Archive for August, 2009
Stupid and Proud of It
Stay classy, Mike Huckabee: Conservative media figures are blasting Democrats for trying to draw political gain from the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. But on Thursday, it was one of their own—former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee—who went there. The 2008 Republican presidential candidate suggested during his radio show, “The Huckabee Report,” on Thursday that, under [...]
August 29, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
119 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Republican Stupidity
Sully stand-in shark watch
Conor Friedersdorf just devoted twenty-two paragraphs to a discussion of Mark Levin’s “intellectual oeuvre”.
August 29, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 102 Comments
Posted in: I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To
Open Thread
I’m picking out a thermos….
August 29, 2009
· John Cole · 89 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Late Night Open Thread
Just got back from my friend’s house- the food was good, the music was better (we listened to a bunch of Wilco). The last thread is over 300, so I thought I would fire up a new one: I’m rocking Oysterhead right now.
August 29, 2009
· John Cole · 88 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Friday Night Open Thread
I’m off to a friend’s house for cuban sandwiches, so I will be away from the intertrons for a while, so here is an open thread for you. I think I am also making a command decision and no longer subjecting myself to anything from libertarians. I simply can not read Reason or McCardle or [...]
August 28, 2009
· John Cole · 372 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
No Rationing the Idiocy, That’s Fer Sure
Ezra Klein points out that we ration healthcare in this country, namely by simply pricing millions out of the market: The numbers are almost mirror images of each other. Twenty-seven percent of Canadians wait more than four months for treatment, versus only four percent of Americans. Twenty-four percent of Americans can’t afford medical care at [...]
August 28, 2009
· John Cole · 109 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Going Galt, Technically True but Collectively Nonsense
Magister Loony
I can’t believe that Monica Hesse snuck this mash note past the editors (via Atrios via MM): The gay marriage supporters have not met Brian Brown. They should. He might be more worth knowing about. Brown is the executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, the preeminent organization dedicated to preventing the legalization of [...]
August 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 63 Comments
Posted in: I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Media
Notes from the fear chamber
I don’t know how Steve Benen has the stomach to watch this stuff, but I’m grateful for the summaries: Yesterday was especially astounding. He argued on the air, for example, that President Obama intends to create a “civilian national security force,” which will be similar to Hitler’s SS and Saddam Hussein. Apparently, this has something [...]
August 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 72 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Hoot-Smalley
Sneaky feelings
Via FDL, Nooners and Joe Scar think Obama secretly wants and needs a Republican Congress: I just don’t buy the idea that Obama is likely to lose in 2012, regardless of what approval ratings say, with all due respect to the Tim Pawlenty juggernaut. It’s hard for me to see how after 12+ months of [...]
August 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 113 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Media
Another Letdown from Team Obama
I’m tired of keeping track of what hasn’t changed: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search—without suspicion of wrongdoing—the contents of a traveler’s laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections. The policy, disclosed Thursday in a pair of [...]
August 28, 2009
· John Cole · 138 Comments
Posted in: The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
Kennedy’s Staff
I thought this piece in the WaPo was kind of interesting: Behind each of Edward M. Kennedy’s legislative victories was a vast coterie of staffers who became Washington legend. They meticulously packed the senator’s black briefcase each evening with tabbed, underlined and dog-eared briefing papers. They helped him hone his floor arguments late into the [...]
August 28, 2009
· John Cole · 40 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
By Popular Request
There have been lots of request for this, so Redkitten/Krista has forwarded me this picture of her newborn: For whatever reason, the socks just kill me. And yes, with the cat pics, dog pics, baby pics, and recipes, this place is turning into Cute Overload with a potty mouth.
August 28, 2009
· John Cole · 110 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Glibertarians for shooting the president
Not surprised McArdle is in the club. But Will Wilkinson disappoints me. Kind of funny to see these two babbling about how about how assassination is no big deal the day after the brother of RFK and JFK died. Heh. Update. Perhaps this is unfair, but I wonder if they’d feel differently if they thought [...]
August 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 145 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Burkean bells
Bad Banks
Something to keep your eye on: Even though financial stocks have rallied nearly 70 percent since the end of March, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued another grim quarterly report Thursday on the health of the nation’s banks. The agency reported that the banking industry lost $3.7 billion in the second quarter amid a surge [...]
August 28, 2009
· John Cole · 22 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Why Bother?
It is kind of entertaining watching Greg Sargent catch Stephen Hayes in any number of lies, but why bother? The guy wrote The Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America, over 200 pages of nonsense. He clearly has a limitless capacity to make things up.
August 28, 2009
· John Cole · 20 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
