While many on the left side of the blogosphere seemed to enjoy Chuck Todd, I have never liked him. I don’t believe he is the “political insight machine” that so many credit him with and here is more proof of it: John Cole, who caught this little tweet of <cough> brilliance from Todd, says this: […]
Image via Wikipedia Good news from the Senate on the healthcare front: WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she’ll vote ‘yes’ on health care test vote, giving Democrats 60. This morning Mary Landrieu said she would also vote yes today. Tonight’s the big vote, so keep an ear out. Things will get really interesting and […]
In case you have missed it there is a sudden shortage on aluminum foil. It has been bought up by wingnuts in order to prepare their latest hats. I am talking about the case of a British university’s server being hacked and approximately 160mb of data and email being leaked. The server that was hacked […]
Where would Sarah Palin be making enemies now? How about at her own book signings. Here is video of people booing Palin as they waited for autographs and she pulled away. Then we also have comments being left on Palin’s Facebook page: Lu Paletta Part I: No Sarah Palin wristband yesterday. Got a bookplate w/fake […]
Image via Wikipedia Who could have imagined something like this? The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus – tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines. I […]
Two former DOJ officials under Bush have written an op-ed supporting the decision to bring Gitmo detainees to the U.S. to stand trial. The money line: But some prominent criticisms are exaggerated, and others place undue faith in military commissions as an alternative to civilian trials. The people exaggerating the trials are the very ones […]
Image via Wikipedia We knew that it was only a matter of time before the public shifted the blame of the economic mess from Republicans to Democrats and that time has come: Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a […]
Here’s Fred today: “It really doesn’t matter how President Obama divides the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war has been lost,” Thompson said on his radio show today. “I say this because of one sad and simple fact. The president does not have the will and determination […]
Last night Rep. Peter DeFazio told Ed Schultz that it was time for President Obama to replace his two top economic advisors over the lack of focus on job creations: I got a feeling this is just the start of many more calls for the firing of Gethner and Summers. Democrats know that people are […]
Last week Sean Hannity apologized for using the wrong footage to inflate the number of people that showed up at a tea party in D.C. earlier this month. Well that must be a long time ago to the short-term memory of FOX news, who today decided to use old McCain/Palin campaign footage and use it […]