Category Archives: senate
President Don Rickles
President Rickles insulted members of his audience during last night’s state of the union speech. He criticized the Supreme Court, while some justices sat directly in front of him, for its ruling in favor of free speech in the Citizens United v. FEC case. Here’s a link to the Washington Post with a video clip of the moment, including Alito’s response. Here’s Jack Tapper at ABC giving a historian’s perspective.
Coming to Terms
The Populist in Chief once again struck just the right note by telling Diane Sawyer that he would rather do a good job and only serve one term than have the dim-witted electorate reward him with a second term for doing a mediocre job. Here’s a Wash Post story with video.
