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...
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'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...
Flashback
Ron Brownstein on Hardball recalls: BROWNSTEIN: April 2001, George Bush comes in $1.6 trillion tax cut. The House passes it, exactly as written. Senate cuts it $450 billion. He gets half of it back...
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U2 - "Get Your Boots On" The first single from the forthcoming No Line On The Horizon album
No Sir, I Don't Like It
This isn't good: The House-Senate compromise, however, cuts funds for extended health care coverage for the unemployed; cuts $30 billion in aid to state governments to prevent reductions in social...
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Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever lubes your crankset. Tonight! I got to ride my bike today in 60-degree temperatures. This is both awesome, and not...
The Republican Economic Strategy
Congressman Peter King, arguably one of the craziest of the crazy, was on Hardball today and Matthews asked him what he'd do if the recovery bill works and the economy improves. Revealingly, King...
WTF?
"This stimulus bill is huge, so disastrous, and so harmful to our country that even though Obama has been in office for less than a month, I think it's already fair to label him as one of the worst...