I watched last night’s debate and one thing really stuck out at me. The right still has a desire to have an imperial Presidency. First to take a swing at this danger ball was Rick Perry. He declared that if he was elected President that Congress would become part-time. That’s a very outrageous claim given […]

This is one of those posts where I feel a need to cut through the bullshit out there and call out both sides when it comes to Iraq. Yesterday President Obama marked the actual end of the Iraq War. There was no aircraft carrier landing or “mission accomplished” banner. Instead it was done in a […]

OOPS! A major leader in the Tea Party movement was arrested at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Thursday after he tried to check in for a flight while carrying a gun. Prosecutors charged Mark Meckler, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, with felony weapons possession after he told a Delta ticket agent early Thursday morning […]

The Republicans are having a hard time grabbing the national security stage. I mean when they have to look at facing President Obama next year, the man who got Osama Bin Laden, they really don’t have much to go on. So what is a poor Republican candidate to do? Make shit up! Republican presidential candidates […]

While Americans keep seeing their wages go down, the big business CEO’s are getting even fatter wallets: Chief executive pay has roared back after two years of stagnation and decline. America’s top bosses enjoyed pay hikes of between 27 and 40% last year, according to the largest survey of US CEO pay. The dramatic bounceback […]

And the rich get an early Christmas present: In what would be a major concession, President Obama and Senate Democrats will drop their insistence that a surtax on millionaires pay for extending the payroll tax cut, a Democratic source tells CNN. This would be part of a new Democratic offer. I don’t really blame the […]

Following up on my previous post about a new PPP poll out of likely Republican voters in Iowa, I want to point out a very important issue buried deep in the crosstabs (PDF). Since it’s inception the Tea Party has been viewed as being fueled by the fact President Obama is black. This is no […]

Some new polls out this week really show the problems the GOP is facing with only a little over 3 weeks before voting kicks off. First off let’s talk Iowa. This was being scene as a guarantee win for Newt Gingrich just a week ago, but that has now changed: There has been some major […]

Here comes today’s outrage from the right wingers. During a lead in, in which Chuck Todd thought the cameras were off, he get’s caught flipping that notorious middle finger. This was captured by the wingnut site NewsBusters and has this added commentary: Will there be repercussions for Todd? Stay tuned. Even on the YouTube NewsBusters […]

Ever sit there watching a show then suddenly you get that deafening boom of a really loud commercial? Well that won’t be happening much longer: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve rules implementing legislation that makes it illegal for advertisers to pump up the volume during television commercial breaks. The […]