Thoroughly deluded Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has invited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to join her Tea Party Caucus. Meanwhile, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, responds to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s comments about race and the Tea Party…. [ VIDEO ]
Glenn Beck has repeatedly used violent rhetoric in referring to the passage of health care reform. After the House passed the Senate’s version of reform legislation, Beck stated that while the “battle was lost, the war is not over,” and after President Obama signed the bill, he suggested that Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi supported “pick[ing] up a gun” to advance “revolution.” [READ MORE ]
Despite the concerns expressed last year by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., that Americorps would evolve into re-education camps for young Americans and that inner city education charities are part of a secret plan to trick Ameircans into living in urban tenements, her son, Harrison, has signed on with Americorps’ Teach for America.
Bateman: Newt Gingrich vs. healthcare — The former speaker of the House defends Sarah Palin’s Facebook page, and thinks healthcare reform will lead to euthanasia, even though it’s nowhere in the bill. Scott Bateman responds.
Hannity offers plethora of town hall falsehoods to claim Dems are the ones “calling names”
Asserting that “the Democrats” are the ones “yelling here and calling names,” Sean Hannity claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called health care town hall protesters “Nazis”; that Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wrote “that they are un-American”; and that President Obama is “telling the American people to shut up.” In fact, none of these claims is true. [ READ MORE ]
Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to LIE! — Sunday’s New York Times reports that for eight years Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information from Congress about an as-yet-unidentified counter-terrorism program.
Mr. Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned of its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two intelligence committees about it in separate closed sessions the next day. [ READ MORE ]
That didn’t prevent “faithful” daughter Liz Cheney, from trying to deflect swings from the left-wing political spectrum, by pointing a finger at speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had previously taken in a lot of heat for speaking the truth: The CIA lies routinely to the United States Congress.
From MediaMatters: This week, Fox News’ Jonathan Hunt aptly described how the GOP’s political tactics are successfully framing the torture debate around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi instead of the Bush administration.
Hunt’s comments come against the background of a media landscape still very much obsessed with Pelosi’s criticism of the CIA, in which reports oftentimes fail miserably to live up to basic journalistic standards. [ READ MORE ]
Despite the concerns expressed last year by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., that Americorps would evolve into re-education camps for young Americans and that inner city education charities are part of a secret plan to trick Ameircans into living in urban tenements, her son, Harrison, has signed on with Americorps’ Teach for America.
