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 […]
The wingers have been going on about a report in USA Today last week showing a record increase in the number of people receiving federal aid: Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 […]
Ruh-Roh: The Ivy League daughter of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was busted Wednesday for shoplifting at an upper East Side beauty store, cops said. Harvard senior Caroline Giuliani was caught at about 3:30 p.m stealing $150 worth of cosmetics from Sephora on E. 86th St. and Lexington Ave., sources said. “She was caught red-handed. She […]
From HuffPo: Anti-abortion activist Lila Rose said at last weekend’s Value Voters Summit that as long as abortions are legal, they should be “done in the public square,” thus disgusting people into action. And then “we might hear angels singing as we ponder the glory of conception.” Sure I’ll get behind this idea, but only […]
Larisa has uncovered some very disturbing posts by the right wing crazies: I was going to add this as an update to my earlier post, but thought it deserved its own post. Apparently, some glue-sniffing types are hoping that our own military will be inspired by the Honduras coup to overthrow our own president in […]
I love reading the right wing blogosphere attempt to spin all the new polls, especially the CBS/New York Times poll which has Obama up by 14%. Of course they would spin that – it’s the “liberal NYTimes”. Of course these are the same people who take Drudge’s polls on his site follow debates as gospel. […]
John Edwards has admitted to the rumors of his affair, and already the right is in a frenzy. So, can anyone refresh my memory? When was it John McCain started dating Cindy? When was it that they applied for their marriage license? Oh yeah – while McCain was married to the woman who waited for […]
TPM gives us this interesting news: Now this is just sad. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has long led the conservative forces of his state, has been denied his customary position as a voting delegate to the Republican National Convention — and it’s being done by an even more conservative bunch. The Iowa […]
The biggest failure with the Iraq War has been the total lack of planning. The people who laid out good plans lost their jobs, and instead the administration has decided to wing the entire thing. That deadly mentality is continuing: The administration lacks an updated and comprehensive Iraq strategy to move beyond the “surge” of […]
The collapse got a temporary reprieve: Bear Stearns Cos., teetering on the brink of collapse from a lack of cash, got emergency funding from the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the largest government bailout of a U.S. securities firm. After denying earlier this week that access to capital was at risk, Bear […]