A Picture Worth A Thousand Words

January 23, 2010

From the talented Tom Toles. (Go see it there, so he earns his pittance from syndication. We need editorial cartoonists.)

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Bush Wins!

January 22, 2010

I would be depressed about the radicals on the Supreme Court overturning a hundred years of precedent in order to fully convert our system to a corporatocracy, but I haven’t finished being alternately depressed and incensed by the Democratic leadership rushing to shoot the Party dead in a ditch. I mean, in the long run, […]

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Priorities

January 21, 2010

Apparently, it is so important that we retain qualified Wall St. Banksters that almost nothing is being done to keep their firms from showering them with millions of dollars. And, when new White House rules would have kept one of those banksters out of a Cabinet post, and from bringing another along to work for […]

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Another Take

January 20, 2010

All over the airwaves are people telling you what the “message” of the Scott Brown election is. Here’s an opinion you probably won’t hear. The “message” is that in the real world voters don’t care about ‘bipartisanship’ or ‘collegiality’ or any other DC nicety. They care about results. If there has been a ‘failure’ in […]

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Now What?

January 20, 2010

What Jonathan Cohn says.

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Saw This One Coming

January 19, 2010

Washington Post: The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions. Heckuva job, Bushie.

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Um, ….?

November 25, 2009

Former White House spokeswoman Dana Perino was on Fox News’ Hannity show, and said “We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term” No, really. She said that. Neither of the two other people on the set, including Hannity, appeared to notice. Ironically, the comment came in a discussion implying […]

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So Explain To Me Again

November 20, 2009

…why a single-payer national health care plan was never a part of this year’s reform discussions? I wonder what the Senate bill has to say about situations like this one. SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center says it might stop accepting Regence BlueShield — the region’s biggest health insurer — as a provider because […]

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The Stupid, It Burns.

November 20, 2009

The girl is young enough to have an excuse (though someone as smart as she is should be able to see through that rhetoric), but the guy…ow. I can only hope he’s too dumb to get himself legally registered to vote.

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On Grayson

November 1, 2009

The New York Times has a piece on the rise of freshman Congressman Allan Grayson, in a piece entitled “Alan Grayson, the Liberals’ Problem Child“. (No, seriously, that’s what they called him.) WASHINGTON — On paper, Representative Alan Grayson, a freshman Democrat from Florida, seems a bit stiff: degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law; a […]

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