John’s in talks with Tina Brown about moving this dump to the Daily Beast. Thoughts? Update. This was just supposed to be a jokey thread opener. I would have posted it on April 1 if I’d known it would work as a prank.
Archives for March 2011
Life during wartime
I’m probably less opposed to intervention in Libya than John or mistermix (I’m honestly ambivalent bordering-on-opposing), but it creeps me out how Orwellian/Rumsfeldian/nonsensical wartime press conferences can be. Today, Jake Tapper pressed Jay Carney on what the White House plans are for Libya and was told: “I think that in some ways, your questions are …
Arizona Bans Race and Sex-Based “Hate Abortions”; Dials Up Batshit Insanity to Eleven
More dumbassery than you can shake a wire hanger at. Yesterday, Jan Brewer, the Wicked Witch of Arizona, signed into law House Bill 2443, which makes it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion based on the sex or race of the fetus. THIS JUST IN: part of your head just exploded. In …
Elizabeth Warren, Still Making All the Right Enemies
The more she’s written about, the more I admire Professor Warren. Today, she visited the Borg collective at its hive: She never actually uttered “I come in peace,” but Elizabeth Warren, the Obama administration aide charged with setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, might have felt like an alien visiting an anxious planet …
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A Libya Free Open Thread
I’m sure some of you are tired of the topic.
The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
In all seriousness, this really isn’t news: The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and contact rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces, according to American officials. While President Obama has insisted that no American military ground troops participate in the Libyan campaign, small groups of C.I.A. …
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Judy Biggert (R-Ill.): “Jobs Shmobs.” /eyeroll
I need a clean-up on Aisle Hypocrisy! “Where are the jobs? Where are the jobs?” That used to be the Teabilly siren song. For two years, John Boehner couldn’t stop whining about jobs. “Where are they? Where are they?” he cried, orange tears plopping down his face:1 So much did our Republican compatriots love the …
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