Another repercussion of the Bush years: Despite widespread concern over global warming, humans are adding carbon to the atmosphere even faster than in the 1990s, researchers warned Saturday. Bad, yes...
Author - Bob Cesca
Retro Doof Quote of the Day
"You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims' families. It took me about a year." —Glenn Beck, 2005
Pollgasm: Everyone Hates The Republicans
Even in the South -- albeit by a narrow margin, but still. Republicans (South) Favorable - 45 Unfavorable - 48 Republicans (Overall) Favorable - 31 Unfavorable - 61 By way of contrast, the Democratic...
Epic Fail
On Friday, Rush Limbaugh was wishing for the recovery bill to fail: "I want everything he's doing to fail... I want the stimulus package to fail.... I do not want this to succeed." As I was reading...
Morning Awesome
Alan Parsons Project - "Don't Answer Me" From Ammonia Avenue, 1984
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday Night Blogotubing.
Game On
Maddow interviewed by Mother Jones: MOTHER JONES: You've risen to fame critiquing the Bush administration. Will your show change without that foil? MADDOW: As if Fox News did really poorly with Bush...
Pity Party For The Financials
The Senate Democrats slipped a provision into the recovery bill that, according to the Washington Post, "limits bonuses for executives at all financial institutions receiving government funds to no...
Weekly YouTube Address
Accountability and hope. This morning, I’m reminded of words President Kennedy spoke in another time of uncertainty. "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal...
Repeat, Repeat, Repeat
Via Paddy in the comments: GOP Votes Against Biggest Middle-Class Tax Cut In History Repeat, repeat, repeat. Why are the Republicans against tax cuts for the middle class?
Vindicating Steele
Congress has passed the bill, but in the last 48 hours, the Zero Cred Republicans yanked a few more lies out of their collective lie bucket. ● Limbaugh said that you can't do a text search of the PDF...
Quote of the Day
"You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point." —Michael Steele I agree with Michael Steele!
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...