Archive for the ‘Democratic Stupidity’ 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
And Manchin Undercuts The Administration. Again.
And my former Governor and current Senator once again proves his Republican bona fides: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today will introduce bipartisan legislation, called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012, that would repeal the Obama Administration’s mandate requiring religious employers to cover contraception for their employees under the Patient [...]
February 9, 2012
· John Cole · 113 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity
Hypocrisy
This is just the kind of shit I love reading: The sharpest edges of President Obama’s counterterrorism policy, including the use of drone aircraft to kill suspected terrorists abroad and keeping open the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have broad public support, including from the left wing of the Democratic Party. A new Washington [...]
February 8, 2012
· John Cole · 185 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Democratic Stupidity
Ryan Plan Redux
Brian Beutler at TPM wonders if the GOP plans to follow Paul Ryan down the kill-Medicare rabbit hole again in an election year and concludes that yes, they do: Why on earth would Republicans put the whole party back on the line? Particularly after a year of serial brinkmanship and overreach that has dragged their [...]
February 7, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 34 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Democratic Stupidity, Media, Politics, Republican Stupidity
One More Thing About Komen
I’ve been having a ball this week with the Komen shit-show. Not just because it was such a hideous blunder and there was so much hourly incompetence to chronicle, but because GOD DAMNED IT FEELS GOOD TO BE ON THE OFFENSIVE. Say what you will about all the wingnutty things I said 2001-2005ish, at least [...]
February 3, 2012
· John Cole · 125 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Election 2012
Mind the gap
American politics is simple: white people vote Republican, non-white people (not just the black ones) vote Democrat. Christians (including Mormons) who go to church or are evangelical vote Republican, non-Christians (agnostics, Jews, Muslims, etc.) vote Democrat, and half-assed non-evangelical Christians are somewhere in the middle. Men vote Republican, women vote Democrat. (Slightly OT: Can a [...]
February 3, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 69 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Election 2012
Temporary Victory on SOPA/PIPA
This is some good news: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called off a vote on controversial anti-piracy legislation Friday — the surest sign yet that a wave of online protests have killed SOPA and PIPA for now and maybe forever. Reid canceled the procedural vote on PIPA scheduled for Tuesday. Meanwhile, in the House, Judiciary [...]
January 20, 2012
· John Cole · 215 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Don't Mourn, Organize, Science and Technology
Even the liberal Mother Jones magazine
This is why I hate Kevin Drum: I like being able to fire people. Hah! Ain’t that just like a plutocrat who’s spent most of his career buying companies and then making millions by mounting brutal mass layoffs of their workers? Of course, this is wildly out of context. What Romney really said was that [...]
January 9, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 229 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Stupidity, Election 2012
Party Loyalty Defined
Ed Kilgore is writing at Steve Benen’s blog while Steve takes a much-deserved vacation. I thought his definition of party loyalty was pretty good: [...] I do think any Senate member of either party should be held to three simple rules: You must not endorse candidates (particularly for president) of the other party; you must [...]
December 29, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 72 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, Democratic Stupidity
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
That’s Gotta Sting, Sen. Wyden
Paul Krugman is shrill caustic to “Ron Wyden, Useful Idiot“: ... Sen. Ron Wyden did indeed do a bad, bad thing in his joint proposal with Paul Ryan. Ezra Klein explains why; and the devil isn’t in the details. What Wyden did was to give cover to the fundamental fallacy of right-wing attempts to dismantle [...]
December 18, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 53 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., 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 ... World Peace · 308 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity
