Another instant classic from the mailbag: Re: Operation zero cred Sent: Sat 2/07/09 9:42 PM You are one of the lamest and idiotic so called political bloggers I have ever read. Since this is the...
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Greenwald, Rosen and Moyers
Some excellent insights into this week's press coverage discussed by Glenn Greenwald, Jay Rosen and Bill Moyers. It's a must watch. .
Non-negotiable
Found this from Anderson Cooper's interview with President Obama on Tuesday: COOPER: On the stimulus plan for you, what is non-negotiable with Republicans? OBAMA: The unemployment insurance, health...
News America Now
Oliver Willis has started up a news aggrigation site called News America Now. Go look and bookmark.
Weekly YouTube Address
The Recovery Bill
Doof Quote of the Day
"While I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues to bring down the price tag of this bill, the fact is we still face a trillion dollar spending bill. Making it worse, the bill is 93% spending and...
The Cost of a Republican Vote
If the centrist cuts to the recovery bill equal the elimination of upwards of 2.5 million new jobs (in 2009), and if the centrist cuts managed to attain three Senate Republican votes for the recovery...
Consistent!
Many of the Republicans bitching about the size of the recovery bill had no problem supporting George W. Bush's $1.3 trillion tax cuts in 2001. Here's how both items stack up, according to...
Operation Zero Cred: For the Record
U.S. Taxpayer Money Spent in Iraq: • $800 billion (That's $12 billion per month in 2008) Missing, Lost or Mismanaged Money in Iraq: • $9 billion disappeared • $549.7 milion in spare parts • 190,000...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "What About Juvenile Delinquency?" Part 1 of 2
Thanks, Moderates!
The Nelson-Collins "centrist" cuts to the recovery bill mean 1 million to 2.5 million fewer jobs created. Like I wrote in the previous post, if they insisted on trimming the Republicans-hate-this-so...
$780 Billion?
Here's the latest. About $150 billion was trimmed from the recovery bill, and Harry Reid is reportedly saying he has a deal to pass it in the Senate. He's also seems to have asked Senator Snowe to...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever grinds your beef. Tonight! The prime time thread moves to conference committee.
Wasteful Spending, Indeed
I wonder if any of the congressional Republicans will stand up and crab about this: The Bush administration received assets that were worth $78 billion less than the amount it invested as part of the...
Morning Joe… Later
You know what's awesome? Republicans who disown George W. Bush as "not a real fiscal conservative." Scarborough, for example, was trying to pass of this line of hooey to Paul Krugman this morning...
Job Losses
The blue line = 1990 The red line = 2001 The green line = Now Over the last 13 months, our economy has lost a total of 3.6 million jobs... But the president is just a fear-mongering hoax peddler. h/t...
Good Lord, They're Doing It Again
They're lying and distorting another CBO report. Drudge is currently pushing a Washington Times article (I know, right?) claiming that the CBO thinks the recovery bill will hurt economic growth over...
The Blue Dogs Are Killing This
Greg Sargeant has the latest roster of programs that are being inexplicably hacked out of the recovery bill. For example: School improvement, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration...
Another Quote of the Day
"So how much bipartisan outreach can you have when 36 out of 41 republican senators take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh?" —Paul Krugman
Your Liberal Media
The red bars on the graph precisely coincide with my blood pressure levels. Incidentally, about an hour ago I was watching the Senate debate on MSNBC and determined that every single word coming out...