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The Crazies are working their way in.
1. On Bat-Sh*t Crazy. How the GOP is welcoming the nuts with open arms – In the world of the three second soundbite, 30 second news story, tweets, status updates, and blogging… it’s tough to sit down and really think about the leaps of logic the tea-partyers and other conspiracy theorists have been taking. Jonathan [...]
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Birthers and Conservatives. A match made in self destruction heaven.
1. The G.O.P. Pandering to the Crazy demo – Leonard Pitts points out that Conservatives are shooting themselves in the foot with their embracing of the “birthers.” Sure it’s easy to go for the low hanging fruit after you just got stomped in the Presidential and Congressional Elections. But give it a rest with allowing [...]
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Sotomayor Day Two
(photo from: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
1. Sotomayor Passes Day Two - The Nominee tries to convince her critics that she’s not biased towards minorities, she doesn’t think the fact that she’s a “Wise Latina” gives her an upper hand intellectually, and that she won’t have empathy trump reason. (From The Hill)
2. Dems want to pay for [...]
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Stress Test Results for Banks
1. Report Card Day for the Banks – Stress Test results come out. Early signs are… that there are some good early signs. Annnnnd that sentence made about as much sense as: “Only time will tell if we stand the test of time.” (From Slate)
2. When two young Americans Fail History and Civics - Leonard [...]
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The far right gave the Dems all the cards
1. Hey Mr. Limbaugh: The Arlen Specter thing? Kinda your fault - And
same goes for Ms. Palin, Mr. Hannity, Vice President Cheney, etc… Sure Sen. Specter is switching sides less on Principle and more on the fact that he wants to keep his job, but if a wholesale rejection of moderate tendencies in the GOP [...]
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Arlen Specter becomes a Democrat
ARLEN SPECTER SWITCHES PARTIES
(Story Here, from the Washington Post)
And with Al Franken, who at some point you’d think would become a Dem. Senator from Minnesota… that’ll give the Dems a 60 seat fillibuster proof majority in the Senate.
Holy crud. From Senator Specter’s statement:
“Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, [...]
Waterboarding, Waterboarding, Everywhere
1. CIA waterboarded two Al-Qaeda types 266 times - That’s…
Wow that’s a lot. (From the NY Times)
2. Ahmadinejad knows how bomb on stage – Claims Israel is the world’s most “cruel and racist regime”… at a U.N. racism conference. Bunch of diplomats walk out. (From the Wall Street Journal)
3. Columbine, 10 years later. What happened, [...]
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Rush Limbaugh gets P’owned
1. Rush Limbaugh gets absolutely owned – Democratic strategists hitch the GOP Wagon to Rushbo during the current Republican power vacuum. Rush is his predictable self, believes this is making him stronger, and embraces the position. It IS making you stronger Rush, you fool… it’s just killing the GOP at the same [...]
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Michael Steel might have been the wrong choice
1. This might be a GOP Uh-Oh – Is Michael Steele a mistake for the Republican party? Bonus: He gave a shout out to “one armed midgets” ? (From Politico)
2. AIG Bailout makes Bernanke Really Really Angry – But he even admits that the US “had no choice” (From the Wall Street Journal)
3. Auto Sales [...]
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Members of Congress Twitter during speech
1. Congress twitters during Obama Address – Numerous members of Congress twitter right up to, and some DURING the Obama address. One Texas Congressman’s twitter account tweets the following during the address: “Aggie basketball game is about to start on espn2 for those of you that aren’t going to bother watching pelosi smirk for the [...]
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Microsoft asks for severance back
1. Microsoft lays off workers, gives them too much severance, asks for some of it back – They got up the nerve to ask for the now former workers to send them a check! As Verne Lunquist would say: Onions! Microsoft has now backtracked and realized the bad PR isn’t worth how many thousands [...]
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$9.7 Trillion is how much we all have riding on this
1. $9.7 Trillion is what this is (so far) really going to cost.
Think $800 billion for the Stimulus is steep? Don’t forget about TARP, or those stimulus checks we got last year. That’s your first trillion and a half. The rest seems to be getting spent by the Fed, Treasury, and the [...]
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The Argument against, and also for, healthcare reform.