Archive for the ‘Proud to Be A Democrat’ Category
Heath Crunch Surprise
Blue Dog Heath Shuler of North Carolina is hanging up his congressional cleats as Democrats just don’t seem to be eager to support the guy anymore and he got stuck holding the bag on redistricting. One of the last remaining members of the Blue Dog Coalition, Shuler was hit by congressional redistricting that made his [...]
February 3, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
47 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Open Thread: Newt Amidst His Supporters
Dave Wiegel, at Slate, has been following Newt Gingrich around Florida this weekend: LUTZ, Fla.—Newt Gingrich began his day in one the front pews of the Exciting Idlewild Baptist Church, one of the largest non-airport faciilites I’ve ever seen a Starbucks inside of. The speaker, Callista, and his top Florida surrogate Bill McCollum sat, stood, [...]
January 30, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 78 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat
Gabrielle Giffords Stepping Down
Via NYMag’s Daily Intel. “I’m getting better… I will return.” Any Arizonans want to tell us about potential candidates who could keep her seat in the (D) column now?
January 22, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 42 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat
Money Bomb: Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2012!
I would be remiss not to highlight today’s fundraising appeal for Warren’s campaign. From the website: Scott Brown is celebrating the two-year anniversary of his election today—and we’re fighting back by launching a money bomb to stand up and show the power of Elizabeth’s grassroots support. Elizabeth’s campaign has lots of grassroots momentum—but Scott Brown [...]
January 19, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 82 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for Senate 2012
Romney, “Job Cremator”
(via Greg Sargent) I {heart} DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. From Benjy Sarlin at TPM: ... “I would not put the cart before the horse and define [Romney] as an unambiguous frontrunner,” DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told TPM in an interview at St. Anselm College in Manchester. “He’s coming off what at some point [...]
January 8, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 61 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Open Thread: Romney the Uncanny
It was a cold grey pre-spring morning early in 2002, and I was one among the hordes migrating through the Back Bay (subway, commuter rail, and intercity bus) terminal. Suddenly a tall humanoid in an expensively-tailored dark tweed business-capitalist overcoat lunged into my meagre personal space and thrust a dark-gloved hand towards my throat. When [...]
January 8, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 97 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Open Thread, Proud to Be A Democrat, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
More of This, Please
Greg Sargent at the Washington Post highlights the Obama administration’s response to Romney’s craven defense of his fellow One Percenters: [Wednesday] Romney denounced the Cordray appointment as “Chicago style politics at its worst.” The Obama campaign responds: “Mitt Romney today stood with predatory lenders and Republicans in Congress over the middle class. He doubled down [...]
January 5, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 144 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: “Rickrolled”
Dave Weigel at Slate discusses “three lessons from Iowa“: Lesson One: The Tea Party isn’t a small-government-first movement…. Sixty-four percent of caucus-goers called themselves “Tea Party supporters,” and 30 percent of them backed Rick Santorum—a social conservative who proudly defended his earmarks. Rick Perry, who campaigned desparately on the issues Tea Partiers say they care [...]
January 4, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 67 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Open Thread, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity
Late Night Open Thread
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) Per TPMLivewire, Willard Romney, Richard Santorum, and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz all took victory laps tonight. Rick Perry, on the other hand, may be reduced to campaigning for the VP slot, after “one of the most swift and complete collapses in primary history“.
January 4, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 115 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Open Thread, Proud to Be A Democrat
Twitching the GOP Horses
... some part of the horse, anyway. Reporting from the salt-of-the-earth diner-demographic in Iowa, Mr. Pierce at Esquire elicits a brilliant analogy: POLK CITY, Iowa — So Dennis Wendle and Don Boone were hanging out together at home down around Liberty, Missouri (no kidding), and they decided that they were tired of living in a [...]
January 3, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 31 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Excellent Links, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality
Tuesday Evening Open Thread
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) During this hectic holiday season, let’s keep reminding our “low information” family members and acquaintances: When you vote for a modern Republican, you are voting for a Bad Person.
December 20, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 78 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality
Fox News GOP Debate Thread
The livestream is here, but my PC is (very sensibly) refusing to load the Faux News player… Richard Adams’ Guardian liveblog is here: 8.30pm: Welcome to the GOP presidential debate, brought to you by Fox News and the good people of Sioux City, Iowa – the final slugfest between, well, a pack of slugs. The [...]
December 15, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 284 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity
“YoYo Economics”
Greg Sargent at his WaPo Plum Line blog reports “Obama unleashes sharp attack on inequality, and Campaign 2012 begins“: Obama’s speech in Kansas, which just concluded, was the most direct condemnation of wealth and income inequality, and the most expansive moral defense of the need for government activism to combat it, that Obama has delivered [...]
December 6, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 118 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat
We’re not at the end of the beginning, but perhaps the beginning of the end
Something huge happened today. The kind of thing that changes the nature of the economy, and Americans’ relationship with their government, and with the corporations that seem to rule so much of our world. Today is the day that a significant part of the Affordable Care Act took effect. Today is the day that companies [...]
December 2, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 70 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Proud to Be A Democrat, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Vouchercare, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It), Yes We Did
The Unlikely Resurgence of A Grossly Swollen Amphibian
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com) To rational observers of his long history of self-destructive bloviation and toxic narcissism, Newton Leroy Gingrich’s newfound “frontrunner” status in the GOP presidential race is a major mystery. The Washington Post, company paper for the political industry, dutifuly untangles how “Newt Gingrich Inc…. went from political flameout to fortune“, detailing the [...]
December 2, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 54 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity
