Saturday, February 6, 2010
I just had to use that headline. Watch the video and see why:
Saturday, February 6, 2010
I think this graphic — prepared by Nancy Pelosi using month-by-month job loss data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — speaks for itself. I hope the Dems show this every time anyone tries to blame Obama for the high unemployment rate. Isn’t it refreshing to see the Democrats finally starting to fight back? In […]
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Many of the Republican talking points during the Health care reform debate accused the Democrats of trying to ration health care, cut Medicare, and even institute “death panels” that would decide your granny didn’t deserve to live. Well, the death panels were a complete fabrication, and cutting Medicare turned out to actually be making it […]
Jon Stewart and John Oliver have a brilliant take on the military “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, including John McCain’s complete flip-flop on the issue: And Stephen Colbert also weighs in hilariously:
I think this comic captures the essential problem of our current economic mess. Economists pretty much agree that you need federal spending to get us out of the economic doldrums, but at the same time that deficit spending can cause more long-term problems. Not to mention that no matter what he does, Obama is going […]
“Well, the Oscar nominations were announced today, you guys. Best-actor nominees included George Clooney for ‘Up in the Air,’ Jeremy Renner for ‘The Hurt Locker,’ and President Obama for the ‘State of the Union.’” – Jimmy Fallon “Today, by the way, is Groundhog Day. And this morning, the groundhog known to humans as Punxsutawney Phil […]
I’m starting the process of moving Political Irony to a new host. Depending on how things go, this should happen in the next few days to a week. The new server will have much greater capacity, so things should run smoother (it’s tough running a popular blog!). When I do the actual switchover, Political Irony […]
Thursday, February 4, 2010
About once a month, Sarah Palin seems to say something monumentally stupid, or which directly contradicts something she said just a few months ago. This time around, she is calling on Rahm Emanuel to resign because he used some politically incorrect language, when just a few months ago she was calling for less political correctness. […]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Two years ago, CBS refused to run ads created by Moveon.org during the Superbowl, claiming that “the spot violated the network’s policy against running issue advocacy advertising”. They also refused to run an ad from PETA, the animal rights group, because they do not accept advertisements on “controversial issues of public importance.” This year CBS […]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
“The Obama administration has reversed itself and is now considering moving the trial of the 9/11 terrorists out of Manhattan after protests from Congress and the mayor of New York. See, they’re going to do an Off Broadway version first, see if people like it. See, then if it does well, then they’ll bring it […]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
© Matt Bors I love this comic in so many different ways — especially how it mashes up the issues of corporate personhood and gay marriage. And as crazy as this comic sounds, our current political situation is even more insane.
… some of the ideas that have been proposed recently seem like someone was just trying to see how crazy an idea they could get away with. Like billions in dollars in bonuses being handed out by companies that were about to go bankrupt. WTF? Are they just trying to demonstrate conclusively that they own […]
Sometimes things get so hypocritical in politics that you can’t figure out where the cycle of hypocrisy begins or ends. Deceiver.com has an interesting article wonderfully titled “Alabama Anti-Gambling Task-Force Chief Wins Jackpot, Resigns. Then Things Get Weird.” It seems that David Barber, the head of the Alabama Task Force on Illegal Gambling — yes, […]
