SC Senator Jim DeMint Denies He Said What He Said While Watching Himself Say It

On “This Week,” South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint was played audio of him saying, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo; it will break him.”  Terry Moran asked him about it. (via Think Progress)

MORAN: So did you break him? And is that really how Americans want you to behave here in Washington, break the president? […]

DEMINT: I did not want this to be the President’s Waterloo. But pushing through a massive government take over of our health care system was certainly not a good idea. … We’ve been as …

David Plouffe’s Cure For Democrats

President Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe is going back to Team Obama.  He had asked for some time after the campaign to take care of his family, but he’s been asked to come back sooner than expected.  He offers his take on what Democrats need to do in Sunday’s WaPo. Plouffe says Democrats got “a resoundng wake-up call” in Massachusetts, and now need to do what they were sent to Washington to do:

– Pass a meaningful health insurance reform package without delay…if we do not pass it, the GOP will continue attacking the plan as if …

Paul Harvey Submtted Advance Scripts To J. Edgar Hoover

The late radio icon Paul Harvey was BFF with J. Edgar Hoover, and often gave him advance copies of his scripts for comment and approval.

The news is contained in nearly 1,400 pages of FBI files, released to The Washington Post in response to a one-year-old Freedom of Information Act request. The trove supplies new details about how America’s No. 1 broadcaster came to befriend America’s No. 1 G-man.

The records underscore that the men shared deeply conservative convictions and a hatred of communism. And Harvey’s vast audience was of intense interest to the image-obsessed Hoover.

Harvey, a staunch conservative, …

Little Green Footballs’s Charles Johnson And The Right-Wing Flame War

Charles Johnson is a true original, his knowledge of code enabling him to be one of the first in the blogosphere, and his fierce independence angering those who initially embraced him. It’s this same independence that makes him eminently readable, and much more interesting than most of the web’s all-too-predictable presences.  His split with the most poisonous denizens of the right is profiled in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Johnson fact-checks his profile in true LGF form.

A recent LA Times piece examined the Johnson’s evolution as a blogger and the reactions it engendered, with Johnson remarking, …

SC Lt. Gov: The Needy Are Like Stray Animals That Breed And Don’t Think Beyond That

Maybe it’s a good thing that Mark Sanford didn’t resign as governor of South Carolina.  Andre Bauer, the state’s second-in-command, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, says giving the needy government assistance is “like feeding stray animals.”  You know, like non-sentient beings who don’t know anything beyond eating and reproducing. (h/t Think Progress)

“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will …

Scott Brown’s Daughter Ayla Voted For John Kerry

Ayla Brown told New England Cable News that she is an independent who votes for members of both parties. When told that John Kerry remarked that he’d heard Brown’s daughter was “a closet supporter,” Ayla responded, “How did he know that?”

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Prop 8 Trial: The Reenactment

The Supreme Court has stopped a San Francisco federal court from broadcasting the Proposition 8 trial on YouTube, so two California men are re-enacting it (via Mediaite).  Co-counsels David Boies and Ted Olson, unlikely political bedfellows, seek to overturn the referendum that prohibits same-sex marriage, claiming that the Bill of Rights guarantees equality regardless of what a referendum might say.

Knowing people were clamoring to see expert testimony by economic experts and anti-gay ministers, John Ireland and John Ainsworth are giving the trial the “let’s put on a show” treatment and reenacting the trial in a University of Southern …

Martha Coakley Explains Her Loss

Massachusetts Attorney General, who lost her Senate bid to Scott Brown, discussed her loss with the Boston Globe.

Ms. Coakley — who lost to Scott Brown 52 percent to 47 percent — said her opponent was able to tap into the electorate’s anger and did a better job of appearing accessible to voters. And she acknowledged an attempt at humor that fell flat — what she called a “not very well executed” joke asserting that former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling was a Yankee fan.

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“The truth is that, over that time period, with several major holidays, you …

OMG! Look Out! The Desperate Left Is Assaulting Your Values!

Thank goodness RightWingWatch is warning us that the Family Research Council is warning us that “The Left is preparing a desperate 120-day assault on your values to appease its culture-of-death…”  Thank God we have patriotic God-fearing, America-loving organizations like the FRC, which “is preparing to meet that blitz head-on.”  This sounds so dire! And that is because the FRC is raising money. How? By raising fear.  Why, if you don’t give, here’s what the left will be doing:

* Silencing faith at work by passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which could force Christian employers to hire people whose open …

On Friday’s Radio Show…

• With Democrats lacking a Senate supermajority, is it still possible for Congress to pass meaningful health care reform? Alan says Yes.

• Alan confronts the founder of the new whites-only basketball league, Don “Moose” Lewis.

• It’s the Friday Night Free-For-All!…