January 31, 2012 – Tuesday greetings from the Gawker Political Desk! We have some news: This will be the last post for its main political writer, me. I am leaving to fulfill my lifelong dream: More »

January 30, 2012 – Snoop Dogg has posted this photo of Ron Paul with the text "SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY" overlaid and written "because i said so" in the caption, which may or may not be an endorsement, but if it is an endorsement then Ron Paul is not racist. [via Buzzfeed]

January 30, 2012 – Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said something that many would interpret as sort of insane on television yesterday, comparing President Obama to the Italian cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino, who ran away like a little pussy while all those people on his boat were dying. More »

January 30, 2012 – The Muppets are liberal. No, they are communists. This, according to the Fox Business Network's Eric Bolling, who went on a spiel last month decrying the latest Muppet film's choice of villain — More »

January 30, 2012 – Here's former political person Sarah Palin continuing her weird quest to endorse Newt Gingrich without really endorsing him, telling weekend Fox News muppet Jeanine Pirro that Republicans should vote for Newt Gingrich now to "rage against the machine" and "annoy a liberal." Goodness, really: More »

January 27, 2012 – The 10th President of the United States, John Tyler, was born in 1790 and still has two living grandchildren. And one of them, 84-year-old Harrison Tyler — More »

January 27, 2012 – Gov. Rick Perry, who is now less popular in Texas than Barack Obama following his failed presidential run, is cheering himself up by going out and playing with a big fucking gun. More »

January 27, 2012 – The Washington Post is out with an excellent update on the history of the racist, homophobic, survivalist, nutcase newspapers that were published under his name in the 80s and 90s, which comes awfully close to confirming the most likely version of the story: More »

January 27, 2012 – God, Newt Gingrich blew it so badly in last night's debate. After lobbying for several days to allow debate audiences to cheer again, and landing Wolf Blitzer, the most destructible sally of a debate moderator in world history, he simply allowed Mitt Romney to take advantage of the crowd and win... More »

January 26, 2012 – How would Texans greet their three-term governor, their invincible hero, their great culture warrior, Rick Perry, upon return from his humiliating presidential run?

January 26, 2012 – Here's yet another reason that a viable Newt Gingrich presidential candidacy is in America's best comedic interests: It brings out his fellow scumbag crooks that he's worked with over the years to pledge their loyalty for his Restoration. More »

January 26, 2012 – Retiring Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank will marry his longtime partner Jim Ready, a handyman from Maine. Congratulations. Ready is known for being occasionally hilarious, like when he called a couple of drunk, harassing ophthalmologists "bitchy" on an airplane.

January 26, 2012 – Except for that one clip of the two teenage girls fighting out back in the circle pit while the mother encourages them on, this one from a Newt Gingrich rally is about as good as videos of annoying Floridians being annoying (at length) come.

January 26, 2012 – Perhaps you have heard the news about this, the most destabilizing political scandal to hit American politics since Teapot Dome: President Obama and Arizona Gov. More »

January 25, 2012 – Newt Gingrich was campaigning on Florida's Space Coast today when he decided, fuck it, I'm pandering: "By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American." Sure, why not. More »

January 25, 2012 – Barack Obama's State of the Union speech scored at an eight-grade readability level, according to the University of Minnesota's Smart Politics blog. His three SOTUs all rank among the six lowest scoring ones ever, and are on average "more than two grades lower than the 10.7 grade average for the...

January 25, 2012 – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has now hinted twice that she has some super lethal dirt on Newt Gingrich that would prevent him from ever becoming President of the United States. More »

January 25, 2012 – Our old pal to the South, retired Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, has been watching these Republican debates, including the most recent one in which the candidates talked about Fidel Castro going to Hell. He has not been impressed, writing in an editorial that "the selection of a Republican candidate... More »

January 25, 2012 – Marc Cenedella, a New York businessman who started an online job search site and now thinks he should be in the United States Senate, has apologized for all of the misogynist and otherwise stupid posts that were written on a website called "The personal blog of Marc Cenedella." Cenedella claims... More »

January 24, 2012 – Tonight we witnessed President Obama outline all the proposals that will be blocked by Congress in the election year 2012. Drill for everything. Create jobs for the humans who want jobs. More »