Archive for August, 2009
The Sorry, Comical State Of Healthcare Reform
Barack Obama ran a perfectly astute campaign for President. How come healthcare reform has been screwed up so badly? At this point, it’s not clear whether a healthcare reform bill will be passed at all. If one is passed, it’s not clear how much real reform the bill will contain. Forget the totally inexplicable shenanigans [...]
And If the Queen Had a Dick…
…she’d be the King (nullus): Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio was recently frustrated trying to get a cell phone signal on a rural stretch of Interstate 10, so he tweeted it. “If I wasn’t a limited govt conservative I would support a law MANDATING better cell phone coverage on I-10,” Rubio typed into his iPhone, [...]
Fox Biz
Four-and-a-half years ago, I took a look at Fox News‘ decision to launch a business channel: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has decided that it’s time to enter a vastly reduced market to challenge an entrenched competitor. Now Murdoch didn’t get to be a multi-billionaire by taking my advice, but this move certainly isn’t one they [...]
At Least There’s A Silver Lining
John McCain used to be widely regarded as a saint. That was a long time ago. These days he’s reduced to pimping the Republican Party’s most vile and unconscionable lies about healthcare reform. Make that “pimping with malice aforethought”, even though his thought processes passeth all understanding. Last Sunday, on ABC News‘ “This Week“, George [...]
The Finest Democracy Money Can Buy
I don’t know if we get the government we deserve, but this is the system of government we designed for ourselves: a system that institutionalizes what can only be called bribery. As the Obama administration and Democrats wrangled over the timing, shape and cost of health care overhaul efforts during the first half of the [...]
Buttercheeks’ Lapse Of Memory Failure
Alberto “Buttercheeks” Gonzales has had a sudden lapse of memory failure. That is to say, he now recalls things again. He was clearly better off, I think, being unable to recall anything and everything of any significance. Because what he remembers now does not uniquely comport with what actually happened. Or what he himself said [...]
The Very Definition of Idiotic Fatuous Ass
Joe Lieberman is one of the more idiotic fatuous asses in the Senate. Strong evidence in support of that proposition comes from the statement he produced yesterday in condemnation of the very narrow investigation Attorney General Eric Holder has authorized into detainee abuse by CIA interrogators. The terms of the investigation are that a special [...]
The Disinfectant Properties Of Sunlight
Here’s a little word collage, made largely by re-arranging chunks of a BBC article: A heavily censored version of (a) 2004 internal Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report was released last year but in an almost meaningless form because so much remained classified. A federal judge ordered more details to be released on Monday, after a [...]
And He’s Getting Another Term
Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Which would you bet on being a leading indicator? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Obama’s Justice Department Strikes Again
The Washington Post has a strange story in today’s paper suggesting that defense attorneys of high-value Guantanamo Bay detainees may have illegally provided classified information to their clients. Except that it’s far from clear that that’s what actually happened. What is clear is that Obama‘s Justice Department has created the appearance of intimidating Guantanamo defense [...]