Posts tagged Ass Hat

Yesterday evening, reflecting on what he called the “looming landslide” for Scott Brown, Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan characterized the Democratic party as “a clapped out, gut-free lobbyist machine.” And right on time, here’s Senator Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), sounding the clarion call for timidity: “There’s going... [+]

POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican. According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place this afternoon in Griffith’s district in northern Alabama.... [+]

A self-styled Nevada codebreaker convinced the CIA he could decode secret terrorist targeting information sent through Al Jazeera broadcasts, prompting the Bush White House to raise the terror alert level to Orange (high) in December 2003, with Tom Ridge warning of “near-term attacks that could... [+]

For most people, the year ending now is 2009. That’s apparently not true at the right-wing magazine Human Events; reading it Monday, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Bush administration is still in office. The magazine has named former Vice President Dick Cheney... [+]

On Sunday afternoon, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) appeared to propose a prayer for Robert Byrd’s death so that health care reform would not pass. Dana Milbank reports at the Washington Post: At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon — nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that... [+]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped into the president on Sunday for abandoning his pledge to foster bipartisanship in Washington, accusing Obama of creating a more toxic political environment than that which existed during the Clinton administration. “In some ways, of course, yeah,” McCain told Fox... [+]

In the years since their bitter battle, both former President Bill Clinton and independent counsel Ken Starr have predicted they’d be vindicated in the history books. Now the first definitive history of the Clinton scandal is about to arrive — and neither man can be completely... [+]

The former Democratic Party leader’s “kill the bill” battle cry has rallied some grassroots progressives—and sent other former allies scrambling to distance themselves from his cause. Howard Dean—the former Democratic National Committee chairman who went rogue this week, declaring in television interviews and a Washington... [+]