Today, special counsel Robert Mueller released his first indictments in the ongoing Russia scandal, beginning with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner, Rick Gates, as well as the confirmation that former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopolous ...read more
In the South Park episode "Cartmanland," Eric Cartman buys a theme park so he can keep everybody else out. His scheme succeeds for a while, but fails when he realizes that, to pay for park maintenance, he has to let in more people, setting off a chain reaction by which everyone ...read more
The Trumpists have been trying to backstop their lie that Hillary started the birthers by saying that Patti Solis Doyle "even ADMITTED" as much when she said the campaign fired ONE VOLUNTEER who forwarded an email that WAS NOT ABOUT Obama's birthplace. Or, as fat fucking liar ...read more
On Monday, presumptive Republican Party nominee for president Donald Trump announced that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie would head the candidate's White House transition team, should Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in November.“Governor Christie is an extremely knowledgeable ...read more
On Saturday night, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio unwittingly revealed the default Republican position on every policy ranging from healthcare to taxes and the environment. What is that response? In one word: Obama In a surprisingly brutal takedown, Chris Christie called Rubio ...read more
It's the morning after Fox News held what has to be an unprecedented Republican primary debate that was missing the party's frontrunner, and you're going to hear a lot of analysis today making the cute claim that Donald Trump won the debate simply by virtue of the shadow his ...read more
If New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie hasn't worn out his welcome in his home state already, today may have finally done the trick. Already feeling the heat over his decision to return to New Hampshire even as his home state recovers from one ...read more
If current polls are any indication, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's presidential campaign appears to be on political life-support. So the question that should be asked is how did the perceived frontrunner for the republican nomination in 2013 become such a marginalized ...read more
New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential kitten-hanging-from-a-branch motivational poster Chris Christie took a beating on Sunday morning at the hands of CNN's Jake Tapper. On the morning after Christie was shamed into returning to New Jersey during one of the worst ...read more
Over the weekend, President Obama announced plans to take executive action on gun policy, and met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to explore the authorities he might have at his disposal. One such action involves extending background checks to so-called "private sales," which ...read more
Tonight is the night! CNN is hosting the last Republican primary debate of the year, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, we will have embeddable clips from the main debate, in near real-time. With Donald Trump ...read more
Welcome to our coverage of the third Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC, moderated by Carl Quintanilla of Squawk on the Street, Becky Quick from Squawk Box, and chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. As before, we will have debate clips in near-real time, posted in ...read more
Here's a little appetizer to get you ready for Wednesday night's third Republican presidential debate. With all the serious issues facing our nation, the Republican candidates gathered at the University of Colorado Boulder, the site of tonight's debate, to whine about their ...read more
Now that the Republicans' Sad Trombone Debate is over, it's time for the main event, this time with more Carly Fiorina! All of the candidates in the main debate have telegraphed their desire to take on frontrunner Donald Trump, which means we can expect to see lots of painfully ...read more
Congrats to Salon's Simon Maloy for this gem: This is somewhat surprising given Christie's red blooded conservative policy proposals that include locking up weed smokers and tracking immigrants like Fed Ex packages, but then he's basically running against a roided out version of ...read more
The blurt culture in American culture continues to metastasize as Donald Trump ascends closer and closer to the GOP presidential nomination. By the way, that lede sentence? In a better world, it should've been relegated to a satirical dystopian movie about 2015. It shouldn't be ...read more
After cramming 7 minutes of entertainment into 80 minutes of kiddie-table debate Thursday afternoon, the main event is finally here: the first official 2016 Republican presidential candidates' debate. Frontrunner Donald Trump faces off against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, ...read more
Fox News has announced the line-up for the Republican presidential debate this Thursday, and it promises to be an epic display of political savagery. Fox picked the top 10 candidates by taking the average of the five most recent national polls, then relegated the losers to a a ...read more
Thanks to Donald Trump and Trump-fueled ridiculousness like Ted Cruz's not-machine-gun "machine gun bacon," not much attention is being paid to the second-biggest mouth in the Republican primary field. If Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) has any luck at all, no one at this ...read more
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens when you are eating breakfast and Chris Christie decides to talk about his sex life."I’m a Catholic, but I’ve used birth control," said Christie at a diner in New Hampshire to a group of shell shocked voters. "And not just the rhythm ...read more
It is amazing that in 2015 we are still arguing about the legality of a plant that has not killed anyone in human history and has been scientifically proven to contain borderline miraculous healing properties. However the obese, sugar and fat addicted bully-boy cum Presidential ...read more
Future former Republican presidential candidate and current New Jersey Governor Chris Christie must still think he's going to run for president (which is adorable) because he keeps making mouth-noises about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During an interview on CNBC's ...read more
Stuffing as many people into a compressed space as possible is a long, storied and stupid American tradition, from the 1950s phone booth cramming craze to the ever-declining size of airline seats. Today's Republicans are already applying the same principle to their ongoing search ...read more
Other than an unfortunate incident that involved me accidentally ingesting half a bag of weed infused Chex Mix and going into an alternate dimension for 48 hours (a long story for another time), I've never really used Marijuana as it just doesn't do all that much for me. However, ...read more
One of the many ways in which New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidick Chris Christie set tongues wagging at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was to try and obscure his RINO stripes with the tough-guy act that's wearing thinner than a ...read more
Bridgegate, the notorious 2013 incident in which New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and senior administration staffers allegedly caused a three-day traffic nightmare on the George Washington Bridge as revenge against a political opponent, is still unfolding. But Christie's goose ...read more
With the anti-vaccine movement rearing its ugly head at the most magical place on Earth last week, President Obama took Sunday's pre-Super Bowl interview to make a stand on the question of whether parents should keep this whole disease eradication thing going, and in the process, ...read more
The GOP rush to slaughter in 2016 began in earnest this weekend at the Iowa Freedom Summit. From alleged Bridgegate conspirator Chris Christie to monosyllabic weekend cowboy Rick Perry, a bevy of unelectable candidates came to audition for the campaign season before an audience ...read more
Now that former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has been yanked out of political circulation with his two-year prison sentence, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) can officially ascend to the post of the Most Corrupt Governor In America. Seriously, mark your calendars because Sunday's ...read more
One of the more frustrating topics we cover here is the National Rifle Association's remarkable ability to convince Republican lawmakers to routinely vote against the will of their own supporters. Most recently, the NRA has financially coerced Republicans to vote against expanded ...read more
The saga of Nurse Kaci Hickox, the Doctors Without Borders nurse who returned from fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone a week ago only to be locked in a New Jersey quarantine tent and deported back to Maine, took some weirdly dramatic turns yesterday. Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) ...read more
Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) took time out from imprisoning heroic nurses against their will to celebrate the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy by screaming at and eye-murdering a constituent in Belmar yesterday. Liberal SuperPAC American Bridge 21st Century captured the ...read more
An Ebola drama that began to play out on Friday when nurse Kaci Hickox was quarantined/imprisoned in New Jersey ended Monday with Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) letting her go under pressure from the White House, and Hickox's lawyer. Over the weekend, Hickox became a national ...read more
While he's no Mitt Romney, Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) may still have some designs on running for president in 2016, and if that happens, he's just cut the Democratic nominee's first campaign ad. While Republicans have long opposed increases to the minimum wage, they're not ...read more
If you want to know who has the edge right now in the unofficial race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, just take a look at who's being attacked by other presumptive candidates and party establishment types. Right now, that whipping boy is Rand Paul, who's not ...read more
Last Wednesday, Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) vetoed a bill that would have limited ammunition magazines to a ten-round capacity, a bill that passed the duly elected New Jersey legislature in May, but which he waited until the eve of the July 4 weekend getaway day to act on. ...read more
One of the worst types of human beings is someone who has such a grandiose sense of self-importance, they can't help but let you know about it, which is why this video is so infuriating. Here we have an entitled, douchey, drunk day-drinker, identified as 20-year-old NYU student ...read more
Since we've entered the cigarette-break phase of the Bridgegate scandal, there hasn't been much attention paid to Gov. Chris Christie's (R-N.J.) political woes lately, but the guv's Tonight Show appearance Thursday night began with the promise of some hard-edged comedic ribbing ...read more
Happy Wednesday! I got nothing...it's Wednesday. Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. The Chris Christie Scandal Just Got Worse Remember Chris Christie? Yeah, he's still in a lot of trouble. 2. There's A New Scam To Steal Your Gmail Info Warning: If you receive an ...read more
Welcome back to Monday, and your return to the grind of the work-week. Here are a couple of headlines and internet goodies to get your through the day.1. Streamlined Netflix has just struck a big deal with Comcast. It'll mean faster service for Comcast subscribers, but it may ...read more
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, won’t win the election for President in 2016. No matter how enthusiastic the cheerleading gets from the Morning Joe team, Chris Christie’s chances at securing the Republican nomination are severely diminished. Turns out, there’s a limit to just ...read more
Jon Stewart reacted to new accusations that Chris Christie's office used Sandy aid as political leverage last night, slamming Christie for what he called "Some old-school New Jersey corruption". In the hilarious segment, Stewart also made fun of Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer who ...read more
Photo: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images Happy MLK day. Hopefully you're reading this from the comfort of your home, because by all accounts you should have the day off today. Regardless, here are some headlines and assorted internet nonsense to kill some time.1. Bad to Worse The ...read more
Whoops! You might recall how, during last week's epic press conference, Chris Christie said the following about David Wildstein, one of the masterminds behind the George Washington Bridge plot:“I have had no contact with David Wildstein in a long time, a long time, well before ...read more
Over the weekend, a former New Jersey-based journalist named Brian Murphy appeared on Up with Steve Kornacki and postulated a reason why the Chris Christie administration orchestrated a conspiracy to close toll lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge, causing a massive ...read more
It's Monday and so it's back to the grind with you, gerbils. Here's a couple of headlines and some assorted stuff from around the internet to get you through the day.1. Gold Rush12 Years a Slave and American Hustle cleaned up at last night's Golden Globes, while on the TV side, ...read more
With the release of hundreds of documents by the state of New Jersey in the Chris Christie bridge scandal, the extent of the massive cover-up of the lane closures is beginning to take shape. Here's the latest, via The Washington Post: --The emails confirm that the so-called ...read more
The work environment in the airline industry is one of barely controlled chaos. On the best day, things are merely hectic. On the worst, it’s utter hell and it keeps piling up. You just have to hang on and tell yourself your shift will end at some point. They can’t keep you ...read more
Since the beginning of the Chris Christie bridge scandal, and especially since the release of Christie staffer emails on Wednesday, there's been a major unanswered question: How would closing the toll lanes at the George Washington Bridge possibly harm Fort Lee Mayor Mark ...read more
A couple of nights ago in the immediate aftermath of the Christie bridge scandal breaking wide open, Rachel Maddow did a really good interview with Shawn Boburg. If you don't know Boburg's name off the top of your head, that's okay; I doubt he'd fret about it. But you should be ...read more