Archive for February, 2011
Reality Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias, Wisconsin Edition
I know that probably everything below is obvious to this audience and/or already presented better by someone else here, but anyway: following up John’s post on the deliberate deception behind the “contribute more” demand of public service workers in Wisconsin, here’s some inconvenient data. The shorter: public service workers are not overpaid. Not even a [...]
February 25, 2011
· 
Tom Levenson · 
50 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Bring it on
I’m less and less convinced that Boehner wants the craziness to go too far and I’ll bet you anything he’s not listening to Newt. Anyway, this is nuts: “I believe the Republicans next week should pass a resolution instructing the president to enforce the law and to obey his own constitutional oath, and they should [...]
February 25, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 97 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Decline and Fall, Republican Stupidity
Another Open Thread
The problem with having this many talented front pagers is every time I want to write something, someone else has already posted about it. I need to get a damned blog. On the other hand, this does allow me the opportunity to discuss fun stuff. For example, has anyone played the Rift beta? Describe it, [...]
February 25, 2011
· John Cole · 168 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Louis CK to Donald Rumsfeld: “Are you a lizard?”
Best interview with Rummy in the history of the land. “Is he a lizard? Is Dick Cheney a lizard? Have they eaten any Mexican babies? Have they eaten any human beings?” WIN.
February 25, 2011
· ABL · 11 Comments
Posted in: Humor
Friday Evening Open Thread
(Ben Sargent at gocomics.com) Besides the Saturday statehouse rallies, what’s on for everybody’s weekend?
February 25, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 48 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, Open Thread
Creative Destruction
To answer Kevin, the wave will crest when a crisis comes along that’s severe enough for Republicans to tweak our Democracy into something that better suits their oligarchic masters. 9/11 could have done the trick if their man Bush could make it through one whole day without tying his goddamn shoes together. Even so, they [...]
February 25, 2011
· Tim F. · 139 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now
Organized Labor in America
I mentioned this before, but we’re hosting a League Roundtable on the questions facing organized labor in America. The series was kicked off by Kevin Carson, who wrote about Taft-Hartley and other ways the government has legally restricted the ability of workers to organize. That was followed up by Mark Thompson, who argued that market [...]
February 25, 2011
· E.D. Kain · 56 Comments
Tags: leftism, libertarianism, organized labor, unions · Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Comedic Stylings of Pravda DC…
Yet another article in Pravda on the Potomac makes an unintentional funny. It was in an article hyping a grudge match between the Governor of New Jersey and the Governor of Maryland (caution Politico link): The two also have matching black marks on their records: O’Malley has a history of raising taxes, while New Jersey [...]
February 25, 2011
· Dennis G. · 48 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Glibertarianism, Going Galt, Our Failed Media Experiment, The Math Demands It
Deep thought
I would rather be governed by the first five hundred people in the telephone book than by the CEOs of the Fortune 500.
February 25, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 68 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Fuck The Middle-Class
Queen bitch
I don’t know whether to be revolted that Matt Bai is slobbering all over Chris Christie or happy that he’s honest about conservative political games: Yet it’s hard to see Christie getting so much traction if he were out there castigating, say, immigrants or Wall Street bankers. What makes Christie compelling to so many people [...]
February 25, 2011
· Angry DougJ · 77 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Fuck The Middle-Class
A Little Reddit Lesson
Here’s a little lesson for dinosaurs like Nick Gillespie who have no idea how Reddit works. Reddit’s a community where everyone has a vote and anyone can post a link, which either makes it a communitarian hellhole or an online Galt’s Gulch, depending on what line the Koch brothers are telling Reason to pimp at [...]
February 25, 2011
· mistermix · 28 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!
Coordinated Pushback
It sure is nice to see this: In Wisconsin and around our country, the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich—and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response, and vital human services. On Saturday, February 26, at noon local time, [...]
February 25, 2011
· John Cole · 59 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism, Teabagger Stupidity
The Myth of the Small Businessman
One of the enduring Republican myths is that the “small businessman” wants tax cuts, is being stifled by government intervention and can’t take any more. I’m a small businessman, and I was having a discussion with another one last night, where we both agreed that we’d love some more government intervention, and that we’d both [...]
February 25, 2011
· mistermix · 67 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything
An Illinois Democrat
First, I think it would be a real mistake if President Obama or the DNC got involved in the events in Wisconsin, Ohio or Indiana at this time. People are traveling to their statehouse to protest the actions of conservative governors. That’s where it belongs. Further, although conservatives like to call Obama a Chicago Democrat, [...]
February 25, 2011
· Kay · 91 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
Democracy in Action
Governor Walker started the whole Wisconsin union busting spectacle by saying that he’s ready to call out the National Guard, and his call with “David Koch” indicated that he’d considered planting agitators in the crowd, and that he has a baseball bat at the ready in his office. This morning, his Republican colleagues in the [...]
February 25, 2011
· mistermix · 61 Comments
Posted in: Assholes
