Archive for February, 2010
Washington D.C. Unmanned Forever By Snow?
(1) Liberals bloggers would have you believe that the reason why government has come to a crushing, grinding halt in recent months is the unprecedented obstructionism of Republicans in the Senate. Or, specifically, their rampant abuse of the filibuster, so that 60 votes are now required for virtually every single piece of legislation in the [...]
Professional Politicians
I’m not sure how many people know this, but 1115.org was started to address the nightmare that was the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election where Gray Davis was thrown out and replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s been hard to cover California politics over this time as supermajority requirements on budget bills have forced the state [...]
The Bipartisan Ship
(1) These days in the Senate, if a Democrat wants to see legislation pass, he or she needs a Republican BFF. Yesterday, the NYT announced the launching of a new maritime joint venture between Max Baucus — who did as much as anyone else to throttle healthcare reform in its crib, including any Republican — [...]
Retirement Math
Science question of the day: What drops twice as fast as flies? (Hang on, we’ll get to the math too.) We learned today of another Republican retirement in the House: Florida Republican Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart will call it quits today, retiring after nine terms representing a heavily Cuban-American district in the Miami area, according to [...]
Perfect Comedic Timing
I have always regarded David Broder as a complete joke. (I will never understand how or why he acquired the title of “Dean” of the Washington press corps.) I am glad to report that Broder has now honed his comedy act by incorporating an impeccable sense of timing. Yesterday, he put out, in the Washington [...]
UK Court Of Appeals Labels Bush A Liar
(1) We finally have a final resolution of the Binyam Mohamed case in the UK (backstory here): Three of Britain’s most senior judges have ordered the government to reveal evidence of MI5 complicity in the torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed – unanimously dismissing objections by David Miliband, the foreign secretary. In a ruling that [...]
What a Novel Idea
It’s almost as if President Summer’s Eve hadn’t already wasted nine months trying to compromise: President Obama said Tuesday that he will consider any Republican health care ideas, as long as the ideas address the goals contained in the Democratic plans already passed by the House and Senate. Just fucking shoot me. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg [...]
If Obama Was In Charge of Snow Removal
Everyone would have to learn how to ski. (via Tom) Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Guess Who’s Playing Three-Dimensional Chess Now?
Remember how Obama supporters, pressed to defend actions and decisions by him that did not appear to be easily defensible, loved to argue that he was engaged in a game of 3-dimensional chess that his critics were just not equipped to understand? There’s a lot less of that going around lately, but it seems the [...]
The Babe Who Would Be King
Ladies and Gentlemen, Sarah Palin‘s finest moment at the National Tea Party Convention (acronym CROCK*) in Nashville: The weirdest part of the evening came not during the speech but during the following Q&A session. Asked what she thought that a Republican-controlled congress’s top three priorities should be, she answered: stop spending, energy policy and … [...]