Steven Pearlstein has an great column on the self-contradictory economic claims of the current crop of GOP presidential candidates. Here’s two examples: Theirs is a magical world in which the gulf oil spill and the Japanese nuclear disaster never happened and there was never a problem with smog, polluted rivers or contaminated hamburger. It is […]
“The NFL season kicks off Thursday night right here on NBC, right after the season finale of President Obama.” – Jay Leno “Obama will give a speech on job growth. I don’t think it will be a big speech.” – Jay Leno “One of President Obama’s speech writers quit his job to pursue his dream […]
© Ruben Bolling Because every story now gets a happy ending.
So far, presidential candidate Herman Cain is the winner of the “most crass use of 9/11 for political gain award” for this bizarre tribute video: Former Republican congressman and now cable morning show host Joe Scarborough can at least sing in his tribute video:
© Matt Bors UPDATE: From Paul Krugman: Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued? Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd. What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. […]
I’m going to be working on the website today, so if you have any problems accessing the site, just come back tomorrow. –iron knee UPDATE: Well, the site was hacked pretty badly, but I managed to reconstruct it. I’m going to be looking for a new (more secure) place to host this blog.
Ever get the feeling that you’re being had by all the “law and order” politicians who keep screaming that we have to get tough on criminals (cough, Rick Perry, Ric Scott, JD Alexander)? Even though the US incarcerates more people than any other country on earth. Well, you are being had, and the con is […]
Jon Stewart explains who won the Republican debate. And why the pundits don’t get it.
“For most Americans, Labor Day means a 3-day weekend, but for 9.1 percent of Americans, it’s been a 12-month weekend.” – Jay Leno “After Labor Day, you’re supposed to put away your white clothes. I hope someone tells Moammar Gadhafi it would be bad to wave the white flag today.” – Craig Ferguson “New statistics […]
© Lalo Alcaraz Of course there are bad things to say about Libya, but compared to Iraq?
Quote from a reader of Andrew Sullivan after the Republican debate: Listening to GOP Presidential candidates talk about science is like listening to children talk about sex: They know it exists, they have strong opinions about what it might mean, but they don’t have a clue what it’s actually about.
Some of you might have noticed that Political Irony has been slow lately, and even been unavailable on and off. Yesterday I found some exploit code that had been hacked into the site and removed it, but it still isn’t behaving well. It has been almost a year since I rebuilt the site from scratch, […]
© Matt Wuerker My main question is whether Cheney believes the things he says in his book, or if he just doesn’t know how to tell the truth any more.
Mike Lofgren has a detailed and compelling write-up about what’s wrong with the Republican Party and our political system in general. And he should know, he used to be a GOP operative and a congressional staffer. If you ever wanted to read a clear description of what happened to the Republican party, this is it. […]
“Next week, Obama will unveil his new jobs bill. I’m sure that will sail right through.” – David Letterman “‘The White House agreed to move President Obama’s speech from Wednesday to Thursday because the Republicans have a debate scheduled for Wednesday. So the debate that no one is going to watch holds more weight than […]
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