Remember all the outrage over state workers breaching Joe the Plumber’s records in Ohio? The media, along with the right wing nuts went crazy over it. You would have thought someone beat the hell out of him. Well here is a story where someone did get the hell beat out of them, and the media […]
Paul Krugman has some advice for Barack Obama: Whatever the new administration does, we’re in for months, perhaps even a year, of economic hell. After that, things should get better, as President Obama’s stimulus plan — O.K., I’m told that the politically correct term is now “economic recovery plan” — begins to gain traction. Late […]
Joe Klein sums up what I have been feeling: I’ve been watching cable news this afternon–I know, get a life!–and you know, Barack Obama comes from the same state as Rod Blagoyevich. That is really suspicious! What did he know and when did he know it? This is the first major scandal of the Obama […]
Another corrupt politician gets taken into custody: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama’s election as president. According to a federal criminal complaint, Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to […]
The right wing conspiracy nut jobs have been having a field day bogging down our courts with claims that Obama isn’t eligible to be President, claiming he is not an actual citizen. Well the latest claim has been shot down by the SCOTUS: The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New […]
The hope of 60 seats in the Senate is now dead: Relieved Republicans celebrated a resounding win in Georgia’s hard-fought U.S. Senate runoff, a victory that denied Democrats a filibuster-proof majority and cemented the state’s reputation as a GOP bastion. Sen. Saxby Chambliss trounced Democrat Jim Martin Tuesday night, winning his second term by a […]
He failed at running the RNC and has failed at being a senator: U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, who has struggled to boost his approval ratings because of close ties to President George W. Bush, announced Tuesday he will not seek a second term in 2010. His seat was widely seen as vulnerable in […]
India has raised their national security level to “war level” following last week’s attacks in Mumbai: The fallout from a three-day rampage that killed nearly 200 people in Mumbai threatened on Sunday to unravel India’s improving ties with Pakistan and prompted the resignation of India’s security minister. New Delhi said it was raising security to […]
You know, these guys should watch it. Obama is soon to be running the country, along with his own party. He might decide to suddenly enforce the law and that could mean churches violating their separation from stat could suddenly end up owing a bunch in taxes. Here’s the latest: Parishioners of St. Joseph’s Catholic […]
One thing that is a big difference between Bush and Obama is the lack of cronies we see going into our new administration. Barack Obama’s picks for Cabinet and other senior posts are many things: centrists, veterans, rivals. Most of all, though, they’re big: big names, big intellects and big egos. The president-elect’s national security […]