I have found the national political response to the shootings in Arizona a fascinating study this past week. As I blogged earlier this week , when Democrats held out an olive branch to Republicans last year, asking for a mutual statement urging civility in political discourse, they were firmly rebuffed by RNC leadership. I had expected this recent tragedy to […]

Politico has a piece up today that opens with this absolutely ridiculous bit of asshattery: Of all the unfulfilled campaign promises President Barack Obama made in 2008, the one that bothers the president most isn’t any squandered policy priority – it’s his failure to re-civilize what he views as an increasingly savage partisan climate. Wait. The lack of civility in […]

Maybe the Republicans think we’ll just get numb and desensitized to their rampant GOPocrisy and start pretending it doesn’t exist. Check this out. They aren’t the least bit subtle about it. After spending two years preventing literally hundreds of President Obama’s nominations to key administration and judicial posts from being filled, we get this: Republicans, after two years of criticism […]

In the flurry of activity of the 111th Congress lame duck session, a nice piece of progressive legislation passed with little notice or fanfare. But it’s a BFD for renewable energy. As part of the tax cut deal negotiated by President Obama with the Republicans, a key section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Section 1603, was extended. […]

You know that health insurance reform bill that got passed last year? The one that so many on the right claim is a “Big Government takeover of health care” and so many on the left said was completely worthless? Below are the dozen provisions that kicked in yesterday (from the Kaiser Family Foundation). Minimum Medical Loss Ratio for InsurersRequires health […]

Just a reminder for all our Obama-supporter friends that today is the last day to order one of Anne’s amazing photomosaic posters of our President for only $5 (they are usually $20) plus shipping. Details are HERE. Happy New Year, everyone! I’m just sayin’…

Still wrapping my head around the fact that country music legend Merle Haggard said this It’s really almost criminal what they do with our president. There seems to be no shame or anything. They call him all kinds of names all day long, saying he’s doing certain things that he’s not. It’s just a big old political game that I […]

[Bumped as a reminder for all our Obama-supporting friends who may have missed it the first time.] Yesterday during the speech he gave before signing the bill repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell into law, President Obama said this: That is why I say to all Americans, gay or straight, who want nothing more than to defend this country in uniform: […]

Many so-called progressives are reluctant to give President Obama any credit for the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. This is an opinion not borne out by “the facts on the ground”, so to speak. Early in his administration, the President brought in military leaders like Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, Chair of the […]

Have you been hearing that lately, how much true liberals really don’t like President Obama much these days? It’s all over the television. The news shows talk about how he has “lost his base”. The pundits wonder if he’ll get beat by Sarah Palin in 2012. The liberal blogosphere is all a-twitter (including Twitter) about how the President should be […]

President Obama signs bill to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell into law. Another bigoted policy from another era consigned to the rubbish bin of history. Sitting here in one of the most conservative cities in the state of Michigan, I’m almost weepy. I’m just sayin’…