The NYTimes is reporting that “Warren [Will] Unofficially Lead Consumer Agency“: Elizabeth Warren, who conceived of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will oversee its establishment as an assistant to President Obama, an official briefed on the decision said Wednesday evening. __ The decision, which Mr. Obama is to announce this week, would allow Ms. Warren, …
Election 2010
Watching the Clown Car Empty
One of the small consolations of getting ringside seats to the Teabagger/Confederate Party implosion is that Charles P. Pierce will be doing a weekly series for Esquire’s Politics blog: There is a real danger in overthinking what happened in Delaware on Tuesday night, which is not something of which the winner of the state’s GOP …
Grass Roots
I know this distinction will get lost in the mass media joy at the ‘grass roots’ victory of the Tea Party candidate in Delaware, but national media focus on Big Themes, and I think there’s an important difference between the national Republican Party and the 50 different state organizations. When national media are dissing “the …
Why the Hell Are You Just Sitting There?
Go give something. I’m in for another hundred. Tomorrow, we need to compile a list of ways we can help beyond just cash. We’re in some pretty real shit now, man, but this time we know what the fuck we’re supposed to do.
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“The Stink of Desperation”
John H. Richardson at Esquire dissects some of Dinesh D’Souza’s other recent lies, those of D’Souza’s fellow Republicans, and the possible reasoning behind them, in a post titled “The Stink of Desperation: Why Republicans Lie“: … What I don’t understand is this: What’s the point of writing such obvious lies? No thoughtful person of either …
Primary Day
I haven’t paid a whole helluva lot of attention to primaries this season, but the one in Delaware seems like a pretty big deal. If O’Donnell wins for the GOP, I will throw up an actblue page for the Democrat.
Scram
I worked the Democrat’s booth at the county fair yesterday, and from that I’ve determined nothing. I didn’t meet the hordes of enraged voters major media told me to expect, but I did encounter lots of worried Democrats who swore up and down they’re all voting, and two principled conservatives. One appeared suddenly while I …