Trump Booed By Who Saturday? Lobbyists and Corpos
The backstory on who booed Trump in South Carolina debate
Bob Dole: Big Donors Expect Something in Return
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the GOP’s presidential candidate 20 years ago, forcefully spoke out against the flood of money in politics and suggested that major donors expect something in return for writing big checks.With the amount of cash being raised for the 2016 election reaching unprecedented levels, it’s becoming clear that running for Read More
Did Hillary Clinton Get an Assist from Mitch McConnell?
Hillary Clinton is “indistinguishable” from Elizabeth Warren, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said recently—and that might just have been music to the ears of the Democratic frontrunner.Bloomberg News reported that McConnell claimed that, rather than running “as Bill,” Clinton would be running as herself, and therefore pretty much as Elizabeth Warren, a senator from Read More
Please Stop Talking about Donald Trump
Talking about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is about as useful as discussing Lincoln Chafee’s or George Pataki’s ambitions for the White House — except those two actually held elected office at one point. Yet, if you’re a ‘name’ in America, you can be a politician. Ok, ok, it’s a bit rich (pun intended) to request that Read More
Bush (Temporarily) Flip-Flops on Religion in Politics
Watch out Pope Francis, because Jeb Bush says you’re overstepping your bounds. After a leaked copy of Pope Francis’ encyclical revealed the pontiff’s intention of warning citizens about global warming and calling for governments to reduce their use of fossil fuels, Bush was quick to criticize. “I hope I’m not going to get castigated for Read More
Want to Know What Hillary Thinks? Just Ask Bernie.
Despite coming from a history (and family) of centrism, Hillary Clinton has in recent days begun weaving progressive causes into her stump speech for the Democratic Primary. On Sunday she took to the stage in Iowa and joined Congressional Democrats in her opposition to fast track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), putting her at Read More
Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are Running on the Same Ticket
Gore Vidal once quipped that there is only one party in the United States, “The Property Party…and it has two right wings.” Thus is the state of the 2016 campaign over the last 96 hours. Hillary Clinton ‘relaunched‘ her campaign on Roosevelt Island over the weekend and Jeb Bush, finally, declared his candidacy. While these Read More
Mitt Romney’s Coup
For the fourth consecutive year, Mitt Romney is hosting a summit of GOP political figures, money men, and right-leaning theorists. Some of these bigwigs include Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, and Lindsey Graham. While many Romney voters feel the country made a big mistake in 2012 by re-electing Barack Obama and not Read More
Is Jeb Bush speaking for Obama? Or is Obama speaking for Jeb Bush?
Jeb Bush and President Obama are both in Germany this weekend. Unsurprisingly, they both spoke about Russian President Vladimir Putin. Surprisingly, they both sounded a lot alike. What Jeb said: “There are things that we could do given the scale of our military to send a strong signal that we’re on the side of Poland, Read More
Scott Walker and the League of Small-Government Gentlemen
“Who do we want? Scott Walker! Why do we want him? Because we’ve filled his coffers in exchange for small government initiatives!” – say the Koch brothers, Bradley Foundation, and many others. OK, they didn’t actually say that, but they have poured money into small-government think tanks that have, you guessed it, supported small-government Wisconsin Read More
Jeb Bush: Keep the Muzzle On
Jeb Bush is heading to Europe this week. For other 2016 hopefuls, campaigning across the pond has caused some headaches. Chris Christie and Scott Walker both found out the hard way that a trip overseas is not a walk in the park. So how is Jeb Bush, who is plagued by a family legacy of Read More
Scott Walker, Professor of Education
Conservatives and Republicans supposedly love Scott Walker. Why? Because he is Union busting? Maybe, but recent data suggest that Unions aren’t as unpopular as they seem. Maybe it is down-home history (i.e. wearing Kohl’s sweaters), appeals against big government, and survival against a massive Democratic-led recall. These things can be very popular for a prospective Read More
Lindsey Graham thinks Kim Jong-un is easier to talk to than Hillary Clinton.
“Well, it’s easier to talk to the North Korean guy than it is her” Lindsey Graham is making our job easy. At least our job of comparing his far-Right rhetoric to the far-Left views of Bernie Sanders. However, as publications like The L.A. Times and others have pointed out, Bernie Sanders socialist views are quite popular. At the Read More
Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio — Friends Forever, Momentary Enemies
A subtle jab carrying Marco Rubio’s 2016 campaign is that he is ‘new’ and other candidates in the race are ‘outdated’. Well Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are certainly getting on in years, yes. However, they are not Rubio’s immediate opponents. That can only mean Rubio’s dig is meant for someone in his own party. Namely Read More
Another Secret Revealed from Camp Hillary Clinton
Progressives are skeptical of a Wall Street-backed war hawk running for the Democratic nomination? No way! This is the unfunny irony plaguing the Clinton campaign. Hillary’s Super PAC director David Brock seems to have taken note of the hesitancy voiced by Progressives. And by Progressives, we (and he) mean rich liberal donors. Ahead of an Read More
Rand Paul and Political Rand-standing
Rand Paul is, as John McCain once labeled him, a ‘whacko-bird’. No, it’s not because of his opposition to NSA. That actually has a lot of bipartisan and populist support. And no, it’s not because many Republican leaders think he should be running as a Democrat. What makes Paul a whacko-bird is his views on Read More
Popular Avant-Garde: The History of Bernie Sanders
“When Bernie Sanders won by 10 votes in a four-way mayoral race, Ronald Reagan had just entered the White House, the Cold War was in full swing, and people were seriously freaked out. ‘You would’ve thought that Trotsky had come to Burlington.’”Admitted socialist don’t get much love in the States. Many blame the Cold War Read More
Martin O’Malley has a Race and Police problem.
Martin O’Malley is in a tough spot. On one hand, he is far (faaaaar) behind Hillary Clinton. On the other hand, he doesn’t have the Progressive support (or revolutionary zeal) that Bernie Sanders has. And, worst of all, he is getting partial blame for the death of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray. So much so that a group Read More
Out of Left field – Bernie Sanders wrote a very, very bizarre essay
Apparently Bernie Sanders had an affinity Feud. He wrote an essay about it. It’s quite explicit. Parents warn your children. The opening paragraphs: “A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused. A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes Read More
The Teflon Candidate? Jeb Bush does shady business. So what?
The Bush family are tied to shady business deals? Yawn. Yet a myriad of journalists are giving themselves carpal tunnel in an attempt pin something – anything – on Jeb Bush. So far, the good people at Business Insider have done a noble job. Here are a few questions they – and we – want answered: Read More