Every election year, I lament how much worse, how much nastier the rhetoric is from the last election year. In the back of mind, though, is a little voice that says, “Dude, this NOTHING. Wait until NEXT year!” And, of course, I’m right. The following election year is worse than the last. But 2010? Folks, this one is going to […]

Today is the day that Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer will release the Senate version of the so-called Cap-and-Trade bill, their version of the bill Representatives Waxman and Markey got passed in the House earlier this year. And, surprise, surprise (really!), it’s stronger than the House bill. The Washington Post got a sneak peak at a nearly-completed version of […]

Heading into last night’s health care town hall meeting with U.S. Representative John Dingell, my wife and I anticipated that there would probably be a decent turnout of opposition from the tea bagger side of the tracks. I’ve been reading about how the Disrupticans (hat tip: Detroit Mark) have been shutting down any semblance of civil discourse at these events […]

Such good, good news. Norm Coleman did the gracious thing by bowing out after a scant eight fucking months of court challenges. What a righteous dude. Fucker. Watching this makes me feel all better, though. I’m just sayin’…

The National Journal released a poll today that shows that 93% of Democrats (or is that Democrat Socialists?) and 57% of Republicans believe that “Dick” Cheney has hurt the Republican party since leaving office. The mistake that is made is to see this as unintentional and to accept “Dick” Cheney as part of a political landscape in which you are […]

With the retirement of Justice Souter, President Obama, a man with nothing better to do these days (wink, wink) now has to tread a very narrow path to pick a new justice. Progressives will surely pressure him to appoint someone who follows in Souter’s liberal-leaning footsteps, perhaps a woman. Conservatives will, of course, are already condemning him for the choice […]

Well, it’s been a week since the Tea Bagging Extravaganza of April 15th. With that bit of distance, I think it’s time to have a look at what the Tea Bagging Parties were all about. It’s time to call them what they were: The Tea Bagging Parties were, plain and simple, nothing more than Anti-Obama Rallies. When you consider who […]

Bob Cesca nails it again: Insane Republicans Reveal An Insane Budget Plan Makes you wanna laugh and cry, all at the same time. I’m just sayin’…

Allow me to just say this: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! UPDATE: The Washington Independent is reporting that the new GOP “budget” raises taxes on many Americans. Well, except the rich, of course… While reporters hooted at the comically simplistic charts and lack of details in the House Republican leadership’s budget plan, the green eyeshade types at Citizen’s for Tax Justice crunched the numbers […]

I watched President Obama’s second prime time press conference last night and thought he handled himself pretty well. The press, however? Not so much. There were, of course, some good questions. But two of them really stuck out as particularly worthless and the President still managed to respond well to them. It’s a tribute to his communications skills, I suppose. […]

Cross-posted from the “Recommended Diaries” list at The Daily Kos. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, has a guest post at The Washington Note this week that could probably be seen as a very public Covering of One’s Ass. Daily Kos diarists halcyon and Valtin point in that direction, for sure. But there’s a […]