Tag Archives: Karl Rove

The most important lesson we should all learn from the 2012 election

by on November 13, 2012 in Economy, Family & Marriage, Freedom & Privacy, Health, History, LGBT, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, Race & Gender, Religion, Science & Technology, United States

“You idiot! Get back in there at once and sell, sell!” As we set about the process of compiling and canonizing the 2012 election post-mortem, one thing we keep hearing over and over is how utterly stunned the Romney camp was at their loss. Republicans across the board apparently expected victory – the conservative punditry seemed […]

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Conservative groups running issue ads with corporate money: how to hang this albatross around the GOP's neck

by on September 20, 2010 in Politics, Law & Government, United States

I read via the AP today that the two conservative groups founded by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, have raked in so much money from donors that this midterm election will likely be the most expensive yet. According to the AP, the two groups combined have raised about $32 million […]

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Nota Bene #110: WEHT SWK?

by on March 31, 2010 in Features, Generations, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Music & Popular Culture, Nota Bene

“In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” Who said it?

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Exclusive: Ideology trumps experience in Federal Election Commissioner’s rise

by on March 31, 2010 in Journalism, Politics, Law & Government

Caroline Hunter’s confirmation to the Election Assistance Commission in February 2007 came near the end of the agency’s controversial handling of two internally contentious commissioned studies — one on voter fraud and the other on voter identification laws. Pressure to fill the four-member bipartisan commission was high: the election season was heating up.

Emails released to Congress about the two studies, reviewed by Raw Story, reveal that Hunter’s selection was not only well-timed but also succeeded in installing an ideologically partisan insider on the commission.

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Shootout at the DC Corral

by on March 3, 2010 in Politics, Law & Government

The independently minded political animal always wrestles with times of transition, and the changeover from the Bush to Obama regimes has been worse than most. During the Dubya years it was easy to identify the enemy and to hate him with a blinding passion. Sweet Jesus, George II and his sidekick, The Dick Cheney, played […]

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Hip-hop jumps the shark

by on May 11, 2009 in Music & Popular Culture, Race & Gender

Specifically, hip-hop jumps the great white shark. 3OH!3 breaks into Top 10 Boulder-based duo hits #9 on Billboard charts A local hip-hop duo whose members hail from Boulder have broken into the top 10 on the charts. Boulder natives Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte make up 3OH!3, and their single “Don’t Trust Me,” this week […]

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Joe Nacchio, American Motherfucking Hero

by on March 1, 2009 in Business & Finance, Crime & Corruption, Education, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government

Dr. Slammy offered up some thoughts the other day on Joe Nacchio, the prison-bound former CEO of Qwest. For the good doctor, the case is both public and personal. For my part, I don’t know Joe, but do take some satisfaction in the knowledge that he’s going to Hell. And yes, I do have insider […]

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Rove lies: Fannie, Freddie caused housing bubble

by on January 8, 2009 in Business & Finance, Economy, Politics, Law & Government

Karl Rove today wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “Mythmaking is in full swing as the Bush administration prepares to leave town.” He claims that the Bush Administration tried to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that these two government sponsored enterprises were responsible for the housing bubble. Further, Rove says “[t]he […]

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Book race 2006: Bush versus Rove

by on December 26, 2008 in Arts & Literature

In Bush Is a Book Lover at the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove chronicles his three-year-long Great American Reading Race with President Bush. He maintains that in the fiercest year of the competition, 2006, he defeated Bush, 110 books to 95. “The president,” Rove writes, “lamely insisted he’d lost because he’d been busy as Leader […]

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Nota Bene #47

by on November 9, 2008 in Features, Nota Bene, Politics, Law & Government, Religion, Sports, War & Security, World

Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): John Heileman, New York magazine, The Next New Deal: “Personally, I think the depth of the Obama realignment is being underestimated,” says the Republican media savant Stuart Stevens, who helped elect Bush twice. “They have basically invented their own party that is compatible with the […]

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Can you relate?

by on October 21, 2008 in Politics, Law & Government

by Alexi Koltowicz As the story goes, G.W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 because enough people wanted to “have a beer with him.” Bush was a reformed alcoholic, so the idea was metaphorical. What people meant was that they felt that they could relate to G.W. Bush. Of course few of us really could. […]

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America's Negro Cracker Problem: none of us are free

by on October 21, 2008 in American Culture, Education, Freedom & Privacy, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, Race & Gender, Religion, United States, War & Security

Part two in a series. There’s a rising tide on the rivers of blood But if the answer isn’t violence, neither is your silence – Pop Will Eat Itself, “Ich Bin Ein Auslander” When all is said and done, nothing communicates the racism and knee-buckling stupidity of all-too-wide swaths of our nation quite like video. […]

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America's Negro Cracker Problem: Ich bin ein Auslander

by on October 20, 2008 in American Culture, Education, Freedom & Privacy, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, Race & Gender, Religion, United States, War & Security

Part one in a series. Listen to the victim, abused by the system The basis is racist, you know that we must face this In 1991 Pop Will Eat Itself produced one of the most damning comments on racism in society in the history of popular music. “Ich Bin Ein Auslander” was specifically aimed at […]

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Nota Bene #44

by on October 13, 2008 in American Culture, Features, Nota Bene, Politics, Law & Government, Sports, World

Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): From a McClatchy blog, on something called the Reverse Bradley Effect: “. . . a new study today says that polls may be UNDERestimating Barack Obama’s support by 3 percent to 4 percent nationally [in] a reversal of the so-called Bradley effect, in which support […]

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New McCain-Palin poster

by on September 4, 2008 in Politics, Law & Government

by Lee Camp I just made this great new McCain/Palin poster. Pass it around.

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Beware celebrity negroes raising your gas prices for Satan!

by on August 5, 2008 in Business & Finance, Crime & Corruption, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, Race & Gender

I’m beginning to get a bad feeling about Campaign ’08. A nasty, sinking feeling that we’re a’fixin’ to spend the next three months obliterating ever record for dirty, dishonest, unethical, immoral electioneering in the history of American politics. I don’t say this casually. I remember the Bush I “Willie Horton” ad. I lived through multiple […]

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