Archive for January, 2009
TPM’s Serial Exaggerator: Still Alive And Well
That irrepressible serial exaggerator, TPM‘s headline writer, is at it again. Here’s the blurb he produced for a TPM Muckraker post by Zachary Roth: Late last year after Merrill’s buyout by Bank of America was assured, Merrill traders reportedly resumed gambling on mortgage assets — racking up huge losses that led to the multi-billion bailout [...]
The Greater Fool
When Larry King sits down to talk to Bob Woodward, a certain amount of sheer stupidity is to be expected. But they outdid themselves on Wednesday night: KING: Bob, my — in that regard, my younger son Cannon, he is eight. And he now says that he would like to be black. I’m not kidding. [...]
Who’s in the Majority Again?
Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) on the “stimulus”: That is why we set forth this $85-billion initiative from our committee. It’s been reduced in the final going. We expect that it’ll come out somewhere around $63 billion, but $30 billion for highways. The reason for the reduction in overall funding — we took money out of [...]
Caroline Kennedy: The Uncertainties Of The Withdrawal Method
First, the New York Post reported that Caroline Kennedy had withdrawn her bid to be appointed to Hillary Clinton‘s vacant Senate seat. I didn’t read the original story, and at this point it has been updated, so it’s not clear what the original version was. Specifically, it’s not clear who they sourced the story to. [...]
If You Have to Ask
I guess if it were up to Republicans, it would be “exit only”: Since Obama is now in charge, let’s go with “No Bananas.” Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Picking Our Pockets On The Way Out
As you are probably aware, after President Barack Obama‘s inauguration, George and Laura Bush were flown by Marine helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base, from where they flew to Midland, Texas. What you probably didn’t know was that they took a few friends and family and loyal supporters with them on the flight. The Washington [...]
Mile High Club
GONZALES: The last thing he [former President Bush] said as he was getting off the plane — he kissed me on the forehead — and he said, “Just stay strong.” […] HERMAN: Any tears shed on the plane by anybody? GONZALES: By me, yeah. There were a few. Now that Bush is a private citizen, [...]
Geithner: I Just Don’t Get it
This man, it is clear, deliberately cheated on his taxes. (Or to be fair: either he deliberately cheated on his taxes, or he’s a complete moron.) Obama continues to support Geithner, dismissing Geithner’s failure to pay taxes as an “innocent mistake”. It isn’t. Or it is an innocent mistake only in Bushworld. And we’re not [...]
Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again
Bush, Cheney and their various enablers and apologists are obviously hoping that they have so thoroughly scrambled “the choice between our safety and our ideals” that the Obama administration will never be able to put Humpty Dumpty together again. (Aside: the quote is from Obama’s inaugural address. I cannot find the transcript anywhere on the [...]
Deez Nutz
History will obviously judge me harshly for turning inauguration day into a running joke, but at least I didn’t do what CNN did: They’ve since taken this down, but no memory hole is big enough to hide the little icon at the end of the headline. At some point this evening, you could have purchased [...]