On the road to ruin the US is traveling, one of the more significant milestones has to be the legal decision that corporations have the same legal protections as real people. As Cecil Adams points out, the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment has been used more often to protect corporations than the former […]
John Hummel’s blog gives an excellent argument as to why Rush Limbaugh is being a dick when he says he wants Obama to fail. I’ll paraphrase his argument by giving a slightly different (and shorter) example: Let’s say you’re someone who became addicted to smoking before the health problems were known, who develops lung cancer. […]
At the CPAC conference, Rush repeats that he really does want Obama to fail. Conservatives cheer. Or as Paul Reiser put it: How come way back when, when the Dixie Chicks casually commented that, on the night our former president declared an unprovoked war, that they felt, at that moment “ashamed to be from Texas,” they […]
Quotes from the annual conservative CPAC conference in Washington: From Newt Gingrich: The great irony of where we are today is that we had a Bush-Obama big-spending program that was bipartisan in its nature. … We got big spending under Bush, now we’ve got big spending under Obama. Saul Anuzis (who campaigned for the chairmanship of […]
Fox News tries to play up a minor gaffe by Biden but fails miserably. There’s even an extra special bonus from them — their own gaffe. Jon Stewart reports:
As if the Republican Party weren’t in enough trouble, now the party is starting to punish representatives who don’t vote the way the party wants them to. The National Republican party just unveiled its new fundraising program for the 2010 elections that will hold members accountable for their votes if they expect any reelection campaign […]
Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) stuck his foot deep in his mouth on Saturday speaking at a Republican Party dinner. Talking about his support for conservative judges and the Supreme Court, he pointed out that liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will probably die in the next nine months. While that may (or may not) be true, it […]
McClatchy, probably the only remaining decent news service, has an interesting article pointing out GOP congress-critters who are taking credit for parts of Obama’s economic stimulus bill, even though they voted against the bill itself! Not only that, but they are boasting about changes they pushed into the bill, while simultaneously complaining about the lack […]
My head is spinning because of an email that Mike Huckabee sent out to his followers that claims that the economic stimulus bill is “anti-religious”. His gripe is that the bill prohibits higher education construction grants to be used for “… modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities — used for sectarian instruction, religious worship … […]
Jon Stewart dramatically demonstrates the stunning and hilarious hypocrisy of Bill O’Reilly:
According to new IRS data, during the first six years of the Bush presidency, the 400 richest Americans saw their average income double. At the same time, the average tax rate that they paid fell by a third, to 17.2%, the lowest rate since the IRS started tracking this data. Yes, that’s right, if you […]
Live from last Thursday, it’s Bill O’Reilly on last night’s Colbert Report:
I generally believe that people’s sex lives should be their own private business, as long as they don’t involve any quid-pro-quo (you know, sex with someone as a bribe to get a job or a contract). But who can ignore the hypocrisy of crusaders getting tripped up with their moral peccadillos down around their ankles? Even […]
Just a few days left to one of the worst presidencies in history, but Fox News is dutifully still trying to blame everything on the Democrats (especially Bill Clinton). In a news report today, Fox reporter Wendell Goler said: This president inherited a budget surplus, but he also inherited what he called “the trifecta of […]
In an interview with Jim Lehrer tonight that made me wonder what he is drinking, VP Cheney claims that Saddam Hussein worked with al-Qaeda, that the US did not torture, and that the collapsing economy was not his administration’s fault, but was caused by poor handling by previous presidents. When asked if he made any […]
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