Archive for June, 2009
Cult of Personality
Jane Hamsher on progressive activism: The Bush administration and their wars gave fuel to the progressive movement in this country, no doubt. I was personally at a loss during the primary battles — from a movement perspective, I understood our job to be to hold fast to our principles and reward candidates for hewing to [...]
On The Genetic Persistence Of Compulsive Delusional Revisionism
There must be a Compulsive Delusional Revisionism gene. And Liz Cheney seems to have inherited it. On Thursday, she denied all those scurrilous allegations that Dick Cheney ever pushed a non-existent connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. MSNBC‘s Andrea Mitchell asked Liz Cheney whether her daddy’s statement at the National Press Club on June 1 [...]
Novel Criminal Defense
Back in October 2007, Sen. Lindsey Graham drew on his personal expertise to declare: I am convinced, as an individual senator, as a military lawyer for 25 years, that waterboarding…does violate our war crimes statute and is clearly illegal under domestic and international law. … I don’t think you have to have a lot of [...]
Democracy is So Awesome
McCarthy Won’t Challenge Gillibrand in New York Senate Primary – CQ Politics (6/4/09): Rep. Carolyn McCarthy will not challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a Democratic primary. McCarthy, a thorn in Gillibrand’s side of late, had said she would take on the newly appointed senator in 2010 if no one else did. But McCarthy has reversed [...]
Todd Akin’s True Colors
There’s ignorance. There’s stupid ignorance. There’s criminally stupid ignorance. And then there criminally stupid ignorance bordering on insanity. Meet Todd Akin, who embarrasses and disgraces the great state of Missouri in the House of Representatives. He loves climate change, and will bitterly oppose any and all efforts to fight it. And that’s because he thinks [...]
Sorkin Bids For Second Title
If Andrew Ross Sorkin had any intellectual honesty at all, he would already have walked back the absurd union-bashing he engaged in this morning on MSNBC‘s Morning Joe: Name a successful unionized company. Think. You’re going to go to [commercial] break before you come up with one. And that’s the problem. (In case you think [...]
Insightful CNN Poll (With Bonus Insightful Analysis)
We definitely needed a poll to tell us this: A new national poll of Republicans suggests that there’s no front runner at this extremely early moment in the next race for the White House. Three possible candidates are all bunched at the top of a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday. The survey suggests that [...]
Cheney’s Heavy But Invisible Hand
Three weeks ago, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell wrote: Third–and here comes the blistering fact–when Cheney claims that if President Obama stops “the Cheney method of interrogation and torture”, the nation will be in danger, he is perverting the facts once again. But in a very [...]
Double Standards In The War Against Terror
The killing of Dr. George Tiller was an act of political intimidation. The right and left have been able to agree that his killer must be viewed as a terrorist. Professor Jack Balkin raises an interesting set of questions: (1) Should the United States be able to hold Roeder without trial in order to prevent [...]
412 Represent
I love my Detroit peoples, but please don’t try to buy octopi at Wholey’s Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend