Joe's Road Trip 2011Joe's Road Trip
Greetings, Swampfolk. This is your resident road trip impresaria. As last year, we have made up some bumper stickers (and regular stickers) to commemorate Joe’s journey across the States. (We also have some vintage swag from last …
Let’s take bets. How long will Michele Bachmann wait before making her voice heard during Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party Express debate? In the Sept. 7 debate, Bachmann didn’t speak until the 14-minute mark. And when she did speak, she didn’t go on the offensive against Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the candidate winning over the …
In a report called “What It Means To Be American,” two think tanks surveyed Americans on their attitudes toward their fellow citizens. While the results suggest that people embrace the idea of diversity, they also show a country that is sensitive to religious and ethnic divisions—particularly when beliefs are broken down along party lines.
“I would encourage you,” Rush Limbaugh wrote to President Obama in 2009, “not to allow your office to be misused to advance a political vendetta against certain broadcasters whose opinions are not shared by many in your party.” That, Limbaugh said, was what the President would be doing if he supported FCC rules regarding …
Mitt Romney recently made news when he decided to bulldoze his oceanfront home in California and rebuild it as an 11,000 square foot, two-story behemoth. TIME looks at the abodes of some of the GOPers trying to make the jump …
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Before the Sarah Palin bio-pic The Undefeated, conservative group Citizens United–yes, the same one–produced a film called Fire From the Heartland, a mixture of infomercial and documentary about a “new generation” of conservative women. When it was originally advertised in the fall of 2010, …
For politicians, naming a favorite book is often a chance to borrow some clout. But it can also put them in the sticky spot of having to defend ideas they’d rather not endorse. While she was a Minnesota state senator, Michele Bachmann posted a list of nine favorite works on her website. Here’s a look at her must-reads and what each …
It seems every week there is a story about Michele Bachmann that leads to a battle over whether said story was sexist. Her migraines. The money she spends on makeup. A mention of her being photogenic. Bachmann’s gender is not …
The press gallery in the House of Representatives is a balcony facing the great semi-circle of seats. Reporters can scrutinize the faces of politicians as they make their arguments. They can also see large digital clocks on the adjacent walls that tally up the votes and count down the seconds of legislative business. One such clock …
An allegation that Oregon Rep. David Wu engaged in sexual misconduct with the teenage daughter of a friend has forced the Democrat out of next year’s election and renewed questions about his fitness for office. An Oregon paper broke news of the allegation on Friday, and by Sunday night, a senior Democratic official said the seven-term …
Two Republican presidential candidates have committed to “The Marriage Vow”—a campaign pledge created by The Family Leader, a Iowa Christian organization run by former gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats—and managed to endorse a bizarre assessment of slavery in the process. The four-page document, designed as a promise to …
In a new ad set to run statewide in Iowa, Michele Bachmann concentrates on the fiscal-conservative leg of her stool. Still in the early courting stages with Hawkeye voters, she regurgitates her biography first (Iowa-born, tax lawyer, mom), and then she speaks out against the bailouts, against the stimulus and against raising the debt …
According to Gallup, about 70% of Republicans know who Rep. Michele Bachmann is. As her presidential bid continues, people will also start to recognize a certain silver-haired man in her retinue: her husband, Marcus Bachmann. Last Tuesday, both the New York Times and the Washington Post ran front page-photos of the congresswoman …
