With presidential leadership like this, what’s not to be proud about, eh? What a classy guy. Not. I’m just embarrassed…

More drilling in the USA!!! More drilling in the USA!!! More drilling in the USA!!! We need to drill MORE MORE MORE MORE!!! Why? So the major oil companies can export more to other countries and make Mo’ Money! Mo’ Money! Mo’ Money!!! Yeah! A record 1.6 million barrels a day in U.S. refined petroleum products were exported during the […]

This makes my blood boil. For the fourth time this summer Republicans stopped the Senate from taking up wide-ranging legislation that extends tax breaks for teachers, businesses and parents and provides tax credits to an array of renewable energy entrepreneurs. But for many Republicans, it’s a matter or principle and politics: many oppose what they say are new tax increases […]

Okay, this is some scary shit. Greg Pallast is an investigative reporter from the BBC and he’s teamed up with Ted Rall, a man who writes some pretty nasty little liberal cartoons, to peel back the layers and show how the 2008 election may just be already rigged to let John McCain win. When you look at how absolutely abysmally […]

More incisive and spot-analysis from Rachel Maddow on McCain’s claim that he’s the supportiest troop supporter guy EVER! She makes the excellent point (repeatedly on her radio show as well) that McCain doesn’t seem to be able to hold the country’s (and the media’s) attention long enough for any of his gaffes or complete and outright misrepresentations (lies) to actually […]

This is Barack Obama running for president: This is John McCain, the same week (day?) running for president: andSeriously, what is the matter with his campaign staff??? Schmidt’s Fudge Haus, for chrissakes???! I heard audio from his comments there and he was all but drowned out by chimes. Jesus. (Nicked from Greg Saunders over at This Modern World who asks […]

Hoo boy. What utter shite. Barack Obama had intended to visit wounded military personnel in Germany while he was there. Because he was not traveling with other military advisers, the Pentagon told him that this leg of his trip could be construed as “political” and was against Department of Defense rules which prohibit political activities on their bases. So, of […]

He’s losing it. He’s either lying deliberately in his state of desperation or he has a very, very tenuous grasp on “the facts on the ground” in Iraq. When it comes down to it, whether or not The SurgeTM worked isn’t the issue for me. I guess you could say that it worked except that the number of troops in […]

The Nuri al-Maliki not-an-endorsement endorsement of Senator Obama is resonating. Hugely. Josh Marshall at The Talking Points Memo: My first instinct is always to try not to overstate the impact of momentary developments. But I don’t think it’s enough to say this is a huge development. It’s huger than that. In a stroke, I think, al Maliki has cut McCain […]

Jesus. And this guy claims he has good judgment??? McCain Breaches Security by Revealing Obama’s Trip Details. Money quote from a “knowledgeable insider”: If it is true that Obama is going to Iraq this weekend, it is a very serious mistake for McCain to have disclosed it publically. Even for run-of-the-mill CODELs the military gives guidance like, “Please strongly discourage […]

I love this. All of it. It’s such blatant hypocrisy that it just makes you laugh and laugh and laugh. Where to start… Well, first, the Bush administration is now in diplomacy mode with Iran. First Obama is compared to a Nazi appeaser for suggesting it. Now they’re doing it. I’m sure it’ll be a lame-assed attempt so they can […]