Thanks to Think Progress — http://thinkprogress.org/touting-recovery-opposed/ — for this exposé of House and Senate Repugnicans who voted against the stimulus bill and then took credit for the money that it brought to their states or districts.
And a surprising thanks to the Washington Times – not a bastion of liberal thought – who recovered letters sent [...]
The Daily Kos recently hired non-partisan independent pollster Research 2000 to take a poll of over 2,000 self-identified Republicans. Here’s a cross-section of the results by category. For the full spectrum of astonishing responses, go here:
OBAMA and AMERICA
Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not?
Yes 39
No 32
Not Sure 29
Do you think Barack Obama is a socialist?
Yes [...]
Leave it to our rightwing loons to make hay (and raise $$) from the disastrous earthquake in Haiti. Limbaugh was on the air yesterday claiming that Obama would use the catastrophe to his advantage.
News flash: Obama could do nothing for the next three years and STILL get 90% of the black vote. On the [...]
The repugnicants operate on fear. They thrive on it. That’s why they are so afraid of having the 9/11 hijackers tried in NYC. I can’t say for sure if they are personally afraid, or just fearful that the Bush family connections with Bin Laden will be revealed.
But what is more serious is the repugnicant drive [...]
…has a new name. “Traitor Joe.” That may only be funny to people in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut… and coming soon: New Jersey and Minnesota!
I woke up about three o’clock this morning realizing how much our thinking is imprisoned by the language of others. Case in point ‘Jobless Recovery.’ Even smart people like Thom Hartmann and Economics professors use the term.
Wikipedia defines jobless recovery or jobless growth as “…a phrase used by economists, especially in the United States, to [...]
I put together this short video because I’ve been thinking about political caricatures, and how important they are to American politics. One of the first was drawn by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 to urge American independence. Here it is:
Pretty tame compared with some more recent ones, huh?
I’ve noticed with the current spate of Obama-as-[insert your [...]
At a meeting of conservative activists, this was their reaction upon hearing the news that we had lost our bid to host the 2016 Olympics:
I guess I’m old-fashioned. I thought that real Americans rooted for their country, no matter what they felt about the President. Did the people who hated Roosevelt secretly root for the [...]
