Weasel Zippers has this headline up: Obama: My “Deepest Condolences” to Joplin Tornado Victims, Now Watch Me Drink This Beer!… And it is followed by this picture: Even the commenters are chiming in: But Bush would never do that – would he? That would be then President Bush strumming along the day after hurricane Katrina […]
Yesterday John Boehner said there would be no debt ceiling increase without cutting trillions in spending: “Without significant spending cuts and changes to the way we spend the American people’s money, there will be no debt limit increase,” Mr. Boehner told members of New York’s business and finance community. “And cuts should be greater than […]
The measure already passed the Senate by a 97-0 vote and wouldn’t take much time to pass on the House floor either: House Republicans say they have no plans to follow the Senate in passing a resolution honoring the military mission that killed Osama bin Laden. The decision by GOP leaders follows new rules they […]
Suddenly the right is upset that the dollar has taken a big decline, but Barry Ritholtz states the facts, something the right seems unable to comprehend: Where were all you concerned dollar bulls earlier in the decade? It strikes me that like the late-to-discover inflation, you folks cannot spot a trend until it bites you […]
Yesterday, while speaking at a college in Virginia, President Obama laid the blame of high oil prices at the feet of speculators: Obama said that global oil supply is adequate and that speculators are driving up prices significantly. “It is true that a lot of what’s driving oil prices up right now is not the […]
For two years we have heard Republicans complain that the stimulus didn’t spark any projects in Ohio. Even John Boehner repeated this claim over and over again. So then why this legislation? A measure banning signs that tout federal stimulus spending along Ohio’s roadways cleared the Republican-led Ohio Senate and is expected to pass the […]
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) is out blasting President Obama over the Libya decision: “The United States does not have a King’s army,” Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) said in a statement released Monday evening. “President Obama’s unilateral choice to use U.S. military force in Libya is an affront to our Constitution.” Bartlett said Obama’s team has […]
Leave it to Fox Nation to come up with the most idiotic arguments one can ever think of. Just check out this headline: Fact: Bush Had 2 Times More Coalition Partners in Iraq Than Obama Has in Libya Oh my – Bush must have been far more loved by the world than Obama! I mean […]
This morning, Dave Weigel tweeted “Unpopular/overreaching GOP governors in OH, WI, FL — good or bad for GOP’s prez ticket?”. That really got me thinking about the upcoming general elections. The first actual poll of Ohio Governor John Kasich was released this morning. In it they find his approval rating at a dismal 40%, with […]
Alan Simpson, the Republican co-chair of President Obama’s debt commission, decided to go on another rampage yesterday: The co-chairman of President Obama’s deficit commission tried to scold the elderly on Monday for complaining about their Social Security funds being targeted, but instead he found himself making a reference to “Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg.” “This is […]