CNN had this headline Saturday morning, before Glenn Beck’s thoroughly misguided rally at the Lincoln Memorial: “Glenn Beck rally plans cause a stir“.
Nobody was saying afterward that the rally itself had caused much of a stir.
This, incidentally, was the modest prediction made by the rally’s low-key (and entirely sane) architect-in-chief:
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There’s stupid, and then there’s stupid.
Mike Crapo, Republican senator from Idaho, has now left no doubt whatsoever how crushingly stupid he is. He wrote to the Congressional Budget Office with a question that must have perplexed him no end. Passing certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act was estimated to reduce the deficit [...]
One of the standard-bearers of the asshole contingent of the Republican Party is John Boehner. On his best days, he looks like a pathetic little hack. On his worst days, he really has them rolling on the floor laughing their asses off.
This was Boehner yesterday, pretending to be a grown-up among politicians, attacking [...]
The bad news is that, looking forward, the stimulus is going to be more and more of a spent force:
The effect of the stimulus, officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), will be smaller in coming quarters, as much of the money has already been spent, CBO said.
“The effects of ARRA on [...]
Most of the stories I have seen on the subject focus on the cost of extending the tax cuts for only the wealthiest Americans. I really cannot recall reading anywhere in the mainstream media or on a liberal blog what the cost would be for the Democrats’ proposal of extending the tax cuts only [...]
Did you know that some of the central tenets of Islam are economic beliefs?
For example, Muslims believe that the government can generate jobs. (Whereas the asshole contingent of the Republican Party, the largest contingent by far these days, believes that the government has never created one single job. Yes, whether you [...]
It’s really very simple.
Feisal Abdul Rauf has a perfect right to build an Islamic community center 2 blocks from Ground Zero. He has a legal right, and he has a moral right. He has a fundamental constitutional right.
Nobody has any right to stop him from building that community center. Not even [...]
Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston gives Nevada Senator John Ensign the treatment he so richly deserves: he jumps all over him with hobnailed boots. In a column that appeared late Saturday night, Jon skewered John over the letter John sent out last week soliciting contributions to his legal defense fund.
(In a [...]
If the lunatic fringe of the Republican party — and all its Republican leaders followers in Congress — can propose (and shamelessly promote for political purposes) constitutional amendments that have no hope whatsoever of actually passing into law, I don’t see why I can’t advocate one of my own.
Especially when mine makes a lot [...]
Yesterday, Steve Benen had this sarcastic sentence in a post he wrote about House Minority Whip Eric Cantor following the extremists and lunatics who seem to dictate the Republican Party’s public position on every single issue these days in condemning Cordoba House, the Islamic community center that a moderate Islamic cleric wants to build in [...]
