Archive for the ‘hoocoodanode’ Category
European Austerity Is Working? O R’yleh?
The Elder Keynesian Krugthulu arises from the depths of Lost Decade, shrill but dreaming, not to bring madness, but to end it! Ia! Ia ftaghn stimulus! Last week the European Commission confirmed what everyone suspected: the economies it surveys are shrinking, not growing. It’s not an official recession yet, but the only real question is [...]
February 20, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
66 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Free Markets Solve Everything, Good News For Conservatives, hoocoodanode
Gap-astrophic Failure
Steve Benen flags down the real story so far in the GOP primary: it’s not Mitt’s finishing problem, or clods of Santorum gumming up the works, or even Newt’s ego self-immolating like a phosphorus elemental in a gasoline refinery, but the significant turnout deficit compared to just four years ago. So, what were the totals [...]
February 8, 2012
· Zandar · 96 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
I Think That’s Some Sort Of Bomb Iranian Mix
Well, since John Yoo is on vacation this week or something waterboarding herds of unicorns and John Bolton’s Mustache is busy with trying to adapt drone controls for use by facial hair (hard to fly straight and hit the red button at the same time when you’re only a mustache) to bomb Syria, it’s up [...]
February 6, 2012
· Zandar · 127 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Military, Our Failed Media Experiment, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, War
Fire Walker Chronicles: Home Field Shutout
Looks like not only will Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker get his day in court to argue that the state’s recall process is unconstitutional, but that Democrats will be locked out of the case, unable to present arguments to defend the recall. A judge in Wisconsin has ruled that Democratic recall organizers cannot challenge a [...]
December 30, 2011
· Zandar · 92 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, hoocoodanode, Kochsuckers, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Still More Nuked Gingrich
With just 5 days until the Iowa Caucuses, Team Newt is “managing expectations” for Gingrich’s crash and burn. On Wednesday evening around 6:30 ET, Newt Gingrich strategist Joe DeSantis declared the Gingrich surge in Iowa officially over. “Oh I think anywhere in the top five would be surviving Iowa,” DiSantis told CNN. Just a couple [...]
December 29, 2011
· Zandar · 91 Comments
Posted in: hoocoodanode, Republican Stupidity, Wingnut Event Horizon
President Obama Plays The GOP Yet Again
Republicans are preparing to go into full OUTRAGE MODE over the Obama Administration’s request to the Treasury to raise the debt ceiling another $1.2 trillion. The debt ceiling deal worked out earlier this year gives the Republicans a chance to pass a resolution of disapproval, but the President would have to sign the resolution after [...]
December 28, 2011
· Zandar · 81 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Election 2012, hoocoodanode, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Stupidity
Another Worst Kasich Scenario
Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich is bound and determined to drive his approval numbers down into the dirt, it seems. This week, he’s given Ohio women a lovely holiday gift: banning Ohio’s state insurance exchange from offering any plans that cover abortion. House Bill 79, which would prohibit insurance plans participating in a yet-to-be created [...]
December 22, 2011
· Zandar · 33 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, hoocoodanode, Teabagger Stupidity, Vagina Outrage, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Inoculation Achieved
Politifact won the Internets today not only by showing us that both sides do it, but also by pissing off liberals. It doesn’t get any better than that for impartial journalists. I hope they’re enjoying their post-coital cigarette.
December 20, 2011
· mistermix · 62 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, hoocoodanode, Our Failed Media Experiment
Running (Away From) The Numbers
Before we get to this afternoon’s various sporting contests, one more thought on the Clown Car Cavalcade: The latest NBC/Marist polls for Florida and South Carolina show a big lead for Newt Gingrich over Mitt Romney, 15 points in the Sunshine State, 19 points in the Palmetto State. That’s not the shocking part. This is, [...]
December 11, 2011
· Zandar · 59 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, hoocoodanode, Sweet Fancy Moses!, Tire Swinging is so 2008, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Pardon The Interruption
Dafna Linzer’s year-long ProPublica investigation into the factors surrounding supposedly color-blind presidential pardons from 1998 to 2008 is certainly one of the more important articles of the year. The bottom line is that white pardon seekers were four times more likely to be granted a pardon than blacks. ProPublica’s review examined what happened after President [...]
December 7, 2011
· Zandar · 69 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, hoocoodanode, Our Failed Political Establishment
The High Price of a Quick Buck
This should surprise absolutely no one: After Scott Ely and his father talked with salesmen from an energy company about signing the lease allowing gas drilling on their land in northeastern Pennsylvania, he said he felt certain it required the company to leave the property as good as new. So Mr. Ely said he was [...]
December 2, 2011
· John Cole · 68 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, hoocoodanode
Cain Still Unable: Oh Hai…Oh.
Herman Cain will be here in Cincinnati this morning on the “campaign trail”, which apparently means “the slow, agonizing death of his run for President where everyone but Herman Cain himself admits it’s over.” His first stop this morning: Orange Julius country up in the northern suburbs. Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain will appear at [...]
November 30, 2011
· Zandar · 68 Comments
Posted in: hoocoodanode, I Cain't Fight This Feelin' Anymore, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Stupidity
Why Stupid Talk About Violence Matters (Up from the archives edition)
The story of the White House shooter John wrote about last night sent me digging into my archives to find a piece I wrote in the wake of the appearance of someone carrying a long gun at an appearance by President Obama. Or rather, in the wake of old friend Megan McCardle’s attempt to deflate [...]
November 18, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 52 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Bring on the Brawndo!, hoocoodanode
Getting Another One Past The Goalie
Fresh off his success getting Congress to pass legislation to help find jobs for returning Iraq and Afghanistan vets, the next stage in President Obama’s push for jobs bill is a similar $1 billion measure to hire, train, and deploy healthcare workers. The Obama administration will announce Monday as much as $1 billion in funding to [...]
November 14, 2011
· Zandar · 19 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Crazification Factor, hoocoodanode, Our Failed Political Establishment
Cain Still Unable: Cain Accused Of Sexual Harassment
And the Cain Train just derailed all over the Monday morning headlines as claims of sexual harassment are coming forward from Cain’s days as head of the National Restaurant Association lobbyist outfit in the 90’s. Politico reports “at least two” women working at the NRA when Cain ran it “complained to colleagues and senior association [...]
October 30, 2011
· Zandar · 125 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Clown Shoes, hoocoodanode, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Stuff About Black People Written By a Black Person
