At Fox, it’s never too early to start ginning up the War on Christmas.
For reasons that are more symbolic than budgetary, Republicans are looking to cut funding to parts of Obamacare as part of any deficit reduction deal.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) tells local news station ‘I Care More About My Country Than I Do About A 20-Year-Old Tax Pledge.’
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA): “I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.”
With the experience of Justice Sotomayor’s confirmation process and the pre-process now underway for Susan Rice, it’s difficult not to conclude that congressional Republicans face particular obstacles being rational and not-awful when faced with female nominees for high office who are not white. This may sound like conclusions based on little data. But Sotomayor v. Kagan? Pretty little difference on the merits; big difference on the nature of the opposition. And something pretty similar for Rice. Read More
From TPM Reader WM on that Post oped …
The tell here is the fact that the congressional Republicans — and not just the conservative entertainment complex (what a wonderfully useful phrase) — are obsessively focused on who said what on the Sunday talkers, or whether Obama’s initial Rose Garden remarks were intentionally misleading, etc. — in other words, on the political spin, not the substance.
It seems like 21st century America is still experiencing its birth pangs in North Carolina.
Bob Dumas, it seems is the local right-wing shock jock in Raleigh, North Carolina. And coming off the election, he and his show G105 “Showgram” decided it would be a good idea to have a special float at the Saturday’s Raleigh WRAL Christmas Parade. Read More
From Black Friday watch …
One shopper was cutting in line at the Sears when he got in a dispute with several other shoppers and punched one man in the face. The man he punched pulled a gun on him — though reports vary on whether he pointed the gun at his assailant or at the ground. One witness said the crowd scattered when the gun was pulled and that the assailant hid behind a refrigerator before fleeing the store.
Hiding behind the steeply discounted fridge takes it to the level of minor masterpiece.
Guns brandished, threatened stabbings and just a lot of out of control people all brought together here in our special Black Friday Crazy Round Up.