The political knife fight that was the Florida primary election season came to a close last night and the evening did not disappoint. On some levels it was predicable, other times it defied prediction. The winners in the contests for the republican nomination for U.S. Senate and the Democratic primary for governor were basically running [...]
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The curious case of the Park 51 Islamic center in lower Manhattan is a fascinating on a purely political level. For years the go to political pitch to the American people from the political right was, “Muslims are everywhere and they are trying to kill you, so vote Republican.” The Republican party and the right [...]
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Last week I wrote that the Republican party seemed to be counting on political amnesia on the part of the American electorate if they had any hope of their platform being bought. This week, President Obama echoed the same point at a high profile DNC fundraiser. Now traditionally the GOP and conservatives have been far [...]
It’s well documented that conservative expectations for the performance of the Obama administration are uniformly negative. Mr. Obama could propose tomorrow that the federal capital be renamed “Reagantown” and conservatives would find some element of fascism within the proposal. But an accurate way to gauge the successes of the Obama administration is what conservatives and [...]
There is no better example of the ridiculous state of American politics than my dear home state of Florida. This is the state mind you, that gave us the presidential recount drama of 2000. But the meritocracy that the founders imagined has died in America, and Florida is its tombstone. In both the race for [...]
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