By Larry Johnson on Jan 27, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Are you a “conservative?” If so, help us out here and explain just what that is. Newt Gingrich is furiously trying to make the case that he is a Washington outsider and a true blue conservative. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, who has never served in Washington is being portrayed by Gingrich supporters as the consummate Washington [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 26, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
He’s melting. The avalanche has started. Newt Gingrich is setting himself on fire. The list is long and will grow in the coming days. Remember Newt’s indignant put down of John King for having the audacity to ask about his 2nd ex-wife’s charge that Newt wanted an open marriage. Well, King ain’t letting him get [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 24, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
John Kiriakou is in a world of trouble for allegedly exposing the name of an undercover CIA officer and the name of a separate CIA officer, who was not undercover but was working on a classified project. He was indicted this week by Pat Fitzgerald and faces some serious jail time. The right wing, who [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 24, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Okay, I can hear you saying under your breath, “if his lips are moving he must be lying.” Welcome to State of the Union 2012. Consider this a night of fantasy and delusion. This is Washington, DC’s version of Las Vegas. There is gambling, lying, fantasies (and sex in the congressional offices with staffers). Only [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 23, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
This ain’t a matter of if, but when. Newt Gingrich will metaphorically shoot himself in the head with a 50 caliber sniper rifle. And when it happens it will dirty up the rest of the Republican field. Most Americans despise Newt Gingrich. He mistakes his grandiosity for brilliance. He thinks that talking equals action. But [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 22, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Newt is trying to do to Romney what Obama did to Hillary. Pretend to be something he ain’t and tap into the anger of his political base. Obama portrayed himself as a man of principle who was not a warmonger like Hillary. Obama was such a stand up guy, unlike that duplicitous, establishment bitch Hillary, [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 21, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Conservatives have lost their minds. Some on the left would assert that conservatives never had a brain, but that’s a topic for a different time. By rallying around Newt Gingrich and embracing the fantasy that he is a true-blue conservative then conservatives expose themselves as simpletons and rubes. Although I am getting old I have [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 20, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
I realize that most of the media coverage is focused on Newt Gingrich’s faux outrage over being asked about his ex-wife’s claims, but the most important nugget from last night’s debate came in this exchange between Newt and Rick Santorum: Newt is not cogent, he is crazy.
By Larry Johnson on Jan 19, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Historically, a sitting President presiding over a faltering economy and burgeoning budget deficit would have a snow balls chance in the Sahara desert under the August Sun of getting re-elected. But these are not normal times and Republican Obama Derangement Syndrome is promoting a level of insanity among the Republican masses that gives Obama strong [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 17, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Newt’s response to Juan Williams question about black kids getting off food stamps and going to work brought the largely white South Carolina audience to its feet. Gee, white people in South Carolina, getting excited about putting the blacks to work. Yep, color me surprised: I realize many on the right are celebrating Newt’s dominance [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 17, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Are Conservative Republicans nuts? I understand the discomfort with Mitt Romney. If you are going to win an election and govern in the State of Massachusetts then you will have to make some compromises that don’t sit well with bedrock conservatives. But now that the quest to select a candidate to run against Barack Obama [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 15, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
NY Times reports that Jon Huntsman is calling it quits and will endorse Mitt Romney: Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina primary. . . [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 14, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Obamabots are in denial. They keep insisting that the economy is doing swell, that job creation essential for an economic rebound is going full steam. I truly wish that was the case, not because I want Obama to succeed, but because of the pain this stagnating economy is inflicting on too many American families. Two [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 14, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped Up * Don’t take my word for it. Listen to Rudy Guiliani: Ignorant people on both the left and the right can revel in the nonsense of populism, but the actual task of raising capital and creating jobs sometimes goes awry. During the last four years, for example, I have invested in two [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jan 13, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped Up * Americans have grown accustomed to being lied to. Take inflation stats, for example. The Feds claim to measure inflation but exclude food and fuel from the calculation. That’s like claiming to measure one’s weight gain by excluding all weight added from eating and drinking. Food and fuel make a critical difference [...]
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