Krugman notices that President Obama hasn't really been a big spender. Spending as a percentage of GDP is around 19 percent. It's midrange. Spending peaked in 1987, during the Reagan presidency, at...
Author - Bob Cesca
All's Well That Ends Well
That teabagger anti-mosque protest where screeching wingnuts were encouraged to bring dogs to intimidate Muslims turned out to be a big failure. Only 20 teabaggers showed up, and... There was only...
Morning Awesome
Mumford and Sons - "Little Lion Man"
Where's the Oil?
It's gathering in puddles just under the surface. New Orleans Fox affiliate WVUE: "It's (like) Jed Clampet's oil," P.J. Hahn, the Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Director, told Fox8. "All we need is...
Summer Fundraiser – Day One!
It's that time of year again when we roll out the jolly, candy-like PayPal button and solicit your generous donations. This way, we can continue to provide you with free news and opinions -- now with...
Crazy Quote of the Day
“The tax cuts don’t pay for themselves, but they certainly lead to [economic] growth... Combined with the kind of measures we’ve proposed to hold down spending . . . put us in the place we want to be...
Raise Taxes on the Rich
Americans overwhelmingly support raising taxes on the rich. Payroll taxes. To pay for Social Security. Americans are totally correct on this. Of course the Republicans and the Very Serious villagers...
Sullivan Is Wrong About Paul Ryan
Andrew Sullivan endorsed Paul Ryan as a "Republican who gives [him] hope." He goes on to write that Ryan is "intellectually honest" and Sully hopes that the president and Paul Ryan can "form an...
Why We Fight
This is easily one of the best Colbert segments ever. Almost too bizarre to be true. David H. Brooks is a screwball defense contractor who embezzled $200 million in taxpayer funds which he spent on...
No Sir. I Don't Like It.
Ed Schultz was kind enough to invite me onto his show last week, and, in hindsight, I wish we had discussed what he was saying about the congressional Democrats at the top of the show. He was urging...
Morning Awesome
Ape School - "Wail to God" Another brilliantly animated video by Anthony F. Schepperd
Correction
I've been mentioning quite often that BP dumped 92 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. I was wrong and would like to correct the record. According to federal officials... BP's disastrous oil well...
And Suck It, Newt
Jon Chait on who gets credit for the Clinton budget surplus: It wasn't Clinton's boldness alone that caused the budget surplus to appear. George H.W. Bush's 1990 deficit reduction deal, which was...
Colbert Demonstrates Trickle-Down
Also, watching the montage of various angry white guys on FNC and CNBC, I couldn't help but to shout out loud: None of these guys are actually paying the marginal tax rate! And if they are, they're...
Health Insurance Circa 1950
Here's an insurance policy from 1950-ish with a premium of only 90-cents a month -- and it totally covers "loss of eyes, hands and feet." Click to enlarge: (ht Dusty Dog Vintage)
The Small Business Lie
Here's one of the "very serious, reasonable and wise" Republicans, Newt Gingrich, lying about how the expiration of the Bush tax cuts would kill small businesses. For the record: Fewer than 1.3...
MSNBC Today
I'll be on with Cenk Uygur on MSNBC at around 3:30PM EDT today. ROOOOWWWR! SMASH!
The 300
The tea party held a "diversity rally" in Philadelphia this weekend to show off their "black friends." And only around 300 people (including Andrew Breitbart) showed up. That's right. 300 people.
Congress Had Better Unf-ck Itself
Krugman: But what’s worse is the growing evidence that our governing elite just doesn’t care — that a once-unthinkable level of economic distress is in the process of becoming the new normal. And I...
Doof Quote of the Day
"Well, I don’t need to see GDP numbers or to listen to economists. All I need to do is listen to the American people, because they’ve been asking the question now for 18 months, 'where are the jobs...