Hillary Clinton Intends to Fill Half Of Her Cabinet With Women
If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, she plans to model gender equality by giving women equal representation in the Cabinet.
Here Is Your Open Thread for Yet Another Democratic Presidential Debate
The Never-ending Story a.k.a. the 2016 Presidential Campaign continues apace with tonight’s Democratic debate between candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Hosted by CNN, Sanders and Clinton will face off in Flint, Michigan at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.
Bill Clinton Has No Campaign Trail Chill, And That Could Hurt Hillary
This is the second time former president Bill Clinton is hitting the campaign trail on the behalf of his wife, but is his election commentary garbling Hillary’s message?
Hillary Clinton Campaigns in New Hampshire, Corrals Press With Rope
Hillary Clinton spent her Fourth of July weekend campaigning in New Hampshire, and the press trailing her spent it being corralled and restricted by sturdy rope.
Senator Jeff Klein to Google Images: 'susan del percio hot'
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question,” wrote the poet E.E. cummings. Which is, I’m sure, what New York senator Jeff Klein was reciting repeatedly when
he
his “female, junior communications staffer” pocket tweeted a link to a Google Image search for ‘susan del percio hot’—from her phone, of…
The Upcoming GOOPBAMA Dinner: a Fanciful Fundraiser Fan Fic
Next month, Her Grace the Duchess of Goop Gwyneth Paltrow will be hosting a fundraiser for the Democratic Party. Special guest: Barack Obama. Oh, Lord, to be a fly on those no-doubt very thoroughly scrubbed walls!
N.C. Democratic Chairman Compares GOP Efforts to Rape, Regrets Nothing
There are so many ways to describe something unpleasant happening that don’t involve alluding to sexual assault that one might think politicians, in their ongoing effort to ingratiate themselves to the voting public, would just leave the word “rape” out of their vocabulary when they’re not, you know, talking about…
Giffords Lip-Syncs, Is Thus Eyed For Senate Run
Gabrielle Giffords' extraordinary recovery has achieved new milestones: Speaking full sentences and mouthing the words to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby." It's clearly time to talk about her running for Senate next year now that Jon Kyl has announced retirement.
Assassination, Impeachment and Prison Sentences
- Raymond Hunter Geisel (no relation to the awesomest Geisel ever) was arrested in Florida today for threatening to assassinate Barack Obama. One nutjob down, too many to go. [Politico]
- A President is going to get impeached! No, not ours. Pakistan's own Uncle Pervy. [HuffPo]
- Salim Hamdan, convicted earlier this week of…
