...and small businesses: Senate Republicans made good on their threat to filibuster a Democratic small-business tax cut bill today, ensuring the bill fell seven votes short of what it needed to move...
Author - Bob Cesca
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Scorpions - "Big City Nights" Just to tweak Chez. For full context, you'll have to subscribe and listen to today's After Party -- it goes up at Noon eastern.
South Carolina is the Reigning Crazy Capital
My Wednesday column was an attempt to remind myself that Arizona isn't alone in the Cuckoo's Nest: Arizona has been such a hotbed of wingnuttery and ignorance lately that it's easy to forget about...
Americans Paying Lowest Taxes in Decades
Another anti-Obama myth debunked: Americans paid the lowest federal tax rate in three decades during President Obama’s first year in office, according to a new government report out this week. The...
Pollgasm
All of this appears to be great news for the president. And don't worry about the national polls. The swing state polls are the ones that really matter: NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Obama d. Romney...
Hot. Damn Hot. Surface of the Sun Hot.
June, 2012 high temperature records in convenient map form:All these cities must be in on the conspiracy. Why do these record temperatures hate America?
Reagan on Tax Loopholes for the Rich
Now that we're going to be debating tax cuts again, I'd like to remind any and all Republican trolls of this from Saint Reagan: That sound you hear is the sound of steam shooting out of the ears of...
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Last Dinosaurs - "Zoom" All new Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show later today. For real this time.
Comedy Genius
When The Onion nails it, they really nail it. (via Christopher Strong)
Quote of the Day
“Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, but student IDs would not. Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them, and...
The Latest Karl Rove Disaster
Here's Rove's new Crossroads GPS commercial attacking Tim Kaine's campaign for Senate in Virginia, with the totally untrue claim that the stimulus failed. See that? Rove's evidence that the stimulus...
Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results
The definition of insanity. For the 31st time, the Republicans will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act today. This is arguably the most repetitive pander to the base. Ever. And more Americans...
NOAA Scientist: Heatwave is the Climate Crisis
Via a Google Hangout session yesterday, here's Martin Hoerling, a research meteorologist at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory: “. . . [Presently] we’re breaking high temperature records much...
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Bruce Springsteen - "Born to Run" New After Party at Noon today!
Fox & Friends Accuses President of Simplistic Messaging
This is tragically hilarious: The network and the movement that relies upon a juggernaut strategy of nearsighted bumper sticker slogans and doofus, kneejerk zealotry as a means of exploiting low...
Perry Wants to Keep Texans Sick and Hopeless
Yesterday, Rick Perry announced that Texas would remain the worst state in the union for healthcare by withdrawing from the Medicaid expansion and insurance exchange. Texas was recently ranked worst...
I Agree With This Ruling
A judge determined that it's okay for a restaurant to kill its own customers. New York's 2nd Avenue Deli will be allowed to continue selling its "Instant Heart Attack" sandwich thanks to a Manhattan...
As America Burns, Let's Talk About Food
My column yesterday was an extended rant about recent developments in the barf-inducing world of American food. Check it: I'd like to preface today's column by making this abundantly clear: I'm not...
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Traveling Wilburys - "End of the Line"
Who Controls SuperPACS? Check the Names.
Via Kevin Drum, this should be a strong indicator of which party is controlling the SuperPAC landscape: ...every slogan they considered had already been trademarked by Republicans. “We gave our...

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