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Senate Passes Recovery Bill
Only the Snowe-Collins-Specter triumvirate voted for it. Grover Norquist summed up the Republican position: This is the bill that the Republican Party will be running against in 2010 and 2012 and...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "What About Juvenile Delinquency?" Part 2 of 2 Continued from last week.
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever else whips your caucus. Tonight! Why can't Obama close the deal on fixing everything?
246-183
Once again, not a single House Republican voted for the recovery bill. They're really banking on the Obama White House to become 1980 Carter meets 1994 Clinton.
I Mean, Really
Who votes against protecting old people from being abused and beaten? 25 House Republicans. That's who. Smart!
Republican Hand Grenades
Rahm Emanuel and the White House are insatiable: [Emanuel] promised that the president will not stop reaching out to the GOP. "The President's always going to reach out to people in both parties. I...
Weird
I was looking at my blog traffic statistics log and in the section that lists the keywords used to find this site, I nearly snarfed my coffee when I saw the following: howard fineman's hair Over a...
The Census
All morning, I've been listening to Joe Scarborough accusing the White House of politicizing the U.S. Census -- of turning over the census to the administration. Naturally, he's been repeatedly...
'I'm tellin' y'all it's sabotage'
Sullivan on the Gregg stunt: Their clear and open intent is to do all they can, however they can, to sabotage the new administration (and the economy to boot). They want failure. I hate being right...
Morning Awesome
Inglourious Basterds - Teaser Trailer
'Life In Your Years'
My wife wrote a great tribute to President Lincoln at her vintage blog. Especially worth checking out is the featurette about Monday night's History special: Stealing Lincoln's Body. The CG version...
Gregg Proving His Scorpion Nature
On one side, there's President Obama. Extending his hand to the other side, right or wrong, whether it's on the recovery bill or his cabinet posts. On the other side, there are the Republicans...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever boils your noodle. Tonight! Yes.
Doof Quote of the Day
"The money that they’re talking about spending is just absolutely incredible. You can’t get your mind around it. We used to think a million dollars was just the most incredible thing. Then it went to...
What You Don't Know About Rush Limbaugh…
...just might kill you! Film at 11. I just listened to about a half-hour of Rush Limbaugh stammering through his addled haze about how the recovery bill is actually a "porkulus" bill. After a lot of...
Intellectual Violence From The WSJ
Greenwald completely and thoroughly debunks the WSJ editorial board for claiming that Bush never pre-selected reporters before a press conference. George W. Bush pre-selected, pre-coached and pre...
Step Away from The Comedy
This AFSCME video story involving Eric Cantor's spokesman is a great example of how some Republicans just don't understand smart comedy. Cantor's spokesman clearly thought the video was intended to...
Bailouts And Bonuses
A few of the cable news people last night were discussing whether the extravagant bank bonuses came from TARP funds or not. But does it matter where the money came from? What matters is that there...
State Secrets
Despite the flurry of promising executive orders, this story is a more than a little disturbing. In short, the Obama Justice Department invoked state secret priviledges in the case of a man who...