You could write a book about what’s already happened in the race to be the next governor in Michigan. But the fun never stops. Last week the former state treasurer under Democratic governor Jim Blanchard, a man by the name of Robert Bowman, got into the race that currently only has two Democratic candidates (Rep. Alma Wheeler-Smith and Lansing Mayor […]

How do you motivate a Republican whose Congressional seat is being threatened? Well, if you’re Incumbent Retention Czar Mike Rogers (MI-08), head of the NRCC’s “Patriot Program”, you give ’em a colonial soldier bobblehead. I’m totally not kidding. Rogers uses not just the stick, but also the carrot. Make that the bobblehead. He gives a Colonial soldier bobblehead doll to […]

Nicked this from a posting on Reddit: A huge storm hit Washington D.C. this week dropping upwards of 3 feet of snow an paralyzing the city. President Obama announced that he wants to get the snow plowed but he wants a bipartisan consensus and compromise instead of unilateral action and that, instead of him pushing a particular bill, he wants […]

Surely you know about the most-horrible Westboro Baptist Church and their most-horrible “God Hates Fags” protests. Wanna know how to effectively protest complete morans like this? You do it like this [location: San Francisco (of course)]: Photo by EDW Lynch Photo by EDW Lynch You can work anything into a Rick Roll, can’t you?Photo by LiveSoMa Here’s a coupla Twitter-related […]

President Obama met with Republicans today in a Q&A session that was an amazing sight to see. At the last minute, the Obama administration asked that cameras be allowed and we should all thank heavens that happened. Watch this and enjoy. More of this, please. Much, much more. I’m just sayin’…

As reported by Devilstower on the front page of the Daily Kos a couple of days ago, the Teabaggers were ready to hit the ground protestin’ at the Detroit Auto Show. Ready to protest bailing out the auto industry. You know, the one that employs 60% of Michigan workers? Well, they were outnumbered by some union folks who showed up […]

Freshman Representative from MI-07 Mark Schauer had a grueling schedule Friday and Saturday last week. He held four town hall meetings in two days to discuss the House’s health care reform bill and to answer questions from his constituents. Schauer, who narrowly defeated the odious fundamentalist über-conservative Tim Walberg in 2008, is in a tough district. While it contains a […]

Headlines from the news media. Diaries at the Daily Kos. Chain emails from conservatives. From all of these fronts we’re getting the message “Barack Obama is losing the health care reform debate”. I say he’s NOT. Decidedly NOT. There’s been a sea change in the whole health care reform debate and I don’t think many of us have even noticed […]

I’ve been giving a LOT of thought to this whole Birthers thing. I’ve done the research. I’ve read the blogs. I’ve listened to Dobbs. And now, at long last, I’ve reached a conclusion. It’s not one that will be popular with many progressive liberals and other Obama supporters but when the details of the diabolical plot are revealed, I think […]

“The protests in Iran show the neocons were right” Hard to believe, isn’t it? After all the discussion about how the neocons wanted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win the election in Iran last week (like HERE and HERE, e.g.), turns out that’s not the case at all. According to The Times‘ neocon-in-residence Daniel Finkelstein in his article Fancy that. They want […]

I know, I know, “conservative Republicans” is straight out of the Department of Redundancy Department. Forgive me. Anyway, wanna know how to drive one crazy? Show ’em these Gallup poll results: See that last little light green bar there? The one on the far right that says 42%??? That’s his approval rating among REPUBLICANS. They just hate that. I’m just […]