© Joel Pett If Tuesday’s election proved anything, it is that Tea Party anger, although mostly fostered and funded by Republicans, can definitely cause blow-back.
A tidbit in Electoral-Vote yesterday had me laughing: Special Election for Murtha’s Seat Today When Rep. John Murtha died earlier this year, that triggered a special election for his seat that will be held today. PA-12 is a swing district (R+1) and is the only district in the country that voted for both John Kerry […]
via Friends of Irony So when are they going to make it illegal for politicians to take bribes? Oh, that’s right, they just made it legal for corporations to throw as much money as they want at politicians.
Lebanese-born Arab-American (and Muslim) Miss Michigan Rima Fakih won Donald Trump’s Miss USA competition, and the right-wing is going absolutely bat-shit crazy. Debbie Schlussel calls her “Miss Hezbollah” and says that she won because the contest is fixed and “Clearly, there is affirmative action for Muslim women in beauty pagaents”. Well, except that Rima’s family […]
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© Ben Sargent The idea that Supreme Court justices have to be judges is actually quite new.
Dick Cheney famously said “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” Cheney was presumably talking about the political implications of deficits, because Reagan won reelection even though he blew up the deficit more than all of his predecessors combined (while continuing to claim to be a fiscal conservative). But now, economist James Galbraith claims that deficits don’t […]
Lewis Black is brilliant: UPDATE: I can’t stop laughing every time I watch this.
I am reprinting this letter from Daily KOS because it is a brilliant rant, and because the author specifically encouraged people to reprint it. It was originally written as a response to her very conservative brother who was trying to blame everything on Obama to get her to vote conservative in the upcoming election. It […]
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Even though people keep complaining that taxes are too high, USA Today analyzed publically available information and concluded that total taxes — including income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes and all other taxes — are now lower than they have been since 1950. Currently, everyone, on average, pays 9.2% of their income in taxes of […]
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Yesterday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele released a statement about Obama nominating Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. His major complaint against Kagan seems to be this: her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution “as originally drafted and conceived, was ‘defective’” OMG, how can a nominee to the Supreme Court believe that the […]
© John Sherffius Don’t get me wrong — I’m all for the second amendment. But some people’s priorities seem a bit screwed up. I also believe in free speech, but that doesn’t include the right to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. So why is it that someone on the terrorist watch list can be […]
© Mike Luckovich Plus, Tea Partiers in Utah at a Republican Party convention denied the Senate nomination to three term incumbent Bob Bennett, despite the fact that Bennett is popular with Republicans in Utah. By doing this, Tea Partiers are creating a situation where Democrats can gain this seat in the general election, despite the […]
John Cole has a revolutionary idea — let’s let the free market take care of things. His brilliant idea? Make the oil companies responsible for the total clean up cost of their oil spills. If they can’t pay, they go bankrupt. That might make them a bit more safety conscious. After the Exxon Valdez disaster, […]
I’m visiting Arizona for a week, and I’m taking this opportunity to talk to some of the locals about the new immigration law. I’ve just begun, but I’ve already noticed a few interesting things. First of all, everyone I’ve talked to has repeated the claim that police will only be able to check someone’s immigration […]
