Bachmann, 55, believes her country needs to be reclaimed from a socialist president, a gay mafia, and treasonous liberals, responsible for, among other things, robbing Americans of the freedom to choose their light bulbs.
parties and factions
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them – Phillip Adams, journalist
“We know he is a real person. He has a Facebook site.”
Yes, and so does my friend’s dog.
So what else happened in Parliament yesterday?
The media’s way too excited about the ‘meow’ incident to tell us, so Grog’s Gamut gave a summary of the day’s proceedings. Barnaby Joyce put in his regular carrying on like a pork chop time in the Senate Estimates Committee. And did you notice that despite the drop in GDP, the Terms of Trade figures are looking really good?
Today in sexism
Finance Minister Senator Penny Wong gets called ‘catty’ in Parliament by Coalition member, Senator David Bushby and addresses it head on. See the video here.
The Gingrichburg Address
Stephen Colbert gets John Lithgow to recite that baffling wafflefest Press Release of Doom from Newt Gingrich’s presidential spokesman, Rick Tyler.
Stephen Colbert Fulsome Appreciation Thread
Right now I could not love this man more. Welcome to the line that is going to haunt every Google search on your name for the rest of your life, Jon Kyl.
Quick hurrah: Hanson misses out on NSW upper house
Preferences distributed from the ALP to the Greens pushed Jeremy Buckingham (GRN) past Hanson’s initial largest share of the primary round of voting.
Abbott’s “reform” of welfare system
Is he trying to get his picture into the illustrated dictionary next to the word ‘draconian’?
Quickhit: Second Preference Groups in the NSW State election
NSW State election 2011: why neither my local Liberal candidate for the Legislative Assembly, nor the Liberal and National party candidates for the Legislative Council, will be getting any preference at all from me.
Who knew Wilde foresaw the 2011 NSW election?
The ALP, is, of course, the “unspeakable”, but they’ve had to become virtual cartoons before the LibNats have been able to look like this time they are finally going to get Labor out of government.
Hoyden About Town 