Archive for the ‘Our Failed Political Establishment’ Category
Suck on this, Tommy
A pretty awesome put-down of Friedman’s relentless pimping for Americans Elect by Harold Meyerson: If Mitt Romney manages to squeak through with the GOP nomination, there won’t be much political space that Americans Elect could occupy: Wall Street will already have a candidate of its own. But if Santorum is the GOP nominee, Americans Elect [...]
February 23, 2012
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DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
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Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Civility sells, but who’s buying
Fuck this: Peter Gleick violated a principle rule of the global-warming debate: Climate scientists must be better than their opponents.[...]Taking the high road is not easy or fun. But Gleick and the rest of us who favor decarbonizing the world economy have to be, and should want to be, the adults in the debate. Gleick’s [...]
February 21, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 65 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
The very serious Glenn Beck
I’ve come around to thinking that the Global War On Birth Control is a bad issue for the right. It’s amazing how much establishment media is flogging the winger perspective on it, though. Kaplan today:
February 20, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 79 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
It’s A Done Deal, Dude
Congress has Done Something, which in and of itself would qualify as news, but this time it’s passage of the various sausage-making implements involving extending the payroll tax cut, extended federal unemployment insurance, and the Medicare “doc fix” through the end of the year. The bill cleared the Senate in a 60-36 vote less than [...]
February 17, 2012
· Zandar · 59 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Political Establishment, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility, We Are All Mayans Now
The Onion as Real News, part 4,391; Update to Why We Fight
Once again, The Onion has a story that might as well have come from an actual, real news source, if such had still existed in the US: New Breeding Program Aimed At Keeping Moderate Republicans From Going Extinct Some choice tidbits: Though hopes for the captive breeding program remain high, many leading political conservationists note [...]
February 13, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 93 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Crazification Factor, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Open Thread, Our Failed Political Establishment
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
Clearly We Need Laws To Protect Us From Republican Voter Fraud
Next time somebody says DEMOCRAT VOTER FRUAD ACORN BLAH BLOOGITY BLAH please calmly direct them to Indiana’s GOP Secretary of State Charlie White being convicted on six of seven voting fraud felony counts while being the state’s top election official. Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was convicted of six felonies early this morning, and [...]
February 4, 2012
· Zandar · 36 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Both Sides Do It!, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality
Tampa Bay GOP Debate Thread
(Ted Rall’s website) WaPo reports that “the debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, will air on NBC at 9 p.m. ET in the place of “Rock Center”. Tampa is also the site of the GOP convention in August, which I suspect will be mentioned once or twice. Livestreaming via NBC.com or the [...]
January 23, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 237 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Stupidity
You my winger? (It certainly appears so.)
I don’t know if you know anyone like this, but I have an adult relative who regularly stages temper tantrums to get what he wants. It always annoys me, because my attitude has always been “scream all you want, I don’t care”, but not everyone in my family feels this way. So it is with [...]
January 23, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 72 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Jeb Bush Is Grifter-Curious
Sweet suffering national polity, I honestly thought “the smart brother” would have the sense of self-preservation (decency not being part of the Bush geneset) to lie low until more of us had the chance to forget the horrors of the Dubya Regency. But it looks like we are never going to be rid of these [...]
January 22, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 82 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Decline and Fall, Election 2012, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality
Money, Money, Chips Coming In
Like I told you yesterday: And Todd won’t ever tell you this, but he and the rest of the bobbleheads and their corporations don’t want the system fixed. They like it as a mess. If we were to hold elections like other civilized nations, we’d have public funding of them and they would last for [...]
January 22, 2012
· John Cole · 75 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
This is brainwash and this is a clue
From Anne-Laurie’s post this morning on George Romney: Then, most famously, there was the Vietnam War. He supported it after returning from a trip there in 1965. Then, courageously, after a second trip in 1967, he began to criticize it. On September 4, 1967, a TV interviewer asked, “Isn’t your position a bit inconsistent with [...]
January 20, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 42 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
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
How This Particular Game Is Played
As much as I would love to believe this is yet another instance where the President has outsmarted the GOP (and in a fair would it would be) his proposal for legislation allowing him fast track authority to consolidate federal trade and commerce agencies is precisely the sort of thing that has zero chance getting [...]
January 14, 2012
· Zandar · 213 Comments
Posted in: Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, WATB
First Lady Of The Nation, Last Resort Of A Scoundrel
Republican First Ladies are all saints, and Democratic ones are all cast iron bitches, apparently. Two stories indicate that 2012 as an election year means Michelle Obama is fair game. First, we get one step closer to the n-word… Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal on Thursday apologized for an email that made fun of first [...]
January 7, 2012
· Zandar · 231 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Our Failed Political Establishment, Show Me On the Doll Where Rahm Touched You, Stuff About Black People Written By a Black Person
