Rep. John Shaddeg of (surprise, surprise) Arizona thinks that extending unemployment benefits will basically take money OUT of the economy because unemployed people will SAVE money rather than spending it and that it’s not the spending of money that moves the economy. No shit. Here he is on MSNBC’s Morning Joe yesterday being asked a question by Mike Barnicle: BARNICLE: […]

Cross-posted at Daily Kos. It’s true. I heard it on the Rec List at Daily Kos. Wikileaks is now releasing scads of documents proving that Netflix is being sexually groped by Comcast-funded TSA agents after being sterilized by PornoScanTM radiation. The worst part: President Obama hasn’t said a word about it. Not only is he failing to message this insanity […]

This blog entry was first posted on Daily Kos yesterday morning and it has, surprisingly, been one of my most popular diaries there in a very long time. I posted it as a snarky, sarcastic jab at what I think of as Obama is Ruining EverythingTM conservatives and also to highlight that there definitely ARE some things to be quite […]

It’s been a busy day over at the New York Stock Exchange. GM’s initial public offering (IPO) had its stock priced $33 but it opened well over that at $35.40. As I type this, the latest trade was $35.18. Detroit Free Press editorial cartoonist Mike Thompson perhaps put it best: Something tells me that that a whole lot of anti-auto […]

Remember that dreaded device that Republicans hated so much: Reconciliation? That was the one they said perverted the Constitution when Democrats were looking to use it during health insurance reform. Well, back in the day when George W. Bush was president, Republicans didn’t think it was so danged bad. In fact, they loved them some reck and silly ayshun just […]

Still getting my head around the routing Democrats took last Tuesday. Lots of things play into the bloodbath but there are several things that I think were avoidable and that Democrats need to do much, much better. This one in particular makes my blood boil: Poll: Americans Don’t Know Economy Expanded With Tax Cuts. The Obama administration cut taxes for […]

This was VERY popular last year so I’m reposting it with very few changes. I simply don’t have time because, well, we’re just GOTVing our little hearts out here in Ann Arbor today (and tomorrow and Tuesday…) I have added a handful of new ones before I head out the door. Enjoy. I love Halloween but I’m not much of […]

Michigan political reporter Tim Skubick noted last week on his blog that Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder wouldn’t take selling the Mackinac Bridge off the table. Absolutely serious. The Mackinac Bridge is a Michigan icon. It is often how our state is represented in graphical form. Completed in 1957, it was built without the use of a single taxpayer […]

Hey, kids! Wanna have some real fun tomorrow? Get yourself down to the University of Michigan Diag for a rally with Rob Steele, the teabagger GOP candidate running against John Dingell. It starts at 6:30 p.m. and all the cool kids will be there. Like Wendy Day, Livingston County teabagger organizer and home-schooling Howell School Board member. I’ve written about […]

Illinois GOP Senate candidate Mark Kirk isn’t the only Republican setting out to intimidate “vulnerable” voting precincts. Not by a long shot. The Michigan Republican Party is training as many as 3,000 people to work as poll watchers, targeting mostly the southeastern part of the state: Michigan Republicans are recruiting and training up to 3,000 people to work as poll […]

On Tuesday, October 12th at 12:30 p.m. at the Federal Building in Ann Arbor, MoveOn.org is holding an important press conference. At this conference, they will release a new report that details the amount of money being pumped into our elections by anonymous corporations. From their website: Rally with us to stop the corporate takeover of our democracy! This election […]