Rush Limbaugh is not happy with Rick Santorum’s Satan speech. “It’s part of the predictable attempt to impugn Santorum as an absolute religious nut and wacko,” El Rushbo says. “But he did say these things and he’ll have to have an answer...I don’t know. It’s just not the kind of stuff you hear a presidential candidate talk about.” Now, Santorum is trying to explain away … [Read more...] about Bedeviled in America
Santorum: A (Risky) Choice Not an Echo
Santorum: A (Risky) Choice, Not an Echo by Joe Gandelman With former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, you know that what you see is what you're going to get. And that's going to be the problem for Republicans if the most popular anti-Romney yet is nominated. Santorum is surging. A new Gallup Poll now finds that even though a majority of Republicans consider former … [Read more...] about Santorum: A (Risky) Choice Not an Echo
The Supremes: Those Wild & Crazy Lads In The Black Bathrobes Are At It Again
The Warren and Roberts Supreme Courts bookend my life. The court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren from 1953 to 1969, expanded civil rights, civil liberties and federal power in dramatic ways, while the court led by Chief Justice John Roberts beginning in 2005 has inhibited civil rights and civil liberties and expanded the power of the court to make law and cast law aside when … [Read more...] about The Supremes: Those Wild & Crazy Lads In The Black Bathrobes Are At It Again
And Now A Word From Satan
Republican Presidential aspirant former Senator Rick Santorum generated lots of controversy and news stories when The Drudge Report drudged up a 2008 speech where Santorum warned about Satan's threat to America. But is that fair? So far we've only heard from Santorum and Satan's critics. What is Satan really thinking these days? He's thinking this: … [Read more...] about And Now A Word From Satan
2012: Bonfire of the Middle East Vanities (Opera Mundi, Brazil)
With the cries for war against Iran growing louder by the day, diplomats have barely begun to come to girips with all of the likely ramifications. For Brazil's Opera Mundi, columnist Ignacio Ramonet offers a look at the conflicting national ambitions and long-held animosities that will emerge as a result of any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities - and suggests this is no time … [Read more...] about 2012: Bonfire of the Middle East Vanities (Opera Mundi, Brazil)
Live Blogging of CNN’s Republican Presidential Debate in Arizona (UPDATED)
UPDATE: Was this debate game changer? In my comments after the debate I said that it wasn't. But in reading tons of news and pundit reaction, and watching the morning cable shows, it's clear: former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum didn't have the kind of night he needed to keep his momentum going. In the end, he came across as another creature of Washington will to be a team … [Read more...] about Live Blogging of CNN’s Republican Presidential Debate in Arizona (UPDATED)
Check With TMV for Live Blogging of Tonight’s GOP Presidential Debate
TMV will offer live blogging of tonight's GOP Presidential debate that'll be aired on CNN. [GO HERE to read our extensive live blogging plus a long roundup of varying opinions on the debate. ] The posts will start shortly after 7. As usual, reactions will be my reactions as an independent voter but also on how I think the candidates are advancing or not advancing their … [Read more...] about Check With TMV for Live Blogging of Tonight’s GOP Presidential Debate
Santorum and the GOP
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THOUGHTS ON ASH WEDNESDAY
For nearly 2,000 years and starting again today, Christians spiritually begin their 40-day Lenten celebrations to prepare themselves for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ during the Easter Triduum. Ashes placed on the foreheads of believers constitute an ancient symbol reminding the faithful of their human mortality (from dust to dust). It is also the visual cue to … [Read more...] about THOUGHTS ON ASH WEDNESDAY
**UPDATED** GOP Today: Bob McDonnell’s State Rape, Baptizing the Dead, and Santorum’s Satan Squeal
**updated below** WASHINGTON - Religious conservatives, their right-wing supporters and Republican allies have finally overstepped and what played out last week was proof. The Susan G. Komen catastrophe, starring right-wing ideologue Karen Handel, now seems like foreshadowing. Gov. Chris Christie represents what's left of the small, sane segment of Republican Party … [Read more...] about **UPDATED** GOP Today: Bob McDonnell’s State Rape, Baptizing the Dead, and Santorum’s Satan Squeal
Sorry: Glenn Beck is NOT a Catholic
The question here isn't whether Glenn Beck is a delusional idiot. The real question is WHO at the Washington Post decided that this hogswallop was worthy of publication in any serious newspaper? Why we are all Catholics now By Glenn Beck Photo: Beck meets the newly elevated Cardinal Timothy Dolan in the Vatican. I am a proud member of the Church of Jesus Christ of … [Read more...] about Sorry: Glenn Beck is NOT a Catholic
Eliot Spitzer For Legalized Marijuana
On Friday night's "Real Time with Bill Maher," said Spitzer: To spend prosecutorial resources on pot is ridiculous...I'd be in favor of legalized pot. Legalizing pot is the right way to go. Recently I heard a story that some odious nation is spying on its citizens. This story from the valentine's edition of This American Life popped to mind: Last year at three high schools … [Read more...] about Eliot Spitzer For Legalized Marijuana
Further Down The Road With The Republican Presidential Clown Car
Is there any connection between Rick Santorum slipping into second place behind Mitt Romney in some Michigan pre-primary polls and the video of a speech he gave in 2008 saying that Satan is systematically destroying America that has now gone viral? One can only hope so, but the more likely case is that as they have with other presidential candidates, Santorum becomes less … [Read more...] about Further Down The Road With The Republican Presidential Clown Car
President Theologian
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That Hard Right Turn Is Why Dewey Will Not Be Defeating Truman in 2012
This column is being reposted because some readers could not leave comments. You have to go all the way back to 1948 to find an instance where a political party's strategy is predicated on a president being so weak that the voters can pretty much be ignored. That's what the Republicans did in 1948 only to see Harry Truman get re-elected and that's what they have been doing … [Read more...] about That Hard Right Turn Is Why Dewey Will Not Be Defeating Truman in 2012
A Look At The Bipolar Electorate
We've heard talk over the last few campaigns about how the US electorate seems to be a bit bipolar, swinging from one extreme to the other. But a chart I came across on wikipedia really seems to demonstrate just how wild the swings have been. In the 2006 election we saw the Democrats go from controlling 47% of the lower houses to 61% (a 14 point swing) and from 49% to 57% … [Read more...] about A Look At The Bipolar Electorate
Insanity in a Sweater Vest
Twice I have seen America on the brink of losing the boundaries of political reason that have kept us stable and free for well over two centuries—-during the McCarthy uproar of the 1950s and in the Nixon era leading to the resignation of a lawless president before he could be impeached. Rick Santorum is no McCarthy or Nixon (yet) but he has the same wild disregard for truth … [Read more...] about Insanity in a Sweater Vest
Book Review: Charyn’s ‘Johnny One-Eye’: A Rum Tale Of The American Revolution
(Republished on the occasion of the great man's 280th birthday) There has been a tsunami of books about George Washington in recent years, but none has captured a man whose birthday we once celebrated today with such wit and charm than Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution. No matter that Jerome Charyn's account of Manhattan Island during the … [Read more...] about Book Review: Charyn’s ‘Johnny One-Eye’: A Rum Tale Of The American Revolution
Suggested Theme Song for Rick Santorum’s Presidential Campaign
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum made some comments some years about Satin's threat to America. The comments were run today on The Drudge Report, so GOPers can't dismiss it as a hit job by the "liberal media" (which is actually a media that does not exist as you know if you worked in the media). Santorum later refused to disavow his past comments. Meanwhile, Rush … [Read more...] about Suggested Theme Song for Rick Santorum’s Presidential Campaign
Quote of the Day: Run Says Santorum “Not Conservative…Reactionary”
Our political Quote of the Day comes from the Washington Post's oonservative Republican blogger Jennifer Rubin, who looks at rising anti-Romney conservative Rick Santorum's medley of statements that go far beyond what any major conservative candidate on the national stage has advocated (and that includes the late Barry Goldwater): Republicans may win an election fighting … [Read more...] about Quote of the Day: Run Says Santorum “Not Conservative…Reactionary”