LiveBlog for Friday, January 27, 2012

• Sexy Liberal John Fugelsang joins us from the New York Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT for all three hours of Fridays With Fugelsang

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the racial code language and rhetoric used by the GOP in this election

• Political Strategist David Bender calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about last night’s debate and Tuesday’s Florida Primaries

• Republican presidential hopefuls headed into the homestretch of the critical Florida primary campaign Friday after a debate last night that analysts believe gave Mitt Romney a boost over fellow front-runner Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich leads Mitt Romney among Republicans, but he is the weakest of the Republican candidates tested against President Obama, according to an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday evening.

Mitt Romney is revising his federal ethics forms to report more than a half dozen offshore holdings, including income from a multi-million dollar Swiss bank account that was not disclosed last year.

• Retiring Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank (D) will marry his longtime partner Jim Ready of Maine. An aide to the congressman says the wedding will be in his home state.

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idkwti 5 pts

i have a strong feeling that Mitten Romney will have Marco Rubio for his running mate , and that will seal the election for the republicans. the hispanic vote will go heavy for Rubio( yes he is Cuban) but the vote will go that way. It was said that the black vote went to Obama, but that was not all true, the majority black vote went democratic as always. not just for Barrack Obama. There are plenty of older black voters that did not and will not vote for the president for a lot of reasons. i still hear from older family members that they fear for his life, they also say things like (that is a Muslim name)or the usual," it just not time for a black president:" . Yes all the above are sadly true. A detail that is never discussed in the media is how (BIG C) conservative older black people are when it comes to finance, law and order, and budgets, among other things. I pray that the president is re-elected with a mandate to govern for the next four years, but i don't see it happening. please , please, please tell me i am wrong.

juliet bravo 26 pts

Have a great weekend, everybuddy!

Klassie 20 pts

Redford calling Bill-O a barking dog - I got a problem with that. Bye Mama and Mooks everywhere!

juliet bravo 26 pts

John Fugelsang can buy Art in Chicag-y an Alka-Seltzer on the rocks.

Klassie 20 pts

Fuge totally rocks. He's the mainstream Sexy Liberal who infiltrates the corporate media. He got props from Mike Malloy last night too.

juliet bravo 26 pts

Jan Brewer and Edgar Winter - has anyone seen the two of them at the same place at the same time, huh?

Klassie 20 pts

Ode To A Saddlebag - the Jan Brewer anthem. Can't wait.

Klassie 20 pts

Neut has chin-envy of Jan Brewer

juliet bravo 26 pts

So Mitt bought himself an audience and applause - surprise, surprise

Miss G 6 pts

juliet bravo Why, he has to. All Republicans hate him. Without his money he probably wouldn't get anything.

juliet bravo 26 pts

Clarissa Smith Sadly, true. He's the poster child for everything that's wrong with electoral politics. He doesn't stand for anything, because his father got in trouble for actually having a spine (and being right - the ultimate sin).

Miss G 6 pts

juliet bravo Maybe he thinks he can change back to having a spine as soon as he's president. Won't work. If you once start spineless, you'll have to go on spineless. Depressing idea.

juliet bravo 26 pts

LUNAtic - see what he did there...

Klassie 20 pts

juliet bravo To the moon, Calista! Neut wants his own planet so he can colonize it with women.

juliet bravo 26 pts

Hiya, Mike! Silly work. Have a good one!

Klassie 20 pts

Santorum under the skin - not good.

Miss G 6 pts

Klassie Why not skin him? I did it to many teabaggers.

Klassie 20 pts

Clarissa Smith uh, infection?

Miss G 6 pts

Klassie Just disinfect him with holy water.

MikeTheLiberal 6 pts

Sorry I contributed nothing this morning. I've been working non-stop.

See you next Thursday!

Dannybob 6 pts

I so wish Momma and the mooks would hang up on stinky old asshole Art from the south side. He's another of these racist, small-minded Archie Bunker types that should have died off a long time ago.

juliet bravo 26 pts

By jibbers, it's Art, by cracky!

John Fugelsang is on fire - "we still blame George Lucas for Jar-Jar"

Klassie 20 pts

Art, get your old-man head out of your cracky!

Somebody on the liveblog 7 pts

Klassie Now there's a ticket Squeezy can get behind!

Klassie 20 pts

he could be their muscle! (for protection that is)

juliet bravo 26 pts

Mike in Raleigh deserves combat pay for parodying that Governor Walker ditty. "Janfinger" is awesome!

Somebody on the liveblog 7 pts

"we cranked up the pipes and tubes" - hah!

KAK1958 6 pts

The bottom line is that Jan Brewer lied. She said the meeting wasn't cordial in her book after she was on air at the time saying it was a cordial meeting. Whether she lied then or lied in her book, she's still a liar.

Klassie 20 pts

Mike in Raleigh should win a Grammy! Janfinger. lolol

Klassie 20 pts

Good morning! Road-flare Jan is tap-dancing now. Ha ha.

juliet bravo 26 pts

Yes, we do get trolls from time to time. They don't stay too long. We scare them off with our erudite discussions, allusions to classical literature and fart jokes.

Somebody on the liveblog 7 pts

juliet bravo And lectures on economics and the Constitution.

Miss G 6 pts

juliet bravo On Thom Hartmann's blog Ron Paul fans must feel pretty cozy. I came in there and said to myself, "It can't be." But I sound awfully earnest over there. I already think Obama WILL be president in 2013 -- but it's critical he gets the HOUSE too.

Miss G 6 pts

Does ever a right-winger dare to come in here? Are they afraid?

Somebody on the liveblog 7 pts

Corporations are from Planet Claire: "No-one ever dies there/No-one has a head"

juliet bravo 26 pts

Actually, not only are we all ultimately from Africa, but Homo sapiens put the beatdown on the Neanderthals, not the other way around, and 4% of Europeans and Asians carry Neanderthal DNA from intermarriage. Really cool article in the New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/1108...

Somebody on the liveblog 7 pts

juliet bravo I thought Neanderthals were FauxNews' biggest demographic...

Miss G 6 pts

juliet bravo I learned Neanderthals hardly had compassion -- probably didn't approve food stamps as well. "I eat my mammoth, you eat you're mammoth -- if you didn't get a mammoth into your mammoth trap, blame yourself!"

juliet bravo 26 pts

Clarissa Smith Well, remember the victors write the history. According to the fossil record, wherever Homo sapiens turns up, other species tend to go extinct, so the thinking is we may have been the aggressors. Interesting.

Miss G 6 pts

juliet bravo I heard the Neanderthal was extremely strong, but couldn't run very fast. Whatever, I adopted a herring gull 17 years ago and I know how aggressive and cruel the species of my 'daughter' is. It's really shocking. Not only we humans are that way.

jfrdjill 5 pts

Steph, Help!!

We need you to quickly schedule a Sexy Liberal Show for Jacksonville, Florida! The EXTREME Un-Sexiness left here from the Republican debate must be purged!! Our city needs you! - Jill from J-ville

Miss G 6 pts

Oh, I'm just bleached out. But inside I'm black. Why not? :)

Somebody on the liveblog 7 pts

Every time Mitt speaks, I hear Jim murmur "woof woof!"