TweetOne of the women in my household took it back to the library, so I didn’t get far enough in Tina Fey’s Bossypants to find out what happened after she hit puberty, but that’s cool. The part I did read was pretty funny. What is not funny is the Gov. Bossypants we have over at […]
Tweet Yes, I know that was a split infinitive, but I like it that way. I was glancing over this story on the front page this morning: WASHINGTON — Business leaders and Republican politicians Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of punishing GOP states by trying to block Boeing from opening an aircraft plant in South […]
Tweet The Elephant In The Room from SCGOP on Vimeo. First, sorry about all the posts the last few days about political parties. Such as this one and this one and this one and this one and this one. It’s a disagreeable subject, and one that I usually avoid rather scrupulously. But ever since I […]
TweetRemember all the back-and-forth between the candidates for Democratic Party chair back before the convention, some of which I kept track of here (to the point that I was sort of sorry I started)? I just didn’t get those kinds of releases from the candidates for GOP chair beforehand. Oh, I saw some back-and-forth on […]
Tweet Y’all don’t seem terribly interested in this, since I didn’t get a single comment when I urged y’all to follow my Tweets from the GOP convention at the Columbia convention center Saturday. But I’m going to to ahead and give you all the Tweets here anyway. Because that WAS my report on the event. […]
Tweet I went to my very first ever state Democratic convention today. (You have to understand I spent most of my career as an editor, and going to conventions was reporters’ work.) It started at 10 a.m., but I didn’t arrive at the Carolina Coliseum until about 12:20, having had errands to run this morning. […]
TweetEither way, it’s not good for South Carolina. If you expect her to be mindful of the opinions of South Carolinians, you have to be puzzled by this behavior: Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday that a sales tax exemption Gov. Mark Sanford’s administration promised to Amazon, if granted, would destroy her economic development message. While […]
Tweet Did you see that our governor has taken a break from writing her memoirs to grade her performance in the few days she’s been in office: By Dawndy Mercer Plank – bio | email COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – Governor Nikki Haley is touring the state talking about her first 100 days in office, and […]
TweetTim Miller, who introduced himself to me via email a few days ago as the guy “likely to be doing the media work should Jon Huntsman decide to run for President when he returns from Beijing,” wanted to make sure I saw these two pieces. The first casts doubt on the viability of Mitt Romney, […]
TweetWell, that didn’t take long. Dick “Tough Guy” Harpootlian just fired back a full broadside at Phil Noble in response to his earlier shot: HARPOOTLIAN: “NOBLE DAZED AND CONFUSED” Harpootlian given over $500,000 to Dems; Noble didn’t give a dime to President Obama; Lied in his press release For immediate release: Monday, April 20, 2011 […]
TweetOn the same day that Dick Harpootlian appears on The Brad Show, his opponent in the SC Democratic Party chairman race, Phil Noble, comes out of his corner swinging at him: Statement by Phil Noble, Candidate for Chair of the SC Democratic Party Harpootlian Gave Over $15,000 to SC Republican Candidates Noble Calls on Harpootlian […]
TweetTwo Tweets bugged me, just a little, on Sunday. I respected this special sabbath by not commenting on that day itself. But since I think it offers some insight to how both the left and right alienate me (and therefore help to define this blog), I offer them now. The first was from our governor: […]
Tweet Here’s a video Nikki Haley is touting in which she tries to explain her action/inaction on the Amazon issue. As I said before, she’s sort of groping toward trying to do the right thing. She just has trouble articulating it. But I agree with her that she’s in a tough spot, and Mark Sanford […]
TweetJust got this email confirming what we’ve been hearing the last day or so: Dear Friends, I’m writing to ask you to support my candidacy for Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party. I’ve decided to run for two reasons. First, I’m outraged that Republicans like Nikki Haley and Ken Ard continue to get away […]
Tweet Or perhaps, rather than Gamecock, I should say, The Daily Sudoku & Crossword. The students at “Ray Tanner University” had a bit of fun with this one, and really did a pretty good job — with the headlines, anyway (I just picked this up a few minutes ago, and haven’t had time to critique […]
TweetThe headline in the paper over the weekend said, “S.C. Democrats: ‘We’re coming back’”: S.C. Democrats still are smarting from a brutal November that stripped them of one of their two congressional seats, their only statewide office and a handful of General Assembly seats. But, after some serious post-election number crunching, the state party contends […]
TweetHere’s a case of bad first impression… My attention was just called to this piece at TIME.com, “140 Best Twitter Feeds,” which includes such micro-literary stylists as Sarah Palin, Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Ashton Kuchner. At least, those are the ones pictured. So I was set to tee off on a rant about the […]
Tweet When she spoke to students and others at the Russell House today (and yes, the turnout for this was SRO huge, unlike at the rally yesterday), Darla Moore acted with the class you would expect. No whining or moaning or pointless lashing out. But boy, did she make her voice heard. You can watch […]
Tweet Well, that was a bust. As I Tweeted when I arrived at the “Reinstate Darla Moore” rally at the State House on this sunny day: @BradWarthen Brad Warthen The big protest over Darla Moore being unceremoniously dumped by Nikki Haley looks like a bit of a bust so far. They DID say noon, right? […]
TweetThanks to The Herald of Rock Hill for alerting us to this: FORT MILL — Two electronic road signs on S.C. 160 near the York-Lancaster county lines were apparently tampered with sometime before 4 a.m. Sunday, said Lance Cpl. Billy Elder of the Highway Patrol. One sign read “Zombies Ahead” and rotated to “Watch for Hunters.” […]