Archive for February, 2010
That’s Pretty Much the Conservative Credo
Michael Gerson, so close but yet so far: Such is the zeal in portions of the tea party right that it is not enough to sweep out living members of the establishment such as John McCain. A brisk, ideological scrubbing must be applied to history as well. So Glenn Beck, speaking recently at the Conservative [...]
February 26, 2010
· 
John Cole · 
41 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
A Muslim Socialist Fascist Atheist
Get ready for the usual suspects to get a serious case of the vapors: President Barack Obama has burnished his Christian credentials, courted Jewish support and preached outreach toward Muslims. On Friday, his administration will host a group that fits none of the above: America’s nonbelievers. The president isn’t expected to make an appearance at [...]
February 26, 2010
· John Cole · 104 Comments
Posted in: Politics, Religion
I hope this “Coffee Party Movement” catches on…
The Washington Post had a story up today about a sane response to the TeaBagger movement: The Coffee Party Movement. As I pour yet another cup this morning I found myself nodding in agreement to this post on the Coffee Party blog: Our focus is on the democratic process. We want to encourage everyone—no matter [...]
February 26, 2010
· Dennis G. · 74 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Open Thread, Politics
Early Morning Open Thread
One last HCR snark… I wonder if we could put 45,000 protestors in zombie masks on the Washington Mall? And if we did, would any of the Media Village Idiots bother to cover it?
February 26, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 115 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, Open Thread
The children’s table
This (from Drudgico) belongs in a time capsule too: But in this case, the tie goes to Republicans, according to operatives on both sides of the aisle — because the stakes were so much higher for Democrats trying to build their case for ramming reform through using a 51-vote reconciliation tactic. “I think it was [...]
February 26, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 53 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
One more HCR summit post
This—via Max Blumenthal—really made me laugh (h/t freelancer)
February 26, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 15 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Other
A tale of two pundits
K-Thug: It was obvious how things would go as soon as the first Republican speaker, Senator Lamar Alexander, delivered his remarks. He was presumably chosen because he’s folksy and likable and could make his party’s position sound reasonable. But right off the bat he delivered a whopper, asserting that under the Democratic plan, “for millions [...]
February 26, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 63 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
Every Rose has its thorn
Apparently, Bill Frist and Mark Halperin are on Charlie Rose discussing today’s summit right now. (The good news is that Ezra Klein is on too.) I’d watch but I have no desire to take my own life this evening. There are a lot of people out there who believe that our sorry state of affairs [...]
February 26, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 58 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now
Something happened
Josh Marshall has a smart post about how many people were paying attention to today’s HCR summit: [O]ver the years I’ve gotten a pretty good feel for how different kinds of political events bump traffic on TPM. And there was a much bigger bump than I would have expected for an event like this. We [...]
February 25, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 36 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Politics
Hair Metal At Eleven
Every cowboy sings a sad, sad song.
February 25, 2010
· Tim F. · 27 Comments
Posted in: Music
Amazingly bad coverage…
For all the talk that these HCR negotiations needed to be on C-Span it was odd that when it happened the event was only on C-Span 3, which is not even offered as an option by many teevee delivery systems. The cable news shows were basically hacktacular in their coverage. CNN decided to only show [...]
February 25, 2010
· Dennis G. · 31 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Media, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
Take it away, Bad Horse’s Filly: I’d bet everyone’s mom has some version of this that she served – especially if you grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. This was a weekly staple of my childhood. Of course we had to eat it off the bone, we were so deprived back then. So I [...]
February 25, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 16 Comments
Posted in: Cooking, Open Thread
Open Thread: Olympic Women’s Hockey Edition
Because RedKitten demands one. And with Cole unable to post pictures, it would be too dangerous to risk our supply of SamKitten.
February 25, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 84 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Open Thread
The secret ingredient on Iron Chef tonight is lemon, and because the first thing I try to do mentally with every secret ingredient is to try to imagine it as an ice cream, I realize I have never had lemon ice cream. I’ve had lemon ice, and lemon sherbet, but no lemon ice cream. Why [...]
February 25, 2010
· John Cole · 74 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
What’s the Frequency, Gaffney?
Frank Gaffney is still nuts: Frank Gaffney, a protégé of Richard Perle and an influential figure in right wing national security circles, has firmly entered the world of right wing tin-foil hat paranoia. Media Matters documents the development of a new right wing conspiracy theory, claiming that the Obama administration manipulated the redesign of the [...]
February 25, 2010
· John Cole · 94 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
