Category: Liar liar pants on fire!

I’ve written a little bit about about the sexism of some on the right, but I’m heartened to see there’s at least one Republican lawmaker who doesn’t think it’s OK to compare Nancy Pelosi to Pussy Galore. In a statement to POLITICO on Saturday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah called…

Earlier today, news broke that the state’s budget deficit – previously estimated at just over 5 billion dollars for the biennium – has exploded to up to $6.5 billion. In the wake of that news, Governor Jim Doyle announced his plans to close the new budget deficit with layoffs and…

Yesterday I wrote about Mark Belling’s promise to vote for Jim Doyle in 2010 if Mine That Bird won the Kentucky Derby. Lo and behold, Mine That Bird did win the Kentucky Derby, but not surprisingly, Belling has changed his promise, now adding conditions that must be met in order…

At least one, as noted by capper over at Cognitive Dissidence. One of Walker’s campaign promises included opposition to development on the County Grounds: Oppose development of northeast quadrant of County Grounds for anything other than state forest. Seems pretty cut and dry, doesn’t it? There’s not much wiggle room…

Last week, Cory Liebmann from Eye on Wisconsin wrote about the launch of the MacIver Institute, a new right-wing organization, and Cory also made mention of former Republican Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen’s ties to MacIver. Cory noted Bruce Murphy from Milwaukee Magazine had been reporting for weeks that Jensen was…

Back on January 9, 2008, Sen. John McCain, fresh off his New Hampshire primary victory, sat for an interview, during which he stated a clear desire to raise the level of political dialogue in America: “I’m going to raise the level of political dialog in America,” McCain, R-Ariz., said at…

When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was chosen to be Sen. John McCain’s running mate, Republicans spent an awful lot of time touting her record as a Washington outsider and as a reformer in her home state. Now there’s no denying Palin’s a Washington outsider, but there’s a little problem with…

How stupid does Sen. John McCain think people are? I think it’s a question that’s worth asking, and I’d love to hear Sen. McCain’s answer. After all, Sen. McCain must think people are stupid, given how he continues to lie and flip-flop with impunity, as if people are either stupid,…

Only this time it’s not Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac; it’s AIG, one of the world’s largest insurance companies. Total cost to American taxpayers? Up to 85 billion dollars. And let’s not forget this latest government-funded bailout comes fresh on the heels of a horrific start to the week that…

Take a good long look at this picture: Does that look like a man you can trust? Personally, that doesn’t look like someone I’d trust but apparently Republican presidential nominee John McCain disagrees, as he trusted a story first reported by Carl Cameron of Faux News, who alleged that Democrats…