December 2010
Politico's 10 Worst Decisions of 2010
They must have seemed like good ideas at the time. But the politicos who made these bad decisions are surely looking back on 2010 and kicking themselves. A bad decision isn’t just a gaffe — something that slips out when your mouth runs ahead of your brain. It’s something you do on purpose, like doubling down on that thing you shouldn’t have said, talking trash about your...
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“We find ourselves in the position of survivors of a shipwreck clinging to a life...”
– Frank Schaeffer (via azspot)
Obama gets knee-capped every step of the way by a useless opposition of “death panels”, Obamacare innuendo for total takeover of the health care industry, socialism as a moral disservice to America, taking “social justice” out of the...
Fox v CNN V MSNBC
THE CABLE NEWS NUMBERS ARE IN…. To note that the Republicans’ cable news network is out in front of its competitors is an understatement. In 2010, Fox News had more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.
But that no longer seems especially interesting. Indeed, it’s pretty predictable — Fox News has cornered the market when it comes to offering misleading, partisan...
10 Moments Comedians Made Us Think This Year/2010
via splitsider.com #1. Jon Stewart’s closing remarks at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
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Hey Haley, It Was "That Bad"
In the Weekly Standard profile, [Haley] Barbour marvelled at the fact that Yazoo City’s schools were desegregated without violence, unlike in many other towns in Mississippi. But for Mangold, whose parents were both physicians in Yazoo City, another local institution is in the forefront of his memory of that era: the hospital.
Built in the mid 1950s with federal assistance, the Yazoo City...
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Watchnprfreshair:
RIP to all the amazing musicians who died this year … and made the world sound a little better while you were here. We had forgotten about some of these.
— braiker
The GOP's Arbitrary "Will Of The People"
tytnation:
GOP Not Allowed to Talk About the “Will of the Public”
John Boehner can’t stop talking about the “will of the public” these days. Now that the Republicans have won the House, he keeps saying over and over that the Democrats must go along with Republican plans from now on because they have to listen to the… will of the public.
When Democrats...
“The American elite is almost beyond redemption… . Moral relativism has set in so...”
– Charles Dickens (via azspot)
“It is to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it’s to be able...”
– Rep. Barney Frank celebrated the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell earlier this week by admitting he is pursuing a “radical homosexual agenda.” (via corruptpolitics)
Equal = Radical. Funny.
John & John, or How Liberal Are Your Media?
McCain and Kerry have quite a bit in common. Both long-term Senators, both lifetime “government employees”, both veterans, hell, they both married wealthy women (the second time around), so there’s some similarity even in their personal lives.
They’re also members of a very exclusive club. They both lost Presidential elections.
And that’s where the similarities end.
After John Kerry...
Never Forget: Cheney's Vote Gave Us The Bush Tax...
The part of the Bush tax cuts passed in 2003–the “Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003″–was perhaps the best example in the last decade of hyper-partisan “legislative overreach.”
The bill passed both chambers on nearly party-line votes. The Senate voted 50-50 on the bill and it only passed when Vice President Dick Cheney cast the tie-breaking vote.
Passing the massive tax cuts...
“Cultural ignorance of one sort or another is sustained and nurtured in all...”
– Joe Bageant (via azspot)
Obama Plans To Reverse Bush-Era Policy Wilderness...
The Obama administration plans to reverse a Bush-era policy and make millions of undeveloped acres of land once again eligible for federal wilderness protection, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday.
The agency will replace the 2003 policy adopted under former Interior Secretary Gale Norton. That policy – derided by some as the “No More Wilderness” policy – stated that new...
“What I can’t understand is the willingness of the citizenry to protect and...”
– Maxine Udall (girl economist)
We are a vindictive country, scared by boogie men of our own making.
Festivus For The Rest Of Us
Frank Costanza: “Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.”
Cosmo Kramer: “What happened to the doll?”
Frank Costanza: “It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born: a Festivus for the rest of us!”
Kramer: “That must have been some kind of doll.”
Frank Costanza: “She was.”
“If someone hates Michelle Obama, I gotta believe it’s race.”
– MSNBC’s Chris Matthews - GottaLaff (via brooklynmutt)
Palin = 5 colleges in 6 years, degree from U. of Idaho. Oldest 2 kids both high school drop-outs.
MIchelle Obama = Princeton grad, Harvard law grad.
Clearly outclassed on every level. It’s the bitchy townie picking on the validictorian...
Sen. Murkowski to support New START
zainyk:
Nine Republicans needed, Kerry has 7 committed, add Murkowski, Brown, Alexander plus 56 dems and 2 Independents = START headed to ratification.
Obama wins again.
GIF is amazing.
“If they think it’s bad now, wait till next year.”
– Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), on Republicans obstructing and delaying Congress, no matter what the price to Americans.
They GOP does not even pretend to acknowledge their constituents, lost in their own pathological partisan vacuum.
START Treaty Breaks Filibuster
The Senate just voted to break the GOP filibuster of the START Treaty, with a critical 67 votes. That suggests, though nothing is ever guaranteed in the Senate, that the treaty should muster the 2/3 required for passage. via talkingpointsmemo.com Another score for Obama. Suck it, Republicans. Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
Republicans Exploited 9/11 Responders, Now...
via youtube.com A party that rode 9/11 for years at every RNC event, and in every commercial, heck, Giuliani and Cheney couldn’t say a sentence without 9/11 in it, now Republicans expose themselves for what they really are: #complete scum Posted via email from liberalsarecool.com | Comment »
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Watch$2 trillion municipal bond debt crisis could bring down 100 US cities, analyst warns.
“A new disaster is looming, according to a prominent market research analyst.
Meredith Whitney, a financial analyst who runs her own consulting firm and correctly predicted the major debt fallout of Citigroup, warned in a little-reported on interview Sunday that as many as 100 US cities face default...
2010 Census: New Data
On the other end of the spectrum, Southeastern Kentucky was home to four of the nation’s poorest counties.
via huffingtonpost.com
Home of millionaire Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and a lot of Republicans who push the Conservative agenda and get hicks to vote against their own self interests. I bet dickheads in Kentucky pushed for the “billionaire bailout” as they ate dog food out...
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– This is a damn good read. (via nikkiwiley)
When Chickens Side With The Fox
thesmithian:
‘…money alone does not create political trends in the United States. Within a year of Barack Obama’s inauguration, the most energized and angry people on the American political scene were not the homeowners with subprime mortgages who faced foreclosure as a result of the crisis, but rather those who faulted the government for taking steps to protect those homeowners, and...
We Pay The Most, Get The Least.
greenstate:
Taxes already pay for more than 60 percent of US health spending Americans pay the highest health care taxes in the world. We pay for national health insurance, but don’t get it.
50% of the country is covered by Medicare/Medicaid/VA Hospitals. And they all will never part with it. Why is convincing the other 50% that they don’t have to get screwed by private corporations so...
“Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that DOESN’T help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via technipol)
Jesus loved the poor, Americans not so sure.
Lame Duck Session? Dems PWNAGE Of The GOP
thesmithian:
‘…the Democrats are starting to rack up a pretty sizable number of successes in what was at one time expected to be a quiet and largely uneventful lame-duck session. There was the tax-cut deal, which included an extension of unemployment benefits, then the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and soon, it appears, even the long-stalled James Zadroga 9/11 Health...
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Republicans Protect Pedophiles
By voting down “a bill that aimed to protect girls around the world from being coerced into child marriage”, the Republicans are aiding and abetting pedophiles around the world.
Using “access to health care” as their coded pro-embryo/anti-baby message for their flimsy anti-abortion stance, Republicans would rather deny midwifing, pre-natal care, and infant health care...
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Republicans Solidify "#complete scum" Title
On Thursday night, hours before passing the tax cut compromise, House Republicans thwarted a bill that aimed to protect girls around the world from being coerced into child marriage. They opposed it because, they claimed, it might fund abortions.
via balloon-juice.com
“The text of the bill does not mention abortion, contraception or family planning. Instead, it directs the president to...
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“That’s why net neutrality is the most important free speech issue of our...”
– Sen. Al Franken,
Big media corporations like AT&T and Comcast are pushing for tiered-service to improve their profits. The fact that these same corporations do not cover these stories on their media networks is no surprise. Why would they want to let you know they are about to rob you?
Always Underestimating Obama
thesmithian:
‘…DADT was as good as dead. In a matter of days (if that), President Obama will sign the bill, which cleared the House earlier this week, and fulfill one of his major campaign promises — one that some of his liberal critics had accused him of shirking. Obama, it should be said, played this issue remarkably well.
To listen to his liberal critics (at least before...
DADT Is Over, Civil Rights Are Stronger: Who Made...
It’s worth pausing to note some of the folks who made this success possible. * The LGBT community’s activists and their allies — For those demanding equality and LGBT civil rights, there are a variety of issues that fuel and motivate activism, but DADT has been a central rallying cry for many years. They helped get repeal on the map, helped push policymakers to do...