Candidate Should Get Out and Stay Out, Democratic Official Says – No Room for Dissent on Charter Schools The Democrats’ 1st District Chair, Nicholas Carlson, has written a letter to Guy Palumbo, a candidate State Senate. Carson tells Palumbo that he can not run as a Democrat because P[...]
Posts Tagged ‘rhetoric’
ROMNEYISMS:
“They talk about the fact that I played a lot of pranks in high school,” “And they describe some that you just say to yourself, back in high school I just did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by it, obviously I apologize.” Romney continued, sayin[...]
May 15th, 2012 - 9:51 pm § in Politics
Naqba
We survived much death. We defeated forgetfulness and you said to me: We survive, but do not triumph. I said to you: Survival is the prey’s potential triumph over the hunter. Steadfastness is survival and survival is the beginning of existence. We persevered and much blood flowed on the coasts and[...]
May 14th, 2012 - 1:08 pm § in America
BREAKING NEWS: House of Representayives Trying to Force War with Iran!
A CALL FOR HELP FROM PEACE NOW! The House is scheduled to vote tomorrow on H. Res. 568, an Iran-focused resolution that seeks to lower the bar for war, to tie the President’s hands in negotiations, and to effectively take all options, except the military option, off the table. It appears to be no [...]
May 14th, 2012 - 9:41 am § in America
The Shooting Range
Goddamned racist America, Pharygula by PZ Myers A few years ago, at TAM, Blake Stacey and I took Ben Goldacre to a shooting range — we wanted to introduce him to the real America. Once we got there, though, we discovered an unexpected challenge: we had to choose a paper target to shoot at, and [&h[...]
Do Pollsters Lie?
Reposted from Daily Kos Electionsby Steve SingiserRasmussen’s status as an infallible pollster to the right, and a inevitable source of derision to the left, has been well established for years. But, looking at some of their recent polling (most notably, their daily tracking poll of the[...]
April 29th, 2012 - 9:35 am § in Misc.
Democrats: Conflict at the top?
Washington – Rumors have been swirling around that Wasserman Schultz was not in President Obama’s top tier of candidates to sit at the helm of the Democratic National Committee. A source within the Democratic Party who is a close associate of Wasserman Schultz has told the Shark Tank the det[...]
April 24th, 2012 - 10:28 pm § in Misc.
Super PACS rescue establishment Republican minions for unruly tea partiers.
Republican Establishment Tries To Tamp Down Tea Party Insurgency … So Mitt and friends bought themselves the Republican nomination.. Restore Our Future spent more attacking Santorum and Gingrich, than those two candidates together spent on their entire campaigns through the end of February. [...]