Carly Fiorina For Senate?

8:17 pm EST March 31st, 2009 | News | 5 Comments

Oh, the epic fail would be delicious. If you remember, Fiorina was McCain’s failed CEO turned economic brain who was a disaster on the trail for him.

Right Wing Militia Watch: Dick Morris Cheers On Killing ATF Agents

6:21 pm EST March 31st, 2009 | News | 60 Comments

When Democrats are in control, the right moves toward the fringe of the militia right – the nationalists, Tim McVeigh, anti-government types. Today it’s Dick Morris on Fox News: “Those crazies in Montana who say, ‘we’re going to kill ATF agents because the UN’s going to take over’ – well, they’re beginning to have a case”

Topic: Right Wing Militia

Clinton Mexico City “Gaffe” Another Right Wing Myth

5:37 pm EST March 31st, 2009 | News | 8 Comments

Shocker.

Clinton aide Mary Ellen Glenn emails that the Secretary of State’s question about a relic in a Mexican church — portrayed in the Mexican press and here as a gaffe — was actually a misunderstanding.

Clinton asked, the monsignor showing her around later reportedly told the Mexican press, who had painted the Virgin of Guadalupe on a famous cloak. “God,” the priest replied.

But Glynn points out that Clinton and the priest were looking at a replica of the cloak on the first floor of the Basilica, not at the

“Secretary Clinton remarked on a replica of the Guadalupe image, not the actual image,” she emailed.

Topic: Hillary Clinton

POTUS & FLOTUS Wheels Down In Europe

4:16 pm EST March 31st, 2009 | News | 17 Comments

Obama arrives in UK ahead of G20

US President Barack Obama has arrived in the UK for his first major foreign trip since taking office in January.

Mr Obama’s first stop is London where he is to attend the G20 summit hosted by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

He will also join leaders at a Nato summit on the French-German border and visit the Czech Republic and Turkey.

Much is riding on the trip, says BBC North America editor Justin Webb, as the US is seen by other nations as the catalyst for global economic recovery.

Topic: History, Michelle Obama, President Obama

“If Atheists Ruled The World”

3:15 am EST March 31st, 2009 | Uncategorized | 71 Comments

Dramatic readings of message board postings from fundamentalist Christians. Also known as the funniest thing ever. (some nsfw language)

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Topic: Humor, Religious Right

Answers To Right Wing Questions

2:35 am EST March 31st, 2009 | Democrats, Politics, Republicans | 32 Comments

Patrick Ruffini writes another one of those “the left is screwing everything up, the right can capitalize on barack obama this with our silly nonsensical slogans and policy proposals” blog entries and winds up:

The right will be galvanized to action by the theft of the free enterprise system. What will the left be galvanized by?

Me: A competent and consistent well working government in the tradition of the American people.

One of the only reasons George W. Bush won the electoral college in 2000 (while losing the popular vote) was that the Democrat in office had done such a good job the American people figured that there was a limited amount of harm a conservative Republican president could do – we had surpluses for Christ’s sake – and even under those circumstances the Republican had to run as a “compassionate conservative” and not the fringe sort of Palin/Limbaugh conservative that the Republican base now thinks is a normal person. Seriously, how could you not look at the Republican leadership and prominent Republicans like Jindal, Palin, etc. and not laugh your ass off?

The Republican party is now in “crazy base world” and has no way out for the near term. Even if they knock off a few Dems in conservative districts next year, they’re likely to react to McCain’s loss by picking a diehard “savior” who’s likely to have the same sort of electoral luck when the Republicans tried that strategy in 1964 and when the Democrats tried the liberal version in 1972 and 1984.

Should that happen, 2016 is less likely to be 1968 or 1980 as they so badly want, but rather, its likely to be a 1940.

Topic: History, Liberals, President Obama

Jennifer Granholm Was Pathetic On Monday

2:10 am EST March 31st, 2009 | Politics | 14 Comments

In the middle of all the auto industry news on Monday, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was everywhere in the media. Sadly, most of what the Democrat said was nonsense. Gov. Granholm repeatedly praised outgoing GM CEO Rick Wagoner. Even worse, Gov Granholm assured us that the American auto industry was in the middle of a dramatic retooling for the new millenium.

It’s fine and dandy for the governor to cheer for the home team, but she shouldn’t do so at the expense of reality. The American auto industry has spent the last few decades fat, dumb, and happy. They allowed the Japanese to get ahead of them in the game, not due to some nefarious plot from the UAW but due to their own idiotic inertia.

The U.S. auto industry has felt it would have a license to print money with SUVs and the like, without a care in the world for the fuel efficiency and quality of their product. Their day of reckoning is here. GM and its ilk failed to go into the 21st century, and despite Gov. Granholm’s silliness, it will probably not survive in anything resembling the same form.

Obama Still Popular, Despite Fox News & Co.

1:49 am EST March 31st, 2009 | News | 16 Comments

The American people stubbornly refuse to believe the hype from Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Instapundit and the rest of the conservative disinformation apparatus.

The number of Americans who believe that the nation is headed in the right direction has roughly tripled since Barack Obama’s election, and the public overwhelmingly blames the excesses of the financial industry, rather than the new president, for turmoil in the economy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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Two-thirds of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the country’s top job, and six in 10 give him good marks on issue No. 1, the flagging economy. Those figures are little changed from last month. But he receives lower marks for dealing with the federal budget deficit after submitting a plan that would see continued huge deficits over the next decade. Fifty-two percent back Obama on his approach to the deficit, with the public split about evenly over whether belt-tightening or big increases in spending should be used to try to improve the economy.

66% approval? TIME TO GO GALT!

Topic: President Obama

Economy Affecting People’s Emotional State? No Way Say Conservatives

1:43 am EST March 31st, 2009 | News | 3 Comments

The very idea that the economy could affect people’s emotional state is crazy. No wonder Michelle Malkin and Matt Drudge are laughing over the idea. Right?