Obama: ‘If I Had Set the Same Policies Back in the 1980s, I Would be Considered a Moderate Republican’
by Yvette Carnell Whenever anyone dares to say that President Obama is a right of center politician, he or she is usually maligned as a “hater”, or someone who clearly doesn’t understand politics. (That sort of thing usually involves a trite chess vs. checkers reference as well.) But in an all but unnoticed comment on [...]
Democratic Strategist Says All of Washington is to Blame For Fiscal Cliff…Not Just Republicans
Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene had some harsh words for the lawmakers in Washington D.C. who’ve allowed this country to go over the fiscal cliff because they can’t reach a deal. Greene, a Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor, said on Tuesday that although this problem did begin with Republicans, it does end with them. [...]
Defeated Rep. Allen West Gets His Recount, Falls Even Further Behind in the Vote Count
It’s time for Rep. Allen West to summon the humility he could never muster while serving as a member of Congress and end it. Although it’s true the race between West and Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy was close, it’s also true that West lost, fair and square. Instead of conceding the race on election night, [...]
Police: Wife Runs Over Her Husband After ‘Obamacare’ Fight
One of the funniest images to make the rounds in the run up to the election was the photo of a Romney sign alongside a sign which read, “not daughter or son.” Obviously, the presidential election has created a bit of tension in some families, but usually those rifts don’t end in violence. In Arizona, [...]
Tea Party Holds Machine Gun Fundraiser For Conservative Candidates
Tea partiers in North Carolina are in hot water for holding a “machine gun social” to raise money for right wing candidates. Fundraiser attendees gathered on Saturday and fired machine guns in exchange for making $25 – $50 donations. “Many attended included [sic] folks from SC, PA and FL and from across the state,” Asheville Tea [...]
Allen West Says the Person Responsible For Libya ‘Cover-Up’ Will Be ‘Fired’ On Nov. 6th [Video]
![Allen West Says the Person Responsible For Libya ‘Cover-Up’ Will Be ‘Fired’ On Nov. 6th [Video]](http://www.kulturekritic.com/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kulturekritic.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F10%2F01%2FAllen-West-on-Fox.jpg&q=90&w=160&h=106&zc=1 "Allen West Says the Person Responsible For Libya ‘Cover-Up’ Will Be ‘Fired’ On Nov. 6th [Video]")
On Monday, Congressman Allen West went on Fox & Friends, where he accused President Obama of wrongfully tying the violence in the Muslim world to the movie trailer for Innocence of Muslims. West also said that there has “without a doubt” been a cover-up by the White House, and that the Obama administration’s foreign policy has been a “failure.” [...]
Tax Policy Center Already Declared Romney’s Tax Plan “Not Mathematically Possible”, So What’s Romney Up To?
Mitt Romney has spent his entire political career trying to be all things to whomever his constituency was at the time. When he was among Massachusetts liberals, he behaved as a Republican moderate. Now that he’s among Tea Party conservatives, he is behaving as a born again conservative. Mitt Romney will be whoever you [...]
Listen to the President of Ireland Make a Fool of This Tea Partier
by Yvette Carnell This exchange, from 2010, is of Ireland’s President, Michael D Higgins, taking apart Tea Party loving radio host Michael Graham. What Higgins makes apparent is what most people already know; the current incarnation of the Tea Party is actually antithetical to American values. The idea that hard working Americans should be without health care isn’t [...]
Here Come the Crazies: Tea Partier Says He Has Evidence Obama Was Married to Pakistani Man
It just doesn’t stop, does it? America has real problems which deserve real solutions from real public servants, but we can never get to the real issues because there’s always some tin foil hat right winger, waiting in the wings with a new conspiracy theory. The latest theory, suggested by cuckoo for cocoa puffs tea [...]
James Earl Jones Says He ‘Figured Out’ the Tea Party Because He Understands Racism
Actor James Earl Jones was interviewed by Tavis Smiley on Smiley and West, where he discussed his own politics. Jones says that he is a bit of a political junkie, and watches and reads political news whenever he can, especially on MSNBC. “Can’t get enough of it,” he said. “I even venture into the right-wing talk shows sometimes.” [...]
