A reader writes in: Why can’t we have a nationally televised debate about HCR and stimulus? The main problem that I see is ignorance. Most people get their news either from cable or the evening and neither one feels like their object is to really inform! If we had a debate (like Obama vs McCain) …
Archives for February 2010
Sofa King
The grifter speaks: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) called Monday evening for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s firing over remarks he allegedly made about the intellectually disabled. Palin, the mother of a child with Down’s Syndrome, called on President Barack Obama to end Emanuel’s tenure as chief of staff for having allegedly …
Why You Should Call Republicans
(1) This is a participatory Democracy. The system depends on concerned citizens voicing their opinions directly to the people whom they elect. Part of the reason why public discourse got so skewed in America is that the right wing noise machine generates epic, coordinated waves of phone calls and letters to Senators, Representatives, newspapers and …
Morning Call Your Reps Thread
Everything has gone quiet lately…too quiet. Either party leaders have some kind of eleven dimensional chess plan in motion, as John Chait thinks, or the issue honestly has moved to a back burner. I might feel more encouraged if the President would whip support for a specific plan of action (like, again, he did for …
The Rat Sees His Shadow
Six more weeks.
I’d Rather Be In Physical Pain
Feeling a litle better this morning, so I flipped through the morning shows, and I can not believe that they are honestly quoting Republicans voicing concern about the size of the budget and the deficits. Seriously. It is like the last thirty years never happened with our media. All the Republicans need to do is …
Early Morning Open Thread: Whither the Weather?
From a period many years before the groundhog took over forecasting duties… “If Candlemas is bright and clear, There’ll be two winters in the year; If Candlemas brings snow and rain, Old winter shall not come again.” Required legal boilerplate: Not a scienterrific methodology. So, what’s the weather like in your neighborhood this morning?
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