With former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice now publicly complaining about Dick Cheney’s “cheap shots” in his bullshit book about how he is the Number One Hitler of All History and everybody else can suck it, both black people from the George W. Bush Administration have condemned the evil, subhuman former vice president for not [...]
Merry Jewmas, freaks! By “freaks” I of course mean “all Wonketteers,” not just the Jews. You see, this Season of Light has given me time to reflect that each and every one of you is a disgusting excuse for a carbon-based life form, regardless of which obscure imaginary desert god you pray to on the [...]
General Warlord and “the one that the U.N. will trust about stuff” Colin Powell has more or less been in favor of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — his favorite policy ever a mere 15 to 20 years ago — for the past couple of years, now that he is a communist. Today he made [...]
Legal “gossipeuse” Jeffrey Rosen has responded to all those conservatives who are now using his Sotomayor article as the anti-Sotomayor Bible, on teevee: “This willfully misreads both my piece and the follow-up response.” Who knew! [TNR/The Plank] A new CNN poll hypothesizes that Colin Powell is more likable than Dick Cheney or Rush Limbaugh, which [...]
Have you heard about former Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gulf War Hero Colin Powell? He is a Republican! The military people, they are that way, sometimes. But here’s Powell talking about the current GOP and how it’s a very silly backyard-theater troupe with its “oh guess what let’s [...]
Super weird thing happening on Monday night: sexy simultaneous dinner parties for Joe Biden, Colin Powell and WALNUTS! himself, Sen. John Sidney McCain MCMLXLVIII! Huh? Barack Obama will stop at each one for a few seconds, offer his love for these demons, and escape just before the cutting of the cake. His appearance at the [...]
Remember when we used to have a fun weekly column called Wonk’d, in which we posted your Eye-Witness Reports of famous-for-D.C. people milling about in Washington? Well, we sort of quit doing it, during the long presidential campaign when nobody important was anywhere around D.C. But now they’re coming back! So here is a reminder [...]
McCain, addressing Queen Frostine and Lord Licorice in the chocolate village of Hershey, PA, described Obama’s energy policy as: “blah blah blah, all this.” [The Caucus] Say goodbye to your Christian Science Monitor, it is relocating permanently and exclusively to the Internet, which is a sunny suburb of Phoenix. [Marc Ambinder] And so begins the [...]
Everybody expected Colin Powell to endorse Barack Obama today, on the teevee, and guess what? Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama! Considering Powell’s professional and political service, it’s maybe not so surprising that he’d prefer the sane, thoughtful Obama to the unhinged nut McCain. After all, Powell had his happiest time in Washington working for the [...]
JESUS FOX NEWS, COULD YOU AT LEAST TRY?: “Colin Powell showed off his hip-hop moves at an ‘Africa Rising’ celebration in London Tuesday, fueling speculation that the former secretary of state is about to endorse Barack Obama for president.” Well you can’t argue with that kind of logic! [Fox News]
Well “my friends” it is Friday and this is precisely the sort of headline that will either make people click the clicky to READ MORE or just go “ugh” and vomit quietly in their shoes. Because seriously who wants to know about Ted Stevens’ long love affair with former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a [...]
OBVIOUS UPDATE: Ha ha, fucking Bill Kristol. "I do not have time to waste on Bill Kristol’s musings,” Powell told ABC News. “I am not going to the convention. I have made this clear." [ABC News]
Reliable New York Times reporter Bill Kristol tells Fox News that once-popular Republican Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, and might even be giving a speech at the DNC or introducing Obama at the Stadium Concert with the Decemberists or who knows! Very exciting, we guess? Colin Powell is famous for being [...]
Have you heard of these frightening creatures called “Obamacons”? They fold up into trucks and shoot laser beams out of their eyes, and they have terrifying names like “Chuck Hagel” and “Colin Powell.” But are they good or evil? That depends on whether or not you’re Robert Novak, who wrote a column or something about [...]
