In fairness, the Republicans never say WHICH family they value: Early last year, Senator John Ensign contacted a small circle of political and corporate supporters back home in Nevada — a casino designer, an airline executive, the head of a utility and several political consultants — seeking work for a close friend and top Washington …
Archives for October 2009
You Can Go Your Own Way
Everyone say hello to Secretary of State Jim DeMint (Wingnut- where else? South Carolina): our U.S. Republican lawmakers met with Honduras’ interim president on Friday in a challenge to Washington’s condemnation of the coup that brought him to power. The brief, amicable visit with the leaders of the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya highlights …
Five Ring Circus
And to think, just a few months ago, it was unpatriotic to go without a flag pin. Now, however, actively rooting for your country to lose an Olympic bid is PATRIOTISM DEFINED! At any rate, the commentary is pretty predictable, but two pieces stood out as excessively stupid. First, Rick Moran: He placed the prestige …
Bobo agonistes
A bunch of you have pointed to Bobo’s anti-Beck column today and said you thought it was good and reasonable. I don’t agree (though I do sympathize with him). Since my first stab at drawing possibly false equivalences between the respectable right and the real wingers went over so well, I’m going to take another …
“I forgot”
This Tweety bit, via Digby, is an instant classic: Matthews: Did he think that people … well let’s get to some of the more extreme charges against him. Did he think that anybody thought that, anybody real, I mean we talk about the nut jobs all the time. But does anybody really think that Bill …
Bust out the cardigans
This presidency is over. How can Iran and Russia and North Korea and all the Hitlers of the world take us seriously now that the Olympic committee has laughed in the president’s face? The bipartisan thing would be for Obama to resign now.
More Lucky Duckies
Blerg: The American economy lost 263,000 jobs in September — far more than expected — and the unemployment rate rose 9.8 percent, the government reported on Friday, dimming the prospect of any meaningful job growth by the end of the year. The Labor Department’s monthly snapshot of unemployment dashed hopes that the pace of job …