When you ignore Afghanistan for 7 years then you never get stories like this: The Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an Afghan described by American […]
Some good news on the unemployment front as the new numbers for January show a decline to 9.7%. Now we get to wait and hear the Republicans explain how this is a failure of the Obama administration.
If this keeps up then we might finally get rid of Lieberman in 2012: More than 80 percent (81 percent) of Democrats now say they disapprove of the job Lieberman is doing with only 14 percent approving. Among Republicans, 48 percent disapprove of the senator with just 39 approving. And among independents, 61 percent disapprove […]
Marcy Wheeler has a must read post in which she shows the major differences between the actual bill and what candidate Obama campaigned on: So let’s review. Ezra lists the following things that Obama promised, but failed to deliver: Public option No individual mandate Drug reimportation Government coverage of catastrophic costs Employer mandate National, rather […]
The New York Times is reporting that the Senate bill will result in much higher premiums. One example is a family of 4 earning $54,000 in 2016. They would be elligible for a $10,100 subsidy under the new system, but if they buy into the most popular federal plan then the monthly premiums would be […]
Very powerful, especially this line: With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics I have always broke with the rest of the left on Afghanistan, but I do believe that the situation requires less troops – not more. This […]
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: […]
And the failure in math from the right begins: After the 9/12 march on Washington, conservatives falsely claimed that over a million people attended, when in reality the closest thing to an official count — numbers given by the Washington DC Fire Department to ABCNews.com — placed the crowd at “approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people.” […]
I had noticed that Rasmussen seemed to change their way they track presidential approvals once Obama took office. Rasmussen had always had a variable approval rating system. They ask if you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove or strongly disapprove of the President’s performance. On the surface that doesn’t seem to bad, but during Bush’s […]
MSNBC just reported that part of the GM restructure includes a deal with EBay so that people can buy cars online. Who in their right mind would make such a major purchase without the human interaction of a sales rep and dealership to return the vehicle to if there is a problem, let alone being […]