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ThinkProgress Embarrasses Itself Over Bachmann’s Embarrassing Error Posted 01 Jul 2009 under Media, Religious Right / Extremists, Republican Clown Show
Michele Bachmann outdid herself yesterday. In one breathless burst of anti-Census senselessness, she managed to make two equal and opposite statements: Twenty-eight pages. Sean, you know the one question they don’t ask? They ask, “are you an American citizen?” They don’t ask if you’re here on a visa or when it expires. We have no [...]
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Strange Bedfellows Indeed! Posted 26 Jun 2009 under Congressional Man Date
The Waxman-Markey bill (a.k.a. the energy reform bill, a.k.a. the climate change bill) is expected to come up for a House vote today. Passage requires 218 votes, and it’s not at all clear the votes exist: According to an E&E analysis of the floor debate, Democrats still have their work cut out for them. Even [...]
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Sober Reflections On The Sanford Saga Posted 25 Jun 2009 under 2008 Presidential, Media, Republican Clown Show, St. John McCain
(1) In retrospect, one thing is clear about the 2008 Presidential election. It seems to have forever emboldened adulterers in the Republican party (both admitted and unadmitted) into fancying themselves as perfectly viable candidates. This is perhaps the natural result of seeing admitted serial adulterer John McCain make it all the way to the finals, and [...]
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Version 2.0, And Counting Posted 24 Jun 2009 under Podium Spin, Republican Clown Show
Mark Sanford has surfaced. And, boy, does he have a story to tell: Gov. Mark Sanford arrived in the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport this morning, having wrapped up a seven-day visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, he said. Sanford said he had not been hiking along the Appalachian Trail, as his staff said in a Tuesday statement [...]
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Another Republican Presidential Candidate Bites The Dust Posted 23 Jun 2009 under Podium Spin, Republican Clown Show
It’s safe to say that the presidential aspirations Mark Sanford once entertained — and had been carefully stoking by his doggedly idiotic stance with respect to stimulus funds, the rejection thereof — have now been ground into the dust. It is to be hoped that Sanford himself is safe, and hasn’t met with an untimely bites-the-dust [...]
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Peddling Discredited Neocon Batshit Posted 22 Jun 2009 under Media, Obama Uber Alles, Religious Right / Extremists
Anne Gearan’s byline describes her as the “National Security Writer” at AP. Either they don’t use the word correspondent at AP any more, or they’re embarrassed enough about Gearan’s article that they don’t want to dignify her with that term. Gearan thinks that “In his first major test of international leadership, President Barack [...]
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A Concise History Of DOMA Pretenses Posted 18 Jun 2009 under Obama Uber Alles, Podium Spin
(1) First, Obama-the-candidate promises to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Then, the Obama administration files a brief supporting DOMA (see Matt’s powerful post about Obama’s wideranging and continuing betrayal of the GLBT community). A brief that John Aravosis describes as “despicable, and gratuitously homophobic”. Then, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insists that [...]
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Stem Cell Research: The Great Leap Forward Posted 17 Jun 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles
The beat goes on. The more you examine Obama-the-president, the more he resembles the guy who came before rather than Obama-the-candidate. Matt wrote last week: On … civil rights for gays and lesbians, Iraq and Afghanistan, torture, state secrets, retroactive immunity and smothering investigations, Obama hasn’t changed a fucking thing. Yesterday we learned that he’s [...]
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Peter Lance, Triple Cross & Patrick Fitzgerald Posted 15 Jun 2009 under General
We have been following the work of author/investigative journalist Peter Lance since the spectacular 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE was released in 2003. If you haven’t read it (or its follow up COVER UP), we highly recommend that you catch up. We’ve previously interviewed Lance upon the publication of 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE here [...]
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Under The Healthcare Reform Radar Posted under Health Care, Obama Uber Alles
AP has a compelling story of political and moral neglect: Ta’Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt. When Stephanie Little Light took her daughter to the Indian Health Service [...]
