Wednesday, November 17, 2010
© Jack Ohman The headlines are: “McConnell Does About-Face on Earmarks” (from the conservative NRO), “McConnell Caves on Earmarks” (moderate Washington Monthly), and “McConnell blinks on earmarks” (liberal Daily Kos). At least we can all agree on something!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
“President Bush is everywhere talking about his book and he’s being very candid. In one interview, he said that he used to do stupid things while he was drunk. But think about it, who among us hasn’t had a couple of drinks and invaded Iraq?” – David Letterman “The point he wants to get across […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
© Tom Tomorrow The largest increases in “average life expectancy” are actually due to a lowering of childhood death. Old people really aren’t living that much longer than they did when Social Security was originally established. And those who do live longer are primarily in the top half of income earners. Interestingly, the tax that […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
I guess we now have a new meaning of the term “nuclear option” and just how much the Republicans are willing to sell out their own country and their own principals for partisan political gain. The nuclear Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) expired in December 2009. The original START was negotiated by the Reagan administration […]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
We seriously need to figure out if McCain simply can’t remember what he has said in the past. UPDATE: John McCain has changed his position on every single policy issue:
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Recently, the NY Times published a “deficit-reduction calculator” that is fun to play with, but its options for reducing government spending and raising revenue are simply too limited. Ezra Klein gives some links to other similar calculators, but in case you want to skip to the ending, pretty much the only way to balance the […]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
© Jen Sorensen Bipartisanship — like an abusive relationship.
Monday, November 15, 2010
I’ve been seeing a lot of frustration and anger at the new security measures going into effect in airports (especially from pilots). One issue is the new millimeter ‘backscatter’ x-ray machines. Previously, only your carryon bags were x-rayed, now they are x-raying your entire body. And since these new machines penetrate clothing, but stop at […]
Monday, November 15, 2010
Gin and Tacos has a fantastic rant about the overwhelming mandate delivered by the American people in the recent election. Yes, other pundits have attributed lots of other meanings to the election, but I think we can all agree that they have no idea what they are talking about. Ed humbly submits the following as […]
Monday, November 15, 2010
John Shimkus, Republican Congressman from Illinois, is currently on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is responsible for energy policy, environmental initiatives, and public health. But now that control of the House is being turned over to Republicans, Shimkus is trying to become chairman of the powerful committee. What makes this ironic is […]
Sunday, November 14, 2010
© Lee Judge If we keep voting for people whose only policy proposal is to attack their opponents, then we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
“I finally read former President Bush’s memoir, and I’ve got to say, the book was way better than the presidency.” – Jimmy Fallon “George W. Bush says he is glad to be out of the Oval Office because he doesn’t have to think all the time. And I’m thinking wait a minute, that was him […]
Sunday, November 14, 2010
© Matt Bors And just this week, a Congressional leader told the head of a foreign government that he would side with the foreign country against the US president. Where are the screams of treason at this unprecedented undermining of US policy?
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Bloomberg implicitly asks the obvious question: Investors say that president Obama is bad for the bottom line; if so, then why are US corporations on track for the biggest earnings growth in 22 years, and the stock market is going like gangbusters again? 68% of US investors say that Obama’s policies are detrimental to the […]
