© Adam Zyglis As the minority party, the Republicans were able to get away with being the Party of No, but now that they have a majority in the House, and an improved ability to filibuster the Senate, how long can they keep up being the party that is just opposed to everything the Democrats […]
Author Douglas Rushkoff has an interesting take on the current Facebook phenomenon, which he likens to a bubble in our increasingly short attention span world, where we can’t even remember what happened to MySpace, or AOL, or a host of other flavor of the moment companies. But as usual, I’ll leave the last word to […]
Forbes magazine has a new article that points out that — despite what Republicans are saying about the health care reform bill killing jobs — that Obamacare is helping small businesses offer health care to their employees. This is great news. I have started a number of small businesses, and I have long said that […]
“This weekend in Arkansas, thousands of dead birds dropped out of the sky and there were 100,000 dead fish in the rivers. Also, McDonald’s is having a special on Chicken McNuggets and Filet of Fish.” – Jay Leno “Apparently this is Arkansas’ version of the New Year’s Eve ball drop.” – Jay Leno “You know […]
Jon Stewart covers the debate to see who will be the next chairman of the Republican National Committee: My favorite question at the debate: “Aside from President Reagan, who is your political hero?” And speaking of litmus tests, how about the “how many guns do you own” question? Stewart is on a roll this week. […]
© Joel Pett I always worry when politicians start using phrases like “everybody knows” or “nobody believes”. Like RNC chair Michael Steele responding to the CBO estimate that repealing Obamacare will cost $230 billion by saying “There is no one that believes the Washington Democrats’ job-killing health care law will lower costs, because it won’t.” […]
This political cartoon was published in 1921 — 90 years ago: © Art Young [Hat tip to Lloyd Dangle.]
The incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives has a new rule. They must offset the cost of any legislation that would increase federal spending. Sounds good, yes? And yet, they are attempting to repeal Obama’s health care reform bill, a bill that the Congressional Budget Office says will reduce the federal deficit by […]
© Jim Morin Daily Kos has a petition to force Senators who want to filibuster to actually stand up there and filibuster. I figure if they feel strongly enough to filibuster something, the least they can do is stand up there and explain to the American public why they are filibustering.
According to a new poll, 61% of Americans say that the first step toward balancing the budget should be raising taxes on the richest Americans. Only 20% thought that the first step should be to cut defense spending, while 4% wanted to start by cutting Medicare, and 3% wanted to cut Social Security (the third […]
… before he hits the ground. © Tom Toles The new session of Congress doesn’t start until Wednesday, but Republicans have already scheduled a vote on January 12th to repeal Obama’s health care reform bill. Of course, this is a complete waste of time and money, since Democrats still control the Senate, and even if […]
The next time some politician says that we have to “seal the border” with Mexico before we can do anything about immigration reform, you should realize that this is an absolute lie. It is simply not practical to seal a border that is 2000 miles long.
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