Etymology: From the slang expression “Having one’s head up one’s ass,” thus, wearing the ass as a hat. The term is extended to people who are clueless and bumbling.
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A leading Democratic consultant who serves in an official capacity with the Democratic National Committee has come out in favor of primary challenges to Democratic lawmakers who help kill the president’s health care bill.
Donna Brazile, who is the Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the DNC and a top-ranking [...]
Traveling to the Cleveland area to make yet another major speech for passing health care reform into law, President Barack Obama chose as a travel companion one very skeptical lawmaker.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is from the area where Obama is speaking. That would normally make his appearance on Air Force One [...]
Closeted gay politicians like California State Senator Roy Ashburn need to stop lying to the public—and themselves.
There is something so depressing, and at the same time predictably hypocritical, about the recent drunk-driving arrest of California State Senator Roy Ashburn that resulted in his confession that he is gay. The 55-year-old Republican [...]
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd’s decision to break off negotiations with Republicans and go it alone on financial regulatory reform legislation came as a shock to some reformers.
“To be honest, a lot of us were surprised,” said one consumer advocate closely involved in financial reform efforts. “It seemed like a [...]
The Associated Press raised a lot of eyebrows today with this piece, implying that negotiations over the abortion provision in the Senate health care bill had fallen apart.
“House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in President Barack Obama’s health care bill and will try to pass the [...]
President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans’ families and survivors of Haiti’s earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said “do extraordinary work.”
Obama is giving a total of $750,000 to six groups that help kids go to college. Fisher [...]
Republican state Sen. Roy Ashburn said Monday he is gay, ending days of speculation that began after his arrest last week for investigation of driving under the influence.
Ashburn, who consistently voted against gay rights measures during his 14 years in statewide office, came out in an interview with KERN radio in Bakersfield, the area he [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” [...]
Sarah Palin came up with a new defense for her conspicuous use of hand notes over the weekend: God did it, too.
When the media first challenged her on the need to write her core beliefs on her hand to remember them, “I didn’t really had a good answer, as so often — [...]
Rep. Parker Griffith (R-AL), who switched from the Democrats to the GOP in December, will be delivering tomorrow’s weekly Republican YouTube address — presumably from the standpoint of being a medical doctor who is opposing the Dems on health care. As we’ve previously noted, there is a huge irony in [...]
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