Archive for July, 2008
Depends On The Definition Of “Never”
Marc Ambinder: With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation’s 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning for the transition. “Barack is well aware of the complexity and the organizational challenge involved in the transition process and he has tasked s small [...]
Depends on the Definition of Right
Obama gives Bernanke vote of confidence – Reuters (7/26/07): “I think that Chairman Bernanke was handed a pretty tough hand and I think some of the decisions he’s made have been the right ones.” Bernanke’s academic work influenced some of the decisions that caused the problems in the first place. As the housing and credit [...]
Uh, Jim…
…the last time anyone used the word dweeb was in The Breakfast Club. And that was Judd Nelson. Jim Jones is not down with Nas‘ Fox News protest: Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Not Confused At All, Oh No No No!
John McCain is neither stupid nor senile nor a compulsive liar. He’s just much misunderstood, that’s all. Talking to Katie Couric the other day, he innocently used the word “surge” in the context of Iraq, never for a moment imagining that everyone would understand him to be referring to the surge, when he only meant [...]
Haus of Nullus
WTF? A rapid fire TPM investigation revealed that while McCain and Sen. Lindsay Graham were standing in front of “Schmidt’s Fudge Haus” there is a nearby “Sausage Haus”. So possibly he and Graham went to ‘Sausage Haus’ before stopping over for some post sausage fudge. Packing fudge with sausages. What, where they going after the [...]
The Belly Primary
On Tuesday I pointed to Color of Change’s 600,000 strong petition to Fox News demanding that they stop their racist smears of Barack Obama. I was a bit dismissive of their choice to have Nas deliver the petition, and it still seems like an odd choice. But rather than push back and point to Nas’ [...]
How Could Even Bob Novak Sink So Low?
I think Jon Stewart has referred to Bob Novak for years only as a douchebag. If you do a google for “bob novak” douchebag, it pulls up 2,310 references. And today Bob Novak proved to the world exactly how right Stewart (and everybody else) has been all along: In an exclusive interview with ABC 7 [...]
The Meaning Of Karl Rove’s Categorical Denial
TPMMuckraker: Karl Rove has categorically denied any involvement whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, in the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, in written responses to questions from the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, entered into the Congressional record today… Of course, this doesn’t mean that Rove had nothing to do with Siegelman’s [...]
Grand Unified Theory of Hank Paulson
Hank Paulson (7/22/08): “Obviously, it will go on beyond months with some of the issues in the housing market, but I believe we can get to the point within months where we turn the corner on housing,” Paulson said in a televised interview with Fox Business Network. He said the corner would be turned at [...]
When The Truth Is Found To Be Lies
Everybody knows that if you lie abroad for the sake of your country, that makes you a diplomat. But if you’re Nouri al-Maliki, and you lie abroad for the sake of George Bush (who invaded your country and is responsible for the deaths of untold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis) and John McCain (who has [...]