April 2009
Rebrand Equals Retread →
The GOP is trying to click its heels three times and return to a time when they actually could still strike fear into their dim constituents and loot for the ultra-rich.Looking to rebrand a…
Condi Rice Channels Nixon →
The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, who obtained the video, said Condi Rice “absolutely pulls a Nixon” in her answer. The ol’ “if the President did it, it must be legal” twisted logic. Watch it…
What Came First: The Torture Or The Bush →
Andrew Sullivan on The Rule Of Law and Bush: “The lawyers we are talking about, after all, are lawyers for the president, whose oath of office demands that he faithfully execute the laws….
"You Just Can't Say No" →
A lucid moment from a Republican from all places, Utah! Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) warns the GOP, “You just can’t say No”.”You can’t just say no. You can’t just obstruct or obfuscate. Instead of…
H1N1 Swine Flu Perspective →
Not to belittle this new H1N1 Swine Flu, but the regular ol’ flu kills about 36,000 Americans a year and accounts for between 250,000 and 500,000 deaths every year around the world. Source: CNN
Arlen Specter To Be Democrat →
The continued demise of the out of the mainstream regionalized Republican Party. The party of misguided ideological rigidity, AKA, Southern racist hicks.Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) is becoming a…
Quote Of The Day: Arlen Specter →
“I’m a loyal Democrat. I support your agenda.” — Sen. Arlen Specter, quoted by ABC News, in a phone conversation with President Obama about switching parties.
Bush's Promise On Torture →
George Bush in his own words on Al Arabiya:”It’s important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full investigation. In other words, we want to know the truth. In our…
The Inconsistent Morality Of Peggy Noonan →
Peggy Noonan on Clinton’s perjury in a civil case:”The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued…
Hope And Optimism →
Obama in graph form. A sustained trend toward optimism.
Michelle Obama Ratings Sky High →
To all her haters, feel the breeze, biotch. Source: Pew Research
Liz Cheney's Silly SERE Argument →
Dick Cheney is so unbound these days, he now has his daughter, not the gay one, but former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Liz Cheney, out on the news circuit trying to save the family name….
The Ed Show: 9/11 On Cheney's Watch. Wishes Same... →
The Ed Show on MSNBC is doing some great segments. Ed Schultz has a great straight-ahead delivery. Not as disdainful as Olbermann, not as quaint as Maddow. This segment he takes on The …
Olbermann To Hannity: $1000 For Every Second →
Keith Olbermann wants to keep Sean Hannity accountable. As Keith puts it, “another conservative talking big, living small”. Lawrence O’Donnell adds to the Hannity lameness.
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Confessions Of A Hitman →
Washington Post compiles a few interesting reflections from former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt:On the Republican Party: “It is near-extinct in many ways in the Northeast, it is…
Circular Illogic: Using Torture Enables More War →
There are consequences for using torture. This is not one-off use of torture. I think conservatives like to see it as one time, one insect, one slap, one waterboard kind of scenario. In and of…
100 Days Of No →
New video from the DNC about the Grand Obstructionist Party. Not one of them vote out of line. ALL 219 Republican males and females voted AGAINST affordable health care for all. ALL 219 Republican…
Opposing The Actual Miracle Of Curing Blindness →
Recent headlines regarding stem cell research. First from the US, second from the UK. Startling differences. Think of the lives improved and potential industries would could develop.“The Obama…
A Look At Zero Taxes →
Not sure they get the concept. Source: Oliver Willis
A List Of Who Defends Murder, Sadism And Torture →
NY Magazine has a list of those who belittle the use of torture. A who’s who of conservatives. All pampered, soft, old white guys. All men. None of them served. Guys like Cheney deferred 6 times….
You Gotta Love Charles Grodin →
Charles Grodin on Hannity last night. Classic. Let’s see if Hannity keeps his word and gets waterboarded. You’ll notice that it’s typical Fox when the guest gets the better of the host, they…
Five More Secret Legal Memos →
With the Truth absent for the past 7 years, it seems the sunlight is coming back and we can see again:Five previously unacknowledged secret memos revealing new information about the Bush…
The Greatest Lie Ever Told And Sold →
Once you approach the Iraq War, as it really happened, that there was never any WMD, that there was never a connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, you understand why Bush and his…
Sheppard Smith Gets Truthy →
Sheppard Smith, keepin’ it real, drops the f-bomb. “I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps. We are America, We do not f*ckin’ torture”.
Creepy, Racist And Sexist. Republican? →
Clean-cut “Craigslist Killer” suspect Philip Markoff:At college, he was a member of the College Republicans and was fairly unremarkable except for the occasional offensive comment, said…
Bush Is Pol Pot 2.0 →
In the continuing “What Tyranny Really Is” series:“waterboarding had been prosecuted by the United States in war-crimes trials after World War II and was a well-documented favorite of despotic…
Bush Medals Tenet: Now We Know →
The Presidential Medal of Freedom. 2004. The guy who thought up the torture and the guy who carried out the torture:
GOP Has An Eye For Terror? →
“Could tell just by looking at them”, GOP Strategist Phil Musser. Lawrence O’Donnell tears this guy a new one. No need for trials, evidence, courts. Just look at them. Bush and Republicans…
What Tyranny Really Is [cont] →
Add this to the list:The Bush administration did not hear a “single dissent” in seeking approval of its torture program, in part, because Cabinet members and senior lawmakers did not know…
Oprah Tweets, Traffic Jumps 43% →
Oprah joins Twitter, announces it on her show, overall Twitter traffic jumps 43%. Additionally, on April 17th, the day of Winfrey’s first Tweets, 37% of visits to Twitter.com were new visitors,…
Putting Your Torture Cart Before The Horse →
The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part determined to find evidence that wasn’t there. Just an obsession to justify war and…
Everything Sounds Better Auto-Tuned →
Auto-Tune the News #2: Pirates. Drugs. Gay marriage.
Newsflash: A Principled Republican Speaks →
Mike Bloomberg, a real Republican, thinks the Government should not be involved in your personal life, including who you can love and marry. Equal rights for everyone is pretty basic. I guess …
Bush Shakes Hands With Islam →
Wow, conservatives must really have cared when the President shook hands with Islam. President Bush welcomed President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan to the White House in April 2002. Karimov…
What Tyranny Really Is →
What is tyranny?Total extra-constitutional power of the president to suspend habeas corpus, detain anyone in the US without charges, and torture them including be hung from the ceiling naked, sleep…
Did the Tea Parties Succeed? →
Chris Cillizza has a post on how effective the tea parties were. His site, The Fix, asked for comments. The post drew over 500 comments, which ran the gamut from lucid and insightful to…
50 Years Ago Today →
Happy 50th Birthday to Robert Smith.
Bush Is Jar Jar Binks →
George Lucas once said in an interview with Maureen Dowd, “George Bush is Darth Vader, Cheney is the emperor.” Amy Davidson at The New Yorker has a serious problem:”Bush as Vader is…
Regulatory Umbrellas Needed Again →
via Andrew Sullivan: A quote from Mark Thoma pointing out regulation in banking works:“…after decades and decades of instability in the 1800s and early 1900s, followed by the massive bank…
"We Don't Torture" Is Bushspeak For I Love You [To... →
Have to check this segment from last night’s Daily Show: The GOP thinks it’s not upsetting that we torture, but that we now know that we torture? Karl Rove shouting like a spoiled child, “all…
How Does "We Don't Torture" Look With Blood On... →
Substitute “we don’t torture” coming out of Bush’s mouth with: “I only had one drink” coming out of an alcoholic’s at a police stop. “Trust Me” coming out of a used car salesman. “I don’t cheat”…
Impeach Bush's Torture Enabler Who Now Has... →
ThinkProgress has a online petition to get Jay Bybee, author of the Bush torture memos and current federal judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, impeached and removed from public…
The Torture Memos We All Knew Were Coming →
Yesterday’s NYT Editorial on Bush Administration torture memos:“These memos are not an honest attempt to set the legal limits on interrogations, which was the authors’ statutory obligation. They…
Newt: Lying Or Just Stupid? →
Newt Gingrich has made a career of being historically off target to stir up his toddler-minded GOP following. Finding fault with Obama’s brief handshake with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez he seems to…
"183 Times In One Month" Is Their Legacy →
The Bush and Cheney mindset, the arrogance and hubris, reduced to one sentence:
183 times in one month.You shake my hand 183 times and I’d call it torture let alone taking me to the edge of…
Boehner: Try To Explain Reality To My Confused... →
From this weekend, House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) discussion with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos:STEPHANOPOULOS: [O]n the issue of taxes, I think it’s 43 percent of people who…
Thrice Married Adulterer Rules On Gay Marriage →
How is he going to fit 9/11 into his argument? New York Gov. David Paterson (D) unveiled a proposal to permit gay marriages last week in the Empire State. Seems the poster boy for conservative…
What Would Jesus NOT Do? →
via Oliver Willis: The manifestation of the all-knowing? Ummmmmm. Source: http://www.youtube.com/NonStampCollector
Gail Collins Twitters From Texas →
Gail Collins has a great op-ed at the NYT. What about those Tea Parties from the epicenter of wasteful spending and subsidized oil checks:”Have you ever noticed that the states where…
Most Texans Would Tell Gov. Perry To STFU →
Typical Republican, out of touch:Though Gov. Rick Perry (R) insists Texans are talking about secession in response to federal tax policy, a new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 75% of Lone Star…