Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Christmas elf banned from the North Pole for his virulent racism, asserted today that his response to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Russian contacts was “correct.” He articulated his defense in a letter released by the Department of Justice.
What is the logical time for a president to start campaigning for his reelection? The answer is probably not four weeks into the first term, especially when information is leaking faster than a sinking ship and the administration actually is a sinking ship helmed by white supremacists who are taking decades of…
Katrina Pierson is truly a woman for our time, the spokeswoman that our era deserves. Trump’s chief apologist is uniquely adept at switching the narrative on a moment’s notice, confusing helpless CNN anchors media with her verbal tricks, and inventing facts when the moment calls for it. Indeed, some have described…
Today, the Trump campaign announced the hire of Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster who touts herself as an expert on the “gender gap.” In a statement, the campaign said that Conway will serve as senior advisor to campaign chair, Paul Manafort. The campaign noted that Conway is “widely regarded as an expert on…
Eileen Myles is known for her poetry, her novels, her art journalism. For a time in the early ‘90s, she was also known for being the only “openly-female” candidate in a presidential race filled with men. In 1991, she launched a write-in campaign from the East Village that quickly spiraled into a project of national…
Katy Perry, Mistress of the Left Shark, took charge of Hillary Clinton’s Instagram account today in advance of her campaign rally concert in Iowa.
Lincoln Chafee, a gentle, smiling bird you’d rather not be killing for dinner but you have to, that’s nature, has raised just over $15,000 for his Democratic presidential campaign. Of that sum, $4,100 came from his own wallet, while $8,300 was collected from a selection of major donors as numerous as toes on your…
Bernie Sanders has notably caught heavy criticism from activists in the Black Lives Matter movement in recent weeks. Talib Kweli went on Real Time with Bill Maher and explained why the backlash is warranted.
If you needed any further proof that the modern Republican Party is a sarlacc pit where good campaign strategy goes to be slowly digested in the bowels of old white dudes for thousands of years, then this latest bit of age-snarking should probably do the trick: GOP strategists are trying very hard to remind potential…
As we're sure you are aware by now, back in 1993 the Romneys strapped the family dog Seamus to the roof of their car for a 12-hour drive, thus beginning a dark night of the soul for the poor Irish Setter, who pooped himself in abject fear.
Scandal from the Santorum camp: the bevested holy roller with less self awareness than a dog licking its balls during a dinner party has downplayed his past — and that past could destroy his reputation as someone with almost completely repugnant views. It seems that throughout his political career, while comparing gay…
Former Senator Rick Santorum cancelled his Presidential campaign stops in Florida yesterday after his 3-year-old daughter Bella was hospitalized with pneumonia. Now, he's saying that he may return to the campaign trail after Bella's prognosis suddenly started looking more positive. She may even be able to check out of…
In an attempt to add some more artfully wayward locks of hair to his polished pol image, former Massachusetts governor and current Iowa tourist Mitt Romney has taken making small talk with the locals he meets while on the campaign trail. Unfortunately, Romney must be used to having his undocumented lawn servants make…
Herman Cain's alleged mistress Ginger White took to Good Morning America this morning, where George Stephanopoulos tried to ask her a bunch of gotcha questions and White responded by successfully avoiding saying one interesting thing. How is it that she's so boring? Her name's Ginger! She was flown all around the…
The man with the hair we're supposed to ignore and the woman with the eyes we can't ignore have teamed up to have a phone conversation that we wish we could ignore. Donand Trump joined Michele Bachmann on a phone call to promote the Minnesota Congresswoman's Presidential campaign on Monday, and, as you might expect,…
GOP Presidential hopeful Herman Cain says that "From the standpoint of our conservative beliefs and values, Sarah Palin and I are probably identical." Except even Palin hasn't made the biggest WTF political commercial this side of Mike Gravel.
I am not a squeamish person. At all. But, I frankly think that the phrase "attach a paintbrush to her underwear" and the name Hilary Clinton need to be much, much further apart that Robin Givhan placed them in her Sunday article about Hil and feminist performance art. It is, however, a pretty fierce indictment of…
