Archive for October, 2009
The Best Legislators Money Can Buy
I guess it makes sense that Evan Bayh is vociferously opposed to the public option: His wife, Susan Bayh, sits on the board of WellPoint(WLP Quote) in her hometown of Indianapolis. Over the last six years, Susan Bayh has received at least $2 million in compensation from WellPoint alone for serving on its board. Evan [...]
October 29, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
61 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Democratic Stupidity
Slow on the Uptake
Looks like the members of the Iowa GOP are a little dimwitted: A conservative Iowa group’s effort to lure Sarah Palin to its banquet next month has had an unintended effect: Rather than exciting conservatives about the prospect of a visit from the former Alaska governor, the group’s plan to raise a six-figure sum to [...]
October 29, 2009
· John Cole · 176 Comments
Posted in: Starbursts
He Still Won’t Say It!
Obama’s remarks at the signing yesterday: In the most recent year for which we have data, the FBI reported roughly 7,600 hate crimes in this country. Over the past 10 years, there were more than 12,000 reported hate crimes based on sexual orientation alone. And we will never know how many incidents were never reported [...]
October 29, 2009
· John Cole · 105 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Domestic Affairs
Not Going to Happen
Sorry, but I just stopped reading those guys. Was not worth it. And I refuse to watch that video. Besides- libertarians are just irrelevant, and when you realize that Republican economic policies are simply glibertarian bullshit + tax cuts + jesus, why bother with the glibertarians?
October 29, 2009
· John Cole · 64 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
Some Good News
The economy grew in the third quarter: For the first time in a year, the United States economy grew, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. But even if a recovery is technically in the offing, job seekers likely will not begin to feel the benefits for months to come. Gross domestic product expanded at an [...]
October 29, 2009
· John Cole · 82 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Now Obama’s a drug pusher
Michael Scherer tries to get literary: The great American poet and prose-mangler William Burroughs once offered some words of advice for young people, words that work just as well for inhabitants of Washington D.C.: “An old junk pusher told me,” he wrote, “ ‘Watch whose money you pick up.’ ”[.....]This is the same problem that [...]
October 29, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 27 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media
Late Night Open Thread: FTFY
Fuck the fucking Yankees. In loving memory of Steve Gilliard.
October 28, 2009
· Anne Laurie · 186 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Music, Open Thread
Parsing Obama’s Critics
Sullivan doubles down: This simply doesn’t make sense. Hate crime laws for most categories, including federal measures, have been around for a long time. The only new thing here – the only thing that has fostered “a decade of opposition and delay” – is the addition of sexual orientation. So the president had a chance [...]
October 28, 2009
· John Cole · 311 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
It’s only a paper, Moon
I knew that not many people read the Washington Times, but I didn’t know its numbers were this bad (via GOS): down 17 percent to 67,148 That’s amazing pathetic. Pick a random second-tier city and google their newspaper. You’ll generally find the circulation to be around 100K or higher (I just did this with Syracuse [...]
October 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 71 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Hoot-Smalley, Media
Piss Christ
Oh no. The American Taliban is all upset about… a tv show: HBO’s hit series “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has pushed the comedic envelope for many years, but what happened in Sunday’s episode was so disgraceful it’s already received comment from the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue. The set-up is the show’s star and producer Larry David [...]
October 28, 2009
· John Cole · 118 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Barack Obama Also Hates Gays
Shorter Andrew Sullivan- “Fuck you, Barack Obama, for signing the hate crimes legislation. How dare you? Just words. Asshole.” And no, I am not kidding. I also love that the GOLD STANDARD for some bloggers is the speed with which POTUS has remarks up on the website. Remember a couple weeks ago when that idiot [...]
October 28, 2009
· John Cole · 121 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Lincoln Bedroom 2, Electric Boogaloo
Remember how the Clintons used to rent the Lincoln Bedroom out to fat cat donors? And then how Bush came in and cleaned the place up and kicked out all the lobbyists and made us all proud again? Well, Obama’s turning out to be even worse than Clinton. I can’t wait til Tim Pawlenty gets [...]
October 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 63 Comments
Posted in: Politics
Barack Obama Hates Women
This is just asinine: Jesse Taylor deals with this nonsense, but I think it is important to single out Savannah Guthrie for starting all this crap: NBC White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie asked him that earlier this week. She asked him if his preference for all-male hoops sends the wrong signal. Or as she put [...]
October 28, 2009
· John Cole · 143 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media
Courage on the cheap
This month’s Atlantic feature on “25 Brave Thinkers” illustrates, to me, the same kind of thing that is wrong with our health care debate. Their list is mostly a mix of millionaires, billionaires, miscellaneous big shots, and people with permanent positions at academic institutions. I’m sure a lot of them do great work. But how [...]
October 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 81 Comments
Posted in: Assholes
Not a game
Sardine on health care reform: Forget all the talk about the public option for a second and ignore your political consultants who are cautioning you about the imaginary negative repercussions of a “government takeover.” The reality is this debate really isn’t about politics, it’s about health care. It’s not left or right, it’s about all [...]
October 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 106 Comments
Posted in: Assholes
