Archive for the 'calling bullshit' Category
John Boehner: Clown
Remember this?
“Now, listen, I’ve voted ‘present’ two or three times in my entire 25-year political career, where there might have been a conflict of interest and I didn’t feel like I should vote,” Boehner said. “In Congress, we have a red button, a green button and a yellow button, alright. Green means ‘yes,’ red means [...]
“Center-Right”? Dream On, Conservative Losers!
Think Progress catches conservatives making up stories:
Last Friday, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer called the United States “the quintessential center-right country,” and wondered why it was “poised to reject” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), “the quintessential center-right candidate.” Last week’s Newsweek cover declared, “America remains a center-right nation — a fact that a President Obama would [...]
Philly Bits: It’s a Mandate, Bizotch!
Ray has great stuff today.
One of the most important is this catch: Novak is pretending Obama doesn’t have a mandate:
Novak yesterday:
When Franklin D. Roosevelt won his second term for president in 1936, the defeated Republican candidate, Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, won only two states, Maine and Vermont, and Democrats controlled [...]
Ralph Nader Loses His Shit, Calls Obama “Uncle Tom”
This was so egregious, even the unctuous and duplicitous Shepherd Smith was gobsmacked: his stunned reaction is priceless.
Once upon a time, Ralph Nader was a crusader for consumers and ordinary Americans. To be honest, I don’t hold his spoiler role from 2000 against him. No, where I get off is his disgraceful attempts to [...]
Read More..>>Kick Lieberman Out of the Caucus
Image taken from daily Kos, from Zina Saunders, who does fantastic work. I couldn’t find the original.
Aravosis at Americablog has a concise and comprehensive list of Liberman’s broken promises:
1. He endorsed the Republican presidential candidate, with the clear intent to leave his Senate seat by becoming McCain’s VP or a cabinet secretary. He was going [...]
Philly Voting Problems
Daily Kos:
If you are in Philadelphia, PA and you click the box for Obama, and then click straight Democratic ticket, it will cancel out your vote for Obama. No one is quite sure why, but it’s happening . I [...]
David Brooks: “Sour Grapes”
Oh dear. Poor David Brooks is crying “sour grapes” again:
Nov. 4, 2008, is a historic day because it marks the end of an economic era, a political era and a generational era all at once.
Economically, it marks the end of the Long Boom, which began in 1983. Politically, it probably marks the end of conservative [...]
Dear Hank Williams Junior: You and Sarah Palin Are Quite a Pair. Of Assholes, That Is.
I don’t understand it. Your dad made such great music, and your son is equally awesome.
How did you turn out to be such a flaming fucking asshole?
At a Sarah Palin rally here tonight, country music star Hank Williams, Jr. took the stage to sing the national anthem, as he has done at Palin events across [...]
Truthiness at the NY Times
Truthiness: “something that seems like truth – the truth we want to exist”
Oh dear. Looks like NYT reporters Bill Yardley and Serge Kovaleski are on the tire swing today, with a really bad case of the truthiness blues:
A report released on Monday by a state board found that Gov. Sarah Palin did not apply improper [...]
A Handout, Not a Bailout
Now, I realize I don’t own anything and have an irrational hatred of Wall Street, but when taxpayers forked over all those billions in bailout money, it was meant to stimulate lending, not this:
Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses - despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency [...]
