Archive for the ‘WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?’ Category
Our Awesome Meritocracy
Just fucking shoot me: NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices oon Monday morning, said Steve Capus, president of NBC News, and will begin work on [...]
November 14, 2011
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John Cole · 
101 Comments
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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?
This Is Why I Quit Watching Cable Networks
Your meritocracy at work.
August 4, 2011
· John Cole · 68 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
Our failed media experiment
Via Tbogg.
August 1, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 39 Comments
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Little Jon, he always tells the truth
I have nothing special against Jon Huntsman, he seems reasonable enough as Republicans go, but when the press goes all in for the son of a billionaire, it’s hard not to smell a rat. “It’s very hard to tell one of the Huntsmans ‘no,’” says Doug Foxley, a lobbyist and attorney who was a senior [...]
June 28, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 45 Comments
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This Should Leave A Very Large Mark
Ouch: Leaving aside the fact that Obama, who went on to graduate Harvard Law magna cum laude, seems like he was probably a very good student, Mr. Trump might need a refresher course in how unqualified people actually do manage to get into the prestigious Ivy League Universities . Let us take, as an example, [...]
April 26, 2011
· John Cole · 118 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
Meritocracy At Work
Pulitzer affirmative action for wingnuts: Alas, that was not the case. The proud Journal linked to the 10 entries it had submitted to the Pulitzer board on Rago’s behalf. For starters, four of them had the derogatory term “ObamaCare” right in the headlines. On closer inspection, all ten of them used it in the body [...]
April 19, 2011
· John Cole · 50 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Our Failed Media Experiment, WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
The last thing they’ll ever do is act in your interest
A good one sentence summary of contemporary American from E. J. Dionne: The American ruling class is failing us — and itself. [....]An enlightened ruling class understands that it can get richer and its riches will be more secure if prosperity is broadly shared, if government is investing in productive projects that lift the whole [...]
April 18, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 71 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
But This Time It is Different
Can anyone deny this: Whatever one thinks about the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya—some substantial portion of my readers support it, though Republicans are more enthused about the U.S. taking a leading role—it has unquestionably departed far from the claims that were made about it in the beginning. The no-fly zone was established [...]
March 30, 2011
· John Cole · 78 Comments
Posted in: War, WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
You’ll either be a union man or a thug for David Koch
I believe that the past week has been a watershed moment in American politics. People are starting to use the word “class” again and I wish Kevin Drum (in the excellent piece I talked about earlier) had used it here: American politicians don’t care much about voters with moderate incomes. Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels [...]
February 24, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 93 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, C.R.E.A.M., David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Free Markets Solve Everything, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, The Math Demands It, WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
Fortunate son
I don’t know if this is tragedy or face farce, but Pinch Sulzberger’s son is tromping around Wisconsin talking to Real Murkins about how much they hate unions right now. I’m a Times apologist, but for Bieber’s sake, that is tone deaf.
February 21, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 157 Comments
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It’s Luke Russert’s world, we’re just living in it
I can’t believe even Gregg Easterbrook can say this with a straight face. Today China, India, the United States, Indonesia and Brazil, the world’s five largest nations, representing more than half of the global population, have abolished all forms of inherited rule.
February 18, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 50 Comments
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The Chamber
Got some emails asking me what I thought about President Obama’s speech at the Chamber of Commerce, but I haven’t read or watched the speech yet, so I will have to refrain from commenting. On the other hand, the crack team at the Politico has a deeply insightful analysis: What could I possibly say that [...]
February 7, 2011
· John Cole · 33 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, DC Press Corpse, Free Markets Solve Everything, Our Failed Media Experiment, WWJBD- What Would Jenna Bush Do?
I Hear Luke Russert Edited It
I am sure this will be a bestseller: “Dirty Sexy Politics,” written by Meghan McCain, daughter of former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona, goes behind the scenes on the campaign trail and in the spotlight to discuss why she thinks the Republican Party has veered from its roots. The last few chapters [...]
August 31, 2010
· John Cole · 33 Comments
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Can I Reserve the name Hugh E. Rection?
Whatever: Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites such as Facebook. “I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” Mr Schmidt told [...]
August 18, 2010
· John Cole · 89 Comments
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