Archive for the ‘Democratic Cowardice’ Category
For Once, My Legal Analysis Was Accurate
This is a first. Apparently my reading of the odious Rubio/Manchin bill earlier today was accurate: A new bill introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a rising conservative star and leading contender for the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 2012, could cut off birth control coverage for millions of women who receive it through their health [...]
February 9, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
66 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
Ben Nelson to retire
Hard to get too upset over this, honestly: Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska will announce his retirement, according to Politico. Nelson will hold a press conference as early as today to announce his decision according to “several Democratic insiders close to the leadership,” Politico reports. Nelson, first elected in 2000, was facing a tough [...]
December 27, 2011
· Kay · 125 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Election 2012
Open Thread: We Had A Good Run, While It Lasted…
Because I’m in a maudlin mood, and two hours is about as long as the general commentariat should be expected to keep our language clean and our shoes on, I share. Charlie Pierce at Esquire, on the Ryan-Wyden “compromise“: In the rush of holiday preparation, it may have escaped your notice that this is National [...]
December 16, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 49 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Republican Venality
Time for the Annual Collapse
It appears Obama will not veto the Defense bill with the hideous detention policies, and I just heard that the Democrats have dropped the millionaire surtax for the payroll tax cuts. I never knew the amount of depression and self-loathing that was involved in becoming a Democrat. I honestly think I hate Democrats more now [...]
December 14, 2011
· John Cole · 284 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity
Regulatory disappearing act
DougJ linked to this NYTimes piece on for-profit colleges yesterday. Read the whole thing, or I’ll just give you my summary: the federal government attempted to regulate for-profit colleges, a huge army of lobbyists descended, and the federal government gutted the regulations. Arne Duncan isn’t quoted in the piece, but I’ve been reading up on [...]
December 13, 2011
· Kay · 50 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, Grifters Gonna Grift, Kochsuckers, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, the Great American Bubble Machine, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Back in Beige
I’m back from an undisclosed location with shitty wi-fi, and I’m catching up. It’s kind of interesting to see what happened in just a few short days. Unless I missed something, Rick Perry decided to quit running for President and start running for Jesus, Newt Gingrich was just named President of the District of Columbia [...]
December 9, 2011
· mistermix · 308 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity
Plan B
Yes, the Health and Human Services decision on Plan B is terrible, politically motivated and without basis in science. I am profoundly depressed by it. That doesn’t make me want to see Republicans control the White House in 2013, though. Your thoughts?
December 8, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 625 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice
Time For The Demo-Kvetch Party Again
Wouldn’t be a news cycle without a “Congressional Dems are worried about X for 2012” story, concern X in this case being the Supreme Court’s promised legal review of the PPACA. Democrats on Capitol Hill are worried that the Supreme Court will rule against President Obama’s healthcare reform law. Over the last couple weeks, congressional [...]
November 15, 2011
· Zandar · 35 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Democratic Cowardice
Ask Me, I Won’t Say No, How Could I?
This petition comes on the heels of the denial of a few other petitions by the White House, and it’s quickly getting enough votes to be answered.
November 8, 2011
· mistermix · 52 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice
No Legalization for You
The official White House response to a petition asking for the legalization of marijuana is up. Shorter Gil Kerlikowske: “Did you know that marijuana is addictive?” The one good thing about the response is the advocacy of drug courts and diversion into treatment rather than just throwing everyone in jail, even if treatment for the [...]
October 31, 2011
· mistermix · 110 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice
Kthug Gets It
Exactly: The key to understanding this, I’d suggest, is that movement conservatism has become a closed, inward-looking universe in which you get points not by sounding reasonable to uncommitted outsiders — although there are a few designated pundits who play that role professionally — but by outdoing your fellow movement members in zeal. It’s sort [...]
October 25, 2011
· John Cole · 241 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Manic Progressive, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Teabagger Stupidity
An Odd Omission
I’m doing some telephone canvassing (not enough) for the No On Two campaign in Ohio and I’m finding out something that is extraordinary to me. None of the people I’m talking to know that many, many charter schools in Ohio are run by for-profit operators. They don’t know this because I live in a low-income [...]
October 11, 2011
· Kay · 33 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Election 2011, Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
The Menagerie Speaks
We haven’t heard much from them since their pack was decimated last year, but the jobs bill brought a few of the almost-extinct Blue Dogs out of their dens, baying: “I have said for months that I am not supporting a repeal of tax cuts for the oil industry unless there are other industries that [...]
September 15, 2011
· mistermix · 129 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity
A Traitor Speaks
A former Republican staffer on the House and Senate budget committees explains how the modern Republican party co-opted low-information white voters who should want to vote for Democrats: How do they manage to do this? Because Democrats ceded the field. Above all, they do not understand language. Their initiatives are posed in impenetrable policy-speak: the [...]
September 4, 2011
· mistermix · 187 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Republican Venality
This Mess We’re In
This asinine, silly, childish snit and clusterfuck over scheduling of Obama’s speech on jobs shows that John Boehner is a utter dick, or that the Obama administration is hopelessly naive and John Boehner is an utter dick. I guess I’m pretty sure about the dick part, the rest is kind of grey.
September 1, 2011
· mistermix · 218 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Crazification Factor, Decline and Fall, Democratic Cowardice, Fucked-up-edness, Fucksaw, Good News For Conservatives, I wish a motherfucker would!, IOKIYAR, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Nobody could have predicted, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Sweet Fancy Moses!, Teabagger Stupidity, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
