Speaking of gloating, I just want to point out that two weeks ago, when most progressives were complaining bitterly about Obama trying to be all bipartisan with the Republicans, I posted an article pointing out that Obama was cleverly painting the obstructionist Republicans into a corner. The pundits and bloggers now seem to have figured out this […]
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the roughly 3,000 political appointees of the Bush administration are having trouble finding jobs. How much trouble? Roughly twice as much difficulty as similar appointees from the administrations of Bush I, Reagan, or even Clinton. This is ironic for so many reasons. Why does nobody want […]
“Yesterday, President Obama signed the stimulus bill in Denver, Colorado. He picked Denver because our debt is now a mile high.” -Jay Leno “Hey, the market went up three points today, so the stimulus package is working. Yeah! It’s a miracle!” -Jay Leno “America’s auto makers have asked the government — remember when America’s auto […]
“Members of Congress should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their corporate sponsors.” –Zing “If I had done the things I’ve been accused of, I’d be too embarrassed to stand up here.” – Senator Roland Burris “Spending $800 billion to save or create 4 million jobs works out to $200,000 per job. […]
To partisan or bipartisan, that is the question. The New Yorker has an excellent article about partisan politics, which ends with the following paragraph: Fifty years ago, the civil-rights movement understood that nonviolence can be an effective weapon even if—or especially if—the other side refuses to follow suit. Obama has a similarly tough-minded understanding of […]
One of the interesting ironies about the economic stimulus bill that just passed is that by most any measure it is the largest tax cut in US history. It includes $282 billion in tax cuts over two years. In comparison, Bush’s largest tax cuts (in 2004/2005) totaled $231 billion. So why did the Republicans just […]
Two days ago I posted a story about a Republican Congressman who claimed that FDR caused the Great Depression though his deficit spending (“borrow and spend”) — which would have been a neat time-travel trick since FDR didn’t get elected until almost four years after the Great Depression started. But as we know, most “big […]
Tennessee Republican legislators kick out their own Republican speaker, turning over control to the Democratic Party. And in Virginia, the Republicans plan a coup, but one of their own lets the tweet out of the bag. Rachel Maddow reports all the sordid (and ironic) political details:
According to Ohio Republican Congress-critter Steve Austria, FDR caused the Great Depression: When [President Franklin] Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression. He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That’s just history. Unfortunately for the Republican version […]
Watching Obama’s press conference last night got me thinking again about the whole issue of bipartisanship. I’ve come to the conclusion that it really is pretty simple. First, one of the biggest issues in the last election was the economy. When businesses started to fail and people started losing jobs, McCain’s poll numbers went down […]
According to the Army, not only were suicides among soldiers up last year, but there has been a sudden spike in suicides already this year. In January alone, 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide (six times as many as the same month a year ago). What is ironic about this is that there were […]
In an open letter published in the New York Times, the CEO of NetFlix asks President Obama to raise his taxes. That’s right. He wants to raise the top federal marginal tax rate to be 50% on all income above $1 million.
This blog has reported previously about the “terrorist watch list”. The list has more than a million people on it — if more than a million Americans are terrorists, haven’t the terrorists already won? Or is it more likely that some of those people are on the list by mistake? You know, people like Senator […]
There is an interesting provision in the proposed Massachusetts state budget that would prohibit state agencies from hiring lobbyists to lobby the state government. Apparently, in 2008 the state government spent more than $1 million to hire outside lobbyists to lobby itself. But what makes this doubly ironic is that at least two lobbyists are […]
PolitiFact is keeping a close eye on Obama, compiling a list of over 500 promises made during the campaign to see if he keeps them. With less than two weeks in office, Obama’s score stands at 6 promises kept, 18 in the works, 1 stalled, 1 compromise, and now sadly, 1 promise broken. When Obama […]
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