Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:55:40 am
Newt Gingrich irritated a lot of fundamentalists when he refused to sign the "Marriage Vow" pledge pushed on the Republican candidates by Iowa's radical religious right group "The Family Leader" (whose leader Bob Vander Plaats is a Birther). Now, instead of signing it, Gingrich has sent The Family Leader a lengthy ...

Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:37:12 am
In previous GOP debates, the audience booed a gay soldier, cheered Rick Perry for setting a record in executions, and applauded letting people without health insurance die. Last night, another appalling moment was added to this catalog of infamy: GOP Debate Audience Cheers Child Labor. Video "I think every person up here ...

Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:41:16 am
Wingnut bloggers are hilariously freaking out today about a conference call held by the Romney campaign, because they took questions from Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo, but not ... them. The charge is led by third string wingnut "Datechguy:" If you're a conservative Mitt Romney apparently doesn't want ...

Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:41:48 pm
Following Mitt Romney's statement that he believes most Muslims are peaceful people like everyone else, Pamela Geller is totally freaking out: MITT ROMNEY: "ISLAM IS NOT AN INHERENTLY VIOLENT FAITH"????!! - Atlas Shrugs Mommy loves youNot Mitt Romney. No way. No how. Apparently, unlike most everything else, Mitt Romney has ...

Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:36:27 am
Donald Trump is experiencing a sense of abandonment, and his feelings are hurt. And he's especially disappointed with Michele Bachmann (R-Mars). WASHINGTON – Business mogul Donald Trump said Friday he might scrub a presidential debate that so far has drawn only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Trump, the reality television star ...

Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:06:27 pm
It's now officially an exodus: Michele Bachmann Becomes Fifth GOP Candidate To Reject Donald Trump Debate. “We have confirmed that we are not participating,” Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart told ABC News on Thursday. Bachmann has been especially aggressive in her courting of the real estate and reality television mogul, paying several ...

Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:08:26 pm
Newt Gingrich may be ahead in the polls, but he's never going to be the Republican nominee, for two reasons: 1) everyone knows that Mitt Romney is next in the GOP's good ol' boy line of succession (and it will become crystal clear when he gets the endorsement of John ...

Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:41:46 pm
Speaking today at the Republican Jewish Coalition's Presidential Candidates Forum, Newt Gingrich announced that for Secretary of State, his pick would be John Bolton. Yes, that would be the same John Bolton who wrote the foreword for the deranged anti-Obama book by hatebloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, The Post-American Presidency: ...

Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:21:57 pm
Here's Newt Gingrich at a 2007 fundraiser in someone's luxurious mansion, making an amazingly crude "joke" about public housing. I want to thank the Cox family for inviting us into their home. It's a wonderful thing to do this for us and we're all very very grateful. I think any ...

Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:23:38 pm
Mitt Romney just announced on Fox News that he won't be taking part in the Newsmax-Donald Trump debate later this month. I believe the only ones who've actually agreed to participate are Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum; at this rate, the debate may end up canceled. I hope not. That would ...

Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:05:39 pm
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Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:15:10 am
It's a picture of a political party completely lost in lala land, as Newt Gingrich teams up with Birther Donald Trump to subvert America's child labor laws and put disadvantaged kids to work swabbing out the toilets in their own schools, reality show style: Gingrich asks Trump to create 'apprentice' ...

Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:19:51 am
You see, it's all about seizing power for the Republican Party; it really doesn't matter if their presidential candidate is a venal narcissist with a raging case of egomania and a history of using women and then throwing them aside like garbage -- if they think he can win, Republicans ...

Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:34:39 pm
Atlanta's Fox 5 reports that Herman Cain is planning to endorse Newt Gingrich. BREAKING: Sources tell FOX 5 News that Herman Cain will endorse Newt Gingrich Monday for the GOP Presidential Nominee.

Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:22:26 pm
In 2007, Newt Gingrich spoke convincingly about the need for "urgent" action to address climate change and reduce "carbon loading" of the atmosphere. At last night's Mike Huckabee Forum, Gingrich said that doing a public service ad on climate change with Nancy Pelosi was "one of the dumbest things I've ever ...

Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:38:45 pm
I almost can't believe it, but Newt Gingrich is still out there promoting his plan to gut America's child labor laws, fire the unionized janitorial staff in schools, and put those shiftless little bastards to work swabbing out the toilets. Here's Newt in Des Moines, Iowa, explaining that "poor kids" don't ...

Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:44:02 am
In a perfect demonstration of the extremism that now defines the Republican Party, Newt Gingrich was savaged by the other candidates in last night's debate for not hating immigrants enough. Ascendant Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich delivered an unapologetic defense of his views on immigration Tuesday night, declaring in a ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:34:14 pm
Newt Gingrich, the man of Big Ideas and Bold Conservative Vision, seems a little unclear on the whole "child labor" concept: Newt: Fire the janitors, hire kids to clean schools. Newt Gingrich tonight said at an address at Harvard that child work laws "entrap" poor children into poverty - and ...

Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:21:44 pm
The revelations about Newt Gingrich's extremely cozy relationships with big dollar lobbies and industry front groups keep on coming: Gingrich think tank collected millions from health-care industry. The Center for Health Transformation, which opened in 2003, brought in dues of as much as $200,000 per year from insurers and other ...

Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:41:14 am
Remember those "audience-submitted" questions at the Fox News debate last night? It turns out that Fox slipped in a couple of ringers -- including a representative of an anti-immigrant hate group founded by a white supremacist. One of the YouTube questions came from Kristen Williamson, a spokeswoman from Federation for ...

Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:32:12 pm
Newt Gingrich is preparing to whip out his new, improved, whiter than white ‘very visionary’ Contract with America next week in Iowa! Better stand back. Nobody knows how big this contract's gonna get. Not even Abe Lincoln. “It will be 10 times deeper and more comprehensive than 1994,” he told an ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:23:56 am
We've been noticing this disturbing development on the right wing for quite a while, and today the New York Times has a piece on the Republican Party's deranged attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency. Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota wants to padlock the E.P.A.’s doors, as does former Speaker Newt ...

Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:32:23 am
Following the Iowa straw poll, one of the climate change denying creationist Republican candidates dropped out this morning -- leaving only six other creationists and eight climate change deniers in the GOP race: Pawlenty Drops Out. The final straw poll results: [Item List]

Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:57:36 pm
Eight Republicans -- yes, even Newt Gingrich and His Amazing Collapsing Campaign! -- will square off tonight in Ames, Iowa, so here's a thread for the occasion. The Kook Quotient will be soaring, because in addition to the other right wing candidates, Crazy Uncle Ron Paul will be present. I'm ...

Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:04:00 pm
The latest survey from Public Policy Polling has Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney running neck and neck: Bachmann continues to surge. Michele Bachmann's momentum continues to build and she's taken first place by the smallest of margins on PPP's newest national Presidential poll. 21% of Republican primary voters say she's ...