Head over to ObWings and do what Katherine says. I don’t know whether Specter is trying to weasel out of his shiny new verb but regardless this seems like a positive development. Back when the awful Specter bill first came out I called his office in Pittsburgh and asked him to stop being such a …
The Spectering Chronicles
Sleaze edition. Unable to agree on major lobbying and ethics legislation, Senate and House leaders have made plans to adopt vastly scaled-back versions of the measures as part of their rules so that lawmakers can claim that they responded to recent congressional scandals. Congress promised fast action on lobbying reforms in January, but the two …
Spectering
Greenwald explains our shiny new verb. This is what we have been reduced to. A Senator actually celebrates as some sort of victory or “concession” the fact that the President will allow the constitutionality of his actions to be decided by a court. And we are told that although the President has been breaking the …
Lexicon (A-Z)
Teach a man a fact, and he’s smart for a day. Teach a man to reason, and he’s a pain in the ass to his social betters for the rest of his life. # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U …
Balloon Juice Dictionary
We are making great progress with the dictionary, but there are still some glaring omissions. We need definitions for the following: birthers teabaggers clown shoes Black Jimmy Carter Clap Louder And a pony Daydream believers Chewbacca defense Tinkerbell strategy I smell a pulitzer! KMBA Spectering tire gauges He’s a Celebrity Palling around with terrorists I …
Specterschadenfreude
Atrios: On the plus side, Senate staffers inform me that Republicans in the Senate are visibly in agony right now. So at least we have that! At this point, the GOP might want to re-introduce the Schiavo legislation, just replacing the name “Terri Schiavo” with Republican. It is also worth noting that however much fun …
The Many Stages Of Climate Denial
Stage 1: Denial. Once the proud front line of the anti-warming fight, pretty much everyone has abandoned this absolutist position except for some guerillas too far gone or out of touch to get the message. What does it mean for Exxon? Business as usual. Stage 2: We didn’t do it. Sure the glaciers are thinning …