Archive for February, 2010
The Retarded Rush Limbaugh Exception
Sarah P. teaches this to her children (and you teach it to your children and grandchildren, too, don’t you, dear reader?): “Name calling by anyone is just unnecessary.” And retard is a very bad name for one of Sarah P.’s key political props God’s own children, so Sarah Pee can take deep umbrage if someone [...]
Unrepentant Extortion In Full Public View
The people who set up some of the Senate’s most charming practices — the filibuster, the hold — are starting to look awfully naive. Somehow, it never occurred to them that these rules could be abused? Not just for the kind of rampant political obstructionism that the Republicans have displayed over the last three years, [...]
Municipal Suicide
The city of Colorado Springs — the second largest city in Colorado — has bravely decided to sacrifice itself in order to put on an object lesson for the rest of the country on what happens when a stubborn refusal to raise taxes collides head-on with the decline in tax revenue resulting from the Republican-voodoo-economics [...]
Brown Hits Ground Running
Scott Brown was duly sworn in yesterday, and hit the ground running. That is to say, he started talking out of his ass as if to the manner born: Newly-sworn Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown says the last economic stimulus bill did not create even one new job, a claim that most economists would dispute. Brown [...]
Sarah Palin Excites Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace of Fox News seems to literally have a hard-on for Sarah Palin, and he makes no … ahem… bones about it: WALLACE: We’re going to be down in Nashville with her at the National Tea Party Convention, and I’m excited. First of all, I’m excited to finally meet and interview Sarah Palin. We’ve [...]
Carried Away By His Own Hyperbole
Lee Fang of ThinkProgress: If the Senate bill is signed into law, Brown and his GOP allies fear that the country will act like Massachusetts — where an astounding 79% of people support the healthcare system and millions of previously uninsured people now have health care. The Massachusetts universal health system is credited with reducing [...]
Immovable Object Rides Again!
So now it looks like the possibility of passing a healthcare reform fix in the Senate via budget reconciliation is going down the toilet: As it turns out, Senate Democrats may not be able to force healthcare legislation through the chamber on a simple majority vote. Republicans say they have found a loophole in the [...]
The Unique Irresistible-Force Immovable-Object
You may have heard that Democrats have agreed to swear in Scott “Cosmopolitan” Brown today, one week ahead of the date that he himself had picked, February 11. But that’s okay, because he himself demanded to be seated a weak earlier. And as everybody knows, a centerfold model is entitled to change his or her [...]
The Inconceivable Insanity Of Republican Voters
Independent pollster Research 2000 conducted a scientific poll of 2,003 self-identified Republicans for Daily Kos. Here’s just a small part of what we learned about Republican voters. 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached, versus 32% who think not. 36% believe Obama was not born in the United States, versus 42% who think [...]
Experiments With Untruth (Contd.)
It looks like this may well become a long-running series. Following on the heels of private citizen Tony Blair yesterday, here’s corporate citizen Continental Airlines: US airline Continental and five individuals go on trial in France … over the crash of an Air France Concorde nearly 10 years ago. The jet took off in flames [...]