03-09-2010
Congressman Eric Massa
His latest story is that allegations of sexual harrassment of his male staffers were beyond salty language, but were nothing more than a tickle fight. Yes, you read that correctly: tickle fight. Somewhere between last week and this week, Congressman Massa has turned himself into a walking spoof from an early Woody Allen comedy. Its easy to envision Fielding Mellish abusing his power to partake in tickle fights.
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03-05-2010
The WSJ Editorial Page
The funny thing about the WSJ editorial page is that there is this pretense that, like the rest of the paper, its reserved for sophisticated readers. Then they use propaganda tricks that only someone less sophisticated than the average high school kid wouldn’t see right through. And speaking of . . .
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03-04-2010
This is a Video Worth Watching
Ghosts of SNL Presidencies past lobby President Obama on financial reform.
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03-04-2010
Prez Obama Final Health Care Reform Proposal
Watch President Obama’s remarks on his final health care reform proposal. It’s hard to see how anyone can be against this proposal after learning what it does.
In President Obama’s honest but futile attempt to appeal to some Congressional Republicans, his proposal even incorporates a significant number of Republican ideas (which I’m not sure is a good thing, frankly, but his effort at bipartisanship should at least be appreciated by any fair-minded Republican, even though the power-hungry hyper-partisan Republicans in Congress will never vote for any kind of real reform).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/03/moving-forward-put-american-people-ahead-insurance-companies
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03-02-2010
From the Department of “Says It All”
An editorial of rare candor from “John Boehner.”
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02-26-2010
Jim the Jackass
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) repeatedly blocks unemployment benefits extension for those hit by recession, and tells Dems “tough shit” as he complains of missing a basketball game. What a jackass.
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02-25-2010
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
but an in-depth description of why Mark Sanford was a bad husband will be.
Also, speaking of televised, if this doesn’t cut to the core of GOP nonsense, I don’t know what does:
If you think it’s a socialist plot, then please drop out of the federal employees health program.
– Sen.Richard Durbin (D-IL)
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02-25-2010
We Are Still So Thankful for Michael Steele . . .
Expense report edition: “Someone at the RNC spent $15 at a pet store on 8th SE and listed the expense as meals.”
If Michael Steele were secretly a DNC-funded saboteur, someone would have to give him a call and tell him he is overdoing it.
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02-25-2010
Super good deep thought du jour
comes from Jonathan Chait:
The main operational difference between the two parties for the last two years is that one thinks taxes should be set at a level to finance the government we have, and the other thinks taxes should be set at a level to finance the government they wish they had, but realize they can’t actually get voters to accept.
Read the rest of his post, which is short with a very interesting chart, it says it all.
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02-23-2010
Deep Thought De Jour
Courtesy of Salon: “The tea partiers are the hippies of our time.”
Long article by Michael Lind, with plenty of room for disagreement all around, but a must-read if you want to take the long view of what’s going on with our political culture, and counter-culture.
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02-23-2010
When You Lose Jim Traficant . . .
you’ve lost Jim Traficant.
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02-22-2010
Schwarzenegger on Stimulus Hypocrisy
Good sum up by Sam Stein at the Huffington Post.
“I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around, and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying, ‘This doesn’t create any new job,’” said Schwarzenegger. “And then they go out and do the photo ops, posing with the big check and they say: ‘Isn’t this great, look at the kind of money I’ve provided for the state and this is money to create jobs, and this has created 10,000 new jobs, this has created 20,000 news jobs, and all those kinds of things.’ It doesn’t match up.”
Worth checking out.
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02-20-2010
Stan Greenberg on 1994 v. 2010
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02-19-2010
The Road to Recovery
Check out (and pass along) this video:
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02-19-2010
Toobin
What gives with this new trend of dorky guys and their love children? If Peter Orzag wasn’t weird enough, how about the love child of Jeffrey Toobin and Jeff Greenfield (actually Greenfield’s daughter)? That just sounds like a Conan O’Brien bit. What’s the next shoe to fall? Have we finally achieved the ultimate in nebishy love children or does someone from the cast of NUMB3RS have something they haven’t told us?
Also, for the record, in a world of dreadful TV and newspaper journalists and commentators, Jeffrey Toobin is a pretty good one. So in all seriousness, we wish him well.
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02-18-2010
Deep Thought of the Evening: The Real Bagel Outrage
Yes, trying to get reimbursed $177 for a bagel sandwich that actually cost $7 is outlandish. But isn’t being asked to pay $7 for a bagel also outlandish? Just imagine the impact on the city’s budget if this guy had a taste for smoked fish- a few lox and it would be 1975 all over again.
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02-18-2010
More Milbank
Yesterday’s brief post on Dana Milbank featured some links of his greatest hits, but somehow we managed to forget the time when he called the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor, who graduated at the top of her class at Princeton and Yale Law, as “biography over brains.” Swell guy, very trenchant.
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02-17-2010
The Stimulus Bill
According to a recent poll, just 6% of people think the economic stimulus bill created any jobs. In fact, it has created at least 1.6 million jobs thus far, and likely closer to 3 million. See here.
In related news, Think Progress finds that over half of Republican lawmakers in Congress voted against the economic stimulus bill yet have tried to claim credit for projects funded by it in their districts.
So let me get this straight. Republicans irresponsibly voted lock-step against the stimulus bill at the very moment our economy was collapsing, continue to claim the stimulus is not working despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, yet take credit for projects funded by the stimulus in their own districts. Oy vey.
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02-17-2010
Milbank
At most newspapers, Dana Milbank would be an embarrassment, at the Washington Post, he’s a star.
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02-16-2010
Ken Starr to Be President of Baylor University
To be fair to Baylor, his written account of President Clinton’s sexual encounters was impeccably footnoted. Go Red Raiders.
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