Pete Suderman and company are now quoting James Pethokoukis, he of “Dude Where’s My Recession” fame. Apparently Obamacare is to blame for a lack of job growth. Mind you, when Pethokoukis was writing his column in late 2008, this is what the jobs report looked like: You have to actively work to be this stupid.
Your Morning Space-Time Causality Failure
With the opening of the Bush Presidentin’ Center in Texas this week, the cottage industry of “Rehabilitation: Mission Accomplished!” is now in full swing. Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider: Bush doesn’t get enough credit for saving the economy in late 2008. Had to be a maverick and buck his own party. — Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) …
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Open Thread
Bill Maher was awesome tonight. He had a guy talking about a ballot in California regarding food labeling as his interview, then his panel was Goldie Taylor (I can’t decide if I want to kiss her or do shots or both), the horribly weaselly John Fund always who does to the truth what he does …
She came in through the airplane window
I’m trying to procrastinate, so I should be blogging, but all I want to talk about is Romney’s airplane window comment and the NFL scab refs. And it’s safe to say, we’ve already covered those topics here. So maybe an open thread is in order. Update. But I can’t resist this principled Randian reaction to …
Jimmy runs deep so deep so deep
If you read that New Yorker article about Paul Ryan, you will notice that the zombie-eyed granny starver considers James Pethokoukis a confidant. This James Pethokoukis: That’s what Ryanmentum is all about: turning up the Nuge and rocking out to Ayn Rand and Red Dawn.
Killing Social Security in lame duck session
Commenter jayackroyd lays out a pretty convincing case that there may be a move to cut Social Security during a lame duck session this fall (everything below is written by him, not me): All the Very Serious Villagers know Social Security has to be cut, that the austerity program cannot work with an insolvent retirement …
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Today’s Fauxtrage
And of course, if there is an absurd story that wingnuts will love, Tapper is on top of it: Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama’s reference earlier to “a Polish death camp” — as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland. “The White House will apologize for this outrageous error,” …