Saturday, February 14, 2009
Two days ago I posted a story about a Republican Congressman who claimed that FDR caused the Great Depression though his deficit spending (“borrow and spend”) — which would have been a neat time-travel trick since FDR didn’t get elected until almost four years after the Great Depression started. But as we know, most “big […]
Saturday, February 14, 2009
“Last night, Barack Obama held his first press conference as President of the United States, and it was fascinating because his press conferences are very different than the George Bush press conferences in many ways. There were verbs. There were syllables. There were complete sentences.” -Jay Leno “Obama said he still believes in bipartisanship and […]
Friday, February 13, 2009
Japanese TV is totally bizarre: from Huffington Post.
Friday, February 13, 2009
“How about President Barack Obama’s first primetime press conference last night? He was cogent, eloquent, and in complete command of the issues. I’m thinking to myself, what the hell am I supposed to do with that?” -David Letterman “Oh, here’s a bad sign. In Hawaii, a billion dollar Navy warship has run aground. They can’t […]
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Tennessee Republican legislators kick out their own Republican speaker, turning over control to the Democratic Party. And in Virginia, the Republicans plan a coup, but one of their own lets the tweet out of the bag. Rachel Maddow reports all the sordid (and ironic) political details:
Thursday, February 12, 2009
According to Ohio Republican Congress-critter Steve Austria, FDR caused the Great Depression: When [President Franklin] Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression. He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That’s just history. Unfortunately for the Republican version […]
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Is this comic satire like the original Obama New Yorker cover, or is it really arguing that the Stimulus bill is socialism? You decide! © Mike Lester
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
My head is spinning because of an email that Mike Huckabee sent out to his followers that claims that the economic stimulus bill is “anti-religious”. His gripe is that the bill prohibits higher education construction grants to be used for “… modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities — used for sectarian instruction, religious worship … […]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
“On Friday, the Senate agreed to an economic stimulus package of at least $780 billion, which I know sounds like a lot of money, but, remember, that’s in American dollars.” -Seth Meyers “Hi everyone, I’m Jimmy. I’m your late-night stimulus package. … Word out of the Senate tonight is that a deal has been reached […]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Jon Stewart dramatically demonstrates the stunning and hilarious hypocrisy of Bill O’Reilly:
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Watching Obama’s press conference last night got me thinking again about the whole issue of bipartisanship. I’ve come to the conclusion that it really is pretty simple. First, one of the biggest issues in the last election was the economy. When businesses started to fail and people started losing jobs, McCain’s poll numbers went down […]
