There has been a lot of talk this weekend over a video of a shirtless 12 year old boy going through a TSA pat down. In case you missed it, here’s the video: This story got big this weekend when Drudge starting pushing it. Within a couple of hours you would have thought that President […]
Hearing the Republicans pound their chests as the anti-earmark crusaders has me laughing. I decided it was time to look for some historical data on earmarks, which ended up validating my suspicions. First thing you will notice is that the source of this chart is from the very conservative Heritage Foundation, using data from the […]
10. I am really looking forward to nonstop investigations of President Obama over the next two years. 9. It will make Sarah Palin proud. 8. Majority Leader Mitch has a real jazzy sound to it. 7. Insurance companies should have the right to deny coverage to anyone and jack up the prices whenever they want. […]
Ezra Klein lays out the odds of the GOP reducing the deficit should they regain control of Congress: If Republicans take the House and the Senate, how much likelier is a full extension of the Bush tax cuts? I’d say it goes up to 70 percent, and the only reason I don’t say 100 percent […]
Finally the bullying crisis in America is getting some much needed attention from the White House. Here’s a message from President Obama on the subject: While this message is good for the victims to hear, we really need to send a message to the instigators. It’s time we come up with a zero-tolerance policy against […]
Sarah Palin decided that our flag just didn’t look right, so she decided to autograph it: Where’s the outrage from the right on this? All we hear is crickets. Just imagine if President Obama had done this. We would have impeachment hearings going on right now.
This image of the streaker from yesterday’s event with President Obama is just riddled with all kinds of caption goodness. Have at it!
Tomorrow the man who defines everything against progressiveness is set to leave the White House: President Obama will give his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a send-off Friday as Mr. Emanuel officially announces his departure from the West Wing to run for mayor of Chicago, officials familiar with the decision said. The White House press […]
Yesterday I posted about our weak kneed leaders in Congress. Today they seem set on proving my point: With a potentially bruising election less than six weeks away, Democrats on Capitol Hill came to an impasse Thursday over what to do about the Bush tax cuts. The result was a decision to do nothing, at […]
Today President Obama will announce that he is appointing Elizabeth Warren to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: The President asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has also asked me to […]