Senate Ethics Report: Sen. Coburn Up to His Eyeballs in Ensign Scandal
May 13, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)—Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the right-wing evangelical lawmaker and former roomie of disgraced former Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) at the notorious C-Street residence, was less than truthful in his testimony to the Senate Ethics Committee. The Committee released a scathing, and shocking report yesterday filled with salacious details of Ensign’s efforts to cover up a sleazy affair with Cindy Hampton, a campaign staffer and wife of his best friend and close political aide Doug Hampton. The report of the “Preliminary Inquiry Into the Matter of Senator John E. Ensign,” found evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Ensign, including obstruction of justice, making false and misleading statements and serious violations of federal law. The report, which has been forwarded to the Department of Justice recommending a criminal investigation, shows that Coburn’s testimony minimizing his role in the cover up of Ensign’s sex scandal, is directly contradicted by other witnesses. Coburn was in fact a key player and middleman between Ensign and Doug Hampton during negotiations to pay off the Hamptons with a settlement in the millions, in which officials of the C-Street were also heavily involved. Coburn now faces his own Senate investigation for his unseemly and possibly criminal actions. Read more
Trump: It’s ‘Bad for the Country’ to Criticize ‘a Very Successful Person’ Like Me (Video)
May 11, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)—Reality TV star and all around braggart Donald Trump, has spent the last several weeks peddling vile race-baiting falsehoods attacking the legitimacy of our first black president. After President Obama neatly trumped the “Carnival Barker,” by releasing his long-form birth certificate from Hawaii, Trump was shown to be the utter fool that he is. His racist birtherism, and questioning of Obama’s ability to get into Harvard on his own, no longer served as catnip for cable news, except on Fox News that is. As he makes the necessary moves to extricate himself from his fake presidential campaign, Trump phoned in to Fox News’ On the Record last night to whine about the media having the gall to criticize the very “successful person” of Donald Trump; the king of deal makers. Trump actually said “it’s very bad for the country,” to bash “accomplished” media whores staging fake presidential campaigns to gain publicity for a reality TV show. No, really. Read more
A Whole Lot of Gun-Toting Going On in Texas
May 10, 2011
(ChattahBox US News)—Apparently, the most pressing issue in Texas these days is the tyrannical assault on Second Amendment freedoms. Secessionist Gov. Rick Perry (R) and his crew of right-wing Republicans controlling the state legislature, won’t be happy until kindergartners have the right to pack heat. To that end, on Monday, the Texas Senate passed a measure allowing college students and teachers to carry concealed weapons inside college classrooms and dormitories. Get ready for some wild shoot ‘em up frat parties. There’s more. Another bill would permit lawmakers and other officials to tote concealed handguns in places that currently prohibit guns, such as churches and hospitals. It’s all guns, all the time in Texas. Read more
Joe Scarborough Doesn’t Know What the Hell He’s Talking About (Video)
May 2, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)—It’s getting harder and harder to watch the insufferable Joe Scarborough lately, as he fawns all over loudmouth bully New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), and the very “brave” and “courageous” Ayn Rand fan boy Rep. Paul Ryan (R-MN). But his tone-deaf remarks this morning, hours after President Obama announced 9/11 terrorist Osama bin Laden was dead, were particularly galling. At a time when all of America, red America and blue America, are united with a feeling of pride and patriotism, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough decided to take pot shots at Obama and the hippie liberals. He remarked that Obama’s Democratic base “did not want” Obama to hunt down and kill bin Laden. He wasn’t done. Scarborough went on to damn Obama with feint praise, saying the President only succeeded because he went “against his own ideological leanings.” Hey Joe Scarborough, get a clue. Obama campaigned vigorously on his resolve to capture or kill bin Laden. “We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaida. That has to be our biggest national security priority,” said Obama in 2008. And Democrats and Independents gave then-Sen. Barack Obama a landslide victory. Read more
Bachmann’s Energy Policy: ‘Hamsters Running on a Cage’
April 30, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)—Far right-wing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) joined a group of potential GOP rivals in New Hampshire Friday, to make her case to Republican primary tea party voters. The “Presidential Summit on Spending & Job Creation” was organized by Americans for Prosperity, a libertarian group founded and partly funded by oil billionaire David Koch. The event was sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute. Bachmann and the rest of the weak GOP field, predictably pandered to their Big Oil benefactors, with “drill, baby drill” nonsense, more corporate tax cuts, and the repeal of federal regulations, so Koch industries can pollute our air and water unfettered, while raking in more obscene profits. But Bachmann, a birther, who has attacked President Obama as “anti-American,” for running a “gangster government,” provided some of the best wingnuttery of the evening, calling for the privatization of polio vaccines and the harvesting of every conceivable energy source, including “Hamsters running on a cage.” Read more
The ‘Trump Doctrine’ Revealed: ‘Listen You Mother F***ers’
April 29, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)—Sounding like a cross between Tony Soprano and a third-rate Las Vegas warm up act at a strip club, Donald Trump dropped a bunch of F-bombs, during a speech before an adoring crowd of Republicans last night. Appearing at the Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas, Trump vilified American politicians, as “blood-suckers” and slammed the Obama administration, as “weak, pathetic and incompetent.” Elected officials were called “stupid people,” unlike the “genius” Trump. The most hilarious, cringe-inducing moments of his 40-minute speech came when he introduced his blueprint for handling trade and foreign policy issues, that he dubbed the “Trump Doctrine” What is the Trump Doctrine exactly? It’s very simple. Just tell the Chinese and OPEC to go fuck themselves. Read more
CBS’ Bob Schieffer Speaks the Truth: Trump Peddles ‘Racism’ (Video)
April 28, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)–It’s not often we hear the plain truth from our mainstream journalists in this age of “balanced” media, in which each side of an issue is given equal weight. But some issues, such as blatant racism, bigotry and hate can’t be given equal credence. There is no “other side.” But mealy-mouthed politicians and cable news channels chasing ratings, don’t make those distinctions. Not so with CBS’ Bob Schieffer. He called Donald Trump’s vile attacks on President Obama’s educational background, for what it is: ugly racism. Read more
Obama: Enough With the GOP Birther ‘Sideshows and Carnival Barkers’ (Video)
April 27, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)—President Obama, known to right-wing birther conspiracy theorists (racists who can’t accept the fact that our President is black), as that illegitimate Kenyan usurper Manchurian Candidate out to destroy America, gave a brief press conference today, after releasing his long-form birth certificate. Obviously peeved and annoyed, at both the media and lunatic Republican birthers, for continuing to promote the discredited zombie lie that he wasn’t born in America, Obama told the assembled White House reporters that our country has too many problems to become “distracted” with crazy conspiracy theories. “We do not have time for this kind of silliness,” Obama said. “We’ve got better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do. We got big problems to solve, and I’m confident we can solve them, but we’re going to have to focus on them, not on this,” said Obama. And Obama took direct aim at reality TV buffoon Donald Trump, for peddling lies about his background and citizenship, saying “We’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.” Read more
What The Hell’s Wrong With Donald Trump?
April 26, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)—Donald Trump jumped the shark with his birther lies today and switched course to blatant racism. The sideshow clown and buffoonish reality TV star is now offensively suggesting that President Obama hustled his way into the ivy league schools of Columbia and Harvard by some nefarious means, typical of an illegitimate Kenyan usurper. The Donald told the Associated Press that he “heard” from somebody that Obama was a poor student. He then made the insinuation that Obama, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and become president of the law review, did not get into the ivies on his own merits. In other words, that black guy weaseled his way into elite schools, taking spots away from more-deserving rich white kids, aided by Affirmative Action. How low will Donald Trump go? And what the hell is wrong with him? Read more
America Not Ready for Racially Insensitive Redneck for President: Haley Barbour Bows Out
April 26, 2011
(ChattahBox Political News)—Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), can now proudly display his confederate flag signed by Jefferson Davis and sport a KKK license plate in peace. The Deep Southern “Boss Hog” character with a controversial history of making racially insensitive statements, announced yesterday he would not be running for president. He said, he doesn’t have the “absolute fire in the belly” needed for a grueling bid for the White House. Political realities also played a huge role in his decision. Barbour was trailing badly in the polls. It seems America is not ready to embrace, as presidential material, a corpulent Southern redneck holding controversial racial views. Who knew? Read more