Archive for the ‘Nobody could have predicted’ Category
Number Crunchers And Green Eyeshades
The President unveiled his 2013 budget plan today, and the details and priorities are very interesting, to say the least. President Barack Obama would almost double spending on the U.S. infrastructure over the next six years and would pour $350 billion into a jobs plan while shrinking the budgets of most other domestic agencies. The [...]
February 13, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
75 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Grifters Gonna Grift, Nobody could have predicted, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality, Vagina Outrage
House Of Pain
Foreclosuregate rattles on, and it looks like the banks are going to lose their pound of flesh, in this case, $25-$26 billion over three years, in order to get off the hook for roughly 100 times that in real damage to the economy. The final details of the pact were still being negotiated Wednesday night, [...]
February 9, 2012
· Zandar · 55 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Don't Mourn, Organize, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Jump! You Fuckers!, Nobody could have predicted, Our Awesome Meritocracy, the Great American Bubble Machine, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
A Poll Arising Situation
The latest NBC/Marist poll in Florida this weekend finds Mitt Romney up big over Newt Gingrich now, 42%-27%. That’s not the big news. This is, buried at the ass end of the article: Romney and rest of the candidates, however, continue to trail President Obama in Florida among all voters. Romney does best, but loses [...]
January 29, 2012
· Zandar · 137 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Election 2012, Nobody could have predicted, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Wingnut Event Horizon
A Texas-Sized Surrender
Now this is very good news if it plays out the way The Hill seems to think it will: Texas Republicans are basically looking to settle their redistricting case with the DoJ, which would have to include approval by the minority representation groups that are the plaintiffs, that would give the state a number of [...]
January 28, 2012
· Zandar · 98 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Nobody could have predicted, Republican Venality, Stuff About Black People Written By a Black Person, The Brown Enemy Within, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Cruisin’
Most of the recent media coverage of the Costa Concordia disaster has focused on the the captain, who, after disabling the autopilot and tearing the ship’s hull open, abandoned ship early and refused to return. When there are so many opportunities to contrast his apparent cowardice with the bravery of hundreds of other captains, I’m [...]
January 21, 2012
· mistermix · 87 Comments
Posted in: Nobody could have predicted
We’ll Just Call It A Tie
In an example of just how terribly corrupt Republican party officials are, the official, certified results of the Iowa caucus are finally in and Rick Santorum actually won by 23 votes. The Iowa GOP has decided to call it a tie instead. Josh Marshall: The rationale for calling this a tie, according to the Des [...]
January 19, 2012
· Zandar · 54 Comments
Posted in: IOKIYAR, Nobody could have predicted, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
I Get By With a Little Help
Because of the gross incompetence of basically the entire GOP field, the Virginia AG is stepping in to save them from themselves (careful, link to Faux News): Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is intervening in the Virginia presidential primary dispute and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates [...]
December 31, 2011
· John Cole · 62 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Nobody could have predicted, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Cough
Should have bet money on it. Gingrich is not materially different from Trump, Bachmann, Perry or Herman Cain. He is another clown with a slightly different brand. The only meaningful question is whether the thing that trips Newt up will be his past, his faulty brain-mouth filter or the crickets and spiders that live in [...]
December 29, 2011
· Tim F. · 102 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Nobody could have predicted, Republican Stupidity
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
You And Me Baby Ain’t Nothin’ But Mammals
Turns out yesterday’s bizarre escaped animal incident in Zanesville, Ohio (east of Columbus) where dozens of exotic animals were put down after they were released into the Ohio countryside before their owner apparently committed suicide? Yeah, you can hang that one on Gov. John Kasich’s neck too. The tragedy exposes the dangers of wildlife trafficking, [...]
October 20, 2011
· Zandar · 123 Comments
Posted in: Nobody could have predicted, Republican Stupidity
McCain’s Billions And Billions And Zero Plan
As Greg Sargent points out there’s literally no amount of compromise that President Obama can make that will be acceptable to Republicans short of his resignation from office, and Sen. John McCain is at the head of that particular train of sore loser goalpost-shifters. McCain on FOX yesterday introducing his new “jobs bill”: We have [...]
October 14, 2011
· Zandar · 122 Comments
Posted in: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Nobody could have predicted, Tire Swinging is so 2008
You can always count on Republicans to be dicks
Turns out that a lot of people watched the President’s speech on jobs Thursday night: According to the LA Times more folks watched President Obama than tuned into opening game of the NFL season, which drew 27.5 million viewers. The President has given other speeches that pulled more viewers—like his first speech to a joint [...]
September 10, 2011
· Dennis G. · 213 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2012, Nobody could have predicted, Teabagger Stupidity
Ginning Up Their Base (-est)
Brad Friedman and Mother Jones have a meaty series of linked articles taking us “Inside the Koch Brothers’ Secret Seminar“: “We have Saddam Hussein,” declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of wealthy guests to the latest of the secret fundraising and strategy seminars he and his [...]
September 6, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 33 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Excellent Links, Free Markets Solve Everything, Getting The Band Back Together, Glibertarianism, Kochsuckers, Nobody could have predicted, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Outrage
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?
The Balls On These People…
Ben Smith, who spent last week lecturing us that calling Mitt Romney weird is tantamount to attacking his Mormonism, actually posted the following: So calling him “awkward” is acceptable, but weird- STOP ATTACKING HIS RELIGION! Let’s use the waybackmachine to look at the kind of things that the Obama campaign were going to use to [...]
August 16, 2011
· John Cole · 84 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Nobody could have predicted, Our Failed Media Experiment
