Why is this guy still in business?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer investigation into documents pertaining to President Barack Obama's place of birth and citizenship now includes the services of a taxpayer-funded ...
The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar.
A partial list.
Bush had nothing to do ...
Happy Friday.
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney doesn't even support same-sex car pools." –David Letterman
"The head of ...
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser in Colorado.
I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I ...
Rand Paul:
Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer.
We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...
Happy Friday.
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...
I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...
Finally.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...
Election roundup:
Indiana.
As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...
There are lies...and then there are lies.
My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...
From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this.
Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. Happy Friday.
"Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...
It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson.
Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...
Sullivan:
What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage?
A faggot.
Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...
And they claim that atheists are immoral?
The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...
It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden.
Romney, April 2007:
It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...
In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics.
We have been studying Washington politics and ...
Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play.
He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...
Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...
“I think [Obama's] biggest mistake that he has made in his first year was to put bipartisanship ahead of fixing the country. He spent all his political capital on getting three damned votes for that stimulus bill, instead of coming in with all the energy from the election and saying, you know what, we‘re in a crisis mode; I won this election by a sizable mandate; here‘s what we‘re going to do; if you don‘t like it, Republicans, you can suck on it.”
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That seems to align with the sentiment of many who have wished, for all of his talents, that the President had “a little Bush in him”. I have held that same feeling for parts of the last two years now, but I always come back to his basic maturity; he has a vision for how he wants to govern, and he is sticking to it. He doesn’t pull the hair trigger and fire people in the tradition of Washington scapegoating, and he isn’t interested in being pulled into the behavior of his opposition.
Mr. Obama made tactical errors in the stimulus bill (giving tax cuts before they were demanded), he made a strategic mistake in not pushing for financial reform last year (when he could have harnessed the populist anger to his cause), and he made an error (I believe) in not challenging the GOP leadership to write their own version of HC reform last May.
Despite these dings, he remains on his path; he will get reform that has some teeth (it isn’t 180 degrees kids, but it is at least 90, and that is something); he will repeal don’t ask don’t tell (its in the JCS and deep in Pentagon review); he has a timetable for withdraw from both Afghanistan and Iraq; he pushed a plan that Moody’s and CBO both estimate kept unemployment from hitting 13% (stimulus); he has restored the EPA; he has signed an order that will (over the next three years as appointments expire) rid us of 15,000 or more lobbyists currently sitting on federal advisory panels.
All of these have been accomplished despite the most organized, belligerent, and mean-spirited opposition in the history of U.S. politics. This notion of failure and underperformance coming from the left (of all places) is precisely what GOP organizers want; Progressives/Liberals are typically asking “how high” when Conservatives yell “jump!”
If there has been failure, it has been a typical (sadly) failure of courage among Democrats in Congress. This lack of courage, followed immediately by blame-assignment on the White House staff, is both sad and ridiculous. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter remain popular among Liberals, and their greatest political achievments were articles that were largely conservative; they passed most of the transportation deregulation bills, and Clinton pushed through NAFTA.
Despite his name and skin color being turned into political liabilities, President Obama is going to sign relevant legislation that has been Liberal’s highest priority for decades. After the mid-terms (where Dems will do better than current projections, but worse than they want), he will find compromise on environmental, energy, and transportation bills that at least change our direction for the better.
I agree with Maher
That seems to align with the sentiment of many who have wished, for all of his talents, that the President had “a little Bush in him”. I have held that same feeling for parts of the last two years now, but I always come back to his basic maturity; he has a vision for how he wants to govern, and he is sticking to it. He doesn’t pull the hair trigger and fire people in the tradition of Washington scapegoating, and he isn’t interested in being pulled into the behavior of his opposition.
Mr. Obama made tactical errors in the stimulus bill (giving tax cuts before they were demanded), he made a strategic mistake in not pushing for financial reform last year (when he could have harnessed the populist anger to his cause), and he made an error (I believe) in not challenging the GOP leadership to write their own version of HC reform last May.
Despite these dings, he remains on his path; he will get reform that has some teeth (it isn’t 180 degrees kids, but it is at least 90, and that is something); he will repeal don’t ask don’t tell (its in the JCS and deep in Pentagon review); he has a timetable for withdraw from both Afghanistan and Iraq; he pushed a plan that Moody’s and CBO both estimate kept unemployment from hitting 13% (stimulus); he has restored the EPA; he has signed an order that will (over the next three years as appointments expire) rid us of 15,000 or more lobbyists currently sitting on federal advisory panels.
All of these have been accomplished despite the most organized, belligerent, and mean-spirited opposition in the history of U.S. politics. This notion of failure and underperformance coming from the left (of all places) is precisely what GOP organizers want; Progressives/Liberals are typically asking “how high” when Conservatives yell “jump!”
If there has been failure, it has been a typical (sadly) failure of courage among Democrats in Congress. This lack of courage, followed immediately by blame-assignment on the White House staff, is both sad and ridiculous. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter remain popular among Liberals, and their greatest political achievments were articles that were largely conservative; they passed most of the transportation deregulation bills, and Clinton pushed through NAFTA.
Despite his name and skin color being turned into political liabilities, President Obama is going to sign relevant legislation that has been Liberal’s highest priority for decades. After the mid-terms (where Dems will do better than current projections, but worse than they want), he will find compromise on environmental, energy, and transportation bills that at least change our direction for the better.
Isn’t that what we wanted when we voted for him?