Hilarious audio recordings of President Obama cursing up a blue streak here. Actually, they're from the audiobook version of Dreams of My Father and he's quoting the colorful language of a...
Author - Bob Cesca
New Huffington Post Column
President Obama Is Driving The Republicans Insane Enjoy and Digg!
$789 Billion
They have a deal. And I'll predict that this won't be the only recovery bill that we'll be debating this year.
More Shoes!
Susie Madrak wants more like this one: On Sunday, hundreds of angry homeowners and volunteers traveled in vans and minibuses and protested outside Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack’s multi-million-dollar...
Limbaugh Rules the Republicans
The other day, Fred Barnes wrote a column in which he claimed to have scientific proof that the climate crisis isn't man-made. His scientific source? Rush Limbaugh's former producer and current...
The War Is Over
These discussions always lead to mini-Civil Wars fought in the comments and in my email inbox, but whatever. Missouri state representative Bryan Stevenson (R-Webb City) said the Freedom of Choice Act...
Change We Can Believe In
The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi informed lawmakers Tuesday that they would not be getting automatically generated salary increases to keep pace with inflation in the next fiscal year. [...] The action...
Morning Awesome
Shiny Toy Guns - "Ghost Town" ht Chez
Hope for The Geithner Plan
Krugman provides it: But maybe, maybe, it’s a Trojan horse that smuggles the right policy into place. From what I've been hearing from people smarter than me, the good stuff sounds almost subliminal.
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever is ripping your disc. Tonight! The spazzy white guys in lower Manhattan were spazzy again.
Nationalization Under the Radar
Matthew Yglesias thinks this might be in the fine print of Geithner's plan. If so, here's to hoping the government doesn't overpay. They sometimes do that.
Bill O'Reilly's Right to Privacy
This could be the finest non-Olbermann takedown of Bill O'Reilly's wholesale hypocrisy ever recorded.
This Can't Be Good
Lordy: Administration officials were greeted with sarcasm and laughter Monday night when they briefed lawmakers and congressional staff on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new financial-sector...
Oddballs
These guys are hilarious: O’REILLY: George Bush came in with a list of guys he was going to call on? FLEISCHER: Yes, I used to prepare it for him. I would give him a grid, show him where every...
Crashing Gates
Greg Sargent underscores the importance of the president taking a question from Huffington Post's Sam Stein last night: But the real innovation isn’t in what Obama did. It’s in what outlets like...
Is Tim Geithner Suicidal?
If this report is true and Secretary Geithner successfully won bank bailout terms that are lenient on executive pay and other rules, then I can only imagine that he's both tone deaf and remarkably...
Obama Is Disrupting Their Tennis
This is too funny to describe, other than to repeat: President Obama is driving the wingnuts into full blown Charlie Cheswick meltdown territory. Via Oliver Willis.
Morning Awesome
Louis Armstrong - "What A Wonderful World" (I thought we could all use something extraordinarily adorable and heartwarming. Sue me.)
Most Admired
Indulge me for a moment. I have a confession to make. I have a new role model of sorts, and it's Captain Chesley Sullenberger. Perhaps it's the times, but I find myself involuntarily welling up with...
At Long Last
A smart and thoughtful leader is running the executive branch of the United States government. And a cursory jaunt around the far-right blogs reveals that he's driving the wingnuts insane. More so...