Archive for the ‘Overton Window’ Category
Just Kill Me Now, I’m Begging
It never, ever fucking stops: Is the old John McCain back? The fiery, independent version of the Republican senator from Arizona took to the floor of the Senate Wednesday morning. Demanding “straight talk,” Mr. McCain accused conservatives of abandoning reason by opposing the House Republican leader’s plan to resolve the debt crisis. No matter what [...]
July 27, 2011
· 
John Cole · 
167 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Overton Window
Who’s Taxing Whom?
Fair warning: what follows is a bit of a rant and contains nothing particularly new. But the fiscal follies of our overlords are unhinging me, and as misery loves company, I hope to share my derangement. —————- I’ve been a little obsessed with light bulbs lately, as regular readers know. I continue to be dumbfounded [...]
July 18, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 62 Comments
Posted in: Overton Window, Tax Policy, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Toledo
I went out to Toledo yesterday to see the people who came out to see the President. TOLEDO, Ohio — If the 2012 election is about the economy, as most people think, then President Obama’s visit on Friday to this struggling manufacturing city on the Ohio-Michigan border captured as well as any day could the [...]
June 4, 2011
· Kay · 94 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, DC Press Corpse, Decline and Fall, Good News For Conservatives, Our Failed Media Experiment, Overton Window, The Math Demands It
Dead Man Talking
Not looking good for multiple choice Mitt: Tomorrow Mitt Romney ventures straight into the lion’s den—Ann Arbor, Michigan, home of Jonathan Cohn, where he will deliver a health care speech attempting to explain the unexplainable. Just as Luke Skywalker was bound to seek out and confront Darth Vader, Romney must confront Cohn. If Romney winds [...]
May 11, 2011
· John Cole · 112 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Overton Window, Wingnut Event Horizon
Herbert Leaving the Times
Bob Herbert is leaving the times after twenty years. The state of our national media is such a disgrace, with them running in a full-on panic from the right, that I fully expect Herbert’s replacement to Breitbart or Malkin.
March 25, 2011
· John Cole · 87 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, Overton Window
The Boy Who Called Kenyan Socialist Usurper
After embracing Beck for years, the right wing is continuing to attempt to marginalize the monster they created with yet another assist from the “liberal media.” Let’s not forget- back just two years ago when CPAC was sufficiently conservative and not a bunch of liberal homo loving pansies or sharia loving Muslim infiltrators, depending on [...]
March 7, 2011
· John Cole · 66 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Overton Window, Teabagger Stupidity
Pissing in the Punch Bowl
I will be accused of whatever is the opposite of readership capture, but there are reasons to be disappointed with the current administration more sophisticated than WURST PREZNINT EVAH HE SOLD US OUT. Here are a couple excellent links that express my feelings more eloquently than I can. First, “The Editors” at Esquire call out [...]
December 16, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 169 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Democratic Stupidity, Excellent Links, Fucked-up-edness, Overton Window
Prepare To Be Teabagged
All of these folks can expect primary challenges from grade a wingnuts: Eight Republican senators on Tuesday voted to preserve earmark spending despite pressure from the Tea Party movement. Sens. Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), James Inhofe (Okla.), Dick Lugar (Ind.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Richard Shelby (Ala.) voted against an amendment to food-safety [...]
November 30, 2010
· John Cole · 141 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Overton Window, Politics, Teabagger Stupidity
A Real Sunday Morning Ray of Sunshine
This Frank Rich piece was rather depressing. And am I the only one who finds all the hand-wringing over Lugar and Scowcroft that DougJ linked to last night a little amusing. The GOP is now insane. There is no such thing as reasonable conservatives anymore. Call them what they really are, which is enablers. If [...]
November 28, 2010
· John Cole · 28 Comments
Posted in: Overton Window, Politics, Teabagger Stupidity
Bullies and Babies
A different take on preventing bullying that isn’t based on a law enforcement or punitive after-the-tragic-fact model: Lately, the issue of bullying has been in the news, sparked by the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a gay college student who was a victim of cyber-bullying, and by a widely circulated New York Times article that focused [...]
November 12, 2010
· Kay · 37 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Overton Window
Giving Them What They Want
This piece at the Politico titled “Newt Gingrich: on the edge or over the line?” is precisely the kind of press he wants, and the Politico is eager to serve it up. See- it’s an honest debate over whether or not Gingrich’s bile is over the line.
October 11, 2010
· John Cole · 63 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Our Failed Media Experiment, Overton Window
Open Thread: Going There
Of course Dana Milbank quite literally has a book to sell, but I’m wondering how much of a hopeful sign it may be that the Premiere Village Insider is edging away from full-frontal embrace of the Twenty-Seven-Percenters: Conspiracy theorists find validation from Glenn Beck “I would’ve never started watching Fox News if it wasn’t for [...]
October 9, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 60 Comments
Posted in: #dickwhisperer, Bring on the Brawndo!, Domestic Affairs, Fucked-up-edness, Media, Open Thread, Overton Window, The Wingularity
Armageddon
This is not good: Look- if Feingold goes down, I don’t know how you continue to scream that the Democrats have been too moderate. We’re clearly a center-right nation that deserves to be ruled by teabagging clowns and their wealthy masters. And that will be the lesson everyone learns- we need to move to the [...]
September 20, 2010
· John Cole · 477 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2010, Overton Window
ODS: Dinesh Dismantled
Many thanks to commentor El Cid for his link to the brilliant Economist smackdown of Dinesh D’Souza’s weird racialist “Obama Derangment Syndrome“: I DON’T find it at all difficult to understand how Barack Obama thinks, because most of his beliefs are part of the broad consensus in America’s centre or centre-left: greenhouse-gas emissions reductions, universal [...]
September 13, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 51 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Excellent Links, Media, Overton Window, Seriously
Things Might Not Go As Planned
This: Can a highly trained nurse deliver anesthetics as well as a physician who has specialized in anesthesiology, or does the nurse require close medical supervision? That issue emerges from two recent studies and from California’s decision last year to join 14 other states in freeing the nurses from a federal requirement that they be [...]
September 8, 2010
· Kay · 69 Comments
Posted in: Overton Window, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
