Politics

CNN reports: The clip is the latest salvo in the Bush-Trump rivalry, which has often been marked by bitter and personal exchanges between the two prominent Republican presidential candidates. On Friday, Trump suggested Bush’s brother, former President George W. Bush, shared in the blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks because they occurred during his presidency. Saturday’s round centered on a …

Yesterday Donald Trump appeared on Fox News where he told host Chris Wallace that his immigration policy would have stopped 9/11 from happening. Via Mediaite: After Wallace asked how he would’ve done things differently, Trump promised that since he is “extremely, extremely tough on immigration,” there’s no way the hijackers would’ve gotten anywhere near the planes with him in charge. …

Via Wonkette: At a campaign appearance Wednesday, Jeb Bush struggled to remember a thing he said he’d never forget, only this time it had nothing to do with how his brother kept us safe from terrorism apart from the time he didn’t. No, this time it was the unforgettable loss of one of those space shuttles that we lost, that …

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are statistically deadlocked in New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary, a new poll says. Clinton leads Sanders by two points in the Granite State, according to the Boston Globe/Suffolk University survey. Clinton has 37 percent support following a strong performance in last Tuesday’s inaugural Democratic presidential debate. Sanders, meanwhile, receives 35 …

Earlier this year Rand Paul pushed through a Kentucky rule change that allows him to simultaneously run for the presidency and for the Senate. With his White House bid in the polling cellar, top GOP officials are now openly saying that it’s time for Paul to drop his presidential campaign and focus on saving his Senate seat. Via Talking Points …

Yesterday Donald Trump implied that Dubya is at least partially responsible for the 9/11 attacks, spurring Jeb Bush to call Trump “pathetic.” So naturally the always presidential-acting Trump channeled Pee-Wee Herman to respond.

Mediaite has the recap: Maher seemed to all but officially endorse Bernie Sanders in this one appearance; just this week, Maher’s pal Seth MacFarlane proudly introduced Sanders in Los Angeles, so the pressure to do so may continue to rise for the progressive Maher. Tonight he told Sanders in no uncertain terms, “I want to see you get the nomination”. …

The Daily Caller thinks it has a “gotcha” with a photo of Malia Obama possibly playing beer pong during a tour of Brown University. They write: Malia Obama was visiting Brown University in Rhode Island for a campus tour last weekend, and while she was there, the 17-year-old finally proved that there’s at least one cool person in the Obama …

Donald Trump today implied that President George W. Bush was at least partially responsible for 9/11. Via Talking Points Memo: “He was President,” Trump said. “Blame him, or don’t blame him, but he was President. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.” Trump asserted that unlike the George W. Bush, he would be “a leader” who could command …

CNBC has agreed to Donald Trump’s demands regarding the format and length of the next GOP debate after Trump went on a tirade in which he threatened to boycott the event. As you can see, this news has been met with cartwheels over at Trump World Headquarters.

A Spanish-language Hillary Clinton banner unveiled in San Antonio is drawing comparisons to the artwork used for the musical Evita.  NPR reports: New posters featuring Hillary Clinton seem to be trying to make her “high flying, adored” with voters. The new images appeared at a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas, where Clinton wooed Latino voters on Thursday. But according …

Via Alan Colmes: During his very short-lived presidential campaign, Scott Walker repeatedly attacked Hillary Clinton for conducting government business through her personal email address. Given that there were tens of thousands of pages of emails showing that Walker did the same thing as Milwaukee County Executive, the hypocrisy was enough to make one’s hair hurt. It turns out that even …

RNC chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday that the GOP will be “cooked as a party for quite awhile” if they fail to win the White House next year. Via the Washington Examiner: “Our job as a national party is to elect Republicans, and it generally means House, Senate, presidential,” Priebus said. “We’re viewed at in a presidential year as the …

“I’ll be very frank here. It was rigged in terms of who was going to get the time on the floor by the way that Anderson Cooper was selecting people to supposedly respond to someone else. I even turned around to Bernie Sanders at one point and said, ‘Bernie, say my name, will you say my name?’ In that kind …

Disgraced former GOP Rep. Aaron Schock has paid out $900,000 in legal fees over just the last quarter and still owes another $750K. Politico reports: Schock (R-Ill.), who resigned after a series of POLITICO stories detailed allegations of misspending in his government and campaign operations, owes Jones Day $746,985. Schock has spent almost $2.7 million on lawyers. He is the …

Donald Trump says he will not appear at the next GOP debate unless CNBC bows to his demands for changes in the format. Politico reports: A Republican National Committee conference call to discuss plans for the Oct. 28 GOP debate with top advisers to the presidential campaigns spiraled into chaos on Thursday afternoon as Donald Trump threatened to pull out …

Celebrity endorsements for Bernie Sanders have been relatively sparse, but last night Seth MacFarlane effusively praised Sanders in an opening speech to a rally in Los Angeles. Variety recaps: MacFarlane said that he was particularly impressed by a response that Sanders gave at Tuesday night’s debate. Asked what was the country’s greatest national security threat, Sanders answered climate change. “Senator …

CNN reports: President Barack Obama announced Thursday that U.S. forces will remain in Afghanistan at their current levels throughout much of 2016, yet another delay in their scheduled withdrawal and an acknowledgment that America’s longest war won’t be concluded on his watch. Obama campaigned as the president who would end two wars, and Thursday’s decision was a major political reversal …

Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Haster will plead guilty to charges that arose after he lied to the FBI about the nature of large cash withdrawals he was allegedly using as payoffs to keep a decades-old sexual misconduct accusation from becoming public. NBC News reports: The politician, who was not in the Chicago federal courtroom where the agreement was announced …

Closeted Fox News host Shepard Smith this afternoon ripped into NBC for handing Donald Trump an SNL hosting gig after breaking all business ties with Trump over the Mexican rapists debacle. Mediaite recaps the clip below: Smith mock-applauded NBC for standing on principle and cutting all ties to Trump and deciding they don’t want him on NBC anymore… at least …