They will grade political candidates on their contributions, or lack thereof, to "gun safety".
Indeed, our last post on PolitiFact, a venture of The St .Petersburg Times that grades political statements on their validity, came while the campaign was still just simmering.
They will grade political candidates on their contributions, or lack thereof, to "gun safety". The grades will hinge, in large part, on any financial ties between politicians and firearm-advocacy groups like the N.R.A.
The Senate Republicans' maneuver to stage a hurried, red-meat floor debate for President Bush's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is nothing more than low-grade political mischief.
What should have been a moment of proud accomplishment for the Senate, right up there with the passage of Social Security and the first civil rights bills, was instead a travesty of low-grade political theater -- angry rhetoric and backroom deals.
Maybe I'm just projecting, but it seems to me that a lot of Democrats and liberals have been suffering from a kind of low-grade political flu, an intermittent psychic headache that's equal parts helplessness, hopelessness, loneliness, and listlessness.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin January 22 , 2014Reading through the indictment of Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia, and his wife, Maureen, one gets the same feeling as when hearing about a particularly low-grade political sex scandal — the kind marked by petty desperation and lacking in romance.
But as he went through the scandal piece by piece, he couldn't deny the "weapons-grade political fodder" that is Solyndra's bankruptcy.
Boy, did Goldberg ever have that crowd laughing up a storm; the founding editor of National Review Online opened with jokes about Elizabeth Warren's "fake Indian" heritage, then transitioned to some ninth-grade political theory on the rival approaches of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Retaliation must be threatened and carried out, retaliation graded upward from political and diplomatic to economic to military attack against terrorist targets in the League of Terror states.
