I was going to do a big post comparing the rhetoric downplaying the size of protests in the 2003 era and the current tea party, but what it boils down to is I am just too lazy to do the research. Instead, I will just use pictures. A few bitter cranks in San Francisco protesting …
Archives for February 2009
Out of Ideas. No, Really. They Are Just Out of Ideas.
Yesterday at Outside the Beltway, James Joyner, who is attending CPAC, listed Newt Gingrich’s 12 point plan for the GOP to recapture the hearts of America (and I have cut the descriptions of the items down, you can visit OTB for the full list): 1. Payroll Tax Stimulus. 2. Real Middle-Income Tax Relief. 3. Reduce …
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Peak Wingnut And Other Imaginary Things
That was such an awesome theory. ***Update*** I broke the internets; it’s fixed now.
FUBO
Suck on this, libtards. C-list wingnut yakker Bob Lonsberry has unleashed an avant-garde gamechanger on the struggling Obama administration: a word came to me. A newly coined word. Four letters. Pronounced “foo-bow.” Like in “food” and “bow and arrow” – “foo-bow.” [….] Then the phones lit up. Dozens and dozens of people called. They wanted …
Late night music thread
I’m not sure why, but this song captures my political mood perfectly. Consider this an open thread.
Ben Stein on CNN
I’m not sure if any of you watched it, but Ben Stein was just on CNN with Laura D’Andrea Tyson and Wolf Blitzer, and not only defended the budget, but basically threw the last eight years under the bus and then, and this is what blew me away, stated that he agreed with Paul Krugman …
The New *New* Coke
Fresh off the news that Obama’s poll numbers have rebounded to 67% approval, some in the GOP have come up with an innovative new strategy to knock him down a peg: Top Republicans charged President Barack Obama with driving the United States toward socialism on Friday, opening an ideological attack on his big spending plans. …