Virtual Presidential TV Debates Aren’t A New Idea

Apparently they’ve been around since the very first presidential TV debates. From my local paper’s Today In History feature: In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon held the third televised debate for their presidential campaign (Nixon was in Los Angeles , Kennedy was in New York). emphasis mine So…

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Happy Watergate Day, Republicans!

Ahhh, the good old days when political criminals were actually held to account. Charlie Pierce has a fantastic piece on the 40th anniversary of the unravelling of a President. Forty years ago, on June 17, 1972, a very ordinary middle-class guy did his job, and he did it very well….

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Verify the Recall – Another Success Story!

I recently wrote about how mediatrackers and Verify The Recall were working together to "out" people who signed the recall petition. The sole purpose of VTR was to intimidate and harass anyone who signed the petition. They have done a very good job of it even getting some media outlets…

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Walker’s Enemies List

Back in 1971, confronted by mounting domestic opposition, the Nixon White House issued a call for enemies from the staff.  Then White House Counsel John Dean (who, in recent years has taken his own party to task in a series of scathing books and articles which lay the decay of American democracy…

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Q. What is Slimier and Worse for the Environment?

The BP Oil Spill or the US Congress? The answer, according to the American People is the US Congress with an approval rating of 9%(not a typo). H/T Huffington Post:: A greater percentage of Americans approve of polygamy than the United States Congress, according a set of polls. Last month,…

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Thom Hartmann Breaks Down 40 Years of Republican Treason

And does a very thorough job of it. Now at least we have Herman Cain!

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We used to care…

When the president broke the law. They even made a movie about it. Heck it even defined David Frost’s career by getting Richard Nixon to admit that he thought he was above the law. Fast Forward to present day and we find out that the George W Bush White House,…

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JFK led the way…

With the, hopefully, soon to be Bush tax cuts for the rich about to sunset, many of our friends on the right LOVE to say why don’t you want tax cuts like JFK did? So I thought I would examine what JFK actually had to say! \ In his third…

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“Tricky Dick” talks abortion

Richard Nixon shares his thoughts on abortion: “There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.” H/T to Michael Mathias.

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