Wall Street Whiners
Drum: “No matter how many times I read pieces like this, I just can’t get over how thin-skinned these guys are. Random bloggers get more criticism in a day than Wall Street has gotten in two years from...
View ArticleThe grasstips, not the grassroots
This Matt Yglesias post displays a pretty deep understanding of the power relationships on the right. It amazes me that it never occurred to the right that FNC and Rush lied to them for years on behalf...
View ArticleWhy not reading the 3/5 clause matters
Jason Kuznicki over at the League chides Democrats who chide Republicans over reading the Constitution: More importantly, I find remarkable the lack of charity it must take to fault the GOP for...
View ArticleGabby Giffords’s shooting wasn’t Palin’s fault. But the next one could be.
I’m not convinced that Jared Loughner was inspired to violence by Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. He seems like a pretty disturbed guy who is mentally ill and lacked anything resembling a coherent...
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Ok, I Am Really Getting Fed Up With All This Tentherism Idiocy
Yes, I get it, whining and crying about the mean ol’ federal government is great politics for the teabagger lumpenproles. So I don’t really get all bent out of shape when Republicans whine and cry...
View ArticleI Wonder Why Paul Ryan Didn’t Talk About Dismantling Medicare…
I watched Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. Overall, I thought it was a great speech that certainly avoided much if any divisiveness. Not really much to say there. Paul Ryan’s Republican...
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Breaking: Unhinged Demonization of Government and Muslims Is Dangerous
Blame it on the racialist thugs who continue to terrorize lower Manhattan with unhinged fear-mongering about some Muslims setting up a community center in an old Burlington Coat Factory, or blame it on...
View ArticleRepublican Minority Outreach Continues
Just so that you know, a bunch more bullshit is coming out of Arizona that will all be tossed out in court. Basically, it’s a lot of Prop 187-style stuff designed to deny any services to illegal...
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What’s So Bad About The Koches?
Wanted: For Douchebaggery After reading Jon Chait once again smack down some Reason folks for insisting that the Koch Brothers are absolutely and in no way promoting their own interests with their...
View ArticleA Sane Republican
Rep. Mike Grimm (R-NY) calls out the Tea Party in a way that is sensible, refreshing and realistic. Expect him to be primaried before long.
View ArticleI Suppose I Should Be More Cynical About This
But it’s still pretty amazing that every Republican on the House Energy Committee insists that global temperatures aren’t rising. I mean, that’s basically the equivalent of saying that the sky is...
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Republicans Blowing It In The Midwest?
This is sort of amazing: A new Public Policy Polling survey finds there’s been a fundamental shift in the Ohio political landscape over the last three months and it looks like the biggest beneficiary...
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Will The GOP Kill Themselves Off In The Midwest?
WE CAN DO ANYTHING! Pennsylvania is not technically the Midwest, but it’s closer culturally to the Midwest than it is to, say, New York. Like Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, the state put...
View ArticleA Question For You, The Reader
Tim Pawlenty just opened his exploratory committee to run for president, which means he’s in. Haley Barbour and Mitt Romney look very likely to run. Donald Trump sounds like he fancies a run, but it...
View ArticleWaiting For The Michigan Recall
According to my research, Michigan allows recalls of statewide officials. Considering that Rick Snyder’s approval ratings are already in the Gray Davis zone, I wonder if we’ll start to hear about...
View ArticleDid The Tea Party Even Matter In The 2010 Election?
Will Wilkinson looks at the evidence and says no. I’m inclined to agree. Republicans always turn out anyway–firing them up is good for the bottom line of Fox News, but not for much else. Democratic...
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The Tea Party Flops
Lex Luthor's Political Rise Took Everyone By Surprise... Another day, another Tea Party governor who has approvals in the low 30s. This time it’s Rick Scott of Florida, in yet another entirely...
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It’s Hard Out Here For A Quarter-Million Congress Pimp
Whoever said reality TV was a nowhere gig? Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Real World Boston) recently lamented in public about how hard it is out there for a guy making $175k/year (roughly $250k with government...
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s Budget
I was going to do a whole thing about it, but I really think there’s no point. It will never become law. Moderate Senate Republicans will never go for it–do you really see Scott Brown and Olympia Snowe...
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Obama Is Not A Pusher
Hi At the current moment, I find myself in a state of ennui with respect to the president. I don’t know why, but I’ve been reflecting recently on the missed opportunities of the first two years–the...
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