Archive for August, 2010
Robert Gibbs Throws Quite A Tantrum
The Hill posted an item at 6 a.m. EDT today, reporting on an interview with Robert Gibbs. Gibbs threw quite a tantrum, at the “professional left”. (I very much fear that includes liberal bloggers.) During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom [...]
On Aviation Fuel And Fire Extinguishers
When you’re a really strange, bizarre guy with really, really strange, bizarre beliefs running for the U.S. Senate, it should probably come as no surprise that when a strange, bizarre story about you surfaces in the media — and immediately makes a huge impression, being not only strange and bizarre, but having the added virtues [...]
Boehner Won’t Say Whether He Still Believes In The Tax Fairy
Yesterday, on Meet The Press, David Gregory tried to question House Minority Leader John Boehner about this business of wholesale Republican support for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans without making any effort to pay for the tax cuts in any way. He kept trying to to ask Boehner whether it’s true [...]
Huge Triumph for BP
After pumping mud into the blown well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to perform a successful static kill, BP has now added a cement plug for good measure. This is an unmitigated success for BP. Not so much because they have apparently managed to seal the well for good (though additional [...]
Where Has All The Oil Gone, Long Time Passing
Once BP managed to cap the well that had gushed millions and millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we started to see media reports that most of the oil had magically vanished. This is the AFP, on July 27: With BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the [...]
Dramatic Flareup In The RNC Infighting Story
The nasty infighting at the RNC over apparently deliberate misrepresentations in its April and May FEC reports has just gotten worse. To recap, this is what ABC News reported on July 21: A GOP civil war has broken out between RNC Chairman Michael Steele and RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen. The dust-up reveals new levels of [...]
Republicans. In the Senate. By Filibuster.
In the next hour or so, Republicans are poised to kill a bill that would provide much needed aid to states (“which would save thousands police officers and firefighters from getting laid off”) and funding for teachers (“which would help states retain 130,000 K-12 teachers”). This is a bill that’s fully paid for, partly by [...]
Getting The Media To Show Up Boehner
President Obama met with the House and Senate leadership of both parties last Tuesday. The conversation turned to the Bush tax cuts: At a meeting with Congressional leaders of both parties, Mr. Obama vowed that Democrats would extend current income tax rates except for the wealthiest taxpayers. But Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the [...]
Does This Scientific Method Pass The Smell Test?
AP: Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government’s assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore must be safe to eat because they don’t smell too bad. Fresh splotches of chocolate-colored crude, probably globules broken apart [...]