It is not news that there are violent whack jobs on the fringe of the Republican Party. The last Presidential campaign gave us plenty of evidence, and we don’t really need Alexandra Pelosi’s film to tell us not only that there are extremist whack jobs out there on the Republican fringe, ...

New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich specializes in spunky profiles of politicians -- hostile profiles of conservatives, flattering ones of liberals. His latest, on controversial Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, "Republicans Looking for a Reliever in Kentucky," fell safely into the former c...

I’m thinking we need to change the name from “Whack Job of the Week.” They are all whack jobs. Maybe a different name every week, or something like that. For Bunning, a Hall of Fame baseball player and barely adequate human, I’m thinking “Bobblehead” works. I̵...

I just can’t get over this New York Times poll this morning. Obama is getting the backing of the people of America in far higher numbers than just those who voted for him, and by far they are optimistic about the stimulus. How do they favor the Repubs and their “do nothing” and ...

Every once in a while you’ve got to stop and smell the manure the Republicans are spreading and just wonder if anyone on their side believes any of their crap. It’s insane. Here’s a party that has fought for every single tax cut since Reagan was in office. We’re talking just ...

I suppose someone might have seen this coming back in the fall, when Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson was passed over the nomination as John McCain’s VP nominee in favor of Sarah Palin. Well they were both in TV news at one point, and they are both of huge value to the NRA, but it seems this cat ...

David Vitter is the current Senator from Louisiana, a man caught with a prostitution problem that involved, well, diapers. It seems there are people out there who are trying to draft a challenger, a porn star challenger, so at least there’d be some sexual honesty, I suppose. They’ve come...

The Republican postion int he United States Senate got worse this year, as we celebrate, I’m sure. Today it looks as if Norm Coleman took the first step towards reality when he signed up as a paid advisor for the Republican Jewish Coalition, and that’s further good news. But this story i...

Surely it should have dawned on Senator John Cornyn Tuesday that there’s a new regime in town and that Barack Hussein Obama will not tolerate torture. Surely he hard this section in Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our saf...

Kit Bond is retiring after he completes his term ending in 2010. That’s the word from RawStory. Bond has had a remakable career which includes becoming the youngest Governor in Missouri history back in 1972. I was surprised to learn that at 37 years old Bond was on the short list to run as Vic...