Here is Rep. Todd Akin reciting the pledge today to the teabaggers in hopes of “driving liberals crazy”: Notice something missing? Akin forgot the word “indivisible”. I don’t know about you, but when I see a member of our Congress not knowing the Pledge of Allegiance, well it drives this liberal crazy. Great job Tea […]
This tidbit from a new CNN poll shows that Obama actually has more support down south than the very Republican George Bush did: Fifty-seven percent say Obama has been a better president than George W. Bush; only a third say Bush’s track record was better. “Compared to Obama, Bush does fairly well among southerners and […]
Gallup’s latest polling of congressional approval ratings have them at 21%, down 10% from last month. This marks a pretty significant dive on the downward trend that has been occurring since March of this year. The biggest drop in support has come from Democrats. Last month 54% of Democrats approved of how Congress was doing […]
On Morning Joe just now Lawrence O’Donnell was blasting the media for not really covering the health care legislation, instead only focusing on the yelling and screaming that comes out of things like death panels. So how does Morning Joe respond to this criticism? They go to break and then come back showing a bunch […]
The award has to go to this guy, who brought a gun to the townhall yesterday: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Matthews did a great job at handling him, but I think it could have gone a little further. For example – we have a right to free […]
It looks like Arlen Specter could end up being out of a job: Incumbent Senator Arlen Specter trails former Congressman Pat Toomey by 21 points in an early look at Pennsylvania’s 2010 Republican Primary. Fifty-one percent (51%) of Republican voters statewide say they’d vote for Toomey while just 30% would support Specter. If Toomey wins […]
Kal Penn is getting a new gig, and this one isn’t in Hollywood: I understand it was your decision to leave House. True? KAL PENN: Yes. I was incredibly honored a couple of months ago to get the opportunity to go work in the White House. I got to know the President and some of […]
CNN is having some major ratings problems: Through March 17, CNN trailed not only Fox News and MSNBC but also its own sister network, Headline News, on nine out of 17 days. On one day, March 13, CNN even drew fewer 25-to-54 viewers than CNBC — the first time that’s happened since November 2007. And […]
Back around 96-97 I worked for a local plumbing company. We were the largest new construction plumbing company in the greater Cincinnati area, an area seeing a huge boom in new construction at the time. When I started with this company, my job was service technician. I would go to new homes we had done […]
It could have been: Gov. Rod Blagojevich, taking his defense to television rather than his impeachment trial, lashed out at his accusers Monday and revealed he had considered naming Oprah Winfrey to the U.S. Senate. The embattled governor told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the idea of nominating the talk show host came to him […]