Ben Nelson – Democrat – is really a piece of work. The folks at Health Care Can’t Wait are running an ad and petition to get real and meaningful health care reform – with a public option – through the senate. How does Nelson respond?
In a statement issued late in the afternoon by Nelson’s [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Ben Nelson Needs A Reality Pill Or Two Hundred
July 31st, 2009
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Dana Milbank: How About Some “Mad Bitch” Beer For Hillary Clinton
July 31st, 2009
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Oh this was the high brow kind of journalism that Dana Milbank was lecturing the Huffington Post over. Consider us all schooled.
Time for another one of those blogger ethics panels.
The South Is Source Of GOP Rot
July 31st, 2009
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GOP birther concentration focuses on the south. At some point these yahoos are going to try and get “Dixie” as the national anthem and replace the currency with confederate dollars.
The Base & Their Money Bins
July 31st, 2009
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I Hope One Day To Pay The Higher Taxes Associated With The Kind Of Person Who Owns A Home Like This
Conservative republican efforts to whip up sympathy for the uber-rich is always funny. Look, the vast majority of us work hard and would love to have the burden of being in the tax bracket of [...]
Rush Limbaugh’s Premature Galt
July 31st, 2009
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Remember when Rush Limbaugh said the high taxes of New York were forcing him to leave? Well… he didn’t. Shocker.
GOP Looks To The Future With Steamboats
July 31st, 2009
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The Democrats have Renaissance Weekend, and now conservatives are trying to catch up with their own weekend of policy brainstorming. Several tell our Suzi Parker that they are planning for the Steamboat Institute Inaugural Freedom Conference, slated for August 28-29 in Colorado.
As usual the same old retreads like Grover Norquist are involved in the conference, [...]
He Must Have Known I Was Coming To Training Camp
July 30th, 2009
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I’ll be there Friday, and when I do – Brian Orakpo has signed officially with the Redskins.
And Some Times Powerline Should Shut Up
July 30th, 2009
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Powerline adds their stupid right-wing opinion to the growing mass of wrong-headed right-wing opinion piled up around the Henry Gates arrest:
This suggests to me that, as far as African-Americans are concerned, ‘race politics’ will continue unabated, as if Obama had never been elected president.
This suggests to me that right-wingers insist on pretending as if racism [...]
Conservatives In A Nutshell
July 30th, 2009
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Will Smith Can’t Save Us From The Right
Ezra Klein
In my chat today, a reader asked me to respond to Megan McArdle’s lengthy case against national health insurance. The problem is that, well, there’s not a lot to specifically respond to. In 1,600 words, she doesn’t muster a single link to a study or argument, nor [...]
Obama Approval
July 30th, 2009
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Clearly President Obama has dropped a bit in the approval polls, but I don’t see it as anything to worry about. I frankly lay more of the blame for this at the feet of Sen. Reid and Sen. Baucus whose dithering has caused the delay in passage of health care reform. If there’s any fault [...]
Boston Cop Called Henry Louis Gates Jr. A “Jungle Monkey”
July 29th, 2009
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Racism, we’re solving it!
A Boston police officer was placed on administrative leave after he allegedly used a racial slur when referring to Henry Louis Gates Jr.
In a mass e-mail, Officer Justin Barrett, 36, called Gates a ‘jungle monkey,’ according to a law enforcement source.
Gates, a black Harvard scholar, was arrested at his home earlier this [...]
Fed Sees Economy Stabilizing
July 29th, 2009
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Stay tuned…
The U.S. economy is finally showing signs of stabilizing in some regions of the country — especially in parts of the Northeast and Midwest — bolstering hopes of a broader-based recovery this year.
A Federal Reserve snapshot of economic conditions issued Wednesday found that most of the Fed’s 12 regions indicated either that the recession [...]
Video: CNBC Bummed They Didn’t Get Madoff interview
July 29th, 2009
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It’s still funny aways the way this guy gets reamed for flim-flammery in hyping this interview.
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The Dumbest Thing I’ve Read This Week
July 29th, 2009
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Gregory Levey in Newsweek: “Why Obama should make George W. Bush his Mideast envoy.”
In related news, Godzilla has been appointed to the task force to rebuild Tokyo.
Video: Birther Orly Taitz On The Colbert Report
July 29th, 2009
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Boom, goes the dynamite.
The Total Disconnect At NBC News
July 29th, 2009
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MSNBC’s First Read:
Perhaps the biggest thing that stood out to us at President Obama’s AARP town hall yesterday was that the White House appears to be losing the message war on health care. How do we know? Just listen to the questions the AARP callers had. Several of them asked about ‘rumors,’ and they also [...]
The Kind Of Hack Work Michelle Malkin Is Famous For
July 29th, 2009
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Malkin:
On a quick break here and wanted to post a quote by SEIU president and Friend of Obama Andy Stern for you to contemplate as the White House bully boys try to salvage Dear Leader’s legislative agenda.
From p. 220 of the book:
Asked about his organizing philosophy, Andy Stern summed it up this way: “[W]e prefer [...]
Kudos To Fox News’ Wendell Goler
July 29th, 2009
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Sure, he’ll probably be on the short list if Rupert and Roger are forced to do any belt-tightening at FNC, but Wendell Goler deserves credit for this report debunking the right-wing lie (seen most often on the same Fox News) that the health care reform bill forces senior citizens to meet annually with an end-of-life [...]
Michelle Malkin Brings The Full-On Crazyface To New Book Tour
July 28th, 2009
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Serial conservative liar Michelle Malkin is currently promoting her new anti-Democratic book allegeging a “culture of corruption” (sorry, you guys on the right did that far better than the left ever could). But what I want to note about Malkin after a considerable absence from the media (she used to be on Fox almost daily), [...]
