com/deanppowers.
SHARE Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Kate Winslett Tears Up Over Global Warming at Oscar's
Written for a brief moment in the face of Kate Winslett, and captured for a world-wide audience, were the emotions and sentiments about global warming felt by a generation typically regarded only for its sexiness.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Limbaugh Watch: Palin Pregnancy Talking Points
Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves Tuesday after a long hiatus and jumped right into the most exciting subject of debate since the primaries ended: Gov. Sarah Palin and her pregnant, un-married teenage daughter.
Limbuagh hammered away on a handful of themes...
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Limbaugh, Hannity: Blame Democrats For "Free Market" Failure
The Spin Twins hope the media will accept the Corrupublican Party spokesperson revision of history without a little fact-checking. They hope Democrats don't have the fortitude to call them out and set the record straight with an aggressive counter-attack. Their gamble may be working.
SHARE Monday, May 5, 2008 Wake Up, Democratic Party!!!
Is this who you want as a leader? Someone who wins votes by exploiting fear and hysteria? Is this what you party elders want? WAKE UP, AMERICA!!! WAKE UP, DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!!
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, September 5, 2008 Falujah Veteran is Attacked by McCain Republicans at Speech
The veteran's name is Adam Kokesh, according to The American Prospect, which interviewed him. Kokesh is a Ron Paul supporter from Santa Fe, and he served in Falujah, an area that saw some of the greatest horrors in the Iraq War.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 19, 2009 NYTimes' Distorted "Public Opinion" Reporting On Health Care Expands
Paul Krugman may be the liberal voice of the New York Times, but the paper is guilty of strong anti-health care reform bias. It may be enough to sink its readership to new lows, with readers disgusted with the thinly veiled plot lines, made for the insurance industry's delight.
SHARE Saturday, September 13, 2008 Watch: Dr. Evil and John McCain Laugh the SAME WAY!!
It's the McEvil laugh. To watch: cue the McCain clip up to about 22 seconds and let it play. Get ready to start the Dr. Evil clip by putting your mouse over the video. Click to play the Dr. Evil clip when the McCain clip hits exactly 34 seconds.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 29, 2008 McCain: Communist Vietnam Sleeper
McCain wants to ascend to the presidency so he can use our nuclear arsenal to destroy America and all of your friends, and all of your wives, and your innocent little children and your little poodle floofy.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, April 10, 2009 NY Times Climate Change Article: Careless or Deceptive?
Is the New York Times deceitfully and willfully aiding special interests opposed to climate control by engineering a myth that there is populist opposition to curbs on greenhouse gases?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Read My Lips; George Bush Ends Career Nationalizing BANKS!!!!
Listen, for one satisfying moment, to the words of that troglodyte Republican you've met, with his pale face and his bird-like, nervous twitches and glances as he declares angrily, "I don't want nationalized health care."
Savor the moment. Replay it a few times. The President this idiot elected just Socialized (or nationalized, or Marxisized or Stalinicized) his bank. Read my what?
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 9, 2009 Tea-Baggers Are Like Sept. 11th Terrorists; Remember: 19 *Box-Cutters* Over-Powered 246 Passengers
We are in one of those historic moments, folks. We can't afford to follow the commands of those who would hijack health care reform. Like the terrorists of 9/11, the tea-baggers are very few compared to their would-be victims: the number of Americans who support robust health care reform.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 28, 2008 After Kneeling, Banks Swagger: "No Protection for U.S. Taxpayer"
Now that every sign points to a speedy capitulation to the banking industry, the banks have resumed their swagger. Executives at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Edward Yingling, of the American Bankers Association, have begun an insidious campaign to strip the bailout of any protections for the very taxpayers this bailout defrauds.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 4, 2008 Under Weight of Palin Strategy: Right Wing Cracking Up
Rush Limbaugh fielded a call from a conservative fan who called him out for talking out of "both sides of [his] mouth." Peggy Noonan claimed, "It's over." David Brooks swiped at Limbaugh.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, August 17, 2009 Failure is Better Option than Non-Profit Co-ops
Failure would be a better option. Push the aggressive reform. Destroty the political careers of every politician that stands in the way: Max Baucus, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, the Blue Dogs, the entire Republican delegation. Blame failure on these individuals and let the Democrats run on health care reform in 2010, 2012 and 2014.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Republican Path To Progress: Retreat to Health Care
AP is reporting that after winning control of Congress in 2010 Republicans will begin campaigning for 2012 destroying the health care bill President Obama passed with Democratic majorities in Congress between 2008 and 2010, the only devastatingly compromised fruit produced by a federal government run by Democrats since 1992.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Limbuagh Spouting Unchallenged Lies Three Hours a Day
A lot of attention from the mainstream media has focused on the misleading and error-prone facts Senator John McCain is using in campaign ads. Radio talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand, is enjoying three hours of pure and unadulterated lying and slander.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 14, 2009 GOP's Frank Luntz' Memo on Health Care; How to Fight Luntz
The New York Times is reporting that Frank Luntz, the word smith for the Republican Party, has circulated a memo in Washington DC advising Republicans on how to attack Democrats and President Obama for his proposals on health care reform.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 24, 2009 NY Times Prints Health Care Articles "K Street" Style
Today, The New York Times released the latest in a series of articles on health care that slants language and provides unsubstantiated facts to create the perception that Americans oppose fixing our broken health care system--a false reality.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 28, 2008 Huffington Post Attacks NBC, Advances Right Wing Agenda
The Huffington Post ran a major hit on MSNBC today, headlining a series of articles with: "MSNBC Implosion." The coverage served mostly to amplify a FAUX News and conservative blog wet dream.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, June 12, 2009 Palin Is Soooooooo Hurt By Letterman's Comments
This entire uproar is manufactured by the same hacks who have been winning elections for the Republicans for the last three decades. It's part of their "persecuted is me" narrative. It used to be that they were persecuted as WalMart shoppers. Now they are persecuted as women. Go figure.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, October 13, 2008 Obama Should Apologize for Congressman Lewis?
With Frank Rich and John Stewart coming close to comparing McCain and his followers to the Weimar Republic, why did McCain attack Congressman John Lewis's remarks?
SHARE Saturday, September 13, 2008 McTrain Wreck..."The Ground Noise and the Static"
The Shakespearean and enigmatic words, "The ground noise and the static" will live out their days in infamy. They will almost certainly become the title of a book, or a movie, and they may very well echo throughout Barack Obama's historic campaign to the White House.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 17, 2009 Republicans Exploit Kennedy's Illness in Push to Destroy Health Reform
Chuck Grassley has reached a new low, exploiting the weakened condition of Senator Kennedy to suggest that the long-time champion of health care reform would want Democrats to cave to the special interests, knowing Kennedy cannot defend himself from these insinuations.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 30, 2009 NY Times Manipulates Poll, Claims Health Care Reform Opposition "Growing"
There's a little concern that the quality might diminish if the government passes reform (69 percent), but there is almost an identical number (66 percent) of respondents who feel they will ***lose*** their health care altogether if the government fails to act!! Haha!
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Dem. Landrieu Joins Dem. Nelson in Red Light District of Senate
Senator Landrieu became the latest Democrat to come out publicly opposed to the public health care plan option. A majority of Americans favor the public plan option, and our president campaigned for it.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Landrieu: "Drill, Drill, Drill," Calls Obama "Senator"
There must be some retribution at some level. George Washington had severe consequences for deserters. There was good reason. If Obama wants to accomplish his goals, he and Harry Reid need to start holding the line.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 18, 2006 Backlash Against Media for Hyping Pelosi "Setback"
She wears an Armani pantsuit, she never stops smiling, she's got big eyes...Within a week of the elections, the mainstream media has settled on a way to destroy the Democratic Party.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, September 19, 2008 Operation: Attack Limbaugh
Defeating Rush Limbaugh is the final frontier for Barack Obama: defeat him by dragging him into the presidential contest, and highlight the man's hypocrisy at every twist in the Ditto Cam.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 23, 2007 Pro-Global Warming Christians Cannot Be Pro "Family Values"
Christians who pride themselves as superiors over their secular and liberal Christian peers cannot justify indifference to and/or gleeful responsibility for global warming in anything but the Cardinal Sins.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 25, 2009 NYTimes Paints Rockwell Portrait of Opponents to Health Care Reform
A new anti-health care reform article paints Limbaugh fan and conservative Georgian Republican, Bob Collier, as the common man rising up from the pew in his church to say what he has never spoken, much like the man in Norman Rockwell's famous "Freedom of Speech" painting.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 29, 2015 Understanding the Right Even if We Don't Agree with Them
Too often political discourse is tinged with anger and an unwillingness to compromise or see reason on the other side of the debate. That has to change.
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, June 16, 2008 Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann
Lookout Keith Olbermann: now that you are more popular than Bill O'Reilly in the cable news Neilson ratings, you must confront an even bigger monster, an even more tenacious adversary, an egomaniacally superior life-species: establishment liberal journalists.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 8, 2008 In Defense of "Divorce & Parental Neglect '08" Slogan
Senator Obama, do not seek to restrain Americans from holding Republicans to the same ethical standards to which they seek to hold us...as cruel and devastating a Biblical argument can be made against McCain and Palin, it is yet crushingly effective and the just return for the decades-long attack on average American families and individuals that they seek to continue.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 7, 2008 NYT's Michael Powell Attacks Obama Ceaselessly
Ten days after a reporter for the New York Times used racially charged language to belittle Senator Barack Obama's criticisms of President Bush, he struck again, comparing Obama's education in politics to mob warfare.
SHARE Saturday, May 16, 2015 Being a Father Isn't For Me
I'm 33 years old and there are two things wrong here. I'm not dad material and America isn't a friendly place to raise children.
SHARE Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Sarah Palin: "I'll Plow Through [God's] Door" Prematurely
My name is Pastor Bob, I just made that up--like Sarah Palin and her phony invocation of God. Join me as I take a walk with Jesus and point out the ridiculous hypocrisy that is the life of Sarah Palin. Together, we'll discover a higher purpose, a greater calling and a deeper knowledge of the human soul.
(44 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 20, 2008 "Activist Base of the Democratic Party" in PA Shocked Over Clinton Tape, Media Blackout
From Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Democrats voiced surprise and then anger over comments that Senator Hillary Clinton made at a private fund raiser that were caught on tape. Surprise because the media has largely blacked out coverage of the comments; anger because of their nature.
SHARE Saturday, August 30, 2008 Palin and Husband with McCain is Like a Disney Movie
A child welfare agent calls on McCain in his Manhattan castle to tell him that his 23rd wife has died, leaving two orphaned children. The agency is overbooked, and, well would Senator McCain just look after them until they can find a home? After all, it's Christmas.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, April 18, 2008 Left Blogs Advance "Debate About Debate "into Mainstream News
What a stunning moment in journalism. A humbling moment in journalism. A proud moment in journalism. Not the mass media's manufactured controversy, for that was deplorable-but rather the response.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 12, 2009 Glenn Beck's Show Mocks Americans as "Moochers"
As America teeters on the brink of economic insecurity, Glenn Beck lashed out at Americans with mocking derision as he suggested for the 5,897,632 time that America is on the road to socialism.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 1, 2008 Hillary Clinton To Bill O'Reilly, "Rich People: God Bless Us;" Elite? Hmm
Something is seriously wrong when Bill O'Reilly is yukking it up with a potential Democratic presidential nominee on his oftener-than-not vitriolic conservative talk show as if the two were chortling about the acquisition of some small country over a bottle of Dom Perignon at the Augusta Country Club, chauffeurs and entourages dutifully biding time near the exit. And then there's what she said...
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Ben Nelson has Become a Punch Line
More and more, Senator Ben Nelson's name comes up as an adjective, referring to something akin to a sickness that is living inside the Democratic Party.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 7, 2008 Pro-Life Supreme Court Set to Canonize Deadly Pharmaceuticals
Infamous Manson killer Tex Watson told his victims, "I'm the devil and I'm here to do the devil's business." Should they rule in favor of Johnson & Johnson, I wonder if the robes on the Supreme Almighty Court and the bag men for Johnson & Johnson told the truth, if they would echo his words.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 8, 2008 McCain: "I think you can work on all three at once, Tom"
John Suspend-My-Campaign So-I-Can-Meet-With-Congress McCain tells nation with a straight face that he can grapple with three gigantic issues at the same time: energy, health care, and entitlement reform.
SHARE Thursday, July 2, 2009 Top GOP Aide: We Had Key Dem "Votes from Day One"
Democratic leaders ought to call for investigations into the deal that is alluded to by a top GOP aide. The Washington Post ought to reveal this source.
SHARE Thursday, July 2, 2015 Emotions are Instincts
Human instincts are far more complex than fight or flight. It is up to us to come to understand our complex instincts and prosper by staying true to them.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 29, 2006 Hannity Pulls a "Michael Richards" on Obama
Hannity begins the right wing racial campaign against Barrack Obama two years early with an audio clip that scrambles Obama into Osama.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 24, 2008 "Polio is not a Virus" Rush Limbaugh Said on Radio Today
"America's Anchorman," as he calls himself, alerted his audience that he was putting on his thinking cap and made us all proud as he mused aloud this, among other inaccuracies: "There are no vaccines for viruses."
(42 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 19, 2008 Clinton Slams "Activist Base of the Democratic Party"--Private Remarks Reveal Contempt for Dems
Where is the media now? If they love controversy, they have the biggest, most newsworthy controversy since the primaries began. Here is Clinton basically repudiating her base, and its coming out on the eve of THE BIGGEST Pennsylvania primary ever. This tape is going to absolutely destroy the Clinton campaign. The calls for her resignation will treble by the end of this weekend.
SHARE Monday, November 27, 2006 NY Giants Meltdown
How could any football team in the NFL blow a 21-0 lead in the fourth quarter. Tom "cough-it-up" Coughlin's Giants have an answer.
SHARE Monday, October 23, 2006 Republican Who Failed Ten Commandments Test Spiraling Fast
Halloween is arriving quickly, but from the G.O.P. leadership's accommodation of pedophiles to Rep. Lynn Westmoreland's disgrace on The Colbert Report, it is becoming clear that for republicans every day is a costume party.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 26, 2009 The Storm is Always Building at the New York Times
"Mr. Reid...must corral support for it in the face of an increasingly resistant Republican minority." -NYTimes
Increasingly resistant? When were the Republicans EVER supportive of anything that the Democrats have proposed? If by increasingly resistant Adam Nagourney is looking at a time span that begins when the Wright Brothers were still just tinkering around with bicycles, then he is correct.
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 7, 2006 Oscars for the "Homosexual Defenders" Please
Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter and Sean Hannity deserve medals and placards from the Human Rights Commission for their stalwart defense of gay people.
SHARE Sunday, August 31, 2008 McCain on Gustav: We'll "Act as Americans not as Republicans"
In a message following the cancellation of the Republican National Convention's first night on Monday, McCain said, "I pledge that tomorrow night, and if necessary throughout our convention, we will act as Americans and not as Republicans, because America needs us now." Privately he went on to reassure everyone from anxious Exxon mobile executives to Jerry Falwell that, "After the convention we'll go back to screwing America
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 10, 2006 Who the Hell Wants to Live in Mississippi?
Mississippi Rep. Chippy Pickering is flapping his wrists around like an unhappy crippled turkey over remarks that 167 year old Charles Rangel made. Hey Chippy-boy, old people can say whatever they want.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, January 29, 2007 Gang-bullying on Clinton over "Evil Man" Comments
Conservative news outlets across the country can agree on one thing: they hate Clinton, and they will do everything and anything to wage a subversive, slimeball campaign against her.
SHARE Thursday, September 25, 2008 Senate Opens Wings On Country Pleading It Not To Elevate Wall Street
Emboldened by the fanatical Klieg lights and dizzying barrage of questions from reporters feeding an anxious public with every latest statement on the proposed $700 billion bailout for Wall Street, politicians from both parties have circled the wagons around the ruling class to bring stability to an institution that benefits an elite few.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 3, 2007 Right Wing Media Circles Wagons; Unprecedented!
Republican Company Spokespeople feel the heat from Left Wing echo chamber, even as Rush compares wounded Iraq War veteran to a suicide bomber.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 24, 2008 NY Times: Obama "talks smack" about Bush
The New York Times, for the first time ever, used a racially charged phrase, "talks smack," to characterize a prominent politician's criticisms of his or her political opponent.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 13, 2007 The Media's Annointed Heir
Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Edwards, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton. And the winner is...
SHARE Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Worldwide: Headlines Change As Night Wears On, NYTimes Steady
The headlines at the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo.com and elsewhere changed ominously over the course of the night like the barometer on a fishing vessel on calm dark waters: the eerie readout indicating something big on the way.
SHARE Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Limbaugh Strategy: White House Operatives Get Credit OpEdNews Deserves
Top strategists in the Obama administration are receiving credit for the "Limbaugh strategy:" essentially dragging him out of his little spider hole and letting the nation watch him squirm. OpEdNews first argued for this strategy in October 2006. But everybody knows, if James Carville or Stanley Greenberg didn't conceive an idea, it was as good as never conceived.
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, April 21, 2008 Clinton Losing Precisely Because She Dismissed "Activist Base," Progressive Leaders Say
Hillary Clinton told a gathering of donors after Super Tuesday that she lost caucus after caucus because the "activist base of the Democratic Party" was intimidating voters; however, progressive leaders say, she is really losing because she dismissed input from that "activist base."
SHARE Sunday, February 25, 2007 Terrorist Attacks to Win Washington for Republicans in 2008?
It's quite possible that the only way Republicans will win in 2008 is if there is a major attack in the US, thousands of people are killed, and the Dems are saddled with the blame for pushing "cut-and-run" policies in Iraq.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, April 14, 2008 Right Wing, Assisted By NY Times, Labels Obama "Elite"
This effort to paint Obama as an elitist goes too far in the direction of right wing tricks and attacks. The voters in Pennsylvania will see this for what it is: a manufactured media flap.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 19, 2006 Operation Fracture Democrats: Mainstream Media's Orders
The mainstream media continues its all-out assault against the Democrats in hopes of scaring politicians, fracturing the party and disrupting its efforts to help the people.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Limbaugh, Hannity Irk Base on Huckabee, Highlight Top-Down Clash
We are finally seeing a clash between secularist-corporate-interest Republicans who exploit the Evangelical Christian vote and actual Evangelicals who see in Mike Huckabee an authentic spokesperson for their beliefs.
SHARE Monday, January 15, 2007 USS Maine Foreign Policy for Iran
If we keep jabbing a stick in Iran's face, they are going to strike back and then Bush has his justification for war.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 16, 2006 Lott Knows Tough Guys Win, Kind of Wish Dems Did Too
Trent Lott will never bargain down. He's smart enough to understand that you posture tough, you walk tough, and you ram it down the opposition's throat until you get what you want. Why can't we have leaders like him?
SHARE Sunday, November 5, 2006 If the Election is Stolen, a Biblical Lesson
The Israelites who allowed Saul to become king of their democracy were an abomination to God and the generations of proginy that followed.
SHARE Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Somebody at Halliburton is Getting Blown Off Your Taxes
When the republicans authorized $18 billion of your taxes to be spent in Iraq, they gave it to their buddies and never looked back. Now the New York Times is reporting that more than half of that money is being spent for NOTHING. No work. No building. No improvements. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Easy cum, easy go.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, October 5, 2007 Fox News Smothers Google News with Pro-Limbaugh Headlines
The Right Wing Media has more headlines defending Rush in a Google News search, but the Left Wing has won this round simply for throwing them off their game for an entire week.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 21, 2007 NY Times Goes to Bat Again for Conservatives
The NY Times hypes a friendlier more cuddly type of evangelical...the president of the National Association of Evangelicals! Supposedly Leith Anderson is an example of the new, and people are "holding him up?" Eew.
(13 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Republican Senators Tax Constituents for Minimum Wage Hike
Thanks to Senate Republicans, you the taxpayer will be paying $8.3 billion for the minimum wage raise for employees at some of the richest corporations in the world.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Iraqi Study Blah, Blah, Blah
The media is infatuated with the Iraqi Study Group, which is shaping up to offer us little more than a new semantic frame work under which we can live our lives.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 1, 2006 As the Country Cheers for Kerry's Beating, Democrats Walk Away
Three Democrats running for office have abandoned Kerry. If Republicans can break in the Democrats and train them to betray members of their own party during the campaign, it will work when these "Dems" are asked to vote on tax cuts, military campaigns and anything else.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 17, 2008 In Wake of Scandal, Clear Evidence of New York Times Clinton-Bias Emerges!!
NY Times "editors'" real views of Obama but through the appearance of objectivity. "His comments...have reinforced a feeling that he can be too aloof, or, yes, elitist. His attempts to explain himself have fallen flat..." This explains the following nine examples of negative articles published in just the last three days alone.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 9, 2006 Christians' "Personal Sin" Hypocrisy in Foley Case Confirms Our Worst Fears
The double standards popping out of the mouths of Christians one Sunday after Republicans developed a strategy to deal with Mark Foley's sex scandal shines an unwelcome light on the political agendas of mega churches across the country.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Hey NYTimes, STOP FABRICATING "Growing Unease" Health Care NARRATIVE
Call the New York Times today and ask them to substantiate their claims that there is "growing anxiety, uneasiness, concern" etc. around health care reform or stop printing the fabrication altogether.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 11, 2007 Media "Deeply Divided" About Rhetoric
After weeks of destructive accounts of a "deeply divided" majority party, Democrats are threatening to hold a vote on Bush's proposed troop surge that could signal strong Democratic unity and call into question the agendas or at least accuracy of major news organizations.
(17 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 14, 2006 Democrat or Republican or Complication
Having a third party would be as helpful to more accurately representing the interests of 300 million people as bickering about it is to the chances of ousting the republicans from power this October.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 25, 2008 Media Matters Provides Transcript of Limbaugh's "Polio" Comments
Media Matters provided OpEdNews with a transcript of comments made by conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh that shows Limbaugh doesn't know that scientists have discovered vaccines for viruses.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 11, 2007 For Bush Wiretapping Is Not About Thwarting Attacks
Bush--for the 1,768th time--dug up the corpses of the dead men and women who died on September 11, and used their horrifying confrontation with death to advance his political agenda.
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 8, 2006 12 Hours Later, Democrats Already Corrupted
Suddenly Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are standing up while Denny Hastert and Bill Frist stand down. Unfortunately, Hastert and Frist were "standing" with their arms wrapped around Bush, mugging for the cameras and enjoying the free lunches. Americans will not tolerate this for long.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Hastert Paradox: Staffers didn't Hide Sex-Scandal, Hastert did
Congressional staffers didn't hide any information about Foley's lewd behavior, bringing it instead to Denny Hastert's attention, so Hastert's vow to fire anyone who did is laughable.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 16, 2006 After Squandering Trillions, GOP Now Ready to Spend for the People
Republicans will finally spend millions on their constituency...bombarding them with advertisements. The "buy out the vote" strategy comes after the GOP spent six years giving trillions of dollars, that's millions with a "t," of taxpayer money to Big Oil and private contractors.
SHARE Tuesday, October 31, 2006 "Thank You Chevron, May I Have Another?"
The Inferior Department has obeisantly thrown itself at the feet of Big Oil and begged for forgiveness for even thinking about asking for money that rightfully belongs to us.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 30, 2006 Queasy About A Stolen Election? Toughen Up
The election will be stolen. That's not the question. What are you going to do about it? You better start by voting. But our soldiers are dying every day to "protect democracy," so you better be willing to do more than simply press a couple of buttons.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Conservative Barbarians Make Example out of Gerald Ford
Almost before his remains grew cold, extremist Republican company spokespeople disfigured Gerald Ford as a warning to conservatives even THINKING about compromise or bipartisanship.
SHARE Friday, October 27, 2006 Carpe Gay Marriageum (Seize the Gay)
Republicans, who change the focus of this election as often as they change socks, have jumped back to the gay marriage issue. Bloggers have come up with a witty strategy for the democratic leadership intended to sink the republicans: sarcastically promote a bill nationally to protect the marriage of a Congressman and a teenaged page.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 4, 2007 Republicans' First 100 Hours...Waylaying the Dems
Republicans are launching a clever effort to discredit and de-rail Dems all while acrimoniously condemning the Democrats for partisanship.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 18, 2007 Good News for GOP: Memory Fuzzy on Prosecutor Firings
Dang memory. It's the strangest thing. The Republicans have a funny way of remembering things that Bill Clinton did back in 1976, but they can't remember their own actions just two years ago?
SHARE Saturday, May 31, 2008 Slick Clinton Veneer to Florida, Michigan Vote Protests
Clinton continues to pledge that she will work to unify the party while she prods her fanatical followers to hold the Democratic Party hostage. The ransom note asks for Clinton's victory or the hijackers will steal the 2008 elections for McCain.
(15 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Dems NOT Responsible for "Alternative"
Iraq is President Bush's mess, so Democrats cannot be held responsible for a bad outcome should retreat lead to all out civil war, and every American knows it.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 2, 2006 Ongoing and Barbaric Kerry Slaughter is Starting to Backfire
The Republicans are still barbarically attacking John Kerry every hour on talk radio and in Washington. Slowly but steadily their vile back-handed strategy to change the momentum of the elections is backfiring.
SHARE Saturday, October 28, 2006 Terrorist Attacks in Radioland
Limbaugh and Hannity are on verbal IED watch, and both of these reptiles are busted.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 20, 2006 Mature Content: Not for Teenager-Mentality Grownups
This is the most stirring indictment against the invasion and occupation of Iraq that I have ever seen. These visions will haunt the President every night of every year he ventures into obscurity and eventual ignominy.
SHARE Thursday, October 12, 2006 Republicans get fired up about Connecticut
Republicans celebrated the results of a new poll Thursday in a three-way Connecticut senate race...Lieberman must be winning.
SHARE Tuesday, April 15, 2008 The Fund Raiser-Heard-Round-The-World
This just in: Obama is in an elite college campus bell tower across the street from a Dave's BBQ smokehouse with an illegal mariachi band, sniping Christians with a gun he supports controlling via the government.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Somebody Should Put the Republicans in Control of this Country
Watching republicans blame Bill Clinton for the US government's failure to deal with North Korea when it began to build nuclear weapons three years ago is almost as amusing as watching Denny Hastert express shock at the Foley sex scandal.
SHARE Thursday, September 20, 2007 Corrupublicans Win Effort to Block Troops from their Families
When the Corrupublicans aren't busy destroying their own families in airport bathrooms or with Congressional pages, they keep occupied ruining the families of our men and women in the armed forces.
SHARE Thursday, October 19, 2006 Bitter, Sobbing, Jealous Brats
Republican talk show hosts and politicians are lashing out at long-time conservatives, further alienating themselves from their constituents as desperation sinks in.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Getting Tough on Limbaugh
Takes issue with Rush Limbaugh in the aftermath of the Mark Foley sex-scandal, arguing for Democrats to mount counter-attacks against conservative pundits as effectively as Bill Clinton did with Chris Wallace.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Clinton Responds to "Activist Base" Concerns in New Ad
Under enormous pressure--pressure that is coming from every major media outlet in the world, even the National Review--for her comments at a private fund raiser, Clinton has released an ad that clearly distinguishes her from the "activist base of the Democratic Party."
SHARE Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Are You Going to Let Them Beat You Down!?!?
They're trying to demoralize you! They're trying to trudge you under foot! They're trying to beat you down and scrape you into the trash can! Are you going to let them???
SHARE Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Poor Old Joe Lieberman
Suddenly Poor Old Joe is upset about bitterness in politics. It's a bitterness that his new friends in the Republican Party helped engender, and it's nothing compared to the feelings of the bereaved in a war he has supported.
SHARE Friday, October 20, 2006 Look Who's Flip-Flopping Now
The say-and-do-anything party is in real jeopardy as it begins to flip-flop on Iraq.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Civil War? Depends on the Definition
Bill Clinton was ridiculed in 1998 for pivoting his sexual indiscretion defense around the definition of the word "is." Every day those bumper sticker comparisons of Clinton's petty crimes and Bush's war crimes become more relevant.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 5, 2006 How Foley's Behavior Became the Dems Fault
The breath-taking speed with which the Republicans have spun Mark Foley's behavior into a political liability for the Democrats is as disappointing as it is fallacious.
SHARE Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Republicans Slam Democrats
The Democrats, pushing aside the wishes of their constituents, merely tried to pass a non-binding resolution against the troop surge...the Republicans wanted nothing. So the Dems compromised with the GOP and passed nothing.
SHARE Saturday, November 11, 2006 To Conservatives: Never Agree with Yourselves Again
The meltdown of talk show hosts in conservative Radioland has not ceased since the elections. Hosts are viciously lashing out at Democrats and even their own listeners exposing their dangerous predilection for Tallibanistic indoctrination.