Greg Sargent asks a very good question.
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The Party of Personal Responsibility
Let’s get this guy in SuperCongress stat: While U.S. Rep. Tom Graves was calling for fiscal responsibility in Washington his attorney was arguing in a lawsuit that a North Georgia bank is at fault for issuing Graves a $2.2 million loan the bank knew he could not repay. Graves was fighting a lawsuit along with …
Drunken wrestling is probably fine, even encouraged, but the kids in the car will do him in
This is sort of small change, but the national situation is so dispiriting and disconnected from reality I think we need a distraction. Plus. I love this headline: State rep found drunk was on House speaker’s car On the car. An important detail. State Rep. Jerrod Martin was passed out drunk on then-GOP Minority Leader’s …
In Wake of Wisconsin Voter Suppression Laws, Walker Planning to Close DMVs in Democratic Areas
Because of course he is. Wisconsin’s new Voter ID laws require voters to present a state-issued photo ID card at the polling booth. It’s a pain in the ass, but doable, right? Just head to your local DMV, wait in line for eleventy-three days, and presto! You have an ID card! Not so fast. Now, …
Circle Jerks
DougJ’ post about the laughable idiot James Pethokoukis (he’s the clown who spent October 2008 flogging the Goldberg theorem claiming the market was tanking not because of the economic crisis but because of an impending Obama electoral victory) and his “Reagan at Rekyavik” nonsense reminded me of the fawning media coverage Reagan got in 1985 …
This Indictment is quite a read…
I live in Baltimore. Last year on Election Day, while I was out working to GOTV we received a robo-call at our house around 6pm telling us: Hello I’m calling to let everybody know that Governor O’Malley and President Obama have been successful. Our goals have been met. The polls were correct, and we took …
Weiner Out
And the inevitable has now happened: Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told House leaders that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House, said a top Democratic official and two people told of Mr. Weiner’s plans. His decision follows revelations of his lewd online …