Seymour Hersh put it out there last night, in a matter-of-fact way in response to a question at a University of Minnesota forum: Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an "executive ass...

South Carolina slaveholder Katon Dawson was this close to becoming the new RNC chairman, but the yankees rallied ’round Maryland black person Michael Steele, who has since brought disgrace to the white party by talking about hip hop and websites. THIS WON’T STAND. Dawson is now orchestra...

The Contra Costa Republican Party’s financial situation is even worse than recently reported. The Central Committee’s most recent PUBLIC financial report to the State of California shows a negative balance of $8.97. This after that organization’s PUBLIC Federal report showed unpaid...

When Michael Steele, the hapless chairman of the Republican Party, lost his bearings and called Rush Limbaugh's style ugly and incendiary, everyone knew it was the truth. But it was a perfect example of an inconvenient truth. The right wing has long used ugly, incendiary speech the way baseball play...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Republican Party is becoming a cartoon. Where to start? Bobby Jindal: "I'm certainly not nearly as good of a speaker as Obama." Good OF a speaker? How about not as good at eighth-grade grammar either. It's embarrassing. Sarah Palin? Billing the taxpayers for her kids to travel ...

Of Course, You Can’t Believe A Thing The Senate Republicans Say | QandO hey yelled, they screamed, they hopped up and down on one leg and told us how bad this 410 billion dollar spending bill was and how it was “business as usual’ (something they should certainly know about) that increased the...

Marcy Wheeler: Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent C...

I am hearing a lot of carping lately about how Obama is going to raise taxes and is driving spending through the roof and tanking the economy. As Bill Maher recently said if “McCain had won the economy would be fine because Sarah Palin would still be shopping.”  Katie bar the door; the...

Very good point by Steve Benen: Let me get this straight: $650,000 for beaver management is outrageous, even if it helps prevent extensive property damage. $200,000 for a gang-tattoo-removal program is ridiculous, even if it helps prevent crime. $951,500 for the Oregon Solar Highway is absurd, even ...

Guess who’s still talking (and telling the GOP to turn “Hard a’Port!”)? Yep, it’s Obama Voter (and New York Times house “conservative”) David Brooks, who uses his formerly-coveted space in the Times today to tell Republicans that actually returning to a plat...