Archive for the ‘Election 2008’ Category
PUMAs return as “a project of the 99%”
Today, Democrats from across America have been getting robocalls from Zombie-PUMAs. I got one of them this afternoon in Baltimore. Sam Stein and others have posted the audio, which has your typical free-from-the-constraints-of-reality PUMA rant: America would be better off today if Hillary Clinton was our president. The Wall Street robber barons would be jailed, [...]
December 19, 2011
· 
Dennis G. · 
68 Comments
Posted in: Election 2008, Election 2012, I Can No Longer Rationally Discuss The Clinton Campaign, Nobody could have predicted, PUMA = Propping Up McCain's Ass
Another proud day for conservatives
No one could have predicted: Dorothy Cooper is 96 but she can remember only one election when she’s been eligible to vote but hasn’t. The retired domestic worker was born in a small North Georgia town before women had the right to vote. She began casting ballots in her 20s after moving to Chattanooga for [...]
October 6, 2011
· Kay · 41 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2008, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Because NineElevenNineElevenNineElevenAreYOUSomeKindaTerrorist?!?
Watch the full episode. See more POV. Jay Gould is supposed to have said, “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” As it turns out, that works as well among modern-day activists as it did for Gilded Age factory hands. From the NYTimes review of “Better This World”: [...]
September 5, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 10 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2008, Security Theatre, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
John Lewis is concerned, but I’m well past “troubled”
Great piece by John Lewis on voting: Since January, a majority of state legislatures have passed or considered election-law changes that, taken together, constitute the most concerted effort to restrict the right to vote since before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The 1993 National Voter Registration Act — also known as the Motor Voter [...]
August 27, 2011
· Kay · 106 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2008, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012
Roads Not Taken (Women’s Equality Day Edition)
I was looking (unsuccessfully) for a version of John Stewart’s “Wingless Angels” when I ran across this. And it reminded me that I’d meant to post something about Rebecca Traister’s nicely observant NYTimes essay: In the worst of the Democratic primary campaign in 2008, the angry end of the thing, when I had become a [...]
August 27, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 147 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Election 2008, Election 2012, Readership Capture
Why Obama’s Compromises Suck
Freddie made a number of different points yesterday, but I want to concentrate on one: But mistermix—those “messy compromises” that you associate with virtue is why our country is the way it is. Because every messy compromise is at least 80% for the wignuts, you end up with a corrupted country. How long do you [...]
August 9, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 263 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, Black Jimmy Carter, Election 2008
Now that he’s admitted it, and he’s the secretary of state, doesn’t he have to do something to prevent it?
Finally: The Ohio state Senate was set to consider this week what critics are calling the most restrictive voter identification law in the country. The push for restrictive voter ID measures in the Buckeye state is part of a trend of similar legislation sweeping Republican-controlled legislatures across the country. But Ohio’s measure is so restrictive—it [...]
June 28, 2011
· Kay · 43 Comments
Posted in: Election 2008, Election 2010, Election 2011, Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment, Rare Sincerity, Republican Venality, Uncategorized
All they have is a clown show…
Two news story waves popped up today about the competition to be the 2012 Republican Nominee for President. One concerned the latest Gallup poll about the horse race—you could just feel the panic as Republicans contemplated their choices. Underwhelmed, would be an understatement. And then the other news wave broke that the Quitta from Wassila [...]
May 26, 2011
· Dennis G. · 127 Comments
Posted in: Election 2008, Election 2012, Open Thread, Uncategorized
We’ll survive this. Maybe.
When I was 19 or so, I worked for a time in a completely disreputable health food store located in a dying strip mall in what is now probably suburban Atlanta but was then a small town in Georgia that had aspirations of becoming a suburb of Atlanta. I know there are reputable health food [...]
May 21, 2011
· Kay · 46 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Crazification Factor, Domestic Affairs, Election 2008, Election 2010, Election 2012
An Ohio Update
Reading John’s post on the lack of national media coverage of the worker protests in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and elsewhere, I have to say, I’m not surprised or even particularly disheartened. I anticipated this well prior to the (understandable) media focus on events in Japan. In Ohio our new Republican governor is a former FOX [...]
March 14, 2011
· Kay · 193 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Daydream Believers, Decline and Fall, Domestic Affairs, Election 2008, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
All You Need to Know About ‘O:thePresidentialNovel’
Because this is a full-service political blog, I bring you Politico’s review, excerpted from their Mark Salter tongue-bath: ... if Time magazine’s Mark Halperin is right, Washington has been hit by the biggest Saltergram ever, in the form of an anonymous, 353-page campaign novel titled, “O: A Presidential Novel.” Some of “O”’s liveliest passages project [...]
January 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 79 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Books, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2008, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Open Thread
Res Ipsa Loquitur
November 16, 2010
· mistermix ... World Peace · 77 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Election 2008, Lindsey Graham's Fee Fees, WTF?
Jon Stewart’s GFY Chorus
The last couple of minutes of this clip should win him an emmy: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c
April 21, 2010
· John Cole · 53 Comments
Posted in: Election 2008, Humor
How They Do It In Chicago
As much as I love the professional climatologists who write RealClimate, they rarely let the anti-science crowd bait them into the kind of high dudgeon that makes PZ Myers or Tom Levenson so much fun to read. Part of the reason for their patient tone is that most denialists are either too limited (e.g., Inhofe) [...]
October 31, 2009
· Tim F. · 26 Comments
Posted in: Election 2008, Excellent Links, General Stupidity, Science and Technology
Focusing On Those Who Have Lost The Most
Atrios. [I]t’s weird how disconnected the media is from the reality of the unemployment situation. It’s not that there’s no coverage, of course, but overall there’s little sense of the economic reality for so many people. The double whammy of the recession and foreclosure crisis has caused immense pain. I have miles of respect for [...]
September 15, 2009
· Tim F. · 28 Comments
Posted in: Election 2008, General Stupidity, Media
