I really shouldn’t read Time magazine, and I especially shouldn’t read Mark Halperin, aka Captain Kiss-Ass, but I did, and I have to pay the price—I have to suffer as Mark rates Newt Gingrich an A- for saying, among other things, that he would use sabotage and assassinations, plus “absolute strategic pressure” (which is kind…
Tag: Republican idiots
Newt and the Neo-Cons, updated
Last week I noted that noted Likudist Jennifer Rubin has been industriously pissing on Newt Gingrich and every other Republican presidential candidate not addressed as “Mitt” and suggested that this was all a plot on Jennie’s part. Well, welcome Charles to the party, as in Krauthammer. Charles is a lot more subtle than Jennie. Instead…
Newt Gingrich, not really a friend of Israel, it seems
Not enough to satisfy the admittedly exacting standards of Jennifer Rubin, at least, who plants one of her many long knives between the former Speaker’s shoulder blades here. While other conservatives politely averted their eyes from Newt’s whopper, delivered in last night’s debate, claiming that he charged Freddie Mac $300,000 in 2006 to tell them…
You’re an expert on Russia, huh? Well, where is it?
“You know, I have had some great foreign policy conversations with Liz Cheney and with John Bolton, I mean, people who actually understand intimately where these countries are, why they think like they think.”—Rick Perry, on Sean Hannity.
What is George’s game?
On Monday, I sneered at George Will’s sneering takedown of Mitt Romney. In the couse of his tirade, George also dealt President Obama a glancing sneer, dismissing him as a “floundering naïf,” though I think “bloodthirsty” might have been a more appropriate adjective.* Well, if George hates Mitt, and hates Obama, who does he want…
Condispeak: I’m not being condescending, I’m just reminding you that I hold your future, and your testicles, in the palm of my hand
In a recent interview, Condoleezza Rice discussed one of the many snags in her problematic relationship with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, aka “Mr. Asshole”: “he said something about my being ‘bright.’ And it just bugged me. It’s just one of those words that you don’t use about a colleague.” According to Condi, “I use…
George Will, hittin’ on Mitt
George Will—that’s George F. Will to you, pretty boy—has been getting a lot of mileage out of this column, making fun of Mitt Romney, for not knowing whether he thinks ethanol subsidies are a good idea or not. Well, I’m sorry. Making fun of a politician with presidential aspirations for not knowing whether he likes…
Ross Douthat, doubling down the dyspepsia
It’s tough, being a Republican with a brain these days. Or even half of one, judging from the howls of pain being emitted by two of my less favorite people, John Podhoretz and Ross Douthat. John, in what Ross describes as a “dyspeptic assessment of the Republican field,” takes a particular swing at Rick Perry,…
The New Inequality: 1) It’s growing 2) Does anyone care?
The new report from the Congressional Budget Office on Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007 is causing a fair amount of heartburn on the right. Apparently, the news that the folks at the top of the pole (the top 1 percent) more than doubled their share of the nation’s income,…
Football is just an extension of government. Or is it the other way around?
Over at Salon, Steve Kornacki has a nice piece on the endless machinations necessary to decide which college football teams get to become members of the cool conferences and which lose out. If you’ve ever asked yourself why, back in ’94, Texas Tech got into the Big 12, whoever they are, and Rice did not,…