"You know it’s real. You can see it, and you can feel it. This change, my friends, is being delivered in a teabag. And that’s a wonderful thing." —Michael Steele I'm not making this up.
Author - Bob Cesca
Wimpy Wimps Wimply Wimping
Can we oust Harry Reid yet? President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday. With debate...
Civilized Discourse
[Video updates below...] This is unbelievable. Joe Scarborough, who publicly lectured/tattled on me for not engaging in civilized debate, talking about Jesse Ventura: "Perhaps Jesse should stop...
Morning Joe
It's day 346 of Nancy Pelosi coverage on Morning Joe. Wow. Hat's off for some balls out coverage. They're really blowing the lid off this thing especially considering how Speaker Pelosi had...
Morning Awesome
A.C. Newman with Nicole Atkins - "Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer" Live on Letterman from April, 2009 From Newman's second album Get Guilty
New Emission Standards
Via Politico: The national emissions policy for autos, which will ramp up to a new standard of about 35 miles per gallon in 2016, will harmonize the corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standard...
The Press, Pelosi and Torture
The most striking aspect of the establishment media coverage (mainly cable news) of the Pelosi situation is that it mirrors the ridiculous coverage we saw during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Monday night blogotubing. Drive safely!
Whoa.
Gallup: The decline in Republican Party affiliation among Americans in recent years is well documented, but a Gallup analysis now shows that this movement away from the GOP has occurred among nearly...
Doof Quote of the Day
"Put pictures of Pelosi in every cheap motel room in America today. That will keep birthrates down because that picture will keep a lot of things down." —Rush Limbaugh back in January Hmm. Should a...
Bunker Gate, Part 2
For what it's worth, the secret bunker Cheney used after 9/11 was located near Camp David at Raven Rock Mountain in Pennsylvania. How do we know this? The following Knight-Ridder report about James...
Afternoon Awesome
From the season finale: Will Ferrell, Darrel Hammond, Tom Hanks and Kristen Wiig. (I haven't laughed this much at an SNL sketch since the previous time they did Jeopardy. Just classic.)
Reframing the Torture Question
Joe Sudbay: Do the American people support torture purely for political reasons? That is the operative question. I'm eager to see polling on that one. Torture clearly wasn't a factor in keeping us...
Veep Bunker Gate!
The wingnuts are crapping their cages over the vice president telling a guest at the Gridiron Dinner about a secured underground bunker at the U.S. Naval Observatory. An hour or two ago, I watched...
Nexus Accountability
Jamison Foser: But when it comes to the media's seeming disinterest in finding the truth, there's an explanation sitting right there in the middle of Gregory's comments: "nobody comes out cleanly."...
Morning Awesome
Beastie Boys - "So What'cha Want" From Check Your Head (1992)
Maureen Dowd Horks from Josh Marshall
This is weird. The passages are practically identical -- how the hell did this happen? I can't imagine that she would deliberately hork an entire paragraph. Or would she? Either way, it's a shame...
Questioning the Agency
Liz Cheney this morning: "And the Vice President [Cheney] would not substitute his own judgment for the professional judgment of the CIA." Not so fast. Rewind to 2002: In the initial stages of the...
Sunday Night Thread in America
Open thread for your Sunday night blogotubes in America also.
That Gallup Abortion Poll
That new Gallup poll on abortion is ridiculous and misleading. It always has been. Chiefly because it defines the issue based upon the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" while underscoring that...