Cheney-Palin 2012: a dream come true

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 [...]

Florida freshman Democrat Alan Grayson described the Republicans’ health care plan on the floor of the House.

Ohhh… wrong President.

This morning on the Stephanie Miller Show, John Fuegelsang pointed out that when the Dixie Chicks, while in Great Britain, said they were ashamed that Bush was their President, they were called traitors in the right-wing media.
But when Sarah Palin criticizes our President while in Hong Kong, there’s not a peep.
Next to the definition of [...]

Ms. Palin took her show on the road Wednesday, in a speech to CSLA, and Asian investment firm. She criticized the Obama administration’s foreign policy, suggesting it made the US appear weak in the eyes of the world.
In July of 1972, actress Jane Fonda visited Hanoi, North Vietnam.
She harshly criticized the US war effort, [...]