Esquire presents the 10 Congress-critters most deserving of being voted out of office this year: http://www.esquire.com/features/esquire-endorsements-2008/10-worst-members-congress-1108 Pretty evenly split by party – 5 Republicans, 4 Democrats, and 1 Independent (guess who!). My fave is Michele Bachmann, who made their list even before she totally went nutso on Hardball. Here is Esquire’s description of her: One […]
Reader Aaron Rowe sends this photo he took about 20 miles South of Fort Worth, Texas: There are so many ways this is ironic: Normally billboards like this say to keep the state green, not red, but I guess considering the surroundings it is a little too late for that. While the color red is […]
It was bad enough that the largest newspaper in Alaska endorsed Obama, but now this? This is the governor’s mansion in Juneau, Alaska: This is the house across the street: Thanks to Don (aka Mr. Ed).
Today on “Meet the Press”, McCain said that he can “guarantee” a squeaker victory on election day that won’t be clear until late that night. McCain told moderator Tom Brokaw: I guarantee you that two weeks from now, you will see this has been a very close race, and I believe that I’m going to […]
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One of those stories that that, even if it isn’t true, should be: A canvasser goes up to a door in Western Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks for whom she’s planning to vote. She isn’t sure, and has to ask her husband. Husband is off in another room watching a game. Canvasser hears him […]
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Freaking Brilliant! Just in case you don’t know what this is a parody of (or just want to see it again), here’s the original Budweiser Wassup ad from 1999. My how things have changed during the Bush error era.
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I’m sure everyone has seen the story about the 20 year old white girl, a McCain volunteer, who has now confessed that she made up a story about a large black man who attacked and robbed her, and scratched a “B” on her face because he saw the McCain bumper sticker on her car. There […]
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
This is one of those “hell freezes over” moments that I never thought would happen. Former Chairman of the Fed from 1987 to 2006 Alan Greenspan is testifying before Congress, and has admitted that he was “partially” wrong to oppose regulation of derivatives. But he still blamed the financial meltdown on a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami”. […]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
It turns out that voting Democratic — not just for president, but for congress too — might be the only way to save the Republican Party. Over at the conservative Reason Online, Radley Balko explains: Nothing short of defeat will put the GOP back on its limited government track. … In the last eight years, […]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Remember those (often mythical) PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) voters who claimed they were going to vote for McCain so that Hillary Clinton could run against him in 2012? Well, it looks like it might work the other way around, this time literally with an Ass (donkey). This photo from Newsweek shows Sarah Palin on […]
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Step 1: Hamas says something nice about Obama. McCain says “I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. … If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly.” RightWingNews headline “Hamas Endorses Obama? Can Hizbollah And Al-Qaeda Be Far Behind?” Step 2 […]
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Robert Reich (blogger, former Secretary of Labor, current UC Berkeley professor, and author of the book Supercapitalism) has a must-read blog entry today, pointing out that if these companies the government is bailing out are “too big to fail” then maybe they are just too big, period. But the biggest irony, as he points out, […]
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The political comedy website 23/6 just endorsed Palin-McCain for President, because Palin is the best thing that ever happened to their web traffic. So while Palin might be a disaster for the US economy, she has already been a blessing for the 23/6 economy. I’ve seen the same thing here — Palin is a never […]
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Scientists have discovered why Neocons don’t like Political Irony.
