vote-smart-button.jpg Environmental and energy issues became one of the central issues of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. While the economy itself took center stage, energy issues were right behind it, being pushed by the insufferable chant of “Drill baby drill.” In the four years that have followed, the U.S. has
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DeSmogBlog: Media Helps Sell The Myth Of “Job Killing Regulations”
unemployment-numbers.jpg Repeat something often enough, and it becomes true. That phrase has been a common theme among think tanks and politicians for decades. And sadly, there is a lot of truth behind that statement. But the claim itself relies on the belief that people will not seek out the truth
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Wedge politics, not religious freedom, behind Danielle Smith’s refusal to apologize
Police officers walk in Saturday’s Pride Parade. Below: Danielle Smith, Alan Hunsperger. Since she won’t apologize for remarks made by one of her candidates during the recent election campaign that many Albertans thought were offensive and anti-gay, Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith found herself trapped this week between a rock
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Wedge politics, not religious freedom, behind Danielle Smith’s refusal to apologize
Police officers walk in Saturday’s Pride Parade. Below: Danielle Smith, Alan Hunsperger. Since she won’t apologize for remarks made by one of her candidates during the recent election campaign that many Albertans thought were offensive and anti-gay, Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith found herself trapped this week between a rock
Continue readingImpolitical: Fun political video
“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said. Whatever it was.” What he said, for the record, that he is standing by even though he doesn’t remember it, is here. Go, Mittster!
Continue readingLeDaro: George W. Bush endorses Mitt Romney
Rev. Al Sharpton of MSNBC gives a good depiction of the Dubya’s endorsement.
Continue readingLeDaro: Who is Mitt Romney?
Mitt Romney’s favourite game is flip-flops and he constantly changes his position on numerous issues that it is hard to tell who this guy is. The best description of him is that he is a phoney.
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney’s Accomplishments
Mitt Romney said in 2008 that “let Detroit go bankrupt” and that there should not be any bail-out. However, Obama went for the bail-out which was very successful. Now Romney is taking full credit for this success and he says that he was actually for the bail-out.Rev. Al Sharpton of
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: President Obama and Marriage Equality
First thing’s first. Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage yesterday should be celebrated. On the heels of similar pronouncements by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, this marks the first time that a sitting US President has taken such a bold stance in favour of marriage
Continue readingThe Equivocator: President Obama Evolves on Marriage-Equality. Thankfully, Nobody Pressed “B.”
Mitt Romney reacts–if you wonder why he doesn’t try and slam President Obama for changing his position, it’s probably because he doesn’t believe in evolution and he would lose any “flip flopping” debate. Someone needs to re-mix President Obama’s statement on marriage-equality like Will.I.Am did in 2008. Maybe Stephen Sondheim
Continue readingLeDaro: Is Dalai Lama an alien?
Briony Westinghouse of The Huffington Post thinks so. Dalai Lama: “There are great mysteries hiding in the clouds of the Himalayas. It is suggested the extreme environment is inviting to extraterrestrials that utilize the high mountaintops as discrete landing pads. Whether the 14th Dalai Lama is from Earth or
Continue readingWinning at all costs, the Mittpocalypse in 2012
Mitt Romney is so flippant nowadays and his campaign jockeys so clueless as to what to tell him to say in public that it’s painstaking to watch the campaign unfold. Every single time this man opens his mouth, he either makes a ridiculous statement, or he backtracks on his statement
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney a Bishop?
“By most accounts, Mitt Romney, as a Mormon bishop, was a good listener, a measured thinker and an innovative manager who considered various positions before making decisions. By most accounts, Mitt Romney, as a Mormon bishop, was a good listener, a measured thinker and an innovative manager who considered various
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney on the campaign trail
Let the flip-flops begin!
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney’s followers are responding
Sheeps and more sheeps!
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney addresses his supporters!
Who else do you think will support him? The guy flips flops so frequently that no one knows his real platform.
Continue readingLeDaro: Ted Nugent: The Dickhead
Ted Nugent, the rocker, told NRA members that he will either be “dead or in jail” next year if President Obama is re-elected. What did he mean by that? Now the guy is being investigated by the secret service and he should be. Mitt Romney sought Nugent’s endorsement and got
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Mitterminator
Seeking to dispel accusations of pathological flip-flopping, “Mitt” Romney unveiled plans to use a time machine to kill earlier versions of himself who believed in universal health care and gay rights. Now that he’s the presumptive Republican nominee, I guess “Mitt” will also have to exterminate earlier iterations of himself
Continue readingbastard.logic: Etch-A-Mitt Shakes Things Up Again: Welfare Moms Better Off With “The Dignity of Work”
Via Ryan Grim (ICYMI): Apparently Ann Romney forgot to mention to Willard that moms who don’t work outside the home do THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD!!!1 and already have ample dignity, thankyouverymuchyousupersexistsoand… oh, wait — Mittens meant those moms — y’know, the ones who can’t afford dignity. Sorry. They gotsta
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney’s Daily Routine
Flip flops, of course.
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