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Puppy Update

by John Cole

The parents took the dogs to the vet yesterday, and they had their final “puppy” shots. They both have apparently doubled their weight since my parents got them, and based on the phone calls I have had with my mother lately, they are firmly into their “barking” phase. I can also report that my mother [...]

January 29, 2009 · John Cole · 23 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging

Reeling In The Years

by John Cole

Dave Weigel, in a column examining the Republican playbook and noting the differences between the Clinton 1993 stimulus package and the Obama 2009 package, notes the following: 3. The Clinton budget raised taxes; the Obama stimulus doesn’t. I think this is the most important distinction. The Clinton budget reconciliation increased income taxes, raised the corporate [...]

January 29, 2009 · John Cole · 39 Comments
Posted in: Politics

The GOP and Limbaugh

by John Cole

Via the County Fair, this: Apparently the GOP (or at least Rush), wants Rush Limbaugh to be the voice of the GOP, as he is proposing “his” stimulus package on the pages of the WSJ: Yes, elections have consequences. But where’s the bipartisanship, Mr. Obama? This does not have to be a divisive issue. My [...]

January 29, 2009 · John Cole · 57 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity

Speaking of bending over and grabbing your ankles

by Angry DougJ

From Matt Yglesias, footage of Mike Pence admitting he’s so beholden to Rush Limbaugh that he won’t criticize El Rushbo for saying that “we have to bend over, grab the angles, bend over forward, backward whichever, because his father was black, because he’s the first black president.” The mistake the Republicans are making here is [...]

January 28, 2009 · Angry DougJ · 104 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes

Armey’s Axiom: Don’t Take Me Seriously

by John Cole

Watch Dick Armey on Hardball making some pretty astounding remarks to Joan Walsh: Believe it or not, the most remarkable thing about that segment is not the snotty remarks directed at Walsh at the end, but rather the remarks he made about separating politics from economic policy. A transcript (starting at 52 seconds in): Armey: [...]

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 48 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity

Sure, We’re Idiots, But We’re Not Stupid

by John Cole

Three quotes, from the three front page posters here, starting with me, yesterday: This really is not hard to figure out, as the Republicans are not even trying to be subtle. They intend to get as much as they want in the bill, provide the screeching points for the wingnuttosphere (latest edition- ZOMG ACORN) so [...]

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 109 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Politics

Perspective: These Guys Don’t Have It

by John Cole

Another breathless email from the Opinion Times (and seriously, where did all these email lists come from? I didn’t sign up for them.), warning us of the following: The “stimulus” package being forced by Nancy Pelosi down the throat of Congress, is laden with pork-barrel spending. This is not stimulus. It’s a major government expansion [...]

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 54 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To

I Think I Can Answer That, Josh

by John Cole

It appears that Josh Marshall watched the same press conference we talked about below: Rep. Boehner® just said that the GOP alternative stimulus bill will create over 6 million jobs over two years with half the amount of money of the Democratic bill. Anybody have any idea where he got that number? I actually have [...]

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 34 Comments
Posted in: Republican Stupidity

The Republican Plan- More Bullshit (and Tax Cuts!)

by John Cole

Eric Cantor, aka Harry Ellis, is on my tv touting the Republican stimulus plan, which for the life of me I can not find online. I have searched Boehner’s site, I have looked in the House Republican Study group, and I can’t find anything. Considering the Republican plan when the economy was good and the [...]

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 133 Comments
Posted in: Republican Stupidity

The sound of one hand clapping

by Angry DougJ

It looks like the Republican War on Condoms was just the beginning: The NRCC is banging the good old culture wars drum today, sending out a raft of press releases asking if rookie Dems from conservative districts back the inclusion of anti-sexually transmitted disease programs (in the stimulus package). (link) and Grassley launches porn inquiry [...]

January 28, 2009 · Angry DougJ · 38 Comments
Posted in: Assholes

Open Thread

by John Cole

Good news only, please.

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 71 Comments
Posted in: Other

Another Posturing Wimp

by John Cole

Phil Gingrey feels the heat for telling Rush to stfu, and promptly puts his tail between his legs and apologizes: Now more than ever, we need to articulate a clear conservative message that distinguishes our values and our approach from those of liberal Democrats who are seeking to move our nation in the wrong direction. [...]

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 90 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes

Deep Thought

by Tim F.

If Republicans plan to deliver exactly zero votes for Obama’s stimulus bill, then why does the bill still have compromises in it? Screw them. Put the family planning stuff back in, take the tax cuts out. If we know for sure that passing a crappy bill won’t win any more votes then just pass a [...]

January 28, 2009 · Tim F. · 93 Comments
Posted in: Republican Stupidity

Dumb As a Sack of Hammers

by John Cole

Via Harpers by way of Sully by way of the comments, this gem: “Let’s just say that, that, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, is brought to the United States to be tried in a federal court in the United States, under a federal judge, and we know what some of those judges do, [...]

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 60 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity

About That Stimulus Bill

by John Cole

So all this debate about what is and what is not in the stimulus bill, and it sort of seems like with this report, the Stimulus Bill should write itself: Because decades of underfunding and inattention have endangered our nation’s infrastructure, $2.2 trillion in repairs and upgrades is needed over the next five years to [...]

January 28, 2009 · John Cole · 47 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Politics

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