Archive for the ‘Manic Progressive’ Category
They Knew Exactly Which Buttons To Push
So I wonder what the deal is behind this story, but that’s not the interesting part. Late Tuesday evening, a press release went out to numerous political journalists with stunning news. Mega-union SEIU had voted to withdraw its recently bestowed endorsement of Barack Obama. That’s certainly not unimaginable — SEIU often takes its own path [...]
December 7, 2011
· 
Zandar · 
180 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, DC Press Corpse, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Manic Progressive, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Our Failed Media Experiment
Ralph Nader and Cornel West’s Plans to Primary Obama Hit A Wall
Nader haz a sad. I haz a glad. Fresh off the heels of The New York Times’ report that Black people still really love them some President Obama, comes the news that Nader’s progressive pony project isn’t going to meet the deadline for qualifying to enter the New Hampshire primary. ::cue tiny violins:: The man [...]
October 28, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 233 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Manic Progressive
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
CAUTION: Geniuses at work…
There are a group of people who sell themselves as “progressives” who have proven over the years that they are complete fools. These are folks with a serious strategic thinking problem. Time after time all they do is rack up failure after failure. Worst of all, they provide wingnuts everywhere perfect foils who can be [...]
September 19, 2011
· Dennis G. · 337 Comments
Posted in: Manic Progressive, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Open Thread
OzoneGate 2: Electric Boogaloo
Matt Osborne provides this follow-up to his original post: I said yesterday: “Friday’s progressive freakout over nixed EPA smog rules is not really about fighting smog, but the myopia of issue focus in the blogosphere and the inflated currency of online outrage. Transportation is a wonky subject that often flies below the radar. It is [...]
September 5, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 97 Comments
Posted in: Manic Progressive
OzoneGate
Matt Osborne offers a different take: First of all, let’s stop with the stupid sports metaphors. Really. If you need an analogy, smog regulations are a low card in a high stakes game, and Lisa Jackson is the queen of hearts when Obama needs spades. If you insist on baseball, smog reduction is a run, [...]
September 4, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 272 Comments
Posted in: Manic Progressive, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!
What He Said
Chait is pretty much correct. The only thing he does not touch on is the idiotic public option debate, where we all get to relive the joyous occasion of the screamers claiming Obama strangled the public option to death in the crib (JUST ASK JOE LIEBERMAN!) while never once grappling with the fact that there [...]
September 4, 2011
· John Cole · 512 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Manic Progressive
ZOMG! ScheduleGate!! President Obama is a Cave-Dwelling Cave Meister!
This is Obama’s Katrina. For those of you who aren’t aware, Obama caved BIG-TIME yesterday… or something. See, he wanted to address Congress about his jobs plan on September 7, which is Congress’s first day back from summer recess. (You remember jobs, right? Most of you probably don’t have one because Congress refuses to do [...]
September 1, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 277 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Balloon Jobs, Because of wow., Clown Shoes, Crock Pot Craziness, General Stupidity, I Hate All of You, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, I wish a motherfucker would!, KMBA, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Manic Progressive, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Stupidity, Serenity Now!, Seriously, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, The Brown Enemy Within, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), WTF?
I Hate That Name That We Came Up With For Ourselves
So apparently some campaign flack somewhere called out the professional left and called them firebaggers or something. Beyond the fact that it is stupid for OFA members to write shit like this, and putting aside the usual arguments and bullshit that come with any post on this subject, this made me laugh: “Firebagger” is most [...]
August 17, 2011
· John Cole · 353 Comments
Posted in: Manic Progressive, Show Me On the Doll Where Rahm Touched You
OBAMA IS PICKING ON ROMNEY!
WHY WON’T TEAM OBAMA FIGHT! OBAMA IS PICKING ON ROMNEY! And, it starts. Ben Smith and JMart have a gossipy piece (go figure!) in the Politico saying that the Obama campaign plans to destroy Romney: A senior Obama adviser was even more cutting, suggesting that the Republican’s personal awkwardness will turn off voters. “There’s a [...]
August 9, 2011
· John Cole · 196 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Manic Progressive, Our Failed Media Experiment
RIP DADT
That is over: President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen certified Friday that the U.S. military is prepared to accept openly gay and lesbian service members, and that doing so will not harm military readiness, according to the White House. Under a bill passed last year [...]
July 22, 2011
· John Cole · 217 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Manic Progressive, Military, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!
Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) Co-Founder Aaron Swartz Indicted for Wire and Computer Fraud***
But you should totally sign their petition. As if being run by grifter Adam Green (to whom you should totally send three dollars, by the way) isn’t enough to stain PCCC and Bold Progressives’s reputation, PCCC’s co-founder Aaron Swartz was indicted for mail fraud today. From AP, A Harvard University fellow who was studying ethics [...]
July 19, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 238 Comments
Posted in: Manic Progressive, Schadenfreude
The Record
The Benenator 2000: What’s more, it’s a heartening piece that fits into a larger mosaic. After two-and-a-half years, President Obama has successfully repealed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law; expanded federal benefits for the same-sex partners of executive-branch employees; signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law; cleared the way for hospital-visitation rights for same-sex [...]
July 19, 2011
· John Cole · 195 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Manic Progressive, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!
That Sound You Hear
Is a progressive netroots primal scream as anonymous sources claim Obama has given up trying to get Warren confirmed as the head of the CFPB. This shows you how out of the loop I am, because I thought we had already gone through this and thought she was running for Senate in Mass.
July 16, 2011
· John Cole · 210 Comments
Posted in: Manic Progressive, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!
Jane Hamsher Calls Obama Supporters “Dumb Motherfuckers.”
Hey, it’s better than Joan Walsh’s favorite term: Obamalovers Keep your eye on Firedoglake, people. That ship is sinking fast. Jane Hamsher is suffering stage 5 Obama Derangement Syndrome. It’s so bad that she is now ignoring what Democratic aides have reported regarding Obama’s meeting with Cantor, and is sucking the milk from Cantor’s teat: [...]
July 14, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 379 Comments
Posted in: Grifters Gonna Grift, KMBA, Manic Progressive
