Archive for the ‘The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)’ Category
At Long Last, Someone Will Face a Waterboarding Related Prosecution
So much fail: The Justice Department on Monday charged a former Central Intelligence Agency officer with disclosing classified information to journalists about the capture and brutal interrogation of a suspected member of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah — adding another chapter to the Obama administration’s unprecedented crackdown on leaks. In a criminal complaint filed on Monday, [...]
January 23, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
189 Comments
Posted in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), War on Terror aka GSAVE®
A Positive Ruling
This is great news, and completely shocking: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move. The decision (.pdf) in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, rejected the [...]
January 23, 2012
· John Cole · 134 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
What The EPA Just Did
This seems to have flown under the radar for many of us: Resisting strenuous last-minute lobbying by some of the nation’s biggest utilities, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday a final rule requiring power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants by roughly 90 percent within the next five years. This is [...]
December 22, 2011
· John Cole · 53 Comments
Posted in: The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
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
Note The Headline
From the American Forces Press Service—the news service of the United States Department of Defense: Obama: Americans No Longer Have To Lie To Serve Just a reminder—or really two. First, to steal a phrase. It does get better. It gets worse too, sometimes, and at times like these it can seem as if that’s the [...]
September 20, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 103 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), Uncategorized
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?
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 ... World Peace · 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?
And we have a winner!
Kay beat me to a quick post on the Virginia earthquake. I had written: Apparently there was a moderate 5.9 earthquake that hit Virginia between Richmond and Charlottesville. I felt the shakes up in Baltimore and TPM reports folks felt something all around the region from NYC to North Carolina (and some reports from pretty [...]
August 23, 2011
· Dennis G. · 221 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Our Failed Political Establishment, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
Send in the Clowns
It’s the end game in Tripoli. From the Guardian’s live feed on events there: 10.45pm: Libyan rebels are now within two miles of the centre of Tripoli, AP reports… ...and this: 11.04pm: Al Jazeera is reporting that two of Gaddafi’s sons, Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi, have been arrested and another son, Muhammad, has surrendered. And [...]
August 21, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 347 Comments
Posted in: Bachmann Turner Diaries Overdrive, Bring on the Brawndo!, Election 2012, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), Uncategorized, War
For the Record
The White House’s version of the debt ceiling agreement. Also, FWIW, someone I know in the moneyed world sent me this from a highly numerically literate type at another MRU on what the actual agreement entails in the here-and-now: There are no cuts to this years federal budget. For the one that start Oct 2011 [...]
August 4, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 174 Comments
Posted in: OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
The New (and Unholy) Ron Paul and Ralph Nader Alliance
Pardon me while I scoff in this alliance’s general direction So, this happened over the weekend: Ron Paul, Ralph Nader agree on ‘progressive-libertarian alliance’ In this corner, a libertarian, tea party hero who ran several campaigns as a candidate for US president on the Republican ticket. And in that corner, a progressive icon of the [...]
January 24, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 164 Comments
Posted in: Politics, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), Uncategorized
Smoking Crack Rock
By now, you all have heard that the Republicans, in one of their first acts back from the midterm elections, have decided to scuttle START. Yes, that is crazy, obscene, and will undercut our foreign policy with Russia while making the world less safe, but to me, the craziest thing I’ve seen about the whole [...]
November 17, 2010
· John Cole · 206 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Democratic Stupidity, hoocoodanode, Seriously, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), WTF?
I want it all; I want it all; I want it all… AND I WANT IT NOW!
A Letter to a Whiny Young Democrat Progressive. This: Oh, now you’ve done it. See? You see what happens when you young liberal voters get so disgruntled and disillusioned that you drop all your party’s newborn, hard-won ideas about Hope™ and Change™, without any patience, without really giving them sufficient time to mature, without understanding [...]
November 4, 2010
· ABL 2.0 · 243 Comments
Posted in: Election 2010, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Manic Progressive, Politics, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
DADT and the Justice Department
This is something I’ve been really interested in the last couple of weeks, and that is the obligation of the Justice Department to defend extant US Law in the court system. My opinion was that it was the obligation of every Justice Department to defend laws, even ones the current administration does not like, and [...]
October 21, 2010
· John Cole · 113 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Military, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
DADT/Dream Act
Both are up for a vote today, and both will be filibustered: In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama repeated a campaign-trail promise to the gay community. By the end of the year, Mr. Obama said, he would seek a full repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which [...]
September 21, 2010
· John Cole · 173 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Military, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
