I have a love/hate view of Joe Biden, but this quote? This I love: "You've got to give Mitt Romney credit. He's a job creator. In Singapore. China. India. He's been very good at creating jobs...
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Author - Bob Cesca
Republicans Love Obamacare. They Just Don't Know It.
My column from yesterday expands upon that Reuters/Ipsos poll about the Affordable Care Act and how ridiculously contradictory the results are. ...it's a miracle more Republican heads don't explode...
The Long-Term Coup
James Fallows believes the conservative members of the Supreme Court are engaged in a slow motion, long-term coup d'etat. [W]hen you look at the sequence from Bush v. Gore, through Citizens United...
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The Who - "The Seeker"
Summer Pledge Drive, Day 3
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Good News About Death, Bad News About Cancer
Via Sullivan here are the major causes of death in 1900 and 2010: Due to improved technology -- medical treatments and health awareness, etc -- there are fewer deaths per capita, but more overall...
Sometimes, Republicans Tell the Truth
Of course, it's often a bit of truth they didn't really mean to say in public in front of video cameras and microphones. For example, here's Pennsylvania House Republican Leader Mike Turzai revealing...
Quote of the Morning
“Guess what he’s telling us is Arizona, ‘you’re on your own. Take it or leave it. You know? I guess he doesn’t think we’re part of the country anymore.” Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Oh I wish it were...
Corporations Own Our Elections Now. All Of Them.
Where Citizens United opened up federal elections to limitless corporate money, a 5-4 decision yesterday by the Supremes has done the same for state and local elections. The U.S. Supreme Court on...
Americans Hate Obamacare, While Loving Everything About It
My column from yesterday looks at the results of a revealing Reuters/Ipsos poll about the president's healthcare reform law. The Supreme Court will be handing down its decision on the Affordable Care...
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The Naked and Famous - "All of This"
Summer Pledge Drive, Day 2
The Summer fundraiser continues. If you like what you see here and want to help it along a little bit, drop a few bucks into the PayPal tip jar below. Your donations help us to maintain the site and...
Our Blogotubes Blew a Gasket
So we've been fighting bugs with the site for the last 24 hours and finally tracked the issues to the Daily Banter branding on the site. It's only been temporarily removed while we troubleshoot the...
A Bit of Schooling for Red Scare Bots
Once again, new numbers indicate that corporate profits are at an all-time high, and employee wages just hit an all-time low (as a percentage of GDP). Way too many ignorant Republicans believe the...
Coming Soon from Ben & Jerry's…
...Glenn Beck's Finger of God! Seriously, here's Beck in full televangelist mode discussing how he's evidently seen "the finger of God." Based on Beck's noticeably puffier face, if Ben & Jerry's...
Sending Jobs Overseas to Nebraska
This conversation really took place. When challenged about Bain Capital's practice of outsourcing jobs overseas -- ostensibly taking jobs away from Americans and giving them to foreign...
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Screaming Trees - "I Nearly Lost You"
The Summer Pledge Drive Begins
Every several months we roll out the jolly, candy-like PayPal tip jar as a way of helping to finance the doings here. If you can afford to toss a few dollars into the pot, we'd seriously appreciate...
How Many Lies Can Romney Tell in a Week?
According to Steve Benen, 30. 30 lies. And they're whoppers this week. 1. In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Romney claimed it's fiscally responsible to eliminate the entirety of the...
Killing Obamacare with Lies and Money
[My Thursday column from this past week, re-posted here in full.] As I write this column today, the Supreme Court could, at any moment, hand down its decision on the constitutionality of the...
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