Author - Bob Cesca

Healthcare

Suck It, Republicans

Hell yeah. The Democrats are forcing Republicans to forgo their "government run" healthcare plans. Republican lawmakers who oppose the Democrats’ health reforms should give up their taxpayer...

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Economy

Screw the Bush Tax Rates

This morning, I spent a couple hours enduring the hackish doofery of Donny Deutsch on Morning Joe. First, he said that an independent presidential ticket of Bloomberg/Scarborough actually has a...

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Quote

Quote of the Day

"It's the maverick way -- spend a year studying whether soldiers deserve full civil rights, and a half an hour deciding who will be your presidential running mate." Jon Stewart re: John McCain

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Cycling

Fricking Interpol?

The latest news in the Lance Armstrong doping investigation isn't very shocking. The French have piled on. Big deal. The French have been stalking Armstrong for years. But this jumped off the screen:...

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Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin's Alaska

Alaska doesn't like her very much: In Alaska the big story is Sarah Palin's strength- or more precisely lack thereof- only 15% of her home state Republicans say she's their pick to be President...

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Quote

Creepy Quote of the Day

"Happy birthday @sn00ki." Senator John McCain on Twitter If Jersey Shore had premiered a year earlier, and if his campaign had been successful, we might have ended up with Vice President Snooki.

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Wingnuts

Red State Welfare

No more spreading the wealth around! The New York Daily News reports: Alaska gets $1.84 in federal spending for every dollar it pays in federal taxes. We in New York get just 79 cents on the dollar...

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Uncategorized

Stupid White Men

In America, women continue to be second class citizens: When Rachel Braun Scherl, 45, a Stanford University business school graduate, co-founded Semprae Laboratories, which developed Zestra Essential...

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Healthcare

They're Not Embarrassed

Republicans hate the "government take-over healthcare," right? Right. Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), one of DeMint’s anti-earmark supporters, appears to have been playing “Santa Claus” by demanding money...

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